Curatorial team for 43rd National Artists Salon is confirmed

Medellin, known today as the world's most innovative city, will host the 43^rd National Artists Salon (43 SNA) from September 6^th through November 3^rd. The event, an initiative of Colombia's Ministry of Culture presented in this edition in collaboration with the City of Medellin, has confirmed its curatorial team.

A key criterion to define the curatorial team was the combination of academic credentials with an extensive experience in the art field. "We expect the curators to establish coordinates for an approach to current artistic practices, proposing possible readings through articulations and dialogs that are prompted by the works selected for the various exhibitions", said Jaime Cerón, Visual Arts advisor to the Ministry of Culture's Arts Office.

The curatorial team will include, from Colombia, Mariángela Méndez (Artistic Director of the Salon), independent curator and a graduate in curatorial studies from Bard College, New York; Javier Mejía, independent curator, designated as a representative of the 14 Regional Artists Salons (which since 1976 are the precursor to the SNA); and Oscar Roldán, curator at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Medellin.

Working alongside the Colombian team will be the international curators: Florencia Malbrán (Argentina), who has advised the Salomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice in modern and contemporary exhibitions; and Rodrigo Moura e Silva (Brazil), currently the curator at the Instituto de Arte Contemporânea Inhotim in Minas Gerais, considered Latin America's largest open-air art space, with one of Brazil's most important contemporary art collections.

For more information, visit http://www.mincultura.gov.co/