Exhibitions, United States, Miami Beach, 24 March 2011
A carefully selected roster of Contemporary artists from Central America curated by Janet Batet and Clara Astiasaran.
Within the Americas, Central America has been always forgotten. Stigmatized by its gap condition -border between the North and the South, its recent history is plagued by aborted revolutions, liberalism and political opportunism that have devastated the region, plunged into a cycle of wars, widespread poverty, chronic unemployment, and human trafficking between South America and the United States. Direct consequences of this troubled panorama are the discredit of civic institutions leading to the corrosion of civism, the high level of violence and the unequal displacement that distinguish the region.
Central America: Civism and Violence is an analysis of these pressing issues through the eye of fifteen contemporary artists of the region. Some of them are established artists that have made of their works a banner in their struggle for the recognition and awareness of the area. Such is the case of Raul Quintanilla and his editorial role at Estragos or his powerful series Nicara-What, both of them included in the present exhibition. Taking these figures as a point of reference, the exhibition highlights the works of the most relevant Central American emerging artists of the moment, internationally known as the artists of the Postwar Generation.
Central America: Civism and Violence is accompanied by an outstanding selection of the most representative video artworks produced in the region over the past twenty years. It is noteworthy that the video, together with photography and installation, are the three more important artistic media used by this generation, guided by the conceptual interest of documentation and deconstruction of the history. The selection of video artworks has been made possible through the generous collaboration of the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design of San Jose, Costa Rica and the Central American Museum of Video art, MUCEVI, according to its acronym in Spanish.
Central America: Civism and Violence features artworks by Javier Calvo Sandi, Eduardo Chang, Mauricio Esquivel, Gabriel Galeano, Regina Galindo, Jonathan Harker, Walterio Iraheta, Lucia Madriz, Mauricio Miranda, Alicia Zamora, Ronald Moran, Raul Quintanilla, Joaquin Rodriguez del Paso, Ernesto Salmeron, and Danny Zavaleta.
Within the Americas, Central America has been always forgotten. Stigmatized by its gap condition -border between the North and the South, its recent history is plagued by aborted revolutions, liberalism and political opportunism that have devastated the region, plunged into a cycle of wars, widespread poverty, chronic unemployment, and human trafficking between South America and the United States. Direct consequences of this troubled panorama are the discredit of civic institutions leading to the corrosion of civism, the high level of violence and the unequal displacement that distinguish the region.
Central America: Civism and Violence is an analysis of these pressing issues through the eye of fifteen contemporary artists of the region. Some of them are established artists that have made of their works a banner in their struggle for the recognition and awareness of the area. Such is the case of Raul Quintanilla and his editorial role at Estragos or his powerful series Nicara-What, both of them included in the present exhibition. Taking these figures as a point of reference, the exhibition highlights the works of the most relevant Central American emerging artists of the moment, internationally known as the artists of the Postwar Generation.
Central America: Civism and Violence is accompanied by an outstanding selection of the most representative video artworks produced in the region over the past twenty years. It is noteworthy that the video, together with photography and installation, are the three more important artistic media used by this generation, guided by the conceptual interest of documentation and deconstruction of the history. The selection of video artworks has been made possible through the generous collaboration of the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design of San Jose, Costa Rica and the Central American Museum of Video art, MUCEVI, according to its acronym in Spanish.
Central America: Civism and Violence features artworks by Javier Calvo Sandi, Eduardo Chang, Mauricio Esquivel, Gabriel Galeano, Regina Galindo, Jonathan Harker, Walterio Iraheta, Lucia Madriz, Mauricio Miranda, Alicia Zamora, Ronald Moran, Raul Quintanilla, Joaquin Rodriguez del Paso, Ernesto Salmeron, and Danny Zavaleta.
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