Abstracción y Constructivismo: Continuidad y ruptura de la modernidad Latinoamericana

Exposición / Durban Segnini Gallery / 3072 SW 38 AVE. / Coral Gables, Florida, Estados Unidos
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Cuándo:
Desde 10 jul de 2015

Inauguración:
10 jul de 2015

Horario:
Abierta hasta septiembre de 2015

Comisariada por:
Dennys Matos

Organizada por:
Durban Segnini Gallery

       

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Descripción de la Exposición

Artistas: Carmelo Arden Quin, Omar Carreño, Carlos Cruz-Díez, Fernando de Szyszlo, Gyula Kosice, Julio Le Parc, Raúl Lozza, Mateo Manaure, Cesar Paternostro, Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar, Omar Rayo, Carlos Rojas, Fanny Sanin, Jesús Rafael Soto, Manolo Vellojin. "Abstracción y Constructivismo. Continuidad y ruptura de la modernidad latinoamericana" ["Abstraction and Constructivism. Continuity and Breakdown of Latin American Modernity"] outlines how the poetics of abstraction in its most diverse Latin American versions, its obsession for organizing and constructing spaces, for creating new volumes, for reconciling planes and impossible points of concordance, for shaping material and spiritual worlds, character and even moods through an enigmatic and repetitive pictorial calligraphy, responds to a perception of Latin America's modernity project as an essentially badly structured model. A model where public and private, politico-economic and sociocultural spaces are perceived as unstable and tumultuous. A model whose nation-states and the creation of democratic entities fail as a result of the contradictions of its postcolonial history and the ensuing unresolved difficulties, on the one hand, and on the other the vertiginous advance of capitalism as a sort of neverending present where the future has been envisioned between lightning bolts of democracy and blackouts from failed totalitarian utopias. [...]

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