BY BENOÎT LOISEAU | Frieze

‘Walking is my primary process,’ artist Carmen Argote tells me as we stroll through the commercial district of Karaköy, Istanbul. When she arrived four weeks earlier for a residency at Ballon Rouge Collective, the Mexican-born, Los Angeles-based artist began walking aimlessly, sometimes for hours on end, observing mundane details of the city’s urban fabric: corn fibre street brooms, chipped plastic fruit crates, the light dancing on the surface of the Bosporus. ‘A way of understanding how I can connect with the city as a material,’ Argote explains of this dérive, which provided inspiration for her exhibition at Ballon Rouge, ‘Nutrition for a Better Life (Compre Chattara)’. There, a derelict wooden handcart used by one of the city’s many harduci, or scrap dealers, was festooned with knotted blue fishing rope, like the small boats docked on the river’s edge.

LINK: https://frieze.com/article/carmen-argote-avocados-are-paint-and-powerful-metaphor

By  Maximilíano Durón | ARTnews

Then there are the Biennial’s educational programs, a major component of the exhibition. I participated in a “Storytelling Tour” on the second public day at the Small Arms Inspection Building, the Biennial’s second main venue in Mississauga, a suburb of Toronto. Our guide, Rebecca Flemister, took us outside the building to collect an object from nature—a leaf, a stick—and then sat us in front of drawings by Abel Rodríguez; an elder of the Nonuya people of Colombia, he depicts his people’s ancestral lands from memory, as they were displaced in the 1990s by armed conflict in the country. We were asked to draw and describe the object we had selected, and we then walked across the room to sit in front of the work of Wilson Rodríguez, Abel’s son, who makes his own drawings based on the knowledge that Abel passed on to him. Our guide asked, “How do we connect to those who come before us?”

LINK: http://www.artnews.com/2019/10/15/toronto-biennial-2019-review/

Por artishockrevista

El proyecto Piedra Lunar del artista Santiago Reyes Villaveces (Colombia, 1986), en el Planetario de Bogotá, construye una topografía de las Piedras Lunares de la Buena Voluntad que interpreta los significados acumulados en torno al gesto de Nixon. El proyecto Piedra Lunar parte del presupuesto de que la recolección de las piedras puede subvertir la concentración de poder y contraponerse a los procesos coloniales que la administración Nixon realizó. El punto de partida del proyecto es un viaje alrededor del croquis de la dispersión de los fragmentos lunares. La materialización de este viaje es una cartografía ficticia que mapea la dispersión de las piedras y las narrativas azarosas que las piedras han adquirido en los diferentes países. El proyecto Piedra Lunarconsiste en presentar esta cartografía ficticia.

LINK: http://artishockrevista.com/2019/08/29/santiago-reyes-villaveces-proyecto-piedra-lunar/

Por ArtNexus

With his project Harp, Colombian artist Santiago Reyes Villaveces has won the 41st edition of the Matteo Olivero Prize, organized by the city of Saluzzo, Italy, and the Fondazione Amleto Bertoni with the aim of promoting the territory through art.

LINK: www.artnexus.com/Notice_View.aspx?DocumentID=32053

Por Luis Graham Castillo | Artishock

LINK: http://artishockrevista.com/2019/05/27/karlo-andrei-ibarra-yiyo-tirado-casa-quien/?fbclid=IwAR0RmWRMbnB2mfJ5gStM-eNlBAHthOeRLQYMrnhXRMl_esNmNvxRTV1WOzc

por Alejandra Carrillo | El Diario NTR

Trabajo. Entre las obras que realiza Carmen Argote se encuentran varias piezas abstractas de gran formato realizadas con pigmentos naturales sobre papel. (Foto: Jorge Alberto Mendoza)

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By: BBC NEWS | Entertainment & Arts

The four artists competing for this year’s Turner Prize have been announced with investigative art, works blurring fact and fiction and explorations of oppression dominating the shortlist….

LINK: https://www.bbc.com/news/