“Spatial Acts” Exhibition

Americas Society

poster for “Spatial Acts” Exhibition

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Americas Society is pleased to present Spatial Acts, a condensed selection of works by Esvin Alarcón Lam (b.1988, Guatemala), Elena Damiani (b.1979, Peru), Marcius Galan (b. 1972, U.S. and Brazil), and Jorge Pedro Núñez (b.1976, Venezuela), the four outstanding finalists in the process of commissioning an original piece for the David Rockefeller Atrium.

The art commission is the final stage of an initiative to reinvigorate the lobby of Americas Society’s building on 680 Park Avenue in New York. The new space pays tribute to the founder and honorary chairman of Americas Society and Council of the Americas.

In the spring of 2014, Americas Society embarked on a multilayered search to invite an emerging artist who would conceive and eventually make a permanent artwork for the institution’s recently renovated David Rockefeller Atrium. The process began with the appointment of a prestigious group of art professionals, artists, philanthropists, and Americas Society members who participated in the nomination and selection of candidates. Seventeen talented artists from throughout the hemisphere presented their portfolios and preliminary ideas for the site-specific artwork. The selection committee evaluated the submissions and chose four exceptional finalists based on criteria such as site-suitability, aesthetics, and alignment with the organization’s mission and trajectory.

The commissioned piece will be adjacent to the entrance of the Americas Society’s gallery, whose fifty- year-old history includes significant exhibitions and performances in New York of artists such as Geraldo de Barros, Melvin Charney, Eduardo Costa, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Juan Downey, Fernell Franco, Gego, Arturo Herrera, Graciela Iturbide, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Marc Latamie, Marta Minujín, Lygia Pape, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Michael Snow, among many others. The selected project will be announced in the fall of 2014, serving as a testament to the long-standing tradition of the Visual Arts program and its commitment to fostering creativity.

The artworks selected for this exhibition not only reflect the aesthetic interests of the finalists but also suggest particular quests in dealing with spatial-temporal problems related to major shifts that have occurred in the visual arts following the emergence of site-specific practices. They further reflect the preeminence of new techniques of production, reproduction, and communication that not only affect art-making, but modify the very definitions of context and geography.

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from October 07, 2014 to December 13, 2014

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