Art of the Americas – 2024 – Interciencia English

Art of the Americas – 2024

Danilo Andrade de Meneses (Danilo Moveo) Parahiba, Brazil, (1986). Ordering biological noise, 2013

Tempera on canvas
1.30 x 0.90 m

Danilo Andrade Meneses is a Doctor in Neuroscience and an artist known as Moveo. He searches for patterns between his biological noise, expressed by his limbic system, and fractal geometries in his paintings. … He has been using Chaos Theory for 10 years to try to find these patterns. “Ordering biological noise” is a work that summarizes the nature of his research as a ScientistArtist.

Comentario: Danilo Andrade de Meneses / Photography: Luciana Urtiga / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist /

Eduardo Santiere, Buenos Aires, Argentina, (1962). In my trip, 2015

Charcoal, colored pencil, scratching on paper
77 x 78 cm

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Eduardo Santiere creates delicate abstract compositions on paper exclusively using graphite, colored pencil, and incisions in the work’s surface—a combined practice of marking and scratching. He is best known for using a needle to lance the paper and create linear patterns from lacerations. … his works appear to be both drawings and delicate sculptural reliefs. His compositions are typically minimal and feature small recurring motifs resembling circuitry and cellular structures. Santiere … sees his works as demonstrations of evolving networks and systems of language, urban sprawl, ideology, and biology—or “Bio-Constructions” as he describes.

Comentario: www.artsy.net / Photography: Courtesy of Eduardo Santiere / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Herlitzka + Faria, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Valerie Brathwaite, Trinidad and Tobago, (1940).
Untitled, 2014

Acrylic on concrete
33 x 22 x 4 cm

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… works with images drawn in space. Her work resembles the shape of clouds or the course of a river; the contour of a hill or the curves of the wind. “What is seen is a game – a test – that does not escape the curiosity that leads the artist to generate links and points of union between the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional, based on color, shapes and the intersection of lines.”

Comments: Analy Trejo / Photography: Arturo Sánchez / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist and Henrique Faria, New York, Argentina

Teresa Pereda, Buenos Aires, Argentina, (1965).
Behind the Sun, 2006

Dirt runoffs on a steel plate
Dirt from Buenos Aires and Salta provinces
150 x 200 cm

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Teresa Pereda’s art-its poetics and identity, its very substance-is the product of the earth (its opacity and resistance) and of the water (its fluidity and transparency) […] The artist captures on metal plates the (irregular) blotches and the (unfinished) signs of the earth-water alchemy. That means registering the traces left by the slow process of decomposition and recomposition that engine nature’s cycles.

Comments: Horacio Zabala / Photography: Michel Riehl / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Herlitzka & Co, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Juan González Bolívar, Cúpira, Venezuela, (1978).
Boundaries, 2024

Oil on canvas
50 cm x 50 cm

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On the surface of his paintings we find that the delicacy of the stroke suggests certain organic elements and, superimposed along the plane -whether sinuosities or straight lines-, the balance on the ethereal navigates beyond a certain light that travels through the artist’s hand. These landscapes of the creator’s imaginary, include in the foreground certain memories of his first family events, through fantasy in the distance, elements that occur in any place or time already lived by him.

Comments: Gloria Milá de la Roca / Photography: Juan González Bolívar / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist /

Alejandro De Narváez, Bogotá, Colombia, (1961).
Flight, 2024 Serie Hummingbirds

Mixed technique. Gold and silver threads
150 x 100 x 18 cm

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“The legend says: When a hummingbird comes to greet you, it’s because someone who carries you inside and has gone away, is coming to greet you. This series of hummingbirds is precisely about that, they are rays of light and color that come to accompany each of us … the spectators who engage in the work making it their own.’

Comments: Alejandro De Narváez / Photography: Alejandro De Narváez / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist /

Cristóbal Doren Villaseca, Santiago de Chile, Chile, (1971).
Origin, 2023

Oil on canvas
60 x 60 cm

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Today, Cristóbal Doren Villaseca … is definitely an almost complete artist. … he does not stop experimenting with everything he has at hand, with everything that crosses his mind. The sum and result of this head-to-hand journey leaves us perplexed. For a while. Then, from delight to surprise. Silence. Something akin to crying. Also similar to the necessary pain before calmness.

Comments: Jorge Reyes Villablanca / Photography: Cecilia Heredia / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist /

Andrea Santarelli, Mendoza, Argentina, (1984).
Landscape II, Series: Imaginary Landscape, 2022

Acrylic on canvas
120 x 150 cm

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I propose my work in communion with nature. With the natural world and what happens here. Nature as part of my daily life, as a creative stimulus. Whatever is related to an evolutionary or cyclical process is of interest to me… The forest, the sea, the pines and the flowers. The seasons, the moon, the loneliness. The contrast of presence and absence. Everything left in memory is translated on the canvas. They are landscapes that I travel day by day. Perhaps imaginary.

Comments: Andrea Santarelli / Photography: Andrea Santarelli / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist /

Evelyn Mora, Caracas, Venezuela, (1972). Lives in Houston, Texas, USA.
Circular Movement, 2022

Watercolor on Arches rough paper (300g) 100% cotton
38 x 56 cm

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It is the mystical light of birth or rebirth. If the universe was created from the Big Bang, the deep void and total darkness, then we are an ingredient of that cosmic explosion. Sometimes, we feel like we are dying, we fall into total darkness and existential despair, and if we manage to see that little ray of light at the bottom of the abyss, we are born again and rebuilt.

Comments: Gonzalo Márquez Bottome / Photography: Evelyn Mora / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist /