This Saturday, December 7, the talk Afterlives with Álvaro Urbano, Jess Wilcox, and Jeremy Johnston will take place in the margin of Tableau Vivant by Álvaro Urbano, at the Sculpture Center from 2-4pm, in New York, USA.
Ficciones. Narratividad en el arte contemporáneo is the exhibition curated by Ferran Barenblit at MAZ, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, in Jalisco, Mexico. The exhibition will be open from November 29, 2024 to April 20, 2025. 2025. This show includes works by Jorge Méndez Blake and Teresa Solar Abboud.
Travesía Cuatro will be at booth D22 at Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach, at the Convention Center, Miami Beach, Florida.
Private days: December 4 – 5
Public days: December 6 – 8
Artists: Álvaro Urbano, Teresa Solar Abboud Donna Huanca, Manuel Solano, Ana Prata, John Isaacs, Jorge Méndez Blake, Milena Muzquiz, Willa Wasserman, Sara Ramo, Ángela de la Cruz, Jorge Eielson, Eleonore Koch and Gonzalo Lebrija
Álvaro Urbano incorporates a decommissioned public artwork-cum-furniture by American postminimalist artist Scott Burton in his new installation at New York’s SculptureCenter – prompting Jenny Wu to question what happens to a work when it’s displayed outside of its intended context: ‘Urbano’s vision is at odds with Burton’s aim and risks obfuscating the dissembling and demotic spirit of the latter’s public art. Find the complete article on November’s issue of ArtReview.
“[Álvaro] Urbano, the Berlin artist, exhumed another decommissioned Burton work, “Atrium Furnishment,” from the storage facility where it has been collecting dust for years”. Read the complete article in The New York Times.
“By great luck, I managed to make it to one musical event: a hybrid performance/installation by Alexandre Estrela that ZDB (Galeria Zé dos Bois) put on in the Teatro São Luiz. It’s a difficult piece to explain […]”. The complete Notes on Lisbon: the scourge of tourism and the resilience of culture in Futurism Restated.
The first episode of MEET POINT is dedicated to TRAVESÍA CUATRO gallery and features its directors Silvia Ortiz and Inés López-Quesada, who talk to us about the essence of being a gallery owner, their beginnings, their relationship with artists, their interest in creating bridges between Southern Europe and Latin America and the foundation of the space's three venues, the first one in Madrid and the other two located in Mexico, specifically in Guadalajara and Mexico City.
This show was selected as part of New York Oomph—a curated roundup of the best contemporary art exhibitions and events held by galleries, museums, and institutions in town during ADAA: The Art Show, New York, October 2024. “The exhibition features Urbano’s choreographed sculptural interpretation of a public artwork by Scott Burton—a sculptor, performance artist, and writer critical to New York scenes in the 1970s and ’80s, before he died of HIV-related illness in 1989—that was rescued from destruction and now faces an uncertain future.” You can read the full article in Mousse Magazine.
“[Álvaro] Urbano, undertaking a kind of archaeology that gives [Scott] Burton’s sculpture a second life, has installed its remaining chunks in the gallery, in rings that evoke the format of the original installation. In this act of resuscitation, Urbano stewards a queer archive that has been largely forgotten […]”. Read the article in The New York Times.
Hors Pistes 8th edition. New ruralities is now presented at the Centre Pompidou Málaga, Spain. The exhibition presents nine video and photographic works, including two works by Asunción Molinos Gordo, as a set of images and sounds that re-enchant our vision of the countryside. The exhibition will be on view until January 13, 2025.
Mariela Scafati presents an exhibition in dialogue with Helio Oiticica, for the first edition of Pivô’s Gallery Residency. Beijo will be open at Pivô, São Paulo, Brazil, until December 14th, 2024.
“[Álvaro] Urbano’s intervention raises a question that many of these messy works also begin to approach: Why don’t we spend more time turning our collective trash, excess, errors, and ruin into beauty?”. Read the full article at CULTURED.
Jorge Eielson is part of the exhibition Une brève histoire de fils, a group show of 17 Latin American artists. Curated by Domitille d’Orgeval, the exhibition will be open from October 10, 2024 to January 16, 2025 at La Maison de l’Amérique latine, Paris, France.
Alexandre Estrela opens A NATUREZA ABORRECE O MONSTRO, a solo exhibition curated by Bruno Marchand at Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal. The exhibition will be on view from October 12, 2024 until February 2, 2025.
LUNAR ENSEMBLE FOR UPRISING SEAS by Álvaro Urbano & Petrit Halilaj, co-commissioned by TBA21–Academy and Audemars Piguet Contemporary, will be on view at MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain, from October 11, 2024 until January 12, 2025.
SKIN PAINTEENS is Donna Huanca’s second solo exhibition in Vienna, Austria, this time at the Nitsch Foundation. The show will be open from October 11 until December 20, 2024.
TABLEAU VIVANT is the current exhibition by Álvaro Urbano at Sculpture Center, New York, USA. On the show, Urbano focuses on a potential ruin, or a ruin in progress – a public artwork by the American sculptor Scott Burton (1939–1989) that was rescued from destruction and now faces an uncertain future. It will remain on view until March 24, 2025.
Quinze Anos de Amor na República dos Pangolins is the group exhibition at Kuntshalle Lissabon, in Lisbon, Portugal, featuring Teresa Solar Abboud. The exhibition curated by Filipa Ramos will be open until December 14, 2024.