Opening Somerset House at 25, London, Somerset House presents SOIL: The World at Our Feet, a landmark exhibition unearthing the wonder of soil, its unbreakable bond to all life, and the vital role it plays in our planet’s future. The group show includes artworks by Asunción Molinos Gordo, and will be on view from January 23rd, until April 13th, 2025.
Mariela Scafati, as part of the Serigrafistas Queer collective, presents Liberdade para as sensibilidades [Freedom for Sensibilities] at MASP, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil. The exhibition, composed of 65 serigraphs by the collective and curated by Amanda Carneiro, will be open from December 13, 2024, through March 16, 2025.
“This autumn I saw Álvaro Urbano’s installation at the Sculpture Centre in New York […]. The installation uses time and destruction as a material to be seen and exposed. In the age of surveillance, satellite imagery and digital photography, can anything really disappear from memory forever?”. Read the full article in Art Review.
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.
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.
“[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.
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.
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.