tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13884155420093841162024-03-13T13:23:44.902-07:00AMA | ART MUSEUM of the AMERICASAMA | Art Museum of the Americashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00748925882152023052noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388415542009384116.post-19788962545938497362015-11-30T12:13:00.000-08:002015-11-30T13:31:49.208-08:00 Jorge Tacla’s Human-Made Catastrophes: A Conversation with the Artist<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">In recent days, the world has been shaken by the
Paris and Beirut bombings and shootings and the downing of a Russian airliner.
These attacks were aimed not at military targets but at civilians, some of who
were enjoying a Friday evening in a restaurant, a concert hall, a sports stadium;
public places not too different from where we all spend leisure time. It is perhaps for this reason that they have hit close to home and raised questions, which are often unasked in
societies not regularly afflicted by acts of war. Beginning with the
attack on the Palacio de la Moneda in Chile in 1973, Jorge Tacla’s work has
been inspired by similar violent events. The artworks featured in his “Hidden
Identities” exhibition, displayed at OAS AM</span><b style="font-family: Calibri;">A</b><span style="font-family: "calibri";">| Art Museum of the Americas for
the winter season, are based on events such as the Oklahoma bombings, the
violent conflict in Syria, and the 9-11 attacks.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">“Hidden Identities” denounces these
human-made catastrophes through art that questions societal notions of power
and human nature. Through the general themes displayed in his art, Tacla
explores issues that have been studied extensively among societies most
directly affected by conflict. These issues include: the impact of trauma in
memory, collective and individual; the relationships between victims and
aggressors; and the ways in which mass media and structures of power shape our
views of tragedy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">During AMA’s guided tours of the
exhibition, audiences responded with great interest to Tacla’s work and the
artist himself. Who is this man who portrays these shocking images? To what
degree is he disturbed by these awful occurrences? To begin to answer these
questions we’ve interviewed Tacla about “Hidden Identities.” Hearing the artist
expound on his work reveals glimpses of Tacla, his background, and his views. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b>AMA-JG: </b><i>Your work in “Hidden Identities”
deals for the most part with human-made catastrophes and explores their impact
on the human victims, as well as the relationships between victims and
aggressors; however, most of the pieces depict architectural structures and not
people. Why is this?</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b>Jorge: </b>For me it all began with what happened
in Chile during 1973; this has been the “tension focus” of my work. When the
Palacio de la Moneda was hit on September 11, 1973, it was the first time I
realized that man-made constructions could be so fragile. The presidential
palace was a symbol of State power and government and after that moment I
realized that even those great institutions were immensely fragile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This experience, which I had at a very young
age, is what has led me to focus mostly on architectural structures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I depict the structures from multiple
perspectives. I go from the more intimate spaces inside the buildings, such as
the bedroom, to the lateral views of the buildings and the more global views of
the attacked structure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once buildings
have been struck, they are no longer rigid cement structures, they become more
organic and thus they are more similar to the human body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the building opens up because of a
catastrophe, its internal biology is exposed. Its bursting tubes and poles
resemble the human body with its veins, muscles, and bones. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b>AMA-JG:</b> <i>By depicting these structures in
their more organic state do you seek to draw a link with the bodies of the
victims inside them? </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b>Jorge: </b>My work always has a denouncing
element. The violation of the victims’ human rights is a subject that is
present in the majority of my works. The contemplative space of art plays an
essential role in society. Once you read the newspaper you throw it into the
garbage, but art stays. You have Picasso’ s “Guernica,” for example. Years
after the end of the Spanish Civil War, it continues to remind us of those who
suffered during the attack<span style="color: red;"> </span>of this city. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b>AMA-JG:</b> <i>Why do you focus on the “perspective
of the after,” without providing any type of narrative or information about the
moments before the event takes place or the moment when the event takes place?
Why is this perspective powerful in your opinion? </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Calibri;">Jorge: </b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I depict these human-made structures at their
most fragile state, the moment immediately after they have been impacted and
the moment right before they fall to the ground and transform into rubbish. I
depict the structures when they are still dangling, as if with their last
breath, when they are at their most vulnerable state.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">When I witnessed the attacks on the Palacio
de la Moneda in Chile during September 11, 1973 and I saw the fragility of this
institutional site, my vision about human-made structures changed. I realized
everything can fall, everything can vanish in the air. The “Perspective of the
After” represents that moment when structures lay in their most vulnerable
state. After that moment, if the building falls and vanishes, there is no
longer a memory of what was there before. That is why the “Perspective of the
After”is: the moment just before the building vanishes, just before it is
eliminated from memory. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b>AMA-JG: </b><i>What
role does memory play in your work?</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b>Jorge:</b> In my work, memory and human skin
reacts in the same way once it is affected by trauma. If you are punched, your
skin bruises, it is marked. Memory develops those sequels as well. The marks on
memory are what interest me, because they are also the marks which lead to the
unhinging of human beings. For instance, when children are abused in their
households, the memories of this abuse lead them to develop internal conflicts.
