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GRACE: Diaspora, History and Becoming What We Are

Unveiled at the Tate Britain on the 28th of May 2024 and showing until the 26th of January 2025, Alvaro Barrington’s major new commission GRACE aims to take visitors on “an intimate journey through time and place”. Celebrating…

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Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art

Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art showcases the works of 50 international artists - 10 of whom coming from Latin America - who use textiles to embody messages of oppression and resistance, power and…

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Women by Women: Changing Photography For The Better

Showing at the OXO Gallery to mark International Women’s Day, ActionAid’s new exhibition Women by Women “aims to shatter stereotypes and celebrate inspiring women refugees from around the world” (ActionAid). One of five…

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Hecho a Mano: A Celebration of Textiles

Spanning across three quarters of a century and eight countries, Hecho a Mano at Cecilia Brunson Projects celebrates, commemorates and interrogates the past and present of textiles as a creative medium.

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Luis Caballero - A Rare Insight into Queer Colombian Artistry

In ‘A Deliberate Defiance’, an exhibition of five canvases by Luis Caballero (1943-1995), London’s Cecilia Brunson Projects highlights the stories of duality and dichotomy depicted in the pioneering queer Colombian artist’s work…

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'THE BREATHING ISLAND', Ismael Rodríguez’s first solo show in London

In this multi-media debut show ‘The Breathing Island, Ismael Rodríguez has focussed on life in this world. Expressing a keen awareness of the complexity and diversity of this planet, Ismael Rodríguez’s thought-provoking mixed-…

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Latin Londoner #48 - Gustavo Nenao, street artist

Gustavo Bordin (akak Gustavo Nenao) is a Brazilian street artist who has developed works in three continents and 42 countries and was the only Brazilian to join the selected group of artists chosen by the former U.S. first lady…

Latin Londoners
Latin Londoner #46 - Patricia Bidi, Visual Artist

Peruvian artist Patricia Bidi has been living in London for over 20 years and exhibiting her work all over the world. After working on Cecilia Vicuña's Brain Forest Quipu at the Tate Modern, Patricia explores these themes in…

In-depth Interviews
Untangling to Reveal

Chilean-born Cecilia Vicuña is one of Latin America’s most celebrated artists. Her most ambitious work yet is currently being shown at the Tate Modern - a multi-part installation made up of sculpture, sound, music and video. At…

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Mexico in Kew: A Floral Celebration of Life

“Our Day of the Dead is an affirmation of life”, says Betsabeé Romero, the internationally renowned Mexican artist who has created a riotously-colourful Día de Los Muertos installation at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew. As…

Interviews
Mexican artist Perla Krauze at the Cadogan Gallery

‘The crevices talk of what has gone before, which is life’ (Las grietas hablan de lo que ha pasado… que es vida’) Mexican sculptor and painter, Perla Krauze, is exhibiting a fascinating selection of her sculptures and…

First Person
Art as Evidence: Into the Belly of Latin American Political Posters

“Thinking Inside the Box” is an exhibition based on the archives of Latin American political art from Senate House Library, organized and led by students. The project dives into the largely unknown yet expansive collection of…

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Pioneering Black Latina Artists

Recently we published a list of Black Heroines of Latin American History, Afro-Latinas who put their lives at risk, and in some cases gave their lives, in order to shape our history. This week we bring you the brave women who…

Latin Londoners
Latin Londoner #34: Gisella Stapleton, Artist

The unique artworks of vibrant colours, inspired by folklore and culture, with social undertones, are quickly earning a name for Peruvian artist Gisella Stapleton. Gisella’s work combines realism and abstract art, mixing figure…

First Person
Imagining Orwell

Award-winning Uruguayan photo-journalist Julio Etchart is one of the UK’s best known documentary photographers covering news, social and environmental issues for the international press and NGOs. His latest project is a…

Obituaries
Quino, creator of "Mafalda" (1932 - 2020)

This week Argentina mourns a great loss. At the age of 88, Argentine cartoonist, Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón (more commonly known as ‘Quino’) passed away on the 30th September in Mendoza, Argentina. Creator and father of…

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BELFONSO - A Story of Love and Betrayal

Belfonso is a powerful tableau-video tale of love, jealousy, rage and betrayal played out between three dwarf characters. It is the result of an artistic collaboration between Argentine painter Ricardo Cinalli and the Argentine…

