Lead Stories
-- Venice Biennale
-- Interview to Shirin Neshat
-- Jorge Tacla. Expanding the field of painting
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-- One Hundred Years of Painting in Panama. Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C.
-- Botero Women. A new book devoted to the theme of women in the work of artist Fernando Botero.
-- 3rd Painting and Sculpture Biennial of the Southeast, Chiapas, Mexico
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Lead Stories
-- Venice Biennale
Ending in November 2003, Carlos Jiménez reviews this edition's singularities, among them the paradigmatic presence of Third World art, stimulating multiculturalism. This favored the insertion of art from Africa, Asia, Oceania, and Latin America, and it brought forth reflections on the subjects of identity, migration, and globalization, among others. Jiménez analyzes the various concepts that framed this Biennale, its main exhibitions and artists, and emphasizes the Latin American presence, which he deems as the most significant, relevant, and largest in the history of the Venice Biennale. Read this article
http://www.artnexus.com/servlet/NewsDetail?documentid=10209
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-- Interview to Shirin Neshat
Francine Birbragher interviews New York-based Iranian artist Shirin Neshat on the occasion of her show at the Miami Art Museum. This text delves into Neshat's beginnings as an artist, the influence of her country in her art, and her interest in women's issues, as well as into the different techniques she has employed in photography and video. The artist talks about her approach to Latin American culture through countries like Brazil and Mexico, the latter as a setting for one of her videos and a place where she discovered the similarities between cultures that have lived under political oppression and where religion has been an anchor for the people. Read the interview
http://www.artnexus.com/servlet/NewsDetail?documentid=10205
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-- Jorge Tacla. Expanding the field of painting
Raúl Zamudio Taylor explains some of the concepts that painting currently deals with and the eternal return to the purely pictorical exercise, called "the return to painting". He places Jorge Tacla´s work into perspective within such concept and comments on how the artist has developed his work. The author comments on the importance of Tacla's "architectural paintings" and the influence on his works of events such as the Pinochet dictatorship, which became the context in which he formed and consolidated his artistic discourse. Read the article
http://www.artnexus.com/servlet/NewsDetail?documentid=9903
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News and Views
-- One Hundred Years of Painting in Panama. Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C.
The exhibition One Hundred Years of Painting in Panama, organized by the Inter-American Deve...