These conflicts can then lead to other larger societal conflicts. How many
young people have we seen in recent years who become perpetrators of violent
acts in their schools and universities? These children often come from violent
households where they developed traumatic memories. These individual and
collective elements of memory are what interest me. I am deeply interested in
the psychiatric aspects of catastrophes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The canvases in themselves are meant to
resemble human skin. I use oil and cold wax in most of the paintings<span style="color: red;"> </span>of this exhibit because cold wax has a constant
humidity and a constant movement. It thus has characteristics that are very
similar to human skin, it is fragile and traumas affect it greatly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b>AMA-JG:</b> <i>It is a tremendous coincidence that
you were present during both the attacks of the Palacio de la Moneda in
Santiago de Chile during September 11, 1973, as well as during the attacks of
the Twin Towers in New York during September 11, 2001. In your opinion, what
are the commonalities between these two events and what binds the different
pieces which have been inspired by these events in “Hidden Identities”?</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b>Jorge:</b> These events are very different in
that they were triggered by different motivations; however, both share
universal themes. The Palacio de la Moneda was attacked during the Cold War, an
international conflict in which both the United States and Russia were
involved. Both of these nations were concerned with Chilean politics at the
time. Hence, what happened in Chile was greatly influenced by international
politics. The 9-11 attacks were also deeply influenced by international
politics. It was not just a bilateral issue between the United States and extremism
originated in the Arab world, there were many other countries involved in the
ongoing tensions that led to these events. Countries such as France have also
been stricken by multiple terrorist attacks. People are often not conscious of
this because they have the possibility of distancing themselves from events
which take place across the world, such as the war in Syria or the violent
conflict in Gaza. They often have the possibility of isolating themselves from
these issues of international politics. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">What is more, both of these events have left
marks on individual and collective memories, which will bring forth other
consequences tomorrow. This comes back to our conversation about trauma and
memory. Chile has not yet healed from the events that took place in 1973. The
pain and suffering from those events are still in the memory of Chileans. This
applies to the attacks of 2001 in New York as well. What happened during
September 11 is still very present in the city. There are still security
officers in many of its train stations. There are daily threats in New York.
Every time you cross a bridge or go through a tunnel you are thinking about it.
All of these events take particular spaces in memories, which impact many
people psychologically. These memories are very hard to delete for people who
are attempting to go on living without anxiety or panic. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It can thus be said, that I have adopted a
futuristic view. I am aware that just like these past attacks, the current
attacks in places like Syria and Gaza will have other repercussions later on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">What do you get when you combine talents and creativity from several of DC’s best live bands of the last ten years (Ra Ra Rasputin, Last Tide, Lode Runner, just to name a few)? Incredible Change. Synth-laden electronic dance music influenced by everything from Italian house to early Factory Records, Brock Boss channels Bauhaus vocals over arpeggiators, syncopated rhythms, chorus-drenched guitar, eliciting kinetic vibrations with a cast of musicians including DeenaOh, Rob Hart, Patrick Kigongo, and Ed Porter. Pulling in classic dance elements and pairing them with dark analog sounds and distinct lyrical presentation, Incredible Change filters their influences through a lens that’s all their own. Just have a look and take a listen to their new video for “Ecce Mono”:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Luz nas vielas</i> (<i>Light in the Streets)</i> is the name of the project by the Spanish collective BoaMistura, which comes from the Portuguese for "good mixture,” and is one of the winners of the Videourbana Competition, a contest done by the VIII Ibero-American Architecture and Urbanism Design Biennial. </span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The project consists of urban interventions of several walls and alleys in the Brasilândia favela in Sao Paulo, Brazil, during January 2012. For about 15 days the group worked and painted inspirational words on walls covered by cement, brick and rusty pipes. The walls were painted in bold colors with the words "Love," "Beauty," "Sweetness," "Firmness," and "Pride," five attributes that define the charm of Brazil and its humbler corners. As art with a social mission, the involvement and participation of residents in the development of the murals was decisive and had an important impact on the work. The idea that there could be change in an environment of poverty and social inequality comes to be put to the test; there might actually be a change and a transformation.</span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Looking around, the walls are filled with colors, the community is transformed, and the old perspective changes into one that is more positive and enlightening. The objective of this group’s work is to use art as a tool for change and as a medium for inspiration. </span></span></span><br />
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Sculpture is a medium that requires discipline and patience, skills that Edgar Negret has mastered over his career of more than fifty years. One of Latin America’s most prominent sculptors, Negret’s work defies the limits of imagination and of the viewer’s expectations. His work is elegant, detailed, inspired and vibrant. <span class="s1"></span></div>
