After over 10 years in the Venezuelan art scene, the former director of Artepuy Gallery has renovated the exhibition space in a two-story building in the Las Mercedes area of Caracas, and opened a new gallery under her own name. The new space opens with a group exhibition titled Punto de Quiebre, curated by Lorena González, featuring the work of 16 artists. Among them, 8 Latin American artists, and 8 specifically from Venezuela. Among the participants are Joâo Castilho and Nydia Negromonte from Brazil; Rodrigo Echeverri from Colombia; Darío Escobar from Guatemala; Cecilia Paredes from Peru; Mauricio Esquivel from El Salvador; Jason Mena from Puerto Rico and Silvana Lacarra from Argentina. Aong the Venezuelan artists, Deborah Castillo, Isabel Cisneros, Pietro Daprano, Jesús Matheus, Cipriano Martínez, Marcos Temoche, and Bernardita Rakos. The catalog accompanying the exhibition includes in its introduction, by Gil: "After all these years of experience we have decided to take a turn, more identified with the project of constructing a new narrative that fosters exchagnes between our artists and rheir colleagues from the Latin American regios. This is why in 2014 we are expanidig our profile under the name of Beatriz Gil Gallery; an expansion that will bridge the investigations uspporting our actions since 2014 and this new space connected to the support and opromotion of the difefrent manifestations of Venezuelan art; with that, new connections to the scenes, relations, and cartographies of the latest Latin American art will also be proposed". For more nformation on the gallery:
info@beatrizgilgaleria.com;
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