State of the Art: Your Weekly Guide to NYC's Latino Art
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State of The Art is Remezcla’s weekly guide to Latin art openings in your city each week. Mingle with art admirers, collectors and casual passersby to check out these new works. And don’t forget to grab a free glass of wine…or three.
The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College or more well known as ‘Centro’ is hosting an exhibit titled nu-YO-rican in celebration of the center’s 40th anniversary. Five artists in the show are Diogenes Ballester, Marcos Dimas, Sofia Maldonado, Rodriguez Calero, and Adrian “Viajero” Roman, who recently created a mural on 111st and 3rd avenue for Los Muros Hablan. The artists will be showing work that expresses their Puerto Rican identity, the pervasive culture, its relation to New York and the long history of artists involvement with their community. The show is currently on view and will be until October 31st.
In a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the military coup that took place in Chile on September 11, 1973, Taller Latino is hosting Chile Vive!, an exhibit of historical posters. The show includes 18 rare, iconic posters from the Popular Unity Government that have become symbols for social justice in Latin America. Tonight, Monday September 23rd, is the opening reception from 6 to 8pm which will include an artist’s reception. The show will be on view until November 2.
Taller Latino Grady Alexis Gallery 2710 Broadway, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10025
Dionisio González: Halong Series
Spanish artist and lecturer at the Universidad de Sevilla Dionisio González opened his second show at Galerie Richard titled ‘Halong Series.’ In this show Gonzalez tries his hand at urban development by digitally altering photographs of the Vietnamese islands in Halong Bay transforming them into a type of modern livable landscape of boathouses where Vietnamese residential spaces become part of the terrain. This Vietnamese area is known for the foreign tourism it attracts and the marine slums that occupy the peripheries. The works are an architectural reimagination of an area that has historically succumbed to the negative pressures of tourism. You can see Gonzalez’ work until October 12, 2013 at Galerie Richard.