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<span class="s1">Born in 1920, he completed his formal education at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Cali (1938-43) and went on to be an apprentice of Spanish sculptor Jorge Ortega, who introduced him to the works of British sculptor Henry Moore. He continued his education at the Clay Sculpture Center in New York (1948-50) and later travelled to Paris and Spain beginning in the 1950s. Each of these European countries opened a world of possibilities for Negret, the avant-garde centers of activity he visited inspired his own journey towards abstraction.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">While in Spain in the early 1950s, Negret was heavily influenced by the architecture of Antonio Gaudí, and was particularly impressed by how Gaudí’s organic forms and its simplicity. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Another pivotal influence on his artistic creation was his encounter with Pre-Columbian art expressions. In 1980, he traveled to Lima, Perú, and visited Machu-Picchu among other archeological sites. The encounter with the Pre-Columbian offered a new thematic direction, and intellectually it represented a change in that he no longer looked for sources in the abstract origin of nature or the machine but in more specific mythologies, like the one of the Inca people.</span></div>
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AMA | Art Museum of the Americashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00748925882152023052noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388415542009384116.post-2179888322565347932012-10-03T08:55:00.002-07:002012-10-03T08:55:53.400-07:00Maria Freire | AMA's Permanent Collection<br />
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<span style="line-height: 20px;">Maria Freire is one of the most important artists to emerge from South America. Her contributions to the artistic experimentations that led to the period known as <i>geometric abstraction </i>in Latin America are of a daring and restless character. Her formal education took place at the Círculo de Bellas Artes (1938-1943) under the tutelage of José Cuneo and Severino Pose and at the Universidad del Trabajo, under the teachings of Antonio Pose. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">A pioneer of modernism, Torres-Garcia was born in Montevideo of a Catalan father and a Uruguayan mother. His family moved to Spain in 1891, settling in Barcelona. By the end of the decade he had become, along with Pablo Picasso and Julio Gonzalez, part of the bohemian milieu of the cafe </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Els_Quatre_Gats" style="background-color: white;">Els Quatre Gats</a><span style="background-color: white;">. Torres-Garcia moved to Paris in 1926 where he me Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian and later founded the group </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cercle_et_Carre" style="background-color: white;">Cercle et Carre</a><span style="background-color: white;"> with Michel Seuphor. </span><br />
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</div>AMA | Art Museum of the Americashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00748925882152023052noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388415542009384116.post-14256352731315737392012-04-11T10:58:00.003-07:002012-04-11T11:00:10.826-07:00Anton Cabaleiro | Ñew York<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anton Cabaleiro (born 1977 in Spain) received a MFA in Computer Arts from the School of Visual Arts, New York; a MS in Landscape Design from Columbia University, and a PhD in Art, Design and Technology at the Complutense University, Madrid. Past exhibitions include the Bronx Museum Biennial, New York; Armory Show, New York; New York University, New York; Museum of Art and Design, New York; Times Square Public Space Projects, New York; Under the Bridge Festival, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art of Vigo, Spain; the Andalusian Center of Contemporary Art, Spain; ARCO International Fair of Contemporary Art, Madrid; The Cervantes Institute, Beijing; Marisa Marimon Gallery; Marlborough Gallery; and the Loop International Fair of Video, Barcelona.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Empire State Essays is an animation video series which represents two opposite ideas of New York. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the one hand, it’s the idealized New York, a trompe l'oeil product that has been presented and propagated (sometimes like a backdrop and other times like main protagonist) through mass media, such as movies, TV, music and the literature. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the other hand, there are scenes taken from daily life, based on experiences in the Big Apple. They show a very personal and intimate daily routine, mostly lonesome, repressed and frustrating, that both contradict and complete the first idea, the one of a shinning New York, full of glamour and opportunities. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As it's known, New York is the “Empire State” of the US, and it plays a predominant role in the rest of the world. The Empire State’s repercussions vary from the expansion of English as first language throughout the world, to a cityscape made out of mountainous quantities of accumulated garbage and the social and ethic pressures. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This series follow propagandistic mechanisms. Extremely aesthetic, the essays contain tense messages that contradict their apparent beauty and innocence. They give to the viewer a chance to review a routine that tends to be overlooked due to its repetitive nature, which can be both beautiful and horrifying.
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</div>AMA | Art Museum of the Americashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00748925882152023052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388415542009384116.post-18638648515825869832012-03-22T12:20:00.000-07:002012-03-22T12:20:00.796-07:00Manuel Molina Martagon | Ñew York<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Manuel Molina Martagon (b 1981 Puebla) is a multimedia artist working in video, photography and performance. Molina Martagon holds a Bachelor in Mass Media and Communication from UPAEP and a MFA in Photography, Video and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts in New York. His work has been exhibited in Mexico, United States, Spain and Cuba. His videos have been featured in festivals like Proyector Madrid, Region 0 The Latino VideoArt Festival, YANS & RETO and Festival Internacional de Video Arte de Camaguey. His work is currently exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia and Galería de Arte Contemporáneo y Diseño Espinoza Iglesias en Puebla.
Molina Martagon has also been a recipient of multiple international awards and grants, such as a Fulbright Scholarship, Santander-UPAEP para Estudios de Posgrado, Beca complemento SEP, Alice Beck Odette scholarship and Fondo Estatal para la Creación Artística de Puebla FOESCAP. Molina Martagon is currently collaborating in the New New Yorkers program at Queens Museum of Art.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The two videos [in Ñew York] come directly from my everyday experience of living in New York.
American Sculpture is a performance that takes place at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 20 minutes I learned the American sculptures of the XIX century collection from a Met catalog. Each sculpture was performed several minutes by heart. American Sculpture is a work that addresses the different functions that a museum has as public space, ranging from a mausoleum to a tourist attraction. Based in endurance, memory and chance, the performance is open to random interactions.
In If I come back to life I want to be an American dentist, I chewed only with one side for several days, due to a cavity. The extra work helped to wake up a wisdom tooth. My insurance didn’t cover the expenses and I couldn´t afford a dentist. This situation happened four weeks before spring break… So I resolved to go to a dentist in Mexico. It was just 4 weeks.
The result of this process is a beautiful piece, my first organic sculpture: a symbol of coming of age and human endurance.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Ñew York features three photographs by Sol Aramendi. Aramendi says of her work:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"I choose to look through the lens in order to see.
The language of photography helps me understand how I position myself in the
world, where I’ve come from and where I might go next.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In my pictures I am exploring psychological
impressions of my life of 'Being Solo' in New York. I construct scenes that
translate the processes and obsessions I go trough my life here with the
uncertain hope of bringing some light of understanding to my obscure
self."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Sol Aramendi is a New York based Argentinean artist
working in photography and installation. Sol has merged her artistic work with
Social Practice. She is the founder of the <i>Project Luz</i> Photography Program for New Immigrants (<a href="http://www.facebook.com/projectluz" style="background-color: white;" title="blocked::http://www.facebook.com/projectluz">http://www.facebook.com/projectluz</a>)<span style="background-color: white;">. Using
photography as a tool of empowerment, creating a dialogue of understanding,
connecting people with communities and their creativity.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">She was featured at El Museo del Barrio's 2011"(S)
Files," the museum's sixth biennial of art created by Latino artists living in
NY. Sol’s work has been shown widely in New York, Buenos Aires, Berlin, Los
Angeles, Tolouse, Barcelona, Madrid, Utrecht, and Split. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Her first studio was at the legendary 5pointz
building in Queens, NY where she interacted with a large and diverse group and
actively participated of Urban culture. This empty building is now her
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sociological photography exhibition created by <a href="http://amamuseum.blogspot.com/2011/11/justine-graham-contemporary-art-from.html"><span style="color: windowtext;">Justine Graham</span></a> and <a href="http://amamuseum.blogspot.com/2011/11/ruby-rumie-contemporary-art-from-chile.html"><span style="color: windowtext;">Rubie Rumié</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As our website describes: "the
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housekeepers and their housewife employers, reflecting issues of gender, power,
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100 women between the ages of 19 and 95, this project merges art and sociology,
and explores new sensorial and emotional experiences in an attempt to discover
affinities and differences among participants, separating itself from the bias
and stereotypes present in hierarchical relationships. <i>Common Place (Lugar
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constructs."</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When you first encounter the
exhibit, you are not just confronted with, but pretty much slapped across the
face (in a good way) with a charged social issue in <st1:place w:st="on">South
America</st1:place>. As someone who has never been to <st1:place w:st="on">South
America</st1:place>, I had a very similar first reaction seeing the work to
most people I observe visiting the museum. Without reading any text or being
taught anything by anyone, you immediately come to understand the relevance, importance,
and how obviously underrepresented this subject must be in contemporary Latin
American society. The pictures here on this blog and our website can not capture the experience of being completely inundated with these images that fill an entire room our museum.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The exhibit offers no opinions. Though the art speaks volumes in and of itself, it is without judgement or agenda. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have led some tours through the museum and I have found the experience very rewarding, particularly for this exhibit. I've seen people's eyes water up (some in loving memory of the housekeepers they grew up with, others in sadness over their personal conflict over the subject). People's reactions completely vary, ranging from curiosity to joy to revulsion. Despite what a person's reaction may be, a conversation always gets started and heated debates between visitors are common. </span></div>
