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El Instituto Cervantes presenta el fotoperiodista español Jordi Socias mientras que el escultor venezolano Rafaél Barrios estará en la Park Avenue. Alexander Arrechea se presenta en la Magnan Metz de Chelsea y Sorolla termina en el Reina Sofía. El influyente artista venezolano Jesús Soto y el mexicano Diego Rivera continúan y se añaden, la Bienal del Whitney y la esperada muestra de Cindy Sherman en el Moma. El Museo del Barrio continúa con Testimonios y Gran Caribe. Y hay más:

Autor/es: (c) Jordi Socías

* Rafael Barrios on Park Avenue. Nine monumental sculptures by this Venezuelan artist >> March 1 - June 30.

Rafael Barrios, Rendering of Acrobática at 53rd Street, courtesy of the artist.

From 51st Street to 67th Street, Park Avenue Malls, Manhattan. Artist Alexander Arrechea will be also on display during springtime.

Vasily Kandinsky, Decisive Rose (Entscheidendes Rosa), March 1932 (detail). Oil on canvas, 81 x 100 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection 49.1178

The school’s curriculum was based on the principle that the crafts were equal to the traditional arts and was organized according to a medieval-style guild system of training under the tutelage of masters. Kandinsky conducted the Wall Painting Workshop and Preliminary Course and taught at all three of the school’s sequential locations in Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin until 1933, when the Bauhaus was closed due to pressure from the National Socialist (Nazi) government.

 * Also at the Guggenheim: John Chamberlain: Choices and Francesca Woodman.

Francesca Woodman, Polka Dots, Providence, Rhode Island, 1976. Gelatin silver print, 13.3 x 13.3 cm. Courtesy George and Betty Woodman. © 2012 George and Betty Woodman

* Whitney Biennial 2012 >  March 1–May 27 > Sculpture, painting, installations, and photography—as well as dance, theater, music, and film > Whitney Museum.

* Cindy Sherman > The exhibition will explore dominant themes throughout Sherman’s career, including artifice and fiction; cinema and performance; horror and the grotesque; myth, carnival, and fairy tale; and gender and class identity. 

Cindy Sherman. Untitled #466. 2008. Chromogenic color print, 8′ 6″ x 70″ (259.1 x 177.8 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the generosity of Robert B. Menschel in honor of Jerry I. Speyer. © 2012 Cindy Sherman

Also included are Sherman’s recent photographic murals (2010), which will have their American premiere at MoMA. February 26–June 1 > MoMa.

* Supports / ALUMINIUMS > David Rodríguez Caballero > Ends March 24 > Marlborough Chelsea > SUPPORTS.

Image: David Rodríguez Caballero. 12. enero. 2010 | Aluminio | 117x440x90 cm

The exhibit spotlights new artworks in aluminum and vynil of this Spanish artist. David Rodríguez Caballero (whose work is framed within the Geometric Abstraction) has lately achieved great success in the international fairs Armory Show and Art Basel Miami. In parallel to the Chelsea show, The Würth Museum in Spain is celebrating his most comprenhensive exhibition until today. Supports explores the essence and performance of the mentioned materials and how light interacts with them. Marlborough Chelsea will provide the chance to see (in a  privileged environment) the most recent artworks of this solid artist. 

In the Doldrums 2010-11, C-Print on Fujicolor Crystal Archival Paper, 48 x 60 inches, edition of 6

Martin & Muñoz are an art team best known for their "Travelers" series of snow globes and photographs. In the world that they have developed, blizzard transformed landscapes often serve as backdrops for enigmatic narratives.

* Soto: Paris and Beyond. 1950 – 1970  > Enero 10 - Marzo 31 >> Grey Art Gallery, NYU >> SOTO.

Jesús Soto at solo exhibition, Galerie Edouard Loeb, Paris, 1962 (detail). Photograph by Carlos Cruz-Diez Images © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Joaquín Sorolla. FLAMENCO DANCER, 1914. Cortesía Museo Sorolla, Madrid

A seminal exhibition analyzing the rich history of Spain’s regional clothing styles through the monumental paintings of Valencian artist Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863–1923). For the first time, Sorolla’s vivid depictions of Spanish life will be shown side by side with the types of costumes they portray.

