Beginning in February of 2014, the Galería Cuadra, in Caracas, will have a new name and address. It will be known as Espacio Monitor and it will be located at the Centro de Arte Los Galpones in the eastern side of the city, in a 350 square meter space specifically designed for the gallery. Founded and directed by Luis Miguel La Corte, the gallery was inaugurated in the Venezuelan capital in 2006 with the firm intention of supporting, exhibiting and promoting at the national and international levels contemporary visual creations, with an emphasis on Venezuelan and Latin-American art.
The Espacio Monitor mainly centers on artists already with prominent artistic trajectories—whose original and distinctive expressive languages have earned them national and international recognition, projection and exposure—and young and emerging creators that offer valuable and innovative visions to the world of contemporary art. The gallery also advises on the development of private, corporate and institutional collections, with an emphasis on contemporary art and on the movements that immediately preceded it.
The inaugural exhibition at Espacio Monitor will consists of recent works by Víctor Lucena, a Venezuelan artists based in in Italy for more than forty years, and one of the most important pioneers of conceptual geometry in Latin America. Incidentally, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston has just acquired an installation by Lucena that stands as a fine example of the historical importance of the art from the 1970s.