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is to create dialogue about current social issues. This exhibit presents a
issue going on in parts of <st1:place w:st="on">South America</st1:place>, yet
is very accessible to anyone. We can all relate to the idea of “evolving
subordinate relationships” we encounter in our daily lives. Though some might
argue that the idea of presenting two social classes on the same level “has
been done”, I have personally never seen it done in such a simple, artful, and
accessible way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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critical to pursuing our mission as a museum. Art, as seen in <i>Common Place</i>, can wield great power in
communicating ideas surrounding human rights, development, social class, the
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Aside from showcasing amazing art from the Americas, we are also charged with the task of creating a positive impact in the world through our museum's mission as well as our being a part of the <a href="http://www.oas.org/">Organization of American States</a> (OAS), whose core values are to promote human rights, democracy, justice, and security (if you don't know what the OAS is, you should look it up, it's a pretty cool institution). Our efforts in this area range from the choices we make in selected art for exhibitions to international programs to keep at-risk youth off the streets. Much of these efforts are less visible to the public, but I am going to use this platform to help shed some light on the "behind the scenes" work we are engaged in.<br />
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To begin this new series, I'd like to go back a bit and talk about <b><a href="http://www.museum.oas.org/exhibitions/2011-tentlife.html">Tent Life: Haiti</a></b>, a photo exhibition by <a href="http://www.wyattgallery.com/">Wyatt Gallery</a> (a person, not a place). The show took place in the OAS | AMA F Street Gallery at 1889 F Street, NW. Though our gallery space is less known then our museum, we've been receiving quite a bit of positive press on our (usually photography) exhibitions there. <b>Tent Life</b> was no exception. Gallery traveled to Haiti to document the life of displaced Haitians following the devastating 2010 earthquake there.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The series of photographs range from the uplifting to the down-right depressing;
however, what binds them together is a candid sense of perseverance.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>As the Washington City Paper put it,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>"<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #252525;">is it appropriate to find
transcendence in photographs of abject poverty?" It's not the kind of work
that says "look at these poor, helpless people" nor does it say
"look how great they're doing under horrifying conditions", rather it
comes across as a well-crafted documentary and calls on the viewer to enter -
and empathize with - another human being's experience. During the exhibition,
and after, <a href="http://tentlifehaiti.com/#/PURCHASE/">a book</a> with the
same title as the exhibit was - and is still - being sold to raise money to support relief
efforts in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Haiti</st1:country-region> and all
proceeds from the book go to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Haiti</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
The book is really beautiful, contains all the photos from the exhibit, and
more photos that we didn’t have room for. (This isn’t a sales pitch, I promise.
I bought one for myself. Ok, maybe a bit of a sales pitch, but it’s totally
worth it.)</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Exhibits like <b>Tent
Life: Haiti </b>serve to accomplish many aspects of our mission. We are
bringing talented, contemporary artists to <st1:city w:st="on">Washington</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">DC</st1:state>, bridging cultural gaps between different
cultures of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Americas</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
as well as promoting a positive impact in the world by creating greater
awareness of social issues in our global community. The selection of artwork is
probably the most basic of ways the museum accomplishes our mission.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Ruby Rumié was born in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. Since 2005, she has lived and worked between Cartagena de Indias, and Santiago, Chile. She studied painting, drawing, and sculpture at The School of Fine Arts in Cartagena, David Mansur Academy in Bogota, and has participated in numerous workshops with artists such as: Maria Teresa Hincapié, Eugenio Dittborn, Fabian Rendón, and Jean Pierre Accoult. From 1989 to 1996, she worked using a hyper-realistic painting technique to portray portraits of the native people of Cartagena de Indias. After breaking away from the Academy, she started to work with a clear focus on social and territorial heritage, during which she questioned the commitment of the artist to society. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Since 1995, she has made multiple posters and prints such as the book, “The Visit”, with serigraphs from 15 Colombian artists, “The Last Letter to a Kidnapped Man”, with 1000 copies for the Boehringer Ingelheim company, the Centennial Commemorative poster “The Gift”, for the Mayor of Cartagena, and finally the poster “The Short Circuit “made for the Institute of Cultural Heritage, to celebrate the festival of the independence of Cartagena de Indias. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">As a teacher she has carried out workshops and diploma courses with institutions such as the Banco de la República and the university Jorge Tadeo Lozano. She recently participated as a teacher in one of three cultural initiatives for social entrepreneurship in the city of Cartagena, created by The American Development Laboratory of the Technological University of Bolivar. