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Check out Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos’s Check out Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos’s work at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park - on until 3 January 2021. Joana Vasconcelos creates vibrant, often monumental sculpture, using fabric, needlework and crochet alongside everyday objects from saucepans to wheel hubs. She frequently uses items associated with domestic work and craft to comment from a feminist perspective on national and collective identity, cultural tradition and women’s roles in society. One of the open air works - Solitário [Solitaire] (2018) - is a seven-metre-high ring made of golden car wheel rims topped with a huge diamond crafted from crystal whisky glasses. Representing the stereotypical ambition of our society to acquire wealth and material possessions, the work unites symbols of luxury – cars, jewellery and alcohol – which bridge social classes. Sited at one of the highest points in the Park and drawing attention to one of the most wonderful views across the landscape, Solitário will entice visitors uphill and create delight in the discovery of its fabrication (Yorkshire Sculpture Park). Alfredo Jaar, Damien Hirst, Brian Fell, and Ai Weiei are also showing at YSP at the moment. Feeling inspired? Don’t forger it’s the last days to apply for VIA Arts Prize with your Ibero-American inspired work. For more information, go to viaartsprize.org #visualarts #artsandculture #portugueseaart #installation #yorkshiresculpturepark #artprize #artaward #artcompetition #opencall #callforartists #viaartsprize #emergingartists
🚨 Our open call closes this Sunday at midnight 🚨 Our open call closes this Sunday at midnight! 🚨 Artists of any nationality residing in the UK are invited to submit an original artwork specifically inspired by Ibero-American arts and culture. You can apply at zealous.co/viaartsprize2020/opportunity/VIA-Special-Edition-2020 until 27 September. For more information, please visit our website viaartsprize.org #londonartscene #londonart #iberoamerica #latinamericanart #ukartist #artistsoninstagram #artprize #artistsupportpledge #emergingartist #contemporaryart #artistsoninstagram #viaartsprize #opencall #artcompetition #callforsubmissions
Art Basel is on, and it has gone virtual. 600 wor Art Basel is on, and it has gone virtual. 600 works from 100 galleries are on display at Art Basel’s online viewing rooms until 26 September. You can find out more at artbasel.com One of our favourites this year is Brazilian artist Erika Verzutti’s “Naked”, at London-based Alison Jacques Gallery. #artbasel #contemporaryart #onlineviewingroom #alisonjacquesgallery #brazilianart #latinamericanart #art #artinspiration #viaartsprize
Julio Le Parc was #bornonthisday in 1928, in Men Julio Le Parc was #bornonthisday in 1928, in Mendoza, Argentina. Le Parc attended the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires in 1943 where he became interested in Arte Concreto-Invención and the Spaziliasmo movement. In 1958, Le Parc went to Paris on a French government scholarship and settled there working on works of art related to research into three dimensions, movement and light. A precursor of kinetic art and Op Art, founding member of G.R.A.V. (Visual Art Research Group) and recipient of the Grand Prize for Painting at the 33rd Venice Biennale in 1966, Julio Le Parc is a major figure of Latin American art history. #art #arteargentina #modernart #artinspiration #latinamericanart #artinspiration #julioleparc #viaartsprize #callforentries #callforartists
Argentinean artist Marta Minujín is still coming Argentinean artist Marta Minujín is still coming to Tate Liverpool and we cannot wait for the new dates to be announced! Minujín’s La Menesunda was set to take place this fall at @tateliverpool. Marta Minujín was born is Buenos Aires, and she emerged in the 1960s as one of the strongest voices in Latin American art. She created performances, video works and installations, often collaborating with other artists including Andy Warhol. Working with artist Rubén Santantonín (1919-69), in 1965, Minujín created La Menesunda, one of the first environments or installations in art history. Its title is local Buenos Aires slang for mayhem, and the work was inspired by the city’s vibrant street life. La Menesunda’s maze-like structure is designed to stimulate all five senses. Visitors can journey through eleven spaces including a tunnel of neon lights and rooms populated with performers. Need a manicure? Be sure to visit La Menesunda’s beauty salon complete with nail technicians. The installation at Tate Liverpool will be accompanied by a display and films documenting Minujín’s career from 1960 to the present day. This is the first solo exhibition of the artist’s work in the UK and only the third time La Menesunda has been shown since 1965 (Tate). #visualarts #latinamericanart #arteargentina #installation #tateliverpool #liverpoolartscene #contemporaryart #popart #artcompetition  #opencall #callforartists #viaartsprize #emergingartists
It’s the last week to send your work through for It’s the last week to send your work through for our open call 2020. Artists of any nationality residing in the UK are invited to submit an original artwork specifically inspired by Ibero-American arts and culture. You can apply at zealous.co/viaartsprize2020/opportunity/VIA-Special-Edition-2020 until 27 September. For more information, please visit our website viaartsprize.org #londonartscene #art #iberoamerica #latinamericanart #ukartist #artistsoninstagram #artprize #artistsupportpledge #emergingartist #contemporaryart #artistsoninstagram #viaartsprize #opencall #artcompetition #callforsubmissions
Lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic have led to Lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic have led to a devastating rise in domestic violence. Maria Adela Diaz’s latest video perfomance “We can’t breath” consists of weaving invisible masks made of rice paper, where she sewed by hand some of the insulting words someone had said to her before and to other women during the pandemic. Born in Guatemala in 1973, for nearly two decades, performance artist Maria Adela Diaz has used her body and various media to explore the complex essence and sublimity of a woman’s nature. #artinspiration #latinamericanart #performanceart #viaartsprize
Today’s #tbt goes to the second edition of our p Today’s #tbt goes to the second edition of our prize, or the first VIA as we know it today. Entitled the ‘Ibero-American Arts Award’, it marked the beginning of ACALASP’s involvement in the project. The prize attracted a diverse range of entries responding to the theme of ‘Utopias’. The jury consisted of Catherine Petitgas, José María Cano, Marko Daniel, Robert Bound and Nayia Yiakoumaki – all art experts from Tate Modern, Whitechapel Gallery, Monocle Magazine and the wider cultural world. They awarded visual artists Ting Tong Chang and Gwil Hughes with the first and second prizes respectively. #viaartsprize #artprize #artcompetition #artaward #callforartists #callforentries #opencall #ukartist #londonart #emergingartist
We are thrilled to announce artist Carmen Mariscal We are thrilled to announce artist Carmen Mariscal as the fifth member of our 2020 jury panel. Carmen Mariscal is a Mexican artist, born in Palo Alto, California. She lived in Paris for twenty years and now lives and works in London. Carmen earned her MA from the Winchester School of Art, having also studied Painting at Central Saint Martin’s College and Art History at Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City. Mariscal is currently a doctoral candidate at the Royal College of Art. Carmen Mariscal has shown her work in solo and group exhibitions in the USA, Mexico, France, Spain, The Netherlands, Germany, Russia, Malaysia and other countries in public spaces and private art galleries. Memory, fragility and confinement are recurring themes in her work. These themes are expressed in installations, photography, video, sculpture and theatