MONTEVIDEO – New Visions, features four contemporary artists from Montevideo,the capitol city of Uruguy and its largest, is a port city of 1.8 million inhabitants and the hub of a progressive and diverse group of artists.
MONTEVIDEO features four artists Ana Campanella, Fernando Lopez Lage, Federico Rubio and Gustavo Tabares who will showcase their latest works April 21, 2012 – June 2, 2012 with an opening reception on Saturday, April 21 6:00pm-8:00pm.
Campanella, Lage, Rubio and Tabares represent a cross-section of the current contemporary art scene in that city: metalworker Ana Campanella; abstract painter Fernando Lopez Lage; photographer Federico Rubio; and mixed media artist Gustavo Tabares. Together they offer a varying array of disciplines with a single vision towards defining the contemporary art landscape of Uruguay.
Feminist artist Ana Campanella (b. 1980) finds new orientation in the medium of metal and combines this with her ideologies to create a unique series of embroidered wire drawings.
Like many in the Latin American Geometric Abstraction movement, Fernando Lopez Lage (b. 1964) ascribes a methodology to create his vibrant and rhythmic pieces.
Photographer Federico Rubio (b. 1966) is the recipient of the 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship Award. His photography has a seductive abstract objectivity that unveils the quiet truth found in nature’s geometry. Rubio’s subject matter and symmetry are anchored in the work of Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932).
Painter and mixed-media artist Gustavo Tabares (b. 1968) presents a series of Dada-esque collages using superimposed stencils and drawings of anonymous female forms over vintage WW2 Russian and Italian magazine pages. The pictorial elements suggest a demasculinization of fascism and a triumph of creative expression over military rule; not unlike that of the Junta in his own country.
In addition to his artwork, Tabares is a teacher, independent curator and was co-director of the contemporary art gallery Marte Upmarket. He was a member of the MARTE Centro Cultural and from 2007-2010 acted as Coordinator and Advisor of Visual Arts in the Department of Culture, Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay. He is also the director of the forthcoming 2012 Uruguay Biennial.
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