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A series of colored planks creating a large format labyrinth will welcome visitors to the 14th edition of the ArtBo International Art Fair in Bogotá, which begins Thursday and has managed to position itself as the most important encounter with national art and international of the country.
It is about the installation Transcromía, 1967-2017, of the Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez, one of the most important representatives of the kinetic art and in Latin America.
This book is only an overview of the ambitious artistic offer presented by the show through eight sections that explore the work of emerging and national artists and avant-garde galleries. and international, with works of multiple formats and origins.
If you are pbadionate about art or are curious, going to ArtBo is a must to get closer to the artistic movement and, why not, dare to buy and collect.
1. Main section
The main section presents a selection of 58 mainly Colombian galleries, but also from Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Denmark, Spain, United States, France, United Kingdom, Mexico, Italy, Peru , Uruguay, Turkey, Romania and Venezuela, among other countries.
Many have already gained wide international recognition, like Mor Charpentier (France), with a proposal that explores contemporary portraiture and selfies. Her exhibition includes works by the Mexican Teresa Margolles, who, from a political point of view, deals with issues such as feminicide and the disappearance of women in Ciudad Juárez. The work of Oscar Muñoz, from Cali, will also be present, mentioning the missing persons because of the violence in Colombia.
The emerging galleries, which have existed for six years, will also have their space in the room called 21m². The selection includes the Surface Gallery (Brazil), representative of several generations of women artists of this country. For this edition, works by Guga Szabzon will be presented, including cartography, weaving and paperwork, as well as discussions on geographical boundaries; and artist Rosana Paulino, who has dealt with gender issues and slavery delays in domestic chores.
There will also be galleries from Venezuela, Spain, Mexico, Peru, Chile and the Colombian community hall, Other 360º, Espacio El Dorado, Aurora, space for art and design, contemporary projects Liberia-Central and Rincón.
2 Projects
For this section, Guatemalan curator Emiliano Valdés, chief curator of the modern art museum of Medellin, has invited 14 artists with the representation of a gallery to be part of the project "Los pensamientos se volven cosas", the one that explores how form is a vector of transmission of ideas and wonders about art as a non-rational tool for understanding the world, all within the framework of an intuitive process of exploration.
Visitors will see the selection of works by artists such as Alberto Lezaca and Mandy El-Sayegh is focused on an abstract search for materials, textures and colors, where the artist's work is based on his work. art is supposed to say what can not be said with words.
3. Referents
Under the notion of "dialogues through time", the curator Pilar Tompkins, director of the Vincent Price Art Museum of East Los Angeles College, seeks to bring together the discourse on gender, race, ethnicity and the kind. Intergenerational legacy of emerging artists.
Similarly, in this section, which explores works of art that have broken paradigms, transformed the history of art and have become references for contemporary art, reference is made to the Latin American diaspora born in the United States, with works from the collections of participating galleries of the main section and artists such as Liliana Angulo, Ana Mercedes Hoyos, Beatriz Daza, Fanny Sanín, Norman Mejía , Deborah Arango, María Angelica Medina, Olga de Amaral and Julieth Morales, among others. 19659016] 4. Site
It covers projects aimed at stimulating the perception of the viewer through the installation of works that transcend the traditional exhibition formats:
"Transcromía" of Carlos Cruz-Diez.
"Place On -Fold", from the Mexican Carmen Argote, composed of very beautiful pieces of muslin falling from a height of seven meters.
"Elegía", from the Colombian video Clemencia Echeverri which refers to the memory and the conflicts.
'Rain Makers', from the Colombian Miler Lagos, an interactive installation composed of a wooden ring rolling five meters from diameter hanging over a water mirror that activates when the public walks inside.
"Individual Exercises", from Argentina Silvia Rivas , another video installation, in this case of the series "Momentum", which reflects on the idea of time and confronts the viewer to the fall.
"Kiosco", the Colombian Angelica Teuta, an architectural installation that recognizes the lack of public spaces to create a community.From the recognition of space and its context, Teuta builds temporary structures using methods specific to the communities in which they are located.
5. Forum
This free space moves away from the commercial and presents a series of discussions on topics related to contemporary art, under the direction of Sara Hermann. The discussions will take place from October 25 to 28 with personalities of national and international art, such as Colombians Álvaro Barrios, Miguel González and Eduardo Serrano, Mexican José Esparza Chong Cuy, Puerto Rican Maria Elena Ortiz, Portuguese João Fernandes and the Jamaican. Katrina Coombs, among others. Registration is mandatory on the website www.artbo.co. You can consult the complete program.
6. Artecámara
Promotes the work of 30 young Colombian artists, two collectives and two self-managed spaces without commercial representation selected through a public call. Carolina Ponce de León was chosen under the slogan "All that I have, everything I need", which characterizes the voices of a generation facing both the l & # 39; Abundance and lack, high expectations and discontent, sum of you have and what you could have.
