LACAP Presents: 2011 LATIN AMERICAN SPEAKERS SERIES
The Latin American Speakers Series aims to contextualize Latin American art within Canada as well as enrich an understanding of Latin American art from both the continent and the Diaspora. Through lectures, audio-visual presentations and discussions, the series serves as an opportunity for cultural exchange. This year we bring together a diverse range of artists and local contributors who will reflect on a broad range of aesthetics and perspectives. Internationally renowned Alfredo Jaar, Tania Bruguera and Humberto Vélez share and discuss various projects where they explore the power of intervention on both public and private spaces while alluding to the possibilities of art as a source and inspiration for social change.
The Latin American Speakers Series is curated by Tamara Toledo and presented by Latin American Canadian Art Projects (LACAP).
ALFREDO JAAR
Thursday, January 20, 2011
7:30PM
Prefix ICA
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 124
*Limited Seating Please Arrive Early
ALFREDO JAAR: “It is Difficult”
Moderated by Rafael Goldchain
The internationally renowned artist speaks about the challenges of creating memorials to the victims of state terrorism, with specific reference to his recent commission for the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in his native Chile. Moderated by photographer Rafael Goldchain.
Alfredo Jaar is a Chilean born artist, architect, and filmmaker who lives and works in New York. His work has been shown extensively around the world. He has participated in the Biennales of Venice (1986, 2007), São Paulo (1987, 1989, 2010), Sydney (1990), Istanbul (1995), Kwangju (1995, 2000), Johannesburg (1997), and Moscow (2009), as well as Documenta (1987, 2002). He recently completed two important public commissions: The Park of the Laments for the Indianapolis Museum of Art and The Geometry of Conscience, located next to the new Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago de Chile. He is also completing a third memorial in Kigali, Rwanda in memory of the victims of the 1994 genocide.
Important recent individual exhibitions include Hangar Bicocca and Spazio Oberdan, Milan (2008), Musée des Beaux Arts, Lausanne (2007), Fundación Telefónica, Santiago (2006), MACRO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome (2005), Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1994), The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (1992), Whitechapel, London (1992), and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1992). He is preparing a multi-venue retrospective in Berlin for 2012, including the Neue Nationalgalerie and NGBK. Jaar has created more than fifty public interventions around the world. More than fifty monographic publications have been published about his work. These include It Is Difficult (2008), the exhibition catalogue for his retrospective in Milan, featuring essays by Gabi Scardi, Paolo Fabbri, Paul Gilroy, Bartolomeo Pietromarchi and Nicole Schweizer; La Politique des Images (2006), with essays by Griselda Pollock, Jacques Rancière, Nicole Schweizer and Georges Didi-Huberman; The Fire This Time (2005), with essays by Mary Jane Jacob and Nancy Princenthal; and Let There Be Light: The Rwanda Project 1994-1998 (1998), with essays by Vicenç Altaió, David Levi Strauss and Ben Okri. Alfredo Jaar received a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur “genius” grant (2000), and a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1985). In 2006 he received Spain’s Premio Extremadura a la Creación.
Rafael Goldchain is a photo media artist, professor and program coordinator of the Applied Photography Program at Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Oakville. His photographs have been exhibited in Canada, Chile, the US, Cuba, Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic and Mexico, and are featured in many private and public collections including the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego.
Presented by LACAP and Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art
About the Curator:
Tamara Toledo is a Toronto-based visual artist and curator. Toledo is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design and holds an MFA from York University. Toledo is co-founder of the Allende Arts Festival, Executive Director of the Latin American Art Projects and Public Programs Manager at Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art. She is recipient of several grants and awards and has contributed her research at various academic conferences. Toledo’s essays on Latin American art have been published in ARM Journal, C Magazine and Fuse Magazine.
Admission
$10
$5 LACAP Members
For more information:
lacap@bellnet.ca
416-656-5687
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