Durban Segnini Gallery

Founded in Caracas in 1970 and in Miami in 1992, the Durban Segnini Gallery has contributed to the dissemination and promotion of prominent artists that work with abstraction, abstract expressionism, constructivism, and Kinetic art, and that have also been influenced by new artistic values and historical vanguards. As part of the celebrations of its 45th anniversary, the gallery in Miami presents "Speaking of Abstraction: Language Transition in Latin American Art," the second part of a curatorial proposal by Dennys Matos. This exhibition is an invitation to review and understand the development of the language of Latin American abstraction through thirty-three works created by twelve prominent artists, including: Carmelo Arden-Quin (Uruguay), César Paternosto (Argentina), Carlos Rojas (Colombia), and Mateo Manaure (Venezuela), among others. Also represented in this exhibition is a new generation of abstract artists like Flavio Garciandía (Cuba), Jaildo Marinho (Brazil), Emilia Sirrs (Mexico), and Beto De Volder (Argentina). Approached from several formal sensibilities and contents, the curatorship by Dennys Matos focuses on the role of abstract languages in the development of modern society and culture. Participating along with that group of artists that led the abstract vanguard movement in Latin America during the first decades of the 20th century, there are also other young creators currently proposing a renewal of the artistic thought pertaining to the culture of abstraction. As a whole, these artist articulate a suggestive kaleidoscope that showcases through never before published poetic and discursive nexus the manner in which the Latin American modernity project incorporated abstract language to formalize key categories for its development.