Notebook # 1: Geometric  Abstraction / Miami

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2012
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GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTION
Latin American
Geometric Abstraction Art
Geometric Abstraction IN LATIN AMERICA
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atin America has produced one of the
most original and experimental chapters
of the history of twentieth century art in
its many geometric abstract artists and trends,
between the 1940s and the 1970s. In recent years,
particularly the Neo Concrete artists from Brazil; the
Grupo Madí in Argentina and the Kinetic artists in
Venezuela, have received special attention. The
epicenter of Geometric Abstraction has been
seen as Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay (José Pedro
Costigliolo, María Freire and Antonio Llorens) and
Venezuela, nevertheless more research has shown
how other less expected countries such as Cuba,
have experienced a sophisticated geometric art
production in artists such as Mario Carreño, Santu
Darie, Carmen Herrera, José Mijares, Lolo Soldevilla,
and others. Colombia also, possesses several
important geometric artists such as: Feliza Bursztyn,
Omar Carreño, Eduardo Ramírez-Villamizar, Carlos
Rojas, Edgar Negret (Colombia, 1920) and Manolo
Vellojín. Even Mexico which is mostly seen as a
country that produced great Muralist art includes:
Mathias Goeritz, Carlos Mérida and Gunther
Gerzso. Furthermore, in countries with no important
abstract tradition, individual figures emerged such
as Guatemalan Margarita Azurdia, Chilean Matilde
Pérez, or Ecuadorian Araceli Gilbert.
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evertheless, the abstract panorama in
Latin America is immensely complex
and diverse; as an example, Argentina,
beginning in the mid-1940s had a succession of
experimental and prolific abstract artists. Besides
the well known Madí artists such as Gyula Kosice,
Rhod Rothfuss, Martín Blaszko and Arden Quin, are
artists from the Arte Concreto-Invención (1945)
such as Lidy Prati, Manuel Espinoza y Juan Melé.
Raúl Lozza, coming from this movement, went on
to create the Manifiesto Perceptista in 1947. Lucio
Fontana published his Manifiesto Blanco in Buenos
Aires in 1946. In the 1960s the Neoabstracción
geométrica includes some important artists such as
María Martorell, Rogelio Polesello, Ary Brizzi, just to
mention a few. Also in the 1960s saw the flourishing
of great Kinetic artists such as Julio Le Parc, Martha
Boto, Gregorio Vardanega and Luis Tomasello. Brazil
also has an infinite number of interesting abstract
artists working at different moments and producing
innovative work such as: Hercules Barsotti, Willys
de Castro, Lygia Clark, Waldemar Cordeiro, Hélio
Oiticica, Lygia Pape, Mira Schendel and Alfredo
Volpi, to name just a few. Clearly in Venezuela the
most internationally recognized artists are: Gego,
Jesús Rafael Soto and Carlos Cruz-Diez, while
Alejandro Otero continues to be lesser known and
understood; as well as Mercedes Pardo and Elsa
Gramcko.
Durban Segnini Gallery specializes in contemporary painting
and sculpture, with particular emphasis in artists who have
worked
with
abstract
expressionism,
abstraction,
constructivism, geometric and kinetic art.
Simultaneously the Gallery strives to promote and diffuse
new artistic values as well as the historical vanguards that
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have influenced them. Worldwide, Durban Segnini Gallery is
t would be pointless to continue with long
lists of artists and movements. The few names
mentioned above illustrate the richness and
diversity in the arena of Abstraction in Latin
America which is further complicated by the fact
that between the 1940s and 1970s, a multiple and
interwoven process of exchange existed between
Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay for example, and
also between these countries (and Venezuela) and
Europe, particularly France. Also a whole separate
singular chapter pertains to modernist photography
beginning with Geraldo de Barros in Brazil, in
Colombia with Leo Matiz and in Argentina through
Grete Stern, to mention a few examples. Not all
geometric art is clearly definable, particularly in the
case of many Brazilian artists whose abstract work
was political and/or conceptual. In Venezuela this
can be said of artist Eugenio Espinoza, or in Brazil of
Ana María Maiolino.
known for its expertise in such areas as the integration of
artworks to architectural spaces as well as for its customized
counseling of private collections.
Cesar Paternosto, Señales negro, rojo, oro 3, 2008.
Mixed on canvas
35 1/2 x 35 1/2 in. (90 x 90 cm.)
Carlos Cruz-Díez
Beto De Volder
Gyula Kosice
Julio Le Parc
Mateo Manaure
Cesar Paternosto
Omar Rayo
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Carlos Rojas
Fanny Sanín
he abstract trend continue today in Latin
America, as many artists continues to
produce some of the most challenging
and experimental works in this field, expanding
its arena to installation art, video art, and many
conceptual and aesthetic variations, often as only
one of the art forms in their oeuvre, while they also
explore figurative art, or work with mass culture and
objects.
Jesús Rafael Soto
Ramírez Villamizar
Cecilia Fajardo-Hill
British Venezuelan curator and art
historian, chief curator at MOLAA,
Long Beach, CA
Carmelo Arden Quin
Carmelo Arden Quin, Untitled, 1951.
