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Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, a major exhibition from the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, opens at the South London Gallery (SLG) on 10 June2016.
The proposal offers a broad view of contemporary art practices from different Latin American creators. Thus, Under the Same Sun explores different creative responses from artists that face complex and shared realities. The exhibition focuses on works by artists born after 1968, plus some pioneers who were internationally active in the 60s and 70s many of whom have been influenced by stories and themes related to modernity and postmodernity: colonialist problems, repressive governments, economic crisis, social inequality and concurrent periods of economic wealth, development and regional progress.
After two years of residence in the Guggenheim curator Pablo León de la Barra (Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator of Latin America), organized this exhibition in collaboration with the team of South London Gallery. Under the Same Sun debuted at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in June 2014 and subsequently presented in the Jumex Museum (new museum of contemporary art in Mexico City), from November 2015 to February 2016. This will be the first time that the exhibition can be seen outside of America.
As part of a long term collaboration with UBS, the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative (MAP) will add more than 125 new works from over 85 artists to the Guggenheim's collection. All this, under the auspices of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Purchase Fund, signalling an unprecedented level of growth and diversity for the museum. The MAP initiative launched in 2012 is an important cornerstone between the Guggenheim initiatives as it seeks to work with artists, scholars and curators from around the world in order to promote the intersection of regional and global stories, as well as modern and contemporary practices.
Featured Mexican artists include:
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Carlos Amorales
Carlos Amorales was born in Mexico City in 1970. He studied at Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, after attending Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Holland (1996-97). He has done residencies in France and the United States and currently lives and works in his hometown.
Amorales 's work is defined by his interest in language and the problems that this entails. He focuses on the possibility or impossibility of communication determined by shapes, sounds, codes or symbols that are difficult to recognize or decode. The work of this artist has an anarchic quality, meaning to create his own content and production rules.
Among his most important exhibitions are included: We Will See How Everything Reverberates, Turner Comteporary, Kent, United Kingdom (2015); Germinal, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico (2013); Supprimer, modifier et préserver, Mac/Val, Vitry-sur-seine, Francia (2011); Discarded Spider, Cornerhouse, Manchester, United Kingdom (2010); Working Class Today… Mañana Nuevos Ricos!, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany (2009); Faces, The Moore Space, Miami, United States (2007). His work has been part of biennials such as the 2nd y 8th Berlin Biennial, Berlín, Germany (2001 y 2014); Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (2013); and the 10th Bienal de La Habana, La Habana, Cuba (2009).
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Mariana Castillo Deball
Mariana Castillo Deball was born in 1975 in Mexico City. She earned an MA in Fine Art from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City (1997), and later pursued postgraduate studies at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, The Netherlands (2003).
Castillo 's artistic work is defined for creating installations, sculptures, photographs and drawings, with which she explores the role of objects in our understanding of identity and history. Her interest in mathematics laws and geometric structures has been captured in pieces that bring together scientiphic and natural elements simultaneously.
Among her most important exhibitions are included: Mariana Castillo Deball, Kunsthalle Lissabon, en Lisbon, Portugal (2014); Mariana Castillo Deball, Parergon, Hamburger Bahhof, Berlin, Germany (2014); What we caught we threw away, what we didn’t catch we kept, CCA Glasgow, Scotland (2013); Unconfortable Objetcs, Zurich Art Prize, Museum Haus Knstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland (2012). She has participated in different biennials as: the 8th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany (2014); the 54th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (2011); and the 2th Athens Biennale, Athens, Greece (2009).
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Damián Ortega
Damián Ortega was born in Mexico City in 1967. He began his career as a political cartoonist and soon joined the workshop Taller de los Viernes from 1987 to 1992. The humor that accompanied this initial process remains in his actual work. Frecuently he uses humor as a resource to transform objects and common processes, which he links to economic and cultural situations. Ortega relocates and transfroms them into new experiences.
Damián Ortega's work begins in drawing, but takes shape and body in sculptures, installations, videos, photographs and performances. The game with the scale and physic notions appear as a constant in his artistic work -sometimes he begins with the idea, others, with the notion of cosmic magnificence.
He lives and works simultaneously in Mexico City and Berlin. Among his most recent exhibitions are included: El cohete y el abismo, Palacio de Cristal, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain (2016); Damián Ortega, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom (2016); Casino, Moderna Museet Malmö, Malmö, Sweden (2016); Ape Culture, Hus der Kulturen del Welt, Berlin, Germany (2015). He has participated in different biennials as: the 12th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (2015); the 55th and 50th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (2003 y 2013); and the 10th Bienal de La Habana, La Habana, Cuba (2012).
