Candelaria Art

Striking picture by Venezuelan artist Lucia Pizzani to be included in Photofusion SALON/14.

In 2013, Lucia received the XII Eugenio Mendoza Award and the Emerging Artists Award by AICA Association of International Art Critics Venezuela. In 2006 she received the 2nd National Young Award Salon FIA.

Her work is included in private and public collections such as: Colección Banco Mercantil, Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) and Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC), among others.

Lucia's work was included in Candelaria's first exhibition Alter.

Exhibition Dates: 12 December 2014 – 30 January 2015; Launch Party: Thursday 11 December, 18.30 – 21:00.

http://www.photofusion.org/exhibitions/salon14/

Surge in new and revived South American biennials reflects global demand for contemporary art from Latin America.

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Biennials-move-to-a-Latin-beat-after-decades-of-controversy/36484

Interesting article about Jorge Perez' art buying spree.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/chloesorvino/2014/12/04/the-billionaire-backed-related-groups-art-buying-spree-and-the-works-being-unveiled-at-art-basel-miami-2014/

Fernando Romero Enterprise has unveiled its design for the new Latin American Art Museum (LAAM) in Miami. When built, LAAM will house a contemporary art collection including artists such as Diego Rivera, Fernando Botero, Wifredo Lam, Guillermo Kutica, Roberto Matta, Rufino Tamayo, among others.

http://www.designboom.com/architecture/latin-american-art-miami-laam-by-fr-ee-12-03-2014/

Talented Latin American artists included in "100 Painters of Tomorrow:"
Julieta Aguinaco - Mexico
Jorge Castellanos - Mexico
Pablo Griss - Venezuela
Heriberto Quesnel - Mexico
Omar Rodriguez-Graham - Mexico
Leila Tschopp - Argentina

http://100paintersoftomorrow.com

(Picture: Griss' Intervention. Cyan Red. www.pablogrissintervention.com)

Those Artsy Early Birds Flew Away: Art Basel Miami Beach’s Unfulfilled Promise

Article from the New York Times on Art Basel Miami.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/arts/design/art-basel-miami-beachs-unfulfilled-promise.html?referrer=

Art Basel Miami Beach’s Unfulfilled Promise Art Basel Miami Beach was supposed to make South Florida an art mecca. So what happened?

Frida Kahlo's studio and garden to spring up in New York.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30243330

Excellent article about Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and her mission to bring art from Latin America to new audiences and change perceptions.
“You could not see the show [Radical Geometry] without breaking all the previous folkloric stereotypes about Latin America; there is not a single banana included.”

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e06f9776-719a-11e4-b178-00144feabdc0.html

Mexican surrealists top Latin American auction, Botero sets record NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mexican surrealists Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington led Latin American art sales in New York, which also set a world auction record for the work of Colombian Fernando Botero.Varo's

Good article about Le Parc in the Independent. "I wanted to leave aside sentimentality to allow accessibility to people who had no history, to involve them. I was attacking the static nature of artworks. More importantly, I was attacking the idea of the extraordinary artist."

His show continues at the Serpentine Gallery until 15 February.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/julio-le-parc-artist-i-was-attacking-the-idea-of-the-extraordinary-artist-9888024.html

“New Territories”: Contemporary Design From Latin America at MAD | Artinfo The exhibition presents some 75 designers, artists, and craftspeople from Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, Argentina, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, and Chile.

Gego and Gerd Leufert: ‘A Dialogue’ An exhibition at Hunter College explores the art of European émigrés who made a life together pursuing rarefied forms of linear abstraction.