Art of the Americas – 2016 – Interciencia English

Art of the Americas – 2016

Nader Barhumi, Lima, Perú 1960

The Isle, 2015
Acrylic on canvas
195 x 130 cm

The paintings of Nader Barhumi remind that what is seen is always more than what is present. In his work, the images are what they are and, further, all those affinities that adhere to them. His figures adopt different representations and assimilate them. They acquire a symbolic value, that is, refers the form that contains them to different meanings. …the forms are icons, whose value arises from the emotional unrest they awaken…

Comments: Alejandro Ferreyros / Photography: Andrea Venegas / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist / Color separation: Andros Impresores

Armando Castro Uribe, Bogotá, Colombia, 1961.

Triad, 2016
Mixed media on cardboard
90 x 89 cm

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By forcing the viewer to look at every day scenes from a different point of view, he calls attention to many forgotten, yet important people in society: rural workers. By highlighting these scenes Castro asks his viewers to look more closely at the world they inhabit, and to pay attention to those that may indirectly affect our lives.

Comments: Beatriz Esguerra Art Gallery / Photography: Beatriz Esguerra Art Gallery / Reproduction: Courtesy of Beatriz Esguerra Art Gallery and of the artist / Color separation: Andros Impresores

Santiago Uribe-Holguín, Bogotá, Colombia, 1957

Blue X, Black Background, 2012
Marble dust, synthetic binder and minerals on canvas
70 × 100 × 3 cm

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In his work, texture is the protagonist. It reminds us of the earth’s skin, moist and volatile at the beginning, but then hardened into a beautiful rich surface. The memory of surfaces, like the memory of things, life, materials and forms in space, finds in Uribe- Holguín’s work the spiritual value of daily acts…

Comments: Beatriz Esguerra Art Gallery / Photography: Beatriz Esguerra Art Gallery / Reproduction: Courtesy of Beatriz Esguerra Art Gallery and of the artist / Color separation: Andros Impresores

Mariana Acuña Jiménez, Santiago, Chile, 1968. Lives in Italy.

Muse and horse, 2015
Oil and mixed technique on canvas
90 x 80 cm

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Making use of her unending imagination, she includes every bit of her surroundings, reaching the dimension of dream worlds, opening to a spontaneous and candid spirituality. In her paintings we find all the strength of the colors from South America, which together with the graphic power, brings life to original pictorial settings where imaginary characters, traces, animals and symbols freely intermingle.

Comments: Andrea Ruggiero / Photography: Mariana Acuña Jiménez / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist (marianaacu@hotmail.com) / Color separation: Andros Impresores

Ana Fuchs, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1957

Silver Trees, 2008
Oil and pigments on canvas
154 x 153 cm

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In the delicate works… she does not reproduce what is visible; she doesn’t refer to legibility but to sensuality. Her relation with abstraction, however, reveals itself uncertain; things “appear” or landscapes that seem to be present pop out; if the sight is fixed they disappear in a continuous transformation… It is not possible to find dissonant ensembles but notes of intensity that revel in the serene beauty of equilibrium.

Comments: Patricia Rizzo / Photography: Pedro Quintans / Reproduction: Courtesy of Van Riel Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Private Collection / Color separation: Andros Impresores

Alberto José Sánchez, Caracas, Venezuela, 1979

Red Triangular Prism, 2015
Acrylic on canvas
100 x 100 cm

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With my work I intend to generate a three-dimensional mental impact through the merger of reason and visual logics. Shapes and lines in a plane demarcate the structure of the work which, when blended with the appropriate use of shadows and color, generates the impression of the third dimension and of the unreal space. Virtual shadows become a prevailing element in my work, bringing out the subjectivity of the three dimensions.

Comments: Alberto José Sánchez / Photography: Alberto José Sánchez / Reproduction: Courtesy of Ranivilu Art Gallery, Miami, USA and Private Collection / Color separation: Andros Impresores

Susana Gordon Attias, Caracas, Venezuela, 1954

Flock of birds resuming their path, 2009
Acrylic on canvas
101 x 144 cm

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…a torrential painting: a true and extraordinary barrage of energy, of sensitivity, of imagination, of nerve that flows with impetus over the canvas, to the point of spilling over. On looking at the work … we are stormed by a great profusion of shapes and glowing colors, painted with great spontaneity … without outlines nor previous sketches, and without hesitation…

Comments: Perán Erminy / Photography: Susana Gordon Attias / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist / Color separation: Andros Impresores

Luisa Estela del Valle Mañez, Curicó, Chile, 1959

Sails in primaries, 2007
Oil on canvas
110 x 140 cm

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“Sails”… provides the canvas an emotional-esthetic value, with surprising results, light, color or movement effects in the nature of each landscape or sails, which serve her to interpret her landscape-related, chromatic, optical or physical versions modern versions…

Comments: Manoli Ruiz Berrio / Photography: Rubén González Avendaño / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist / Color separation: Andros Impresores

Emilio Fatuzzo, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1981

The mysterious void that purifies dusk, 2015
Acrylic on canvas
150 x 150 cm

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The paintings of Emilio Fatuzzo transport us to a tragic universe, where tormented beings contemplate a perhaps impossible horizon. …their faces express the despair of living, the tragic condition of existence. They are paintings that unsettle and reveal the marked sensibility of this young painter.

Comments: Ernesto Sábato / Photography: Pedro Roth / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist / Color separation: Andros Impresores

Juan González Bolívar , Cúpira, Venezuela, 1978

Shelter with Tree, 2015
Acrylic and grease pencil on canvas
110 cm x 100 cm

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…In the refinement and synthesis process that Juan González Bolívar has been developing in his painting, stripping it of all descriptive and narrative character, as well as of all the pictorial elements that appear superfluous and ornamental to him, his work has turned every time more essential, more ideal and more minimalist … without losing the sensory, affective and emotional contents that manifest themselves in transparencies and subtle textures amidst a white background, atmospheric and enveloping.…

Comments: Perán Ermini / Photography: Renato Donzelli / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist / Color separation: Andros Impresores

Macarena Rakos Varela, Santiago de Chile, 1981.

Untitled, 2015
Mixed technique on canvas, acrylic, oil, charcoal and brass
110 cm x 120 cm

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…I search in the writing a visual tissue, that tells us more of an image than a concept, I search to produce an illegible text that separates writing from communication (legibility). I wish to make it understood that the “truth” in the writing does not rely on its messages nor the transmission systems that it represents for society, but on the hand that leans on it, draws and moves.

Comments: Macarena Rakos / Photography: Natalie Paetz / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist / Color separation: Andros Impresores

Inés Silva, Caracas, Venezuela, 1970

Rhythms 2 NBF, 2007
Painted plexiglass
63cm x 63cm x 10cm

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…her “ars poetica”… …consists in designing in her works a formal device as a set of signs, of imprints, of empty spaces, of proportions, of moving plates, able to organize harmonically and to make intelligible and sensibly emotive, the set of dynamic situations and perceptive tensions that are integrated or that occur in this visual happening… …in correspondence, or tuned, with the invisible tensions of the space surrounding the piece… …in such a way that the plastic work infuses “life”, or it “enlivens” the space around it.

Comments: Perán Erminy / Photography: Jimmy Solórzano / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist / Color separation: Andros Impresores