PINTA

Cecilia Paredes (Peru)

Armadillo, 2001

Blanca Berlin Galeria 

(Madrid)

PINTA

The Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art Show

Preview Evening, London 

Yesterday, I jumped at the opportunity of going to the Pinta Preview Evening at the Earls Court Exhibition Center. This is the second fair they are holding in London, but it has been going on in New York for about 5 years. The pulsating Art environment in Latin America these days are smiting itself into our consciousness and I am trying to follow it closely.

Sao Paulo, I think will be a new Art Capital, competing on good terms with Berlin, London and New York. The Brazilian economy is faring pretty well these days and they are spending money on ART!

Abraham Palatnik

Nara Rosler Galeria

(Sao Paulo)

Laura Vinci

Nara Roesler Galeria

(Sao Paulo)

Liliana Porter (Argentinian)

Green Bird, 2007

Galeria espacio Minimo

(Madrid)

Pedro Tyler (Uruguayan living in Chile)

Aninat Isabel Galeria 

(Santiago)

Pedro Tyler

"My Country is the Whole World"

Colectivo Aninat & Swinburn

Colectivo Aninat & Swinburn

Galeria Isabel Aninat

(Santiago)

Rivane Neuenschwander

Prosopopeia, 2010

Galeria Fortes Vilaca

(Sao Paulo)

Rivane Neuenschwander

"Prosopopeia 2010 is an installation consisting of four tables on which the artist has designed and set out a series of word games made from organic and edible materials... Dehydrated and peeled oranges become giant alphabet letters and can be arranged into aluminum bowls; coconut soap bars have letters carved out, filled with pepper and beet root powder and arranged like a scrabble set; screen printed letters on wood can be dug into channels of pepper powder and hollow eggs reveal secret letters that are exposed only by offering them up to a naked light bulb."

           Galeria Fortes Vilaca

Eduardo Basualdo

Ruth Benzacar Galeria de Arte

(Buenos Aires)

Look closely and you will see the sword swiping through... this is part of a larger installation.

Alejandro Pintado (Mexico)

Post Box Gallery 

(London)

Santiago Montoya (Colombia)

Tri Amigos

Artworks. b146

(Zurich)

Santiago Montaya

"Ever since I was a child I wanted to become an artist, a painter I thought.

When I got there i was warned I shouldn´t paint.

But I am a stubborn fool: I had to do it.

17 years later here I am.

Santiago Montaya

Manuela Viera-Gallo (Chilean born in Rome)

Y Gallery 

(Queens)

These birds and owls are quite fascinating when you see them up close. As Yoab Vera from the Gallery excitedly explains the artist feels she is constantly compelled to move, more forced than by her own will. She "Keeps flying".

Tania Candiani (Mexico)

Seguridad Portatil (Portable security)

Y Gallery

(Queens)

Lisa Iglesias (Norwegian/Dominican, born NY)

"A story we tell ourselves about ourselves" 2011

Y Gallery 

(Queens)

An immaculate drawing.

Cristina Ataide 

Galeria Magda Bellotti

(Madrid)

Cristina Ataide´s sculpture of a vulcanic Island Mountain made me nearly trip, here it is in its tiny grandeur.

Gaston Ugalde

Siguaraya Gallery

(La Paz)

Claudia Jaguaribe

Biblioteca

Claudia Jaguaribe

Favela

Baro Galeria

(Sao Paulo)

These were actually my favorites. Fitting what I am always looking for here at ArtEco, great Contemporary Art with an Environmental tone. The gallerist Adriano Casanova had a busy job trying to talk to all the interested. I thought he nearly needed a body guard... especially since he was trying to hold onto another piece of art situated in front of this last very popular picture, afraid that it would be pulled down in the middle of the frenzy. The photos are hot, hot, hot and selling out by the minute.

Juan Pablo Echeverri (Colombia)

Edel Assanti Gallery

(London)

Strong photos about the real superhero's out there by Juan Pablo Echeverri. He has taken a whole series about the hard working immigrants in America, where he is showing what they work as and then telling the story about how much they send home to their families. This super hero here is Noe Reyes from the State of Puebla. He works as a delivery boy in Brooklyn, New York. He sends 500 dollars a week.

How unselfish, what a hero!!

Sonir Falcone

I ended it in the Champagne room... a hypnotizing disco with changing video effects. There was not much information about this work, but a kind young man was willing to help me out. It turned out he was the artist assistant... Her name is Sonir Falcone and googling her I am showing that she is married to Mr. Pierre Falcone an Angolean Unesco Ambassador. The whole thing seemed quite mysterious. Is this her gallery as well? Or what gallery represents her? I asked, he could not answer. But he smiled and laughed and said it is called "Window of the Soul" and that it is about the cycle of life.

With Love

Kristin