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Justine Graham (Nice, France, 1976.) is a photographic artist and cultural producer based in Santiago, Chile since 2005. She holds a Masters in Urban Studies, London School of Economics in 2001, Bachelor in Culture & Politics, Georgetown University, 1999, and photography foundation studies at Parsons School of Design, Paris 1995. Justine Graham worked in London as Projects Director for cultural organizations linked to urbanism and architecture from 2001 to 2005. In 2005 she founded YAPO Project in Santiago, Chile, a cultural laboratory dedicated to exploring social, spatial and cultural issues of identity through multi-disciplinary projects (<a href="http://www.yapoproject.cl/">www.yapoproject.cl</a>). She is Photography Professor at the Universidad Católica de Chile’s School of Design. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Graham is also currently exhibiting her first solo show in one of Santiago’s premier contemporary art spaces (Sala Gasco), which can be seen <a href="http://www.salagaso.cl/">here</a>. There's also small "making-of" video of this installation ( of more that 8,600 postcards!) and can be viewed <a href="http://vimeo.com/31732708">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Recent exhibits include: Common Place (</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Lugar Común)</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> (with Ruby Rumié, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC 2011), An Imaginary Atlas of Santiago de Chile (Sala Gasco Arte Contemporáneo, 2011), Ripping (with Ruby Rumié, Centro de Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, 2010), Lugar Común: 100 women (with Ruby Rumié, Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago, 2010), Geography of Work: Photographs of Chilean Workers (Museo de Bellas Artes, 2008). She recently published her first 400-page book, Atlas Imaginario de Santiago de Chile, documenting 6 years of Santiago’s informal urban landscape.</span>AMA | Art Museum of the Americashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00748925882152023052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388415542009384116.post-86803326286292479872011-11-04T10:37:00.000-07:002011-11-04T10:38:16.813-07:00Tomás Rivas | Contemporary Art from Chile: Traveling Light | Artist 5 of 5<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rivas' site-specific piece, The Room Next Door, is a revision of the <a href="http://collection.corcoran.org/collection/work/corner-tables-encoignures">Salon Doré</a>, which is the <a href="http://www.corcoran.org/">Corcoran Gallery of Art</a>'s 18th Century French period room with gilded paneling and Corinthian pilasters. Concentrating on segments of patterns and moldings of the Salon Doré, this piece relates the structure and surface of decorative motifs with speculation about the interior order of these forms inside the Corcoran. <br /> <br />Made from plaster, wood, and everyday materials, the work generates a temporary distance from the original source and a close-up study of decorative forms from the 18th Century and other neo-classical patterns. The Room Next Door also explores ornamentation and hierarchy in architecture.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tomás Rivas (b. 1975, Santiago). Rivas holds a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts (MFA) from the University of Notre Dame, IN, United States and a Bachelor of Arts from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. His work has been exhibited throughout Argentina, Germany, Brazil, Chile, United States, France, England, and Israel. Among his main Exhibits we find Tectonic Shift: Arte Contemporáneo de Chile, Saatchi Gallery y Philips de Pury, Londres (2010); Contaminaciones Contemporáneas, MAC USP, São Paulo (2010); Chili, l’envers du décor , Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris; Slash, Paper under the knife, Museum of Art and Design, New York (2009); Material Ligero: Five artists from Santiago, Chile travelling light, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, Melbourne (2009); Flujo, Obras de Gerardo Pulido y Tomás Rivas, Museum of Visual Arts, Santiago (2009); Boyscraft, (Haifa Museum of Art), Haifa (2008); Abre Alas, Galería A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro (2007); Feedback, Cultural Center Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile (2007); Alegoría Barroca en el Arte Contemporáneo, Museum of Contemporary Art MAC, Santiago (2006). Since 2003, he has received awards and scholarships including the AMA Scholarship, (2008), the Scope Emerging Artist Grant (Emerging Artist Award) Foundation Scope New York (2006), 1984 Foundation Fellowship (Fellowship) Project for the Study of Ancient Architecture (Director: Robin F. Rhodes). Ancient Corinth, Greece, The Outstanding Student Achievement Award (International Award for graduate students in Master in Fine Arts), Graduate Teaching Assistantship Fellowship (Academic scholarship) University of Notre Dame, IN. Rivas is currently doing a residency program at LUX Art Institute, USA, and RIAA, Argentina. He also teaches at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.</span></div>AMA | Art Museum of the Americashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00748925882152023052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388415542009384116.post-46335438035360211342011-10-17T08:17:00.000-07:002011-10-17T08:18:25.137-07:00Gerardo Pulido | Contemporary Art from Chile: Traveling Light | Artist 4 of 5<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; line-height: 115%;">Gerardo Pulido (b.1975, Santiago). Pulido holds a Ph.D in Art Education, from the
University of Seville, Spain, a Master’s and a Bachelor of Arts Degrees from
the Catholic University of Chile. He joined the RIAA residence in Argentina.
