Art of the Americas – 2022 – Interciencia English

Art of the Americas – 2022

Leo Battistelli. Rosario, Argentina, 1972. Lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Red-rose apple layer, 2009, 2010
Ceramic, pigments, polymer and wood.
110cm x 110cm x 10cm

…To Battistelli beauty is not a visual nor formal harmony, but a form of energy, and intensity so subtle as it is powerful, which transforms the things, the relationships, the situations. His works are, also, talismans; that is, apotropaic objects: they drive off evil…

Comments: Daniel Molina / Photography: Víctor Hugo / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist /

Jesús “Bubu” Negrón, Puerto Rico, 1972

Night, series Ethnographic Abstractions
Acrylic on canvas and paper mâché mask by artisan Ponce Vejigante
Canvas Size: 121.9 x 152.4 cm

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Jesús “Bubu” Negrón… is deeply connected to his island’s heritage, histories and communities. Through his socially engaged practice, he has forged a creative career with projects that directly involve his fellow islanders and honor their stories, creating bridges between the past and present day.

Comments: Alexandra Schoolman / Photography: Arturo Sánchez / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist and Henrique Faria, New York /

Tarsila do Amaral, Brazil, 1886-1973

A Negra, c.1940
Oil on canvas
100 × 80 cm

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A Negra (1923) … was also the factual ground on which, in the form of a historical tragedy and emancipatory promise, the utopia of the anthropophagic project could nourish itself. A Negra was, then, the fait accompli and the body … that existed as an inexorable donation.

Comments: Luis Pérez-Oramas / Photography: Arturo Sánchez / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist and Henrique Faria, New York /

Mariana Bunimov, Caracas, Venezuela, 1972.

Mines, 2015- 2016
Oil on paper
58.4 x 62.2 cm

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Much like our ancient ancestors, …Bunimov is a hunter-gatherer …reacts primally, foraging through the wilderness, pulling things into herself, stockpiling what she needs -and more- for the long, cold winter of her consciousness. … In Bunimov’s recent body of work, she has taken to painting as another way to collect and filter, …In her vibrant paintings, we find kaleidoscopic mountain ranges and skeletal buildings, flying drones and floating islands… It is, upon first glance, a rather strange collection of images.

Comments: Jens Hoffmann / Photography: Arturo Sánchez / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist and Henrique Faria Gallery, New York /