Art of the Americas – 2014 – Interciencia English

Art of the Americas – 2014

Marcelo Maira, Rosario, Argentina, 1946

Relative Space, 1994
Acrylic on canvas
120 x 120 cm

In the Work of Marcelo Maura the concept is America, and should be seen as an archaeology of the shape that pretends to recover that lost alphabet, whose stuttering extended from the Paleolithic, reached its splendor during the great civilizations, and diluted itself with the arrival of the conquest ….Textured surfaces dwell in the plane, while fragments remain afloat, squashed against the limestone wall of the painting.

Comments: Osvaldo Mastromauro / Photography: Marcelo Maira / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist / Color separation: Andros Impresores.

Oscar Araripe, Río de Janeiro, Brasil, 1941

Flores, 2014
Acrílico sobre tela sintética
110 x 120 cm

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… uno de los pocos artistas brasileros que alcanzan el difícil equilibrio entre la exactitud y la liviandad. Sus flores, o mejor, sus naturalezas muertas donde los floreros asumen el papel central, son al mismo tiempo puras formas y puras flores …las flores de sus cuadros son como mariposas, sus pétalas son alas, y no sabemos si las flores son mariposas posadas en las ramas o si las mariposas son flores que fueron a volar.

Comentario: Alexei Bueno / Fotografía: Fundación Oscar Araripe / Reproducción: Cortesía del artista / Separación de colores: Andros Impresores.

Robert Najlis, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 1970.

Lives in Argentina
Woman: searching home, 2013
Oil on canvas
120 x 100 cm

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Art is a process that moves inside of us, and puts us in relation to the world around us. It requires, listening, sensitivity, and great emotional connection. The viewer’s eye, heart, and soul should move through the painting, joining in the movements and rhythms of a new world.

Comments: Robert Najlis / Photography: Robert Najlis / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist / Color separation: Andros Impresores.

Iván Contreras Brunet, Santiago, Chile, 1927. Lives in Paris

Nine Mobile Circles, 1968
Metallic grid, acrylic and wood
124 x 110 cm

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“I consider myself a colorist. My search is oriented to the color, its possibilities, organization, relations to the space, … Regarding color, I have studied the transparency, … the moiré, only as a de-materializing effect, the blurry, the indistinct. They are mobile constructions, so called kinetic.”

Comments: Iván Contreras Brunet, New York / Photography: Courtesy of Gallery Isabel de Aninat / Reproduction: Courtesy of Gallery Isabel de Aninat / Color separation: Andros Impresores.

Paúl Parrella, Cumaná, Venezuela, 1980

Notes in the sky Nª 362, 2010
Acrilyc on canvas
50 x 50 cm

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Paúl Parrella…with his small notebook on hand approaches the landscape to emphasize the vital dialogue that has to be preserved between the contemporary man and nature. An excuse to reencounter himself …His rigorous tracings hide his emotional gesture so as to turn transparent a kind of chromatic cloudiness that transformed into pictorial skins make up the universe of his own nature.

Comments: Alberto Asprino / Photography: Paúl Parrella / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist / Color separation: Andros Impresores

Paula Solminihac, Santiago, Chile, 1974

Geraniaecea, 2012
Clay modelling of typographic letters
54 x 58 cm

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Paula de Solminihac has carried out her creative work mainly as a result of the observation of the processes involved in ceramics labor, both from the historic and anthropologic point of view as from the formal one. Clay modeling, clay firing… are, among a series of other concepts, the most relevant and those that have been reiterated analogically in the creations that she has been actively making since 2002.

Comments: Fernanda Aranguiz / Photography: Paula de Solminihac / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist / Color separation: Andros Impresores

Eduardo Santiere, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1962

Europe 0, 2012
Graphite, colored pencils and scratching on paper
28,5 x 28,8 cm

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Eduardo Santiere’s drawings use paper as a springboard for imagining a distant and uncertain future, where playful, dream-like forms interact with biomorphic constellations and aggregations. …. in exacting detail, builds the composition up from the paper itself. For some works he applies a technique that he has termed “scratching”: manipulating the surface of the paper as if it were a bas-relief sculpture, Santiere creates delicate scratches, stipples, tears and mounds.

Comments: Henrique Faria Fine Art, New York / Photography: Eduardo Santiere / Reproduction: Henrique Faria Fine Art, New York / Color separation: PubliArte.

Reynaldo Díaz Zesati, Nuevo León, México, 1977

The Rock, of the series “Landscapes” 2011
Oil on canvas
120 x 150 cm

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…in his works the central axis is the place occupied by man in time and his circumstance. The theme tackled in the series of his paintings is rather ludic, searching in the anecdotes from childhood… The series “Landscapes” is based on the idea of the landscape and the construction of the space through the use of the line. His work is eminently auto-referential, trying to inquire in experiences of his growing age, as a way to understand who he is nowadays.

Comments: Allegro Gallery Press / Photography: Courtesy of Galería Alfredo Ginocchio / Reproduction: Courtesy of Galería Alfredo Ginocchio, Mexico / Color separation: PubliArte.

Alejandro De Narváez, Bogotá, Colombia, 1961

Joy of the Dreams, 2014
Mixed on canvas with gold foil
170 x 170 cms

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…This “expressionist” moment… reaches its most thorough definition in the chromatic strength … The texture, the trace and the color turn the work into an harmonious piece in which there is a close link between the light, the form and the space, revealing and evident intention of the artist to think and discover about the unknown, reinterpreting his way the sentient, the spiritual and the earthly.

Comments: Alejandro De Narváez / Photography: Óscar Monsalve / Reproduction: Courtesy of artist / Color separation: PubliArte.

Emilio Chapela Pérez, México DF, México, 1978

List of countries by GDP 2010, 2014
Cardboard, MDF and Formica
181 cubes (220 x 220 x 75 cm)

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List of Countries by GDP …is an installation where Chapela uses colored cubes to represent the economies of the currently existing 182 countries and assigns a color to each Continent. The cube size corresponds to the gross domestic product published by the International Monetary Fund in 2010… a map that does not represent the territories, but something even more abstract: richness, and thus, power.

Comments: Magnolia de la Garza / Photography: Arturo Sánchez / Reproduction: Courtesy of artist and Henrique Faria Fine Art, New York / Color separation: PubliArte.

Alberto Riera, Barquisimeto, Venezuela, 1978

Fall, 2006
Oxides, industrial paint, oil, graphite, oil bar, chalk on canvas
110 x 130 cms

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His colors… tend towards the metallic, to the silvery and muffled ochre pigments, without any shine. They are stains that he dissolves over the virgin canvas, layers of superposed colors, washed once and again, until achieving that tint that resembles corrosion. They are smears left almost carelessly…He fills all the spaces of the work and traces insinuated “calligraphies” as unfinished ancestral words.

Comments: http://brujuladeecuentros.blogspot.com / Photography: Rubén Medina / Reproduction: Courtesy of artist / Color separation: PubliArte.

Emilia Azcárate, Caracas, Venezuela, 1964

Untitled, 2012
Watercolor and gesso on board
12.7 x 12.7 x 2.5 cms

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…a series of small and medium-format paintings on wood that are placed on a surface rather than hung, and which the viewer can manipulate to create different compositions. …always based on the use of the circle as a central structural element …some circles are repeated successively … saturating the plane from one edge to the other. Other compositions are concentric, which creates a sort of vortex of energy and color.

Comments: Henrique Faria Fine Art / Photography: José Luis Municio / Reproduction: Courtesy of artist and Henrique Faria Fine Art / Color separation: PubliArte.