His work has been exhibited throughout Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile,
Colombia, United States, England, and France. Among his main Exhibitions are<i> Tectonic
Shift: Arte Contemporáneo de Chile</i>, Saatchi Gallery y Philips de Pury,
Londres (2010);<i> Flujo. </i></span><i><span lang="ES" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; line-height: 115%;">Obras de Gerardo Pulido y Tomás Rivas</span></i><span lang="ES" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; line-height: 115%;">,
MAVI, Santiago (2009);<i> Sur Scène</i>, Castillo de Tours, Tours (2007);<i> Políticas
de la Diferencia: Arte Iberoamericano de Fin de Siglo</i>, MALBA, Buenos Aires
(2001).</span></span><br />
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Golden Arches of Latinoamerican Painting (Argentina -Colombia, 2010). He has
also received numerous scholarships and awards such as the AMA (Chile, 2008);
Fondart, CNCA (Chile, 2006); Scholarship MAE, AECI (Spain, 2005-2003). He
has published several essays on art and is the Co-editor of Index, Paper Art
and Criticism (2001-1997, Chile). Pulido teaches at the UC Art Schools
from the Universidad del Desarrollo and Universidad Diego Portales.</span>AMA | Art Museum of the Americashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00748925882152023052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388415542009384116.post-28623445598429398792011-10-06T07:27:00.000-07:002011-10-06T07:27:49.997-07:00Rodrigo Galecio | Contemporary Art from Chile: Traveling Light | Artist 3 of 5<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"></span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;">Rodrigo Galecio's piece, <b>Zig</b>, is a work of geometric abstraction in which perspective and dimension have a really important role. It creates illusions of volume that is read as an axonometric drawing. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rodrigo Galecio (b.1972, Santiago). Galecio holds a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts
from the <i>Complutense University of Madrid</i>,
Spain and a Bachelor of Arts, from <i>Pontifical
Catholic University of Chile</i>. His work has been exhibited in Australia,
Chile, Spain, United States, and London. Among his most significant work we
find the HCO Tribute to Carlos Ortúzar, at Galería Die Ecke Arte
Contemporáneo, Santiago (2010); <i>Beuys y
más allá</i>, <i>Educar como arte</i>,
(MAVI), Santiago (2010). <i>Material Ligero,
Five Artists from Santiago, Chile Travelling Light</i>, at the Margaret
Lawrence Gallery in the Victorian College of the Arts, The University of
Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia (2009); ZABRISKIE POINT, Galería Die Ecke Arte
Contemporáneo, Santiago (2007); <i>El Efecto
Pedagógico</i>, Tribute to Eduardo Vilches, National Council for Culture and
the Arts, , Valparaíso (2006); <i>5ª Bienal
de Artes Visuales: Utopías de Bolsillo</i>, MNBA, Santiago (2006);
CONDOROS/MISTAKES, Galería de Arte Gasworks, Union Walk, E2, Londres (2005); Transformer,
Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Santiago (2005); To be political it has to look
nice, Galería APEX, Nueva York (2003); PAC, Galería de Arte Metropolitana
(GALMET), Santiago (2002); Video Biennial Iva Colleges and Schools, Reina Sofia
Museum, Madrid (1999). He has twice received the Scholarship for Development
and Artistic Creation V.R.A.I.D. from Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
(2006, 2008). Galecio teaches at the Pontifical Catholic University, School of
Arts.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; line-height: 17px;">Rodrigo Canala </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; line-height: 115%;">(b. 1972, Santiago). Canala holds a Master’s Degree in Visual Arts
from UCh, a Bachelor of Arts from UFT, Santiago, and has a background in
architecture from UVM, Viña del Mar, Chile. His work has been exhibited
in Australia, Brazil, Colombia, Korea, Chile, Spain, and the United States.
Among his most significant exhibitions are<i> Destellos Negros</i>,
Galería Centro, Talca (2011);<i> Contaminaciones Contemporáneas</i>, MAC
USP, </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">São Paulo<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black;"> (2010); <i>Material Ligero: Five artists from Santiago, Chile
travelling light</i> at the Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, Melbourne (2009);<i> Suite-Patrón</i>,
Galería Die Ecke, Santiago (2007);<i> Stgo/Bog/Stgo. </i></span></span><i><span lang="ES" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; line-height: 115%;">Envío
de Arte Contemporáneo Chileno</span></i><span lang="ES" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; line-height: 115%;">, Galería Valenzuela Klenner, Bogotá (2007);<i> 5ª
Bienal de Artes Visuales, Utopías de Bolsillo</i>, MNBA, Santiago (2006);<i> Arte
Contemporáneo Chileno: Desde el Otro Sitio/Lugar</i>, MAC, Santiago y
NMCA, Seoul (2006-2005).</span><span lang="ES-MX" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; line-height: 115%;">Canala has received multiple awards and
scholarships including a nomination to the AMA scholarship, the Gasworks
International Residency Programme (UK, 2010); nominee to Award of the National
Arts Altazor (Chile, 2007), Fondart, CNCA (Chile, 2009, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2000,
1999); Recipient of the <i>Friends of Art
Scholarship</i> (Chile, 1999). Canala teaches Sculpture and Volume at the
Schools of Fine Arts at UFT and UNAB.</span></span></div>
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Chile, Spain, and Mexico. Among her most significant exhibitions are <i>Tectonic
Shift: Contemporary Art of Chile</i> at the Saatchi Gallery and Philips de
Pury, London (2011); <i>Contaminaciones Contemporáneas</i>, coordinated by Die
Ecke at the Museum of Contemporary Art in </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">São
Paulo<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black;"> (2010);<i> Mientras sea
possible,</i> collective exhibition by Iberoamerican artists at Casa de
America in Madrid (2010);<i> Albores,</i> Museum of Anthropology of
Xalapa, México (2007). Bauer has also been a recipient of multiple
international awards and scholarships including BECA AMA (Chile, 2010), an exchange
program between Chile and Mexico, CNCA and CONACULTA (Mexico, 2007), Fondart,
CNCA (Chile, 2005). Bauer is a Professor at the School of Art of the
