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Geometric  Abstraction / Miami MIAMI artcircuits.com 2012 Since 1987 Latin American Geometric Abstraction Art ASIS BARRIOS BOTTO CRUZ DIEZ CAVALIERI GEGO HERRERA MEDINA MENDOZA NEGRET ABSTRACTION RAMIREZ VILLAMIZAR RAMIREZ SOTO VASARELY VENTOSO 348 NW 29th St. Miami, FL 33127 Ph: 305 573 4661 [email protected] www.ArtNouveauMiami.com GEOMETRIC Carlos Cruz-Diéz, Phy Panam 47, Panamá 2010 Cromografía de pigmentos sobre aluminio, PVC. Acrílico y autoadhesivo. GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTION IN LATIN AMERICA www.artcircuits.com atin America has produced one of the artists working at different moments and producing most original and experimental chapters innovative work such as: Hercules Barsotti, Willys Durban Segnini Gallery specializes in contemporary painting Lof the history of twentieth century art in de Castro, Lygia Clark, Waldemar Cordeiro, Hélio and sculpture, with particular emphasis in artists who have its many geometric abstract artists and trends, Oiticica, Lygia Pape, Mira Schendel and Alfredo between the 1940s and the 1970s. In recent years, Volpi, to name just a few. Clearly in Venezuela the worked with abstract expressionism, abstraction, particularly the Neo Concrete artists from Brazil; the most internationally recognized artists are: Gego, constructivism, geometric and kinetic art. Grupo Madí in Argentina and the Kinetic artists in Jesús Rafael Soto and Carlos Cruz-Diez, while Venezuela, have received special attention. The Alejandro Otero continues to be lesser known and Simultaneously the Gallery strives to promote and diffuse epicenter of Geometric Abstraction has been understood; as well as Mercedes Pardo and Elsa new artistic values as well as the historical vanguards that seen as Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay (José Pedro Gramcko. Costigliolo, María Freire and Antonio Llorens) and have influenced them. Worldwide, Durban Segnini Gallery is Venezuela, nevertheless more research has shown t would be pointless to continue with long known for its expertise in such areas as the integration of how other less expected countries such as Cuba, lists of artists and movements. The few names artworks to architectural spaces as well as for its customized have experienced a sophisticated geometric art mentioned above illustrate the richness and production in artists such as Mario Carreño, Santu I diversity in the arena of Abstraction in Latin counseling of private collections. Darie, Carmen Herrera, José Mijares, Lolo Soldevilla, America which is further complicated by the fact and others. Colombia also, possesses several that between the 1940s and 1970s, a multiple and important geometric artists such as: Feliza Bursztyn, interwoven process of exchange existed between Omar Carreño, Eduardo Ramírez-Villamizar, Carlos Cesar Paternosto, Señales negro, rojo, oro 3, 2008. Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay for example, and Mixed on canvas Carmelo Arden Quin Rojas, Edgar Negret (Colombia, 1920) and Manolo also between these countries (and Venezuela) and 35 1/2 x 35 1/2 in. (90 x 90 cm.) Carlos Cruz-Díez Vellojín. Even Mexico which is mostly seen as a Europe, particularly France. Also a whole separate country that produced great Muralist art includes: singular chapter pertains to modernist photography Beto De Volder Mathias Goeritz, Carlos Mérida and Gunther beginning with Geraldo de Barros in Brazil, in Gyula Kosice Gerzso. Furthermore, in countries with no important Colombia with Leo Matiz and in Argentina through abstract tradition, individual figures emerged such Grete Stern, to mention a few examples. Not all Julio Le Parc as Guatemalan Margarita Azurdia, Chilean Matilde geometric art is clearly definable, particularly in the Mateo Manaure Pérez, or Ecuadorian Araceli Gilbert. case of many Brazilian artists whose abstract work was political and/or conceptual. In Venezuela this Cesar Paternosto evertheless, the abstract panorama in can be said of artist Eugenio Espinoza, or in Brazil of Omar Rayo Latin America is immensely complex Ana María Maiolino. Nand diverse; as an example, Argentina, Carlos Rojas beginning in the mid-1940s had a succession of he abstract trend continue today in Latin Fanny Sanín experimental and prolific abstract artists. Besides America, as many artists continues to the well known Madí artists such as Gyula Kosice, produce some of the most challenging Jesús Rafael Soto Rhod Rothfuss, Martín Blaszko and Arden Quin, are T and experimental works in this field, expanding Ramírez Villamizar artists from the Arte Concreto-Invención (1945) its arena to installation art, video art, and many such as Lidy Prati, Manuel Espinoza y Juan Melé. conceptual and aesthetic variations, often as only Raúl Lozza, coming from this movement, went on one of the art forms in their oeuvre, while