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Minerva Cuevas
Minerva Cuevas is a Mexican conceptual artist born in Mexico City in 1975. She studied a BA in Visual Arts at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City (1993-1997). Cuevas is known for carrying out projects closely related to research and social activism through multidisciplinary practices -social intervention in different areas and spaces define much of her work.
Her projects include installation, video, photography, graphic design, painting and performance, with which she raises the question of the relationship between artist, society and environment. Cuevas seeks to formulate a critique around economic, social and environmental consequences caused by capitalism.
Among her most important exhibitions are included: Minerva Cuevas, Museo de la Ciudad de México, Mexico City, Mexico (2012); Landings, Cornerhouse, Gallery 1, Manchester, United Kingdom (2011); S.COOP, Whitechapel Gallery, London, United Kingdom (2010); Minerva Cuevas, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (2008); Phenomena, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (2007); On Society, MC Kunst, Los Ángeles, United States (2007). She has participated in different biennials as: the Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, United Kingdom (2010); the 6th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany (2010); and the 9th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France (2007).
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Gabriel Orozco
Gabriel Orozco was born in Veracruz (Mexico) in 1962. He studied Fine Arts at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City (1981 to 1984), and at the Circulo de Bellas Artes de Madrid (1987 to 1986). Orozco started to have international recognition in the artistic scene in the early 1990s with his exploration through various practices such as drawing, photography, sculpture and installation. Between 1987 and 1992 he directed the workshop Taller de los Viernes, which became a space for artistic creation and production, with the participation of Abraham Cruzvillegas, Gabriel Kuri, Damian Ortega and Dr. Lakra.
Orozco's work brings together multiple themes and techniques that are constantly repeated throughout his work. With various conceptual references and referring to the ready-mades of Marcel Duchamp, Orozco incorporates common and everyday life objects to generate different creative assosiations with them. Thus, the artist seeks to promote the public's imagination when facing materials in diverse encounters and daily routines.
Among his most recent exhibitions are included: Gabriel Orozco – Inner Circles, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo MOT, Tokyo, Japan (2015); Natural Motion, Hunstahaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria (2013); Thinking in Circles, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (2013). His most important solo exhibitions have taken place in museums such as: Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico (2007); Palacio de Cristal, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain (2005); and Serpentine Gallery, London, United Kingdom (2004).
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Mario García Torres
Mario Garcia Torres was born in Mexico City in 1975. He is an artist with great international presence experimenting with different artistic and communication practices: photography, film, sound, performance and printed materials are some of the resources he works with. García Torres is conceived as a conceptual artist who performs his work on the history of conceptual art itself. He retrieves the work already done by others, he explores and relocates it, bringing the ideas and discurses to the present.
His work has been exhibited in the 52th Biennale di Venezia, Venice; Italy (2007); the 8th Bienal de Arte de Panamá, Panama, Panama (2008); and the Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan (2008). García Torres has colaborated with institutions such as: Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain (2010); Barbican Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom (2008); Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria (2008); Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (2004, 2005 y 2007); Jeu de Paume, Paris, France (2009); Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom (2007); and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2007).
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Curatorship:
Pablo Leon de la Barra
Pablo Leon de la Barra was born in 1972 in Mexico City. He is an exhibition maker, independent curator, researcher, editor and blogger, and holds a PhD in History and Theories from the Architectural Association in London. He is currently the Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator for Latin America at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Leon de la Barra also has participated as an editor, researcher and writer of his own personal blog, “Centre for the Aesthetic Revolution”, and photo-essays named “Dispatches”.
He as curated and co-curated multiple exhibitions over the las few years at institutions like David Roberts Art Foundation and the Architecture Foundation, London; Centre de Art Contemporaine, Genève and Kunsthalle Zürich; Apexart and Art in General, In New York; Casa Luis Barragán, Casa del Lago y Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; Museo La Ene, Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Museu Carmen Miranda, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
He has also participated in conferences and symposiums at Serpetine Gallery Marathon, London (2008, 2010 y 2011); Cisneros Seminar, Caracas, (2012); Temas Centrales, Teorética, Costa Rica (2012); and Rethinking Latin American Art Symposium, MOLA/LA, MALI/Lima (2011).
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