Trends: Latin American Contemporary Art at ArteAmricas 2009‏

Trends: Latin American Contemporary Art at ArteAméricas 2009
Curated by Curator Milagros Bello. Booth # 809
From March 27th through 30th, 2009


Dates: From March 27th through 30th, 2009
Location: Miami Beach Convention Center. 1901 Convention Center Drive. Miami Beach, FL 33139
Booth # 809
Regular Hours: Friday, March 27th, 12:00 noon - 9:00 p.m.; Saturday, March 28th, 12:00 noon - 9:00 p.m.; Sunday, March 29th,2012:00 noon - 7:00 p.m. and Monday, March 30th, 12:00 noon - 5:00 p.m.
Admission: $ 12
Trends: Latin American Contemporary Art curated by Milagros Bello has been presented at the Merrill Lynch ArteAméricas art fair since its first edition. This year Merril Lynch ArteAméricas will take place from March 27th through 30th, 2009 at the Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami.
Trends 2009 will present more that fifteen Contemporary Latin American Contemporary artists. A talented group composed by a mix of y oung and emergent voices as well as mid-career creators who have transformed the Latin American art scene. They focus on cultural politics and hot issues of contemporary times. Through drawings, paintings, objects, installations, digital photographs, videos and performances, they propose politically charged works with a new visual vocabulary away from traditional practices and fossilized academicism. They propose new icons, new subjectivities and personal mythologies that reflect their concern on societal and cultural ordeals nowadays.
Trends’ works juxtapose multiple narratives and intercrosses ideological standpoints, crystallizing and mirroring world critical issues. It incorporates ephemeral elements, memorabilia, discarded objects, imposing new methods and techniques that dislocates traditional exposure, and forces the public to perceive the art from new angles of vision.
Contemporary Latin American Art is no longer a peripheral art enclosed in a territorial microcosm, restrained to tight borders or simple geographies. Contemporary Latin American art reveals itself concisely strong and vividly rooted in the global hemisphere competing in the world art arena.
Participating artists show their determination to set new ways of expression. They are Aisen Chacin, Alvaro Garcia-Ordonez, Barbara Barreiro, Belaxis Buil, Carlos Tirado, Ena Marrero, Evelyn Valdirio, Grimanesa Amoros, Liliam Dominguez, Mariano Costa Peuser, Nestor Arenas, Pablo Contrisciani, Pacaso Frank Chinea, Patricia Gil, Rosario Bond, Ruben Ubiera and Sergio Garcia. Video artists: Andres Michelena, Flavio Cury, Gabriela Morawetz, Marco Montiel Soto, Matilde Marin, Richard Garet, among others.
Curator's Voice Art Projects
Milagros Bello