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Isabel Muñoz|Centro Cultural Español, Miami

by Willy Castellanos Simons Published in Arte al Día International. August 2012 Translation: Cora Sueldo The Spanish photographer Isabel Muñoz knew “La Bestia” (“The Beast”) closely and portrayed its entrails. This was the name given by immigrants from Central America – mostly from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador – to the freight train which has, for years, […]

Part of an installation called "Campo de Color" by Bolivian artist Sonia Falcone is pictured during the 55th La Biennale of Venice

Sonia Falcone and her unified cartography of the world

 By Adriana Herrera, PhD. (Essay for the Catalog of the 55th Venice Biennale, 2013) Field of Color, the work presented by Sonia Falcone (Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 1965) at the Biennial of Montevideo in the ancient church of Saint Francis, is a minimalist installation in its repetitive structural composition. However, instead of the cold and neutral […]

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Rogelio López Marín (Gory) | Farside Gallery, Miami

Arte al Día International. by Willy Castellanos Simons Translation: Cora Sueldo The exhibition Rogelio López Marín (Gory): Selected Photographs 1984-1994, permits a recapitulation of a crucial moment in contemporary Cuban art through an impeccable selection of this author’s most emblematic series, included in the Liza and Arturo Mosquera Collection. It is important to situate these […]

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Juan Carlos Alom | Buzzart Gallery, Miami

Published in Arte al Día International, 2012. Por Willy Castellanos Simons La exhibición 1989-2011: Fotografías de Juan Carlos Alom -uno de los autores cubanos de mayor poder iconográfico en el panorama de la isla-, abarca diferentes instantes de una trayectoria abundante en temas y modos diferentes de proyectar el quehacer fotográfico. Más que a una recapitulación, […]

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Rivanne Neuenschwander: hacia una poética de Lo cíclico

Alante Magazine | The Sun Sentinel | Octubre 2011 Por Willy Castellanos Simons El arte multidisciplinario de Rivanne Neuenschwander (Brasil, 1967) guarda el sentido intrínseco de la búsqueda, la capacidad de conmover de lo auténtico y una oportuna dosis de ese humanismo tan necesario que a veces se disuelve en los grandes discursos y las indagaciones […]

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Interpretative Guided Tour: Weaving the Tension Between Nature and Urban Sprawl.

Interpretative Guided Tour: Weaving the Tension Between Nature and Urban Sprawl. Sunday, January 15, 2023 Alissa Alfonso, Sharon Berebichez, Nancy Billings, RemiJin Camping, Maritza Caneca, Mabelin Castellanos, Alex De Yavorsky, Jocelyn Flores, Amy Gelb, Isabel Infante, Jeanne Jaffe, Marlene Kohn, Oriana Lacau, Adriana Lo Mascolo, Aurora Molina, Vero Murphy, Juliana Navarro Torres, Cynthia Passavanti, Felisa Prieto, […]
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Unfolding Visions of Contemporary Mayan Art, a live lecture by Dr. Adriana Herrera in the context of the exhibition Tiempo Circular

The Aluna Art Foundation is proud to invite you to the live lecture “Unfolding Visions of Contemporary Mayan Art”, presented by Dr. Adriana Herrera in the context of the exhibition Tiempo Circular organized by Tanya Brillembourg Art with the support of the Guatemalan Consulate in Miami.
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Live Talk at Pinta Art Fair 2022 | Textile Art: Spinning the Political with Ancestral Practices

This PINTA TALK featuring fiber artist Pip Brant, Aurora Molina and Evelyn Politzer is moderated by Adriana Herrera PhD, cofounder of Aluna Art Foundation. They will discuss politically-charged fiber arts and ways of exploring the relationship between gender, history, and fiber ancestral traditions and its connection with contemporary textile art.
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Zoom Talk | Threading the City’s virtual panel discussion

The Circularity of Textile Time features art historian and Pre-Columbian Art experts Carol Damian, Ph.D., and Shelley Burian, Ph.D., moderated by Adriana Herrera, Ph.D. The discussion will explore the relationship between pre-Hispanic textiles and modern fiber art and examine the living presence of indigenous art not only in contemporary artists who are direct descendants of native peoples, but also in other Latin American artists, including some Miami artists who work with fiber.
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Florida Humanities and the National Endowments for the Humanities supports educational programing during Threading the City, a series of fiber art exhibits across Miami.

Florida Humanities awarded a Community Project Grant Award to Aluna Art Foundation for the public programming of Threading the City. Lead scholar Adriana Herrera, Ph.D., joins other invited scholars, including: Carol Damian, (…)
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