Lead Stories
- Nelson Leirner or How to Maintain a Balance in the work of Art
- Isabel de Obaldía. Force and Fragility Glass Art
- The Berlin Biennale: A Model for Anti-biennialization?
News and Views
-- Artur Lescher. Elípticas series. Malba, Costantini Colection
-- Cultural exchange between Italy’s Casa d’Arte San Lorenzo and the United States’s Artcenter South Florida
-- Local Project gains momentum as a space open to art
-- National BBVA Painting Contest in Bogotá, Colombia
Heard on the Street
-- Parallel to the Olympic Games, various exhibitions of the visual arts Olympiad in Athens 2004 have also been carried out.
New Works for Sale in Virtual Galleries
-- Myto Gallery
New Electronic Catalogs
-- Heriberto Nieves
Books and Catalogs
-- Francis Alÿs: El profeta y la mosca. (The Prophet and the Fly: Francis Alÿs)
-- Auguste Morisot. Un pintor del Orinoco 1886-1887 (Auguste Morisot. An Oricono’s painter)
-- Escultura Mexicana. De la academia a la instalación. (Mexican Sculpture. From the Academy to Installations)
Upcoming Events
--26th São Paulo Biennial, Brazil
--Art Forum, Berlin
--Shanghai 5 Biennale, China
-- First Contemporary Art Biennial, Seville.
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Lead Stories
-- Nelson Leirner or How to Mantein a Balance in the work of Art
Brazilian artist Nelson Leirner has critiqued mass culture through his work, suffusing his pieces with irony and inviting viewers to think and reflect. An article by Adolfo Montejo Navas analyzes Leirner’s career and comments on the concept and the characteristics of his most recent works, where industrial objects are prevalent and the artist uses humor to allude to urban situations. Read article
http://www.artnexus.com/servlet/NewsDetail?documentid=13527
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--Isabel de Obaldía. Force and Fragility Glass Art
Mónica Kupfer describes the Panamanian artist’s transition from expressionist painting to figurative sculpture through the exploration of glass and its formal potential. Highlights of a most unusual body of work that builds nature and the human figure while incorporating to glass alternate materials such as pigment and metal. Read article
http://www.artnexus.com/servlet/NewsDetail?documentid=13531
********************************************************************************--The Berlin Biennale: A Model for Anti-biennialization?
Carlos Jiménez uses the Berlin Biennial to explain the concept of Biennalization and compares it with other important events such as the Venice Biennale and Documenta. Read the review
http://www.artnexus.com/servlet/NewsDetail?documentid=13784
News and Views
-- Artur Lescher. Elípticas series. Malba, Costantini Colection
The museum lawn will host, for a year, ther three sculptures comprising Lescher’s installation, part of his series Elípticas. These resin pieces stand on wooden base they traverse, and which acts as support and territory. Read more
http://www.artnexus.com/servlet/NewsDetail?documentid=13848
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-- Cultural exchange between Italy’s Casa ...