Duco on wood, 19.4 x 17 in. (49 x 43 cm),
3072 SW 38th Ave.
Miami, Fl 33146
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José Pedro Costigliolo, Composicion, 1955. Tempera on cardboard, 88 x 70 cm
modern and contemporary latin american
constructivism and concrete art
Wynwood Arts District
125 NW 23rd. St.
Miami, Fl 33127
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KINETIC, GEOMETRIC AND MODERN ART
Carlos Cruz-Diéz,
Inducción Antonella I, 2011, 90 cm
626 Coral Way # 601
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Felix Ángel. Colombia / Patricia Belli. Nicaragua /
Lina Binkele. Colombia / Enrique Campuzano. Chile
/ Miriam Calzada. Dominican Republic / Jorge
Cavelier.
Colombia
France/Nicaragua
/
/
Jean
Marc
Mariadolores
Calvet.
Castellanos.
Guatemala / Gabriela Cassano. Argentina / Maria
Silvia Corcuera Terán. Argentina / Ricardo Cordova.
Peru / Luis Cornejo. El Salvador / Omar d’Leon.
Nicaragua / Ignacio Gana. Chile / Miguel Angel
Giovanetti.
Argentina
/
Liliana
Golubinsky.
Argentina / Gabriel Gonzalez. Panama / Ricardo
Gonzalez. Nicaragua / Antonia Guzmán. Argentina /
Paul Hunter. Canada / Walterio Iraheta. El Salvador
/ Karen Estrada. El Salvador / Luis Fernandez
Arroyo. Argentina / Jorge Jrisinco. Argentina /
Linda Kohen. Italy / Uruguay / Connie Lloveras.
Jesus Soto, Penetrable Pampatar 1971
Cuban-American
/
Armando
Lara
Hidalgo.
Honduras / Ilse Manzanarez. Nicaragua / Braulio
Matos. Panama / Paul Morales. Ecuador / Christina
Motta. Brazil / Pilar Moreno. Panamá / MUHER.
Linda Kohen, Multitud II, 1984, Oil on canvas, 59 x 47 inches
Spain / Pedro Muiño. Spain / Carlos Musse.
Soto signing the Penetrable
Pampatar design
Soto explaining collector
Victor Gill the project restoration
Restoration Project
Sketch for Pampatar
Penetrable
signed by Soto
Uruguay / Christian Navarro. Costa Rica / Maria
Navas. Colombia / Alberto Ocón. Nicaragua /
Lorenza Panero. Colombia / José Perdomo.
Dominican Republic / Cristina Piceda. Argentina /
Aubertin / Bonalumi / Cabeza / Cruz Diez / Lucena / Otero / Salazar / Soto / Vasarely / Venet
Giancarlo Puppo. Argentina / Jean Jacques Ribi.
Italy / Panama / Rita Rivas. Venezuela / Susana
O. Ascanio Gallery
2600 N.W. 2nd Avenue
Miami, FL. 33127
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Rodriguez. Argentina / Gioconda Rojas. Costa Rica
/ Pedro Ruiz. Colombia / Baruj Salinas. Cuba /
Rodolfo Stanley. Costa Rica / Fernando Toledo.
Panama / Javier Valle Perez. Nicaragua / Francisca
Valenzuela. Chile / Jorge Vallejos. Peru / Patricia
Villalobos. Nicaragua / Daniel Viñoly. Uruguay.
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Latin American Geometric Abstraction in Miami
Art Galleries & Circuits
Foreword
by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, p - 2
Chief Curator at MOLAA,
Long Beach, CA.
Bird Road Art District
Israel Guevara Studio, p - 4
4990 SW 72nd Ave. Ste. 106
Miami, Fl 33155
305 284 0000
by appt.
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Artist
Coral Gables
Durban Segnini Gallery, p - 3
3072 SW 38th Ave.
Miami, Fl 33146
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Mon – Fri: 10 – 6; Sat: 11 - 4
Abstract Expressionism,
Abstraction, Constructivism,
Geometric and Kinetic Art
Arevalo Gallery, p -7
151 NE 40th St. # 200
Miami, Fl 33137
305 860 3311
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Modern and Contemporary Latin
American Art and the international
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Mon-Fri: 10:30 - 4:30; Sat: 11 – 3
Latin American Geometric
Abstraction Art
The Americas Collection, p - 9
O. Ascanio Gallery, p - 11
2600 NW 2nd Ave.
Miami, Fl 33127
786 369 9314
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Sat. & Sun. by appt.
Modern and Contemporary art
Little Havana
Latin Art Core / Maxoly, p - 11
10
Design District
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626 Coral Way # 601
Coral Gables, Fl 33134
305 588 1231
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Kinetic, Geometric and Modern Art
214 Andalusia Ave.
Coral Gables, FL 33134
305 446 5578
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Contemporary Latin American Art.
Serigraphy Series
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maxoly.com
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Cuban Masters and Cuban
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Latin American Geometric
Abstraction in Miami
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