* TESTIMONIOS: 100 Years of Popular Expression > Hasta Mayo 6 > Testimonios examines potent works by non-traditionally trained makers. > El Museo del Barrio.

Ejlat Feuer, Street Scene (detail), color photograph, 1990s Collection El Museo del Barrio, NY

* VOCES Y VISIONES: Gran Caribe > Hasta Diciembre 9 >  El Museo Del Barrio.

Francisco Oller y Cestero (Puerto Rican, 1833-1917) Platanos Amarillos (detail), ca. 1892-93 Oil on wood panel Gift of Joseph and Carmen Ana Unanue 2009.32

This exhibition features works that explore the vast diversity and complexity of the Caribbean basin, as an accompaniment to El Museo’s upcoming exhibition, Caribbean: Crossroads of the World, presented in collaboration with Studio Museum in Harlem and Queens Museum of Art.



* Abstract Universe > Carol Brown Goldberg > Hasta Mayo 8 > The Gabarron Foundation - Carriage House Center for the Arts> ABSTRACT.

Photo credit: Carol Brown Goldberg, "After Valladolid", 2009. Detail

"Abstract Universe" is an exhibition of large-scale pulverized glass and acrylic paintings by Carol Brown Goldberg. The exhibition is curated by Donald Kuspit, distinguished scholar and art critic, who describes this selection of Goldberg's work as "Baroque Color Field painting" that has been inspired by the artist's reflection on the Creation. The artist states that "In my art, I create a system, a layering, that allows me to get into a flow of timelessness, and the repetition of shapes and forms compound the meditative process. I am in awe at the alchemy of paint, and how fluid can be harnessed to create images that transport us into a realm of mystery." 

* Alexander Arrechea >> TWISTED HORIZON >> Marzo 1 - Abril 7 >> Magnan Metz Gallery. 

* Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art > Hasta Mayo 14 >> MOMA.

Diego Rivera. Indian Warrior. 1931. Fresco on reinforced cement in a metal framework, 41 x 52 ½” (104.14 x 133.35 cm). Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts. Purchased with the Winthrop Hillyer Fund SC 1934:8-1. © 2011 Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, México, D.F./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

In December 1931, two years after its founding, The Museum of Modern Art inaugurated a major exhibition of work by the Mexican artist Diego Rivera. Only the second retrospective presented at the young Museum, the show was wildly popular, breaking attendance records in its five-week run. Rivera’s international celebrity was based on his fame as a muralist, but murals—by definition made and fixed on site—were impossible to transport. To solve this problem, MoMA brought the artist to New York from Mexico six weeks before the opening and provided him with makeshift studio space in an empty gallery. Working around the clock with three assistants, Rivera produced five “portable murals”—freestanding frescoes with bold images commemorating events in Mexican history. After the opening, to great publicity, Rivera added three more murals, now taking on New York subjects through monumental images of the urban working class and the social stratification of the city during the Great Depression. All eight were on display for the rest of the show’s run.

* Félix Candela 1910 - 2010 > Hasta Marzo 31 > Wallach Art Gallery Columbia University > CANDELA.

Félix Candela is regarded as one the greatest Spanish architects of the 20th century. He is celebrated for his feats of architectural engineering that transform concrete into visual poetry with his structural design based on hyperbolic paraboloid geometric form. His work with thin-shell concrete roof structures broke barriers between architecture and engineering that opened the way for other architects such as Santiago Calatrava.

His works are located in Mexico, the United Status, Spain, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Great Britain and Norway. His commitment to making economic, long-lasting, beautiful works made him the precursor of sustainable architecture. 

* "Think Green","Pensar en verde" de Mónica Sarmiento Castillo > Art Inspired by Nature > Great Neck Arts Center > Hasta Mayo 31 > GREEN.

Image: Mónica Sarmiento, 3 Palmeras y circular, 2011, 40x40cm, mixta sobre madera

 Mónica Sarmiento Castillo's distinctive chromatic and constructivist structuring works are shown in prestigious exhibitions around the world. The focal point of her work is the exploration of nature in painting, sculpture, collage, drawing, and glass as viewed through the pre-Columbian Civilizations. Forests weave together the essence of creation and form the basis of her inspiration, reflecting an arboreal theme.

* FRIDA KALHO: HER PHOTOS > HASTA MARZO 25 > Artisphere > Rosslyn > Arlington, Virginia > FRIDA.