they also to create the Manifiesto Perceptista in 1947. Lucio explore figurative art, or work with mass culture and Fontana published his Manifiesto Blanco in Buenos objects. Aires in 1946. In the 1960s the Neoabstracción geométrica includes some important artists such as 3072 SW 38th Ave. María Martorell, Rogelio Polesello, Ary Brizzi, just to Cecilia Fajardo-Hill Miami, Fl 33146 P: 1 (305) 774 7740 mention a few. Also in the 1960s saw the flourishing British Venezuelan curator and art F: 1 (305) 774 7741 of great Kinetic artists such as Julio Le Parc, Martha Carmelo Arden Quin, Untitled, 1951. historian, chief curator at MOLAA, [email protected] Boto, Gregorio Vardanega and Luis Tomasello. Brazil Duco on wood, 19.4 x 17 in. (49 x 43 cm), www.durbansegnini.com Long Beach, CA 2 also has an infinite number of interesting abstract sammer gallery miami modern and contemporary latin american constructivism and concrete art Pedro Costigliolo, Composicion, 1955. Tempera on cardboard, 88 x 70 cm é Jos Wynwood Arts District 125 NW 23rd. St. Miami, Fl 33127 305 441 2005 305 576 1995 [email protected] http://www.artnet.com/sammergallery.html KINETIC, GEOMETRIC AND MODERN ART Carlos Cruz-Diéz, Inducción Antonella I, 2011, 90 cm 626 Coral Way # 601 Coral Gables, Fl 33134 305 448 1934 - 305 588 1231 [email protected] www.ninoskahuertagallery.com Felix Ángel. Colombia / Patricia Belli. Nicaragua / Lina Binkele. Colombia / Enrique Campuzano. Chile / Miriam Calzada. Dominican Republic / Jorge Cavelier. Colombia / Jean Marc Calvet. France/Nicaragua / Mariadolores Castellanos. Guatemala / Gabriela Cassano. Argentina / Maria Silvia Corcuera Terán. Argentina / Ricardo Cordova. Peru / Luis Cornejo. El Salvador / Omar d’Leon. Nicaragua / Ignacio Gana. Chile / Miguel Angel Giovanetti. Argentina / Liliana Golubinsky. Argentina / Gabriel Gonzalez. Panama / Ricardo Gonzalez. Nicaragua / Antonia Guzmán. Argentina / Paul Hunter. Canada / Walterio Iraheta. El Salvador / Karen Estrada. El Salvador / Luis Fernandez Arroyo. Argentina / Jorge Jrisinco. Argentina / Jesus Soto, Penetrable Pampatar 1971 Linda Kohen. Italy / Uruguay / Connie Lloveras. Cuban-American / Armando Lara Hidalgo. Honduras / Ilse Manzanarez. Nicaragua / Braulio Matos. Panama / Paul Morales. Ecuador / Christina Linda Kohen, Multitud II, 1984, Oil on canvas, 59 x 47 inches Motta. Brazil / Pilar Moreno. Panamá / MUHER. Spain / Pedro Muiño. Spain / Carlos Musse. Soto signing the Penetrable Soto explaining collector Restoration Project Uruguay / Christian Navarro. Costa Rica / Maria Pampatar design Victor Gill the project restoration Sketch for Pampatar Penetrable Navas. Colombia / Alberto Ocón. Nicaragua / signed by Soto Lorenza Panero. Colombia / José Perdomo. Dominican Republic / Cristina Piceda. Argentina / Aubertin / Bonalumi / Cabeza / Cruz Diez / Lucena / Otero / Salazar / Soto / Vasarely / Venet Giancarlo Puppo. Argentina / Jean Jacques Ribi. Italy / Panama / Rita Rivas. Venezuela / Susana O. Ascanio Gallery Rodriguez. Argentina / Gioconda Rojas. Costa Rica THE AMERICAS COLLECTION 214 ANDALUSIA AVENUE / Pedro Ruiz. Colombia / Baruj Salinas. Cuba / 2600 N.W. 2nd Avenue CORAL GABLES, FL 33134 Miami, FL. 33127 Rodolfo Stanley. Costa Rica / Fernando Toledo. 305-446-5578 WWW.AMERICASCOLLECTION.COM Panama / Javier Valle Perez. Nicaragua / Francisca 305-571-9036 Valenzuela. Chile / Jorge Vallejos. Peru / Patricia [email protected] MONDAY – FRIDAY 10:30 AM TO 5:30 PM www.oascaniogallery.com Villalobos. Nicaragua / Daniel Viñoly. Uruguay. SATURDAYS 12 – 5 PM Latin American Geometric Abstraction in Miami Art Galleries & Circuits INDEX/LISTING Foreword Design District by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, p - 2 Chief Curator at MOLAA, Arevalo Gallery, p -7 Since 2003 Long Beach, CA. 151 NE 40th St. # 200 Notebook #1 Miami, Fl 33137 Latin American Geometric 305 860 3311 Abstraction in Miami Bird Road Art District [email protected] Miami, June, 2012 arevalogallery.com Israel Guevara Studio, p - 4 Mon – Fri: 10 – 6 4990 SW 72nd Ave. Ste. 106 Modern and Contemporary Latin Publisher & Editor Miami, Fl 33155 American Art and the international 305 284 0000 Liana Pérez influences of the genre [email protected] by appt. israelguevara.com Wynwood Arts District Editorial Advisors Artist Francisco Canestri Ascaso Gallery, p - 12 Cecilia Fajardo-Hill Coral Gables 2441 NW 2nd Ave. Mitchell Kaplan Miami, Fl 33127 Durban Segnini Gallery, p - 3 305 571 9410 Contributing Writer 3072 SW 38th Ave. Tues - Sat: 10 – 6 Elisa Turner Miami, Fl 33146 Second Saturdays: 4:30 - 10 Photojournalist 305 774 7740 [email protected] Erika King [email protected] ascasogallery.com durbansegnini.com Continuous display of art works Mon – Fri: 10 – 6; Sat: 11 - 4 Copy Editor by international artists of collector’s Gloria Gutiérrez Abstract Expressionism,
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