[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Curated by the Denver Artwork Museum’s inaugural Affiliate Curator of Fashionable and Up to date Latin American Artwork, Raphael Fonseca, ‘Who Tells a Story Provides a Tail: Latin America and Up to date Artwork’ goals to encourage conversations by artwork and storytelling. Featured artists embody Hulda Guzmán (Dominican Republic), Tessa Mars (Haiti), Juan Pablo Garza (Venezuela), and Gabriela Pinilla (Colombia). The exhibition will run on the DAM from July 31, 2022 by March 5, 2023. In “Denver Artwork Museum’s newest exhibition options 19 rising artists from throughout Latin America and Caribbean,” Maggie Donahue (Denverite) experiences:
A brand new Denver Artwork Museum (DAM) exhibition will spotlight the work of rising artists from throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
This July, Who Tells a Story Provides a Tail: Latin America and Up to date Artwork will take over the museum’s Fashionable and Up to date Artwork galleries on degree 4 and different areas all through the DAM’s campus. The exhibition will function largely site-specific artworks by 19 millennial artists from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and the U.S. Every artist was commissioned to create items participating with the structure of the museum’s Frederic C. Hamilton Constructing, which was designed by Daniel Libeskind.
“Every of the collaborating artists has an unbelievable physique of labor, and their site-responsive installations for Who Tells a Story Provides a Tail will activate the Hamilton Constructing with their very own voices and lenses on the up to date Latin American expertise,” Christoph Heinrich, Frederick and Jan Mayer Director of the DAM, mentioned in an announcement. “This one-of-a-kind exhibition demonstrates the DAM’s dedication to shaping the museum into an area the place a number of voices and views are introduced in our galleries, encouraging open-spirited conversations impressed by the works on view.”
That is the primary main exhibition curated by DAM’s new (and first ever) Affiliate Curator of Fashionable and Up to date Latin American Artwork, Raphael Fonseca, who’s at the moment primarily based in Brazil. The title of the exhibition, Who Tells a Story Provides a Tail: Latin America and Up to date Artwork, was impressed by a Brazilian proverb, “Quem conta um conto, aumenta um ponto,” or, “who provides a story, provides a degree.” Per a DAM launch, the proverb stresses the significance of “pushing a momentum ahead by persevering with a dialog.”
The collaborating artists, who symbolize numerous backgrounds, identities and disciplines, had been all born between the years 1981 and 1996. For the exhibition, they may work in a variety of media – together with portray, sculpture, textile, video, sound, digital and efficiency artwork – to discover subjects like know-how, identification, local weather change, violence, colonialism, and different social and political points.
The exhibition additionally incorporates storytelling to focus on historic narratives and tales from artists’ personal lives, and invitations guests to share their very own experiences and responses to the work as a method of facilitating dialogue concerning the numerous themes addressed within the exhibition. [. . .]
Who Tells a Story Provides a Tail: Latin America and Up to date Artwork will run on the DAM from July 31, 2022 by Mar. 5, 2023. The collaborating artists are listed beneath.
Featured artists:
- Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio (Los Angeles, b. 1990)
- ASMA (Mexico – Ecuador)
- Sebastián Calfuqueo (Chile, b. 1991)
- Gabriel Chaile (Argentina, b. 1985)
- Vitória Cribb (Brazil, b. 1996)
- Juan Fuentes (México/Denver, b. 1995)
- Claudia Martinez Garay (Peru, b. 1983)
- Juan Pablo Garza (Venezuela, b. 1980)
- Hulda Guzmán (Dominican Republic, b. 1984)
- Caleb Hahne Quintana (Denver, b. 1993)
- Randolpho Lamonier (Brazil, b. 1988)
- Tessa Mars (Haiti, b. 1985)
- Andrés Pereira Paz (Bolivia, b. 1986)
- Antonio Pichillá (Guatemala, b. 1982)
- Gabriela Pinilla (Colombia, b. 1982)
- Ana Segovia (México, b. 1991)
- Alan Sierra (México, b. 1990)
- Yuli Yamagata (Brazil, b. 1989
For full article, see https://denverite.com/2022/03/29/denver-art-museums-latest-exhibition-features-19-emerging-artists-from-across-latin-america-and-caribbean
[Shown above: Hulda Guzmán’s “Wednesday morning,” 2019.]