Pablo León de la Barra’s "Under the Same Sun: Today’s Latin American Art" for Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative

New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is set to showcase, June 13 – October 1, "Under the Same Sun: Today’s Latin American Art (Bajo el mismo sol: Arte de Latinoamérica hoy)", an exhibition curated by Mexican Pablo León de la Barra, curator of Guggenheim UBS MAP project for Latin America, which represents the second stage of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative. De la Barra has chosen nearly 50 works by 37 artists and collaborative duos from 16 countries: 4 from Argentina, 1 from Bolivia, 5 from Brazil, 3 from Chile, 4 from Colombia, 1 from Costa Rica, 3 from Cuba, 1 from Ecuador, 1 from Guatemala, 5 from Mexico, 1 from Peru, 1 from Puerto Rico, 2 from Uruguay and 2 from Venezuela.

After its presentation in New York this comprehensive show is going to visit two venues –to be determined -. The artworks included in the display, along with other pieces that were acquired as part of the initiative -installations, mixed-technique works, paintings, pictures, sculptures, videos and paper work-, are going to join the permanent collection of Guggenheim Museum, sponsored by Guggenheim UBS MAP Acquisition Fund.

This show, the second of three exhibitions organized by Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, "examines the diversity of creative responses to complex shared realities –within the Latin American region –, which have been influenced by the history of colonial and modern ages, oppressor governments, economic crisis and social inequity, as well as periods of regional wealth, development and economic progress". Furthermore, 'Under the Same Sun: Today’s Latin American Art' puts on the table artistic responses to the past and present, underlying within these contexts and exploring the possibility to build alternative futures", according to the press release.

Full list of the 37 participating artists: Adriano Costa (São Paulo, Brazil, 1975), Alfredo Jaar (Santiago, Chile, 1956 - lives in New York), Alejandro Cesarco (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1975 - lives in New York), Alexander Apóstol (Barquisimeto, Venezuela, 1969 - lives both in Madrid and Caracas), Amalia Pica (Neuquén, Argentina, 1978 - lives in London), Armando Andrade Tudela (Lima, Peru, 1975, lives both in Berlin and Saint-Étienne, France), Beatriz Santiago Muñoz (San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1972), Carlos Amorales (Mexico City, Mexico, 1970), Carlos Motta (Bogota, Colombia, 1978 - lives in New York), Carla Zaccagnini (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1973 - lives in São Paulo), Claudia Joskowicz (Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 1968 - lives both in New York and Santa Cruz), David Lamelas (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1946 - lives both in Los Angeles and Buenos Aires), Dominique González-Foerster (Strasburg, France, 1965 - lives both in Paris and Rio de Janeiro), Donna Conlon (Atlanta, USA, 1966) and Jonathan Harker (Quito, Ecuador, 1975), Erika Verzutti (São Paulo, Brazil, 1971), Federico Herrero (San Jose, Costa Rica, 1978), Gabriel Orozco (Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, 1962 - lives both in Mexico City, New York and Paris), Gabriel Sierra (San Juan Nepomuceno, Colombia, 1975 - lives in Bogota), Gilda Mantilla (Los Angeles, USA, 1967) and Raimond Chaves (Bogota, Colombia, 1963), Iván Navarro (Santiago, Chile, 1972 - lives in New York), Javier Téllez (Valencia, Venezuela, 1969 - lives in New York), Jennifer Allora (Philadelphia, USA, 1974) and Guillermo Calzadilla (Havana, Cuba, 1971), Jonathas de Andrade (Maceió, Brazil, 1982 - lives in Recife, Brazil), Juan Downey (Santiago, Chile, 1940 - New York, USA, 1993), Luis Camnitzer (Lübeck, Germany, 1937 – Uruguayan artist that lives in New York), Mariana Castillo Deball (Mexico City, Mexico, 1975 - lives both in Berlin and Amsterdam), Marta Minujín (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1943), Minerva Cuevas (Mexico City, Mexico, 1975), Mario García Torres (Monclova, Mexico, 1975 - lives in Mexico City), Paul Ramírez Jonas (Pomona, California, USA, 1965 - lives in New York), Regina José Galindo (Guatemala City; Guatemala, 1974 - lives in Antigua, Guatemala), Rivane Neuenschwander (Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1967), Runo Lagomarsino (Malmö, Sweden, 1977 - lives in São Paulo), Tamar Guimarães (Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1967 - lives in Copenhague), Tania Bruguera (Havana, Cuba, 1968 - lives both in Chicago and Havana), Wilfredo Prieto (Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, 1978 - lives in Barcelona) and Wilson Díaz (Pitalito, Colombia, 1963 - lives in Cali).

Source: ARTEINFORMADO