This guide provides information on contemporary artists from Latin America and links to resources such as books, websites, and videos. All artists included in this research guide are of Latin American origin or descent.
Article about Capote and sculptural review from Modern Painters.
Yoan Capote by Charmaine Picard (Edited by)Yoan Capote is a Conceptual artist who lives and works in Havana. His provocative work examines how we physically and emotionally respond to socio-political conditions around us. With characteristic wit, Capote addresses such issues as stress, hunger, fear, sexual desire and economic survival using a diverse range of solutions and techniques, from sculpture and painting, to installations, photography and video. Capote graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana and is the recipient of awards including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation award in New York.
Nicola Costantino by Carlos Kuri (Text by)Argentine artist Nicola Costantino (* 1964 in Rosario) achieves in her art what visual arts should do: her sculptures, installations, videos, and photographs catch the eye and alter perception. Because they are predominately rooted in sensation, and not just in concepts, her artworks trigger an immediate, physical reaction. Casts of animal fetuses, molds of human skin, and soaps made with the artist's own fat build up a tension between ornamentation and revulsion. Her innovation revolves around ethical values and the alienation from nature. Even sexuality is turned into compulsion, flesh, and transmuted bodies, turning everything into an oppressive eroticism. This monograph gives an insight of her works from the past twenty years, complemented by an in-depth conversation with Nicola.
Iran Do Espiríto Santo by Lilian Tone; Enrique Juncosa; Nicholas BaumeOne of Brazil's most intriguing contemporary artists, Espírito Santo is best known for his sensuously minimalist work that deals with issues of place, structure, material, design and surface with a rigorous conceptual sensibility. His work undertakes a subtle subversion of Minimalism through abstracted everyday items. Espírito Santo is concerned with the tactile attributes of his chosen materials and with the sensuous contours of simple abstract forms in space. Working in stainless steel, glass, copper, stone or paint on plaster, he employs subtle illusionistic devices, instigating a play of depth that remains consistent from piece to piece. Espírito Santo has received international acclaim in the past two decades. His works have been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide; and are included in the collections of many prominent international museums, such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. His works have been included in the Venice Biennale, the Bienal de São Paulo, and the Istanbul Biennal. Iran do Espírito Santo lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.
Sonia Gomes by Sónia Gomes (Artist); Isabel Diegues (Edited by); Solange Farkas (Text by); Richard Sardenberg (Text by); Paulo Nazareth (Text by)This first monograph on the extraordinary Afro-Brazilian sculptor Sonia Gomes (born 1948) brings together around 100 images of her works. The book traces the path of this artist who, by transforming found and donated materials such as fabric and wire by twisting, tying and sewing, creates sculptures that describe her history as an artist of African descent. Born in Caetan polis, a town with an important textile industry, Gomes grew up in the midst of textile factories and the strong presence of her grandmother--a black woman, a healer and a midwife, who taught her everything about the basics of sewing. The book includes essays by curators Ricardo Sardenberg and Solange Farkas, as well as a textual work by artist Paulo Nazareth made especially for this volume.