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Galeria Arte Innovador (Caracas) Showed "La Voz" And "Winter" By Nahila Campos At Pinta Miami 2015

12/30/2015

Galeria Arte Innovador (Caracas) showed La Voz and Winter by Nahila Campos at Pinta Miami 2015.

These mixed media sculptures are hard to get render in photos. There is detail, drawing on the plexiglas and tiny shopping cards inside the cubes of La Voz.

Both are pieces that are best seen in person but hopefully this gives some notion of the work.

Guijarro De Pablo (Miami/Mexico D.F.) Showed Pieces By Carlos Garcia de la Nuez At Pinta Miami 2015

12/30/2015

Dos Cabexas

Guijarro de Pablo (Miami/Mexico D.F.) showed work by Carlos Garcia de la Nuez at Pinta Miami 2015. Garcia de la Nuez' work, and that of his contemporaries in the 1980s, eschewed political commentary and criticism. The work was about art for the sake of art rather than making any point.

This is something revolutionary in a state that regarded itself as revolutionary. Art HAS to be about politics in such a society.

El Arbol and La Grimas Cardinales

Imaginart (Barcelona) Showed Work By Joaquín Torres García At Pinta Miami 2015

12/29/2015

Imaginart (Barcelona) showed work by Joaquín Torres García at Pinta Miami 2015.

Torres Garcia was a painter, sculptor, writer, teacher and more. He was from Catalonia and was a champion of art (especially murals) from the area. He was the progenitor of universal constructivism and a major influence on innumerable artists (he worked with fellow Catalan, Antoni Gaudi, for one).

Cuba: Concrete Excercises, An Exhibit At Pinta Miami 2015, Showed Work By Cuban Artists From The "Diez Pintores Concretos" Group

12/22/2015

Untitled by Lolo Soldevilla

Cuba: Concrete Exercises, an exhibit at Pinta Miami 2015, showed work by Cuban artists from the Diez Pintores Concretos group.

Whatever else you think of communist revolutions they sure are hell on the arts. Ever watch a Soviet movie? With a handful of exceptions they are abominations. The group was short-lived, 1958 to 1961, and the date of their demise is likely no coincidence.

Pieces here are by Lolo Soldevilla, Sandú Darié and Salvador Corratgé. Other artists in the group include: Pedro Álvarez, Luis Martínez Pedro, José Mijares, Alberto Menocal, Pedro de Oraá, Rafael Soriano and Wilfredo Arcay.

Find out more at the Pinta Miami website.

Both Untitled by Lolo Soldevilla

Estructura pictorica by Sandú Darié

Untitled (from Serie La Musica) and Fuga #1 by Salvador Corratgé

O. Ascanio Gallery (Miami) Showed Work By Jorge Blanco At Pinta Miami 2015

12/21/2015

Red Rollers

O. Ascanio Gallery (Miami) showed work by Jorge Blanco at Pinta Miami 2015. Blanco is a Venezuelan sculptor known for his public art pieces. The pieces here are powder coated aluminum.

He is also known as a cartoonist--the creator of The Castaway, an iconic Venezuelan comic.

In addition to his sculpture (which are not ALL monumental in scale) he has illustrated over 20 children's books.

Blanco moved to the United States in 1999.

Chuao

Canale Diaz Art Center Showed Reymond Romero's "Sala De Espera #2" At Pinta Miami 2015

12/21/2015

Canale Diaz Art Center (Miami) showed Reymond Romero's Sala de Espera #2 at Pinta Miami 2015.

The Venezuelan artist's work is based on thread, the sort used in the area where he was born to create quilts and weighing nets. He takes these traditions and moves into the fine arts.

It recalls arts & crafts pieces of the last century (and even before) where the utilitarian becomes fine art.

Sextante (Bogata) Showed Work At Pinta Miami 2015

12/21/2015

Sextante (Bogata) showed work at Pinta Miami 2015.

Marcia Thompson's untitled work below is acrylic paint in an acrylic box. Her pieces were startlingly simple but also work you notice and recall. Find out more about the artist at marciathompson.com.

This three dimensional piece here? I neglected to get the name of the artist or piece. I liked it too much to not show it though. It is a sort of minimalist diorama--again it is startlingly simple but the attention to detail is also readily apparent.

T.A. Editions (Miami) Showed Work By Rodolfo Morales And Pedro Friedeberg At Pinta Miami 2015

12/18/2015

T.A. Editions (Miami) showed work by Rodolfo Morales and Pedro Friedeberg at Pinta Miami 2015.

Morales, a Mexican painter, passed away in 2001 at the age of 75. He was best known for his paintings of rural Mexico with an almost surrealist bent. More often he has the "magic realism" tag hung on him--that isn't a bad thing really. Any attempt to force an artist into a box, however, does them a disservice. You don't need a school or a genre. We can all see the work.

Friedeberg's surrealist pieces use geometry and religious symbols. He also created the famous "hand chair" sculpture you may have seen and other sculptures in a surrealist vein. He was born in Italy but escaped soon to be war-ravaged Europe at the age of 3 and was raised in Mexico. His still irreverent work adheres to the surrealist ideology.

Pinta Miami 2015 Showed Large, Experimental, Pieces By Ernesto Neto And Carlos Martiel

12/17/2015

Nave Nove by Ernesto Neto

Pinta Miami 2015 showed large, experimental, pieces by Ernesto Neto and Carlos Martiel. These works, in a way, define Pinta's second year. Pinta is the first fair to dedicate itself totally to Latin American art.

Neto's work, Nave Nove, is part of the Tiroche DeLeon Collection and is created out of a white stocking-like material. The Brazilian artist often fills his sculptures with styrofoam or spices. This particular piece was intended to allow visitors to walk through it and put hands through the sides (near the end of the video).

Martiel's piece, DIctatura, was part of Time Sensitive-Pinta Projects and examines the grip dictatorship has often had on Latin America. A man is chained, by his neck, completely nude, completely exposed, to a flagpole. The man is the artist himself and the performance continued throughout the fair. The flags of 21 nations went up that flagpole--each nations that have been (or currently are) dictatorships. Some of these dictatorships were themselves "sponsored" by the School of the Americas.

Dictatura

IK-Projects (Sao Paulo) Showed This Piece By Carmen Reategui At Pinta Miami 2015

12/17/2015

IK-Projects (Sao Paulo) showed this piece by Carmen Reategui at Pinta Miami 2015. These pieces are corn and the boxes say, "Eat Corn Not War".

Reategui has from Peru. The gallery has a location in Bogota as well as in Brazil.