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Picasso and Paper

This exhibition at the Royal Academy has concentrated on Pablo Picasso’s output on paper, which entails a large number of drawings and different inventive and dazzling works in many formats, from pastels, lincuts, watercolours,…

In-depth Interviews
The People's Art

Led by the charismatic Anglo-Argentine artist Patricio (Pato) Forrester, a new School of Muralism is being created in the borough of Lewisham with the active participation of Goldsmith’s College, plus the support of the local…

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Brazil's Antonio Társis wins the VIA Arts Prize 2019

Bahiano ANTONIO TÁRSIS from Brazil has won the 2019 VIA Prize out of a record total of 402 submissions. His large and colourful collage is built up from fragments of fruit boxes from all parts of the world, that he meticulously…

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Art Therapy

Dairo Vargas started out in a village in Colombia, yet, thanks to the originality of his art, today his paintings and portraits figure in many private collections. Passionate about mental health, he dedicates a great deal of his…

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Indigenous Brazilian electronic art comes to London’s British Academy

A fishing net that recreates the sound of the ocean. An earthenware pot that emits traditional stories and songs. A cocoon-like structure that pulses with light to the rhythm of your beating heart. These are some of the results…

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PARICIO-PICASSO - Pedro Paricio’s homage to a great master.

The Halcyon Gallery is presenting a show of the Spanish artist Pedro Paricio’s colourful and dramatic paintings, in which he analyses and expresses his feelings about different aspects of Picasso’s work, including Guernica. The…

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Sylvia Libedinsky: Artist of the Absurd

Libedinsky’s new show “The Art of the Absurd” opens at the gx Gallery on Denmark Hill on February 7th. Mischievous and satirical, Libedinksy’s work challenges the viewer to think.

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Hugo Brazão- The VIA Arts Prize winner 2018–Madeiran zing shines in London

Out of 200 entries, the talented Madeiran artist HUGO BRAZÃO has won the 2018 VIA Arts Prize (Visual Ibero-American Arts) with Graham Guy-Robinson as runner up. The 30 finalist’s works are now on show in the stunning ‘Sala Brasil…

Culture Guides
The VIA Art Prize celebrates its 4th year.

Latino Life talks to Ting Tong Chang, who’s work ‘Peng’s Journey to the Southern Darkness’ won the VIA Art Prize in 2016. Now Chang is a juror for the up- and- coming VIA Art Prize, inviting candidates to offer their work for…

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By Reason, By Force: an interview with Chilean artist Mario Fonseca

Mario Fonseca: Conceptual Artist, Writer and Photographer talks about Chile today and how the Military Dictatorship (1973-1989) affected his work.

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In Search of Memory

‘My photographs are about our journey through life’ Corina Poore interviews the remarkable Chilean photographer Maurizio Valenzuela

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‘FRAGMENTED DIALOGUES’: Art and Identity in 1980s Chile

Corina talks to the curator of a fascinating exhibition of the work by two Chilean artists, Mario Fonseca and Mauricio Valenzuela. It is on at Austin/Desmond Fine Art till 30 June and explores both the fragmented and silenced…

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"The Gallery Will Be Fumigated of Art"

Finally getting a well-merited solo show at the prestigious Richard Saltoun Gallery in Dover St., Paolo Bruscky, one of Brazil’s most important and influential contemporary artists, talks to Corina J Poore about his challenging…

Reviews
‘Sully Night’ at the DARC Collective

‘Drawing is metaphysical striptease’ says Chilean artist Pato Bosich, one of three artists including Raul Pina Pérez and Jorge Rojas Goldsack, exploring the practice and experience of “Drawing.”

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MORNING MASQUERADE

Inaugurated this month, an exciting new mural by Argentine artist Patricio Forrester has been unveiled on a large wall in the Deptford Arena on the New Cross Road. Forrester has lived in the area for many years, and is very well…

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Field of Dissonance - Interview with Chilean Artist Alex Vargas

Chilean-born Alex Vargas, a multidisciplinary and multifaceted artist resing in London. A the age of nine, Alex joined a troupe of clowns performing on television in his native Santiago of Chile, and then went on to study Fine…

Latin Londoners
LATIN LONDONER 19: FERNANDO D GUIBERT - Artist

Fernando Guibert (father), was one of Argentina's most recognised poets and artists until his death in 1983. Fernando D Guibert (son) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1957, where he taught and lectured before arriving…

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