7. Artist's Book
This space is devoted to the exhibition of artists' books. It presents the exhibition "Collecting Images, Displaying Connection", organized by the Brazilian Pedro Torres, which brings together the publications of artists from 24 publishers who used the format. printed to display the image files.
8. Articularte
Gabriel Zea and Maria Adelaida Samper present & # 39; B. ACE (2) A Better Future ", a new version of the" Experimental Artistic Knowledge Bank "project, in which educational tools for participation are provided, in which participants will be given the role of" The Future ". artist, gallerist, curator or collector to make visible the evaluation, production, circulation and consumption systems of the art market
To be taken into account
* News: In order to concretize the approach of the new public vis-à-vis the dynamics of the art, ArtBo will launch the Catalog of the new collectors.The goal is to put in contact new collectors of the world of art, with works of up to six million pesos.
* Artecámara Prize: for the sixth year in a row, ArtBo, with the support of EL TIEMPO, will organize four artistic residencies on October 25th at Flora Ars + Natura e t at Idartes, Bogotá; Lugar at Dudas, Cali and La Usurpadora, Barranquilla.
* Free guided tours will be organized as part of the educational and mediation activities.
WHERE AND WHEN
The Bogotá International Art Fair will be held from October 25 to 28. Great Hall of Corferias. Avenida Calle 24 No. 37-80, Bogotá. General ticketing: 32,000 pesos. Student ticketing with card: 15,000 pesos. Children under 10 years: free admission. Reports: www.artbo.co
A week to experiment the art in different ways
ArtBo is not the only show that will rock Bogotá with the art this week. Barcú, La Fería del Millón, Odeón and ArtChicó will do the same.
ArtChicó, in La Macarena
The fourth edition of ArtChicó will take place in a house in the district of La Macarena. Visitors can see the proposals of more than 100 contemporary international artists, represented by 20 art galleries from 12 countries, as well as masterpieces of Latin American modernism, such as Fernando Botero and Alejandro Obregón.
the guest artist will be the Bolivian Sol Mateo, who will present for the first time in Colombia her works of photographic bads.
In addition, a section will be devoted to children with guided tours and workshops of painting, sculpture and puppetry. As part of her academic program, Commissioner Heriberto Nieves of Puerto Rico will address the subject of art as an investment, and Colombian artist Tila Rubinni will discuss her creative process and artistic concerns. There will also be an auction space, with works of one million pesos. Where and when: Calle 27 No. 4A-33, Bogotá. From 26 to 28 October Free admission. www.artchico.com
Barcú, the festival of Candelaria
In its fifth edition, it seeks to position itself as a festival aiming to use the power of culture to restore and transform the district of La Candelaria. Barcú will open the doors of 17 houses in which visitors will discover contemporary art, photography, music and cinema, among other expressions. At Casa Cicuta and Casa Factoría, 20 galleries from Spain, Mexico, Cuba, Peru, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina and the United States will exhibit their works.
Three guest artists will attend the festival: the Italian Filippo Minelli, the Dutch Koen Vermeule and the Colombian Sair García. Spotlights House will highlight the work of 15 emerging artists without representation.
In addition, Barcú will have spaces such as Casa Siam, where national and international musicians will perform, and Barcú Village, which will host several DJs on stage. Where and when: October 24 to 29 Ticketing: Pbad day, 25,500 pesos. Night card: from 25 500 pesos. See the full program on www.barcu.com
The Million Dollar Fair: Demystifying Art
This fair, which features works costing around a million pesos, wants to break the myth that only a few people can access art, either because it is thought to be complex and boring, or expensive.
That is why, for six years, it has offered the opportunity to buy works of art at affordable prices and supports 75 emerging artists who have no place in the world. 39, exhibition, chosen by means of a call to which more than a thousand artists have applied. .
The purpose of the exhibition "Voltaje" is to give an insight into how different artists explore, question, confront and embrace the multiple relationships between art and technology.
The public will be able to converse directly with the artists to find out about their work. There will also be guided discussions in public schools. Where and when: October 27 and 28 Creative Texture Center. Carrera 54 No. 5C-33, Bogotá. Ticketing: 15,000 pesos. www.feriadelmillon.com
Intensive Odeon, far from the commercial
After seven years of presence at the Odeon Fair, the conservation team decided to rethink its contribution as an independent space and achieve Odeón Intensive Space, a new project is moving away from commercial guidelines to expand the margins of what is on display this week and extend them to other unprecedented and much more disturbing creative processes.
In its first edition, a program of actions, installations, projections and performances will be proposed. artists Juan Mejía, Ana Maria Montenegro, Laagencia, Mateo Lopez (Barrio Obrero), Juice & Rispetta (Switzerland), among others.
This event will also include other artistic disciplines such as music, dance, audiovisual and the "performative", through an intensive program of events that will run over 10 consecutive hours , every day.
Where and when: October 26 to 28 Suggested contribution: 8,000 pesos. See the complete program on www.espacioodeon.com
LAURA GUZMÁN DÍAS
CULTURE AND ENTERTAINMENT
@The_uptowngirl
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