EL ANVERSO DE LAS NUBES (The Obverse of Clouds)

Lima: The Enlace Arte Contemporaneo Art Gallery has just opened a two-person exhibit by artists Nani Cardenas (Peru) and Kyle Huffman (U.S.) entitled El anverso de las nubes (The Obverse of Clouds), curated by Jose Luis Falconi.

NANI CARDENAS (Lima, 1969) studied Drawing and Sculpturing at the workshop owned by Cristina Galvez (1986­1987) and the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. In that same year, she grabbed the Prize for the Best Sculpture granted by Banco de Credito del Peru and became the best graduate of her class. She’s taught Drawing and Sculpturing at the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (1997­1998) and at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (1994­2001). Some of her individual exhibits include Piel dura, Forum Gallery (2001); Línea tejida I y II, PUNCTUM Gallery (2004 y 2005); Redes, Forum Gallery (2004); En tránsito, Beaskoa Gallery, Barcelona (2006); Cromoterapia, Maria Reiche Gallery of the Peruvian embassy in Berlin (2008); Picnic, Messe Düsseldorf, Wire (2010), among others.

KYLE HUFFMAN (USA, 1948) graduated from the University of New Mexico with a degree in Sculpturing and Latin American Studies. He went on his college education in Bogota (Colombia) where he learned to knit and make domestic objects in a cloth factory. Between 1994 and 1997, he studied at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago (EE.UU.). His most outstanding individual exhibits includeThe Art of teachers, Marwen Foundation, Chicago, U.S. (2000); The body as poetic space, College of Americas Gallery, Chicago, U.S.. (2002); La vida de la tela, Centro de Arte de la Casona de los Olivera del Parque Avellaneda, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2002); Structure and Surface, Grimshaw-Gudewics Gallery, Bristol Community College, U.S. (2005); Hunting and Gathering, David Rockefeller Latin American Studies Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, U.S. (2008); Social affects, The Mills Gallery, Boston, U.S. (2010), among others.

On this exhibit this is what curator Jose Luis Falconi had to say: “This is, above all, a dialogue between two artists based on their own explorations of material’s inherent possibilities, the materials they have used to make their works. Both Huffman and Cardenas, it’s in this primary relationship with materials where sculptures begin, where matter turns into a concept by acquiring its own shape, density and texture. If there’s something that binds together the pieces presented in “The Obverse of the Clouds” is, above all, the registry of intimate relation between the artist and the material, the nonstop exploration of all of its covert potentials.”

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