Magazine Hola! Peru publishes article featuring Grimanesa’s Uros House in Times Square

Grimanesa Amoros will be donating her artwork “Preciosa Burbuja” to benefit the extraordinary Time-In Program. Haunch of Venison and HiArt! will host Changing the World through Art, a beautiful, upscale event,  featuring live and silent auctions of art by some of the world’s most sought after artists. It will be held at Haunch of Venison’s stunning Rockefeller Center gallery on March 4th, 2011, and attended by 350-400 of Haunch of Venison’s most exclusive clients.

Preciosa Burbuja (2009) is a silicone and mixed media lighting sculpture with the dimensions of 7 inches height x 8 inches width x ½ inches depth. Precious metals, like gold and silver, were once the basis of all economic transactions. Now we are at the mercy of artificially inflated markets and systems of exchange. The accepted value of goods or services is no longer certain and concrete; everything is uncertain and ephemeral. We are engorged by speculation and illusion, like implanted silicone. Our desires rise like heaving breasts, and upon reaching climax they quickly deflate.

http://www.streamingfestival.com/archive/2010/artists.php?id=822&f=Grimanesa&l=Amoros

Primo Piano Gallery from 12/11/2010 to 1/5/2011

Rootless Algas by Grimanesa Amoros

In the last years we have  assisted to the disappearance of the city, to the expansion of diffused outskirts, of physical nets of communication, of industrial zones that have corroded agricultural zones, parks, ancient gardens and river circles. In parallel, the architectural culture has faced problems of urban renewal territorial and landscape, developing attitudes of responsibility towards the past in the belief that recovering it contributes to renew the present.

Today, a new culture is emerging in the landscape that recognizes their value as an archive of traces of human history and nature: The concept today is not intended as a landscape or environment, or as a territory, but as an aspect of the environment and land perceived by those who benefit, not only production space, but good symbolic, collective cultural reference, the result of common purpose and layering structures evolved over time, a continuous “agreement” between the forces of nature and necessity of  the man. The construction of an archive of landscape is related to this new culture of the place, understood as a context that is strongly and clearly the concrete network meanings within which the actions of men become cultural facts, the value reflects an “exchange value” in social action, a public phenomenon, therefore, not
individual, but subjectively gives meaning to the actions of daily life, work,
interpersonal relationships and living.

Grimanesa Amoros has received a ton of press, including this write up  on Design Boom, for her work Aurora, at the Issey Miyake store in  NYC.

info via Gawker Artists Newsletter

http://www.pittorica.it/scripts/comunicatistampa/visualizza_news.php?idnotizia=1807

http://www.lobodilattice.org/node/5101

http://www.arte.go.it/eventi/2009/e_1889.htm

09.06.09 — The Miami-based Latin American fair arteaméricas has named three local executives to key positions: Dora Valdés-Faulí, art director; María Nápoles, executive director, and Othón Castañeda, associate director.
All have been involved with the fair for years. Valdés-Faulí, a former Coral Gables gallery owner and art consultant, has participated in arteaméricas since the March fair began eight years ago. Nápoles has managed the logistics of the event, and Castañeda coordinated the design and layout.
A statement from the new management team says that given “the current economic climate,” they’re designing a package for galleries and partners “to make our fair more affordable.”

– FABIOLA SANTIAGO