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AMA | Art Museum of the Americashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00748925882152023052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388415542009384116.post-2769952722036261672011-09-16T13:57:00.000-07:002011-09-16T13:58:38.640-07:00New AMA Talent: Belen, Our New Intern<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"></span><br />
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AMA | Art Museum of the Americashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00748925882152023052noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388415542009384116.post-65590049557563513172011-08-26T10:20:00.000-07:002011-08-26T10:20:22.167-07:00Carolina Mayorga | Art After Dark @ AMA | Artist 7 of 10<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"></span><br />
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</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.2540460324380547" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Carolina Mayorga </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">explores religious rituals, migration, and conflict with a tasteful blend of poignancy, irreverence, and humor. She writes </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 17px; word-spacing: 1px;">Social issues related to my culture have always been the theme of my art: My culture related to Catholic rituals, the political situation of my native Colombia, issues of migration as a response to my bi-cultural experience of living in Colombia and the United States, and most recently, my perspective on the current global war that has shaped the beginning of the 21st Century."</span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
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AMA | Art Museum of the Americashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00748925882152023052noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388415542009384116.post-78282856017778054002011-08-22T10:01:00.000-07:002011-08-22T10:01:47.100-07:00Billy Friebele | Art After Dark @ AMA | Artist 5 of 10<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Billy Friebele | www.billyfriebele.com</td></tr>
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</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.836434324271977" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Billy Friebele</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">'s work examines the intersection of new media and public space, making him a most suitable fit for Art After Dark. He has a forthcoming exhibition at the Orlando Museum of Art and has exhibited at the Baltimore Museum of Art as well as in Sarajevo, New York, Colorado, St. Louis, Detroit, and right here in DC.</span></div>AMA | Art Museum of the Americashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00748925882152023052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388415542009384116.post-7493362163914241742011-08-19T13:52:00.000-07:002011-08-19T13:52:41.570-07:00Ricardo Alzati | POSSIBLE WORLDS @ AMA | Artist 9 of 9<br />
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<strong>Open through August 28th at </strong><a href="http://www.amamuseum.org/" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #336699;"><strong>AMA | ART MUSEUM of the AMERICAS</strong></span></a></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<h1 style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; position: relative; text-align: justify;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><div class="MsoBodyText2" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Ricardo Alzati was born in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Mexico City</st1:place></st1:city> in 1974. He received his education in History and Visual Arts at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and in Photography and Visual Arts at the Centro de la Imagen and Centro Nacional de las Artes. In 2001-2002 he also attended the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Amsterdam</st1:place></st1:city>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Alzati’s photography, video, installations, paintings, and drawings have been exhibited in Mexico and the United States, including solo exhibitions at the Museo del la Ciudad de México (Mexico City), Casa Vecina (Mexico City), Fototeca de Veracruz (Verazcruz, Mexico), 111 projects (Mexico City), and group exhibitions, such as the 2001 <i>Visions: Contemporary Mexican Photography</i> show at the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York, and the 2008 <i>Proyectos para descontrucción</i> at the Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes MUCA Roma in Mexico City.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">In 2007, Alzati was recipient of the <i>Jóvenes Creadores</i> art production grant and in 2008, he was selected as part of the core group participants at <i>United Nations Plaza Mexico City</i> and was also awarded artist residencies at the <i>Triangle Artist’s Workshop</i> (<st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state>), and the <i>26<sup>th</sup> International Symposium of Contemporary Art</i>, <i>Baie St. Paul </i>(<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Quebec</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place>). Alzati also writes for Rim Magazine (<st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city>), and Arte MX (<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Mexico City</st1:place></st1:city>). He currently lives and works in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Mexico City</st1:place></st1:city>.</span></div></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Matthew Hemerlein | www.matthewhemerlein.com</td></tr>
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</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.6892220495841843" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Multi-instrumentalist </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Matthew Hemerlein </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">has drawn comparisons to Jeff Buckley with his subtle rhythmic pulses and trance-inducing layers of loops replete with plucked and strummed violins and guitars and evocative vocal delivery. He utilizes his classical training not as a crutch but as a jumping-off point to convey complex emotions with just the right blend of subtlety and upheaval. </span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
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