José Vera Matos
Insano, injusto, extremadamente entretenido
15 Dec, 2022 – 25 March, 2023
This exhibition is halfway between an autobiographical reflection and a social critique of this “unhealthy, unfair, extremely entertaining” world. Although it is possible to read personal clues and political commentaries intertwined in these works, the body of work presented by José Vera Matos arises from an exploratory process and, therefore, implies uncertainty. What the artist tempts in these works is unknown even to himself.
This exhibition is like a journey through the history of a promise and its unfulfillment: the promise of the future, understood as something expected and aspired to (as evidenced by many of our futuristic utopias), and not more of the same or even something much worse than what was already there and what we have received in the end.
Fernando Bryce
The Future is Here
25 Nov – 7 Dec
Esta colección de imágenes es la señal de un novísimo reto asumido por Fernando Bryce: la historicización de nuestras sensibilidades y la historicización de nuestro consumo, en un solo barrido de imágenes de cinco décadas que se dejan ver con una simultaneidad tan excitante como pasmosa, y que claman sin cesar “¡Abajo la Historia, sólo más presente y que sea aquí y ahora!”.
La cultura de la computación se expandió de modo súbito, aunque se haya perfilado a través de varias décadas. Su cronología es poco aprehensible sin imágenes publicitarias que la relaten, y éstas sólo lo hacen agolpándose para sumar medio siglo de domesticidad a la medida del bolsillo de cada uno, para luego encarnar la democratización más intensa e inquietante desde la cámara KODAK con película recargable que George Eastman lanzó al mundo en 1888. (Dicho sea de paso, pensando à la Hobsbawm, ¿será corto o largo el siglo XXI?). En nuestro imaginario, lo que actualmente llamamos Era Digital son 50 años que albergan tipografías, palabras clave, diseños y dispositivos electrónicos -o más precisamente, gadgets-, que prometían contener en su materialidad posible, la forma palpable del futuro, dentro de un ilusionismo más acezante y seductor: el de un Autobahn, una autopista de la información instantánea y sin límites. Como lo hizo Steve Jobs con la Apple Macintosh con mouse (y mouse pad) bajada de los cielos.
Gilda Mantilla and Armando Andrade Tudela at MoMA's group show "Chosen Memories"
April 30 – Sept 9, 2023
We are pleased to announce Armando Andrade Tudela’s participation in “Chosen Memories”, group show at MoMA, based on the Museum’s collection.
Iosu Aramburu was awarded MoMA's Artist Research Fellowship
We are proud to announce that losu Aramburu was awarded MoMA’s Artist Research Fellowship 2021. This is one of the three grants presented each year by the Cisneros Research Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America, established by The Museum of Modern Art in 2016 to support new research by artists, curators and scholars.
losu Aramburu (Lima, 1986) is an artist based in Lima, Peru. Through painting, sculpture and installation, his work seeks to question the failures of the modern project. |n 2019, Aramburu awarded the Artus-Delfina Fellowship (London), in 2018 he won the Premio ICPNA de Arte Contemporáneo and the Plaza Paz Soldán National Contest (both in Lima) and in 2012 he won the lll Premio de Pintura Latinoamericana Arcos Dorados-ArteBA (Buenos Aires). He has participated in residences in Triangle-France (MarseilleJand in the Fonderie Darling (Montreal). His work can be found in the following collections: Museo de Arte de Lima – MALI, Patricia Phelp de Cisneros collection (New York and Caracas), the Sayago 8 Pardon Collection (Los Angeles), the Lodevans Collection (London), Jorge M. Pérez Collection (Miami), Hochschild Collection (Lima), Arcos Dorados Collection (Buenos Aires), among others.
