PAST EXHIBITIONS
Juan Raúl Hoyos: Architectural Playground
Curated by Aluna Curatorial Collective
The Miami Dade College Campus Galleries of Art + Design; Kendall Campus
When, by the end of the 50s, Bernd and Hilla Becher documented in black and white photographs the German factories’ “typologies,” in which several variations of a single sort of industrial structure were represented, they were actually making the archaeological work of an era that was coming to an end. Those powerful images, raised out of a quest for a New Objectivity, traced the order of the past (…)
AFFECTIVE ARCHITECTURES II at Pinta Art Fair 2015
With (in alphabetical order): Carola Bravo (Venezuela), Fernando Carabajal (Mexico), Ofill Echevarría (Cuba), Nereida García-Ferraz (Cuba), Florencio Gelabert (Cuba), Juan Raúl Hoyos (Colombia), Pablo León de la Barra (Mexico), Ronald Morán (el Salvador), Fernando Otero (Peru), Ernesto Oroza (Cuba), Gamaliel Rodríguez (Puerto Rico), and Viviana Zargón (Argentina).
13 artists from Latin America and the Caribbean will display artworks that are in fact residues of a relational experience within the architectures of their cities. Each one of them reveals the potential reserves of creativity that often (…)
A Russian, a Chinese, and a Cuban walk into an Art Show
The twentieth century was marked by the rise and fall of great narratives that attempted to draw near the horizon of social utopia but led to totalitarianism. Nonetheless, the epic iconography of stereotypes and collective paradigms, common in communist countries, also extended its echo to film, advertising, and the rhetoric of American propaganda during the post-war period and throughout the Cold War.
Lorna Otero at the Frost Museum. Contemporary families in Miami: A photo album
Curated by Aluna Curatorial Collective
An interactive project between Lorna Otero and South Florida residents. The artist, utilizes her talents to construct a tree in one of the museum’s galleries. The leaves of this tree feature dozens of photographs taken by South Florida families engaged in shared activities such as daily meals, family outings and other routines.
Revision: Angel Delgado
Delgado incorporates sculptures and drawings from the last decade, with media such as soaps, trays or sheets derived from the practices of survival from prison. It also presents serigraphs inspired by an alphabet invented then and large paintings about forms of oppression in a dizzying and globalized world but corroded social indifference. This show will take place with the release of several exhibitions dedicated to the concept of Parrhesia, a term which in ancient Greek meant “speak the truth,”- and the contradictions between censorship and the exercise of freedom of thought in artistic creation and literary.