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Charmaine Poh’s First Institutional Solo Exhibition in Berlin

PalaisPopulaire in Berlin presents Make a Travel Deep of Your Inside, and Don’t Forget Me to Take, the first institutional solo exhibition by Chinese-Singaporean artist Charmaine Poh (b. 1990), Deutsche Bank’s “Artist of the Year” 2025.

Four Years of Arte por Excelencias

Keynote Speech on the 15th Issue

Nearly twenty years ago, during an unforgettable morning, I heard from Cintio Vitier, in one of the cubicles located on the second floor of Jose Marti National…

Memoirs of the Havana Biennial 1984-1999

Amid the intense days of the Eleventh Havana Biennial, held in May and June this year, and which got the attention of several sectors of the public and critics, it was presented to the nation's capital the book Memoirs:

LIMA PHOTO 2012

The Villa Manuela Gallery, of the Cuban Writers and Artists Union (UNEAC), participated in the Fair Lima Photo along with other 26 exhibition spaces, among which there were 9 from Peru and 18 belonging to Argentina, Mexico, Chile,…

Set the Can on Fire. Interview with Mónica Ferreras

By the hand of an ancestral dialogical combination, Mónica Ferreras has created an exceptional body of work in the visual arts in the Dominican Republic. This unique character is overwhelmingly articulated in the current…

Two Citizens of Utopia

Utopia is without a doubt the quintessence of dreamers, thinkers and artists, the force behind movements and revolutions. It is in many cases the inspiration of conflicts and changes made by humankind. Two Citizens of Utopia, a duo…

The Conceptualism of Marcos Lora Read

Marcos Lora is an author of profound aesthetic spectrum, who is not exitist, who makes drawings, installations, objects, paintings, video, site-specific projects and artist books. He was born in the Dominican Republic, where he lives…

The Caribbean, One and Multiple

Aruba hosted between July and November 2012 the biennial meeting named Arte Contemporaneo di Caribe, first time in the region, sponsored by that Caribbean nation’s Ministry of Culture, UNOCA, as well as Piet Mondrian…

Blue Curry and his Paradox Machine

(...) Blue Curry is a young Caribbean artist from Nassau, Bahamas. Despite the strange European fascination-projection regarding the Caribbean,  even today it can be counted with the fingers the artists from that "peripheral"…

30th São Paulo Art Biennale: the Imminence of Poetics

In this complex and contradictory beginning of the 21st century, we are forced to live in a world of immediate, unexpected and unusual events. Doubtlessly, the attack against the WTC towers in 2001 turned out to be a tragic…

Umberto Peña. From Maturity to Excellence

(...) En noviembre de 1980, el vasto Salón de los Pasos Perdidos del Capitolio Nacional albergó la primera exposición de Peña desde la década de los sesenta. No era, sin embargo, una muestra de…

Miami, Gateway to Latin America

(...) Despite the crisis, which carried on for several years, Miami contradictorily had a social and architectural revival in the thirties and forties, although the city did not escape the segregated social structure that…

Daros, now in Rio

(...) The next step for Daros Latin American Collection is the opening of a venue in the region itself: it will be in Rio de Janeiro and the inauguration is scheduled for March 23rd, 2013.

Along with Hans-…

Negret, a Chant of Resistance

(...) The language of post critics and post curators (who arrived late at art), being busy proving that the wit of variables is more important than the abyssal adventure of creation, is offensive. Their effort in putting the divertimento in use…

A tour on established and emerging poetics

This magazine issue sees the light of day as it celebrates its fourth anniversary. Faithful to its foundational principles and objectives, we have wanted to see in it –and we’ve done it that way so far- a platform for…