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SUMMARY:Painting Situations: Sigfredo Chacón and Liliana Porter / ISLAA Artist Initiative
DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Dates: October 12 through December 2\, 2022Opening Reception: October 12 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.Exhibition tour by Laura Colkitt: October 21 at 5:00 p.m.Exhibition tour by Helena Chen: November 10 at 5:00 p.m.Exhibition tour by Jesús Fuenmayor: November 16 at 5:00 p.m.Lecture by Sérgio B. Martins\, Art as Project\, Project as Art: November 16 at 6:00 p.m. Fine Arts Building B\, Room 105 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPainting Situations: Sigfredo Chacón and Liliana Porter/ISLAA Artist Initiative curated by Jesús Fuenmayor and Kaira M. Cabañas and taking place in the Gary R. Libby University Gallery\, is the first exhibition in the ISLAA Artist Seminar Initiative / UF series. \n\n\n\nThe Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) designed its Artist Seminar Initiative to support academic institutions in fostering intimate exchanges between students and living artists from Latin America. For this first iteration at University Galleries\, the work of renowned artists Sigfredo Chacón and Liliana Porter informed the two-semester program of a curatorial seminar followed by an exhibition. Students in art history and museum studies took part in the seminar led by Jesús Fuenmayor in Spring 2022 and also serve as members of the curatorial advisory committee to the exhibition. \n\n\n\nPainting Situations: Sigfredo Chacón and Liliana Porter showcases the work of two pioneers of Latin American conceptualism. The curators chose to focus on Chacón’s and Porter’s most emblematic projects: his Pinturasparlantes (Speaking-paintings) and her Forced Labor series. In doing so\, the exhibition highlights how\, despite each artist’s deployment of radically different aesthetic strategies\, the works on view share a common ambition. Each artist’s work critically comments on painting as a medium and as a situation that calls upon viewers’ lived experiences and attention to social contexts. Chacón’s practice focuses on dismantling painting’s modernist programs by inscribing language within its visual field as they attempt an unmediated communication with their audience\, while Porter turns to the invisible labor of painting and how gender and class intersect beyond its traditional frame. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPainting Situations is complemented by a second exhibition Más Situaciones: Sigfredo Chacón and Liliana Porter (parts I and II)\, which is curated by doctoral candidates Helena Chen and Laura Colkitt in the Gary R. Libby Focus Gallery as part of the series “On View: Curatorial Studies.” For the exhibition at the Focus Gallery\, Porter will present her video Actualidades. The stochastic film incorporates nonlinear vignettes of miniature figurines engaged in unexpected or surprising situations. Analogously arranged like a newspaper\, the video’s segments display expressive scenarios–from tender to farcical–evoking a range of human experiences. Chacón will present a selection of the works related to his 1972 installationSituaciones [Situations]\, a series of pieces that he recently reconstructed for his solo exhibition in a private foundation in Miami. Treating painting as objects\, the installation explores the situational aesthetic and references military forces as well as organized oppression in Venezuela. \n\n\n\nA fully-illustrated catalogue with contributions by the curators and interviews with the artists will be published by University Galleries. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition program and publication are sponsored by the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art and the School of Art + Art History\, University of Florida\, Gainesville. Additional event sponsors include the Harn Eminent Scholar Chair in Art History and the UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (Rothman Endowment).
URL:https://arts.ufl.edu/event/10389/
LOCATION:Gary R. Libby University Gallery\, 400 SW 13th Street\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32611\, United States
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SUMMARY:Más Situaciones I: Liliana Porter / Curatorial Studies and the ISLAA Artist Initiative
DESCRIPTION:Curated by Laura ColkittMás Situaciones I presents the digital video Actualidades / Breaking News (2016) by internationally known artist Liliana Porter (b. 1941\, Argentina). Divided into thirty consecutive segments or vignettes\, the film’s scenes are arranged like a newspaper with intertitles that announce the theme of the vignette to follow: “local time\,” “tourism\,” “domestic violence\,” “world news.” Key here is that the film’s main protagonists stem from the artist’s extensive collection of bric-a-bracs\, knickknacks\, and souvenirs. In the course of the thirty segments\, viewers see everything from a mass-produced Elvis bust and rotary telephone to miniatures of political figures and a multicolor teddy bear. \n\n\n\nPorter constructs the majority of her scenes on a white background\, thus lending increased attention to the figures\, while her use of close ups\, medium shots\, and non-linear sequences focus the viewer’s attention on the figurines\, objects\, and their curious combinations in some segments. The kitschy quality of the objects comes together with the “news” in various ways. Some vignettes capture mundane everyday situations and present images of pop cultural icons like Elvis\, while others linger on printed images of war and stage scenes that evoke aggression\, as when miniature figurines are placed and sequenced to raise the issue of violence against women.   \n\n\n\nSylvia Meyers’ music complements the film’s segments\, leading the viewer through its moments of compassion\, empathy\, humor\, and shock. Listeners might recognize some elements of the soundtrack\, including the Italian protest song “Ciao Bella” and Marlene Dietrich’s “Lili Marleen.” Coupled with Porter’s seemingly simple scenes\, the music amplifies each vignette’s impact\,capturing an array of human experiences condensed in Porter’s fictional worlds. The pseudo narratives\, unconventional protagonists\, artfully composed music\, and segment style format coexist as the key foundations of this compelling film.  \n\n\n\n​-Laura Colkitt\, Doctoral Candidate in Art History
URL:https://arts.ufl.edu/event/mas-situaciones-i-liliana-porter-curatorial-studies-and-the-islaa-artist-initiative/
LOCATION:Gary R. Libby Focus Gallery\, 1370 Inner Road\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32611\, United States
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