2017 Latin American Speakers Series // Latin American-Canadian Art Projects

Curatorial Projects

The Latin American Speakers Series seeks to articulate and discuss issues of identity and intercultural dynamics in contemporary Latin American art that have evolved in the globalized art scene. Themes and questions of representation, international artistic-cultural interaction, power and marginality have and continue to be at the forefront of each lecture.

Javier Téllez

Thursday, February 9, 2017 7:30pm
@ Prefix ICA
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 124
Toronto,

$6 LACAP members
$8 Prefix Photo subscribers, students & seniors
$12 Regular

JAVIER TELLEZ

The Venezuelan born, New York based artist speaks about his film and installation art practice, emphasizing those works that engage with social outcasts, the marginalized and the disenfranchised in order to challenge our concepts of normality and pathology. Téllez blurs the boundaries of reality, reason, and insanity, his projects build a bridge between two worlds and warns us that he seeks “not a therapeutic practice to cure the insane but rather one to cure the sane of their lucidity.”

Moderated by Gaëtane Verna, Director of the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery.

Presented in partnership with Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art.

About Javier Téllez

Javier Téllez studied at Arturo Michelena School of Fine Arts, Venezuela. The son of psychiatrists, Téllez developed a close affinity with institutionalized patients with mental illnesses. Téllez has had solo exhibitions at Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (2004); Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York (2005); Figge von Rosen Galerie, Cologne (2009); Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (2011); Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent (2013); Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland (2014); Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute (2014); REDCAT Gallery co-produced with Kadist Art Foundation, Los Angeles (2014); Museo de Arte, Universidad Nacional de Bogotá, Colombia (2016); and Koenig &Clinton, New York (2016). He has participated in group exhibitions at P. S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; Castello di Rivoli, Torino; Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany; Museum of Fine Arts Houston; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; and Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, as well as in the Yokohama Triennial (2001); Venice Biennale (2001 and 2003); Manifesta, Trento, Italy; Sydney Biennial; and Whitney Biennial, New York (all 2008); and Documenta, Kassel, Germany (2012). He has held residencies with the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York (2000); Art in General, New York (2002); Récollets, Paris (2006); Baltic Art Centre, Visby, Sweden (2007); and Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, Berlin (2010). He also participated in the P.S.1 International Studio Program (1993) and Whitney Independent Study Program (1997, both in New York), and Gasworks Studio Program, London (1999). Téllez received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1999. He currently lives and works in New York.

LACAP acknowledges the financial support of the Ontario Trillium Foundation and the Ontario Arts Council. LACAP also gratefully acknowledges its corporate sponsors: Underline Studio, See Through Web, Techmien and Steam Whistle Brewery.

LOOKING AT THE GLOBAL FROM A BORDERLINE: Marcos Ramírez ERRE

Thursday, January 19, 2017 7:30pm
Sur Gallery
39 Queens Quay East Suite 100
Toronto, M5E0A5
$10/$5 LACAP members

MARCOS RAMIREZ ERRE

Tijuana-based, internationally renowned artist, known as "ERRE" (from the Spanish pronunciation of the first letter of his surname), is considered one of the preeminent artists in the region, and the senior figure in the Tijuana artist community. He creates large-scale public installations informed by a political and social consciousness and is a longtime explicator and arbiter of the cross-border dialogue.

ERRE will discuss a range of his sculpture and installation works with a focus on questions of the border and the global. Over the past twenty years, his artistic practice has focused on relevant topics of today’s political climate: war, culture, and borders.

About Marcos Ramírez ERRE

Marcos Ramirez ERRE was born in Tijuana, Baja California Mexico. He earned a law degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. In 1983 he immigrated to the United States where he worked for 17 years in the construction industry. In 1989 (while still working in the construction sector) Marcos became active in the field of contemporary art. Since then he has participated in residencies, lectures and different individual and collective exhibitions in countries like Mexico, USA, Canada, Sweden, Poland, Germany, Russia China, France, Spain, Portugal, Cuba, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Chile, Argentina, and Brazil. ERRE has participated in mayor exhibitions such as: InSite 1994; InSite 1997; the VI and VII Havana Biennials; the Whitney Biennial 2000; InSite 2014; Moscow Biennial 2007; the San Juan Poly/Graphic Triennial; the 2007 Sao Paulo /Valencia Biennial; the 2008 California Biennial; the Zero One Biennial; “Politica de la Diferencia, Arte Iberoamericano de fin de siglo”; Human/Nature; ECO Contemporary Mexican Art at the Centro Reina Sofia Museum in Spain; Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art 2004; and Border Cultures: Part One at the Art Gallery of Windsor, 2013; among many others.

LACAP acknowledges the financial support of the Ontario Trillium Foundation, the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts. LACAP also gratefully acknowledges its corporate sponsors: Underline Studio, See Through Web and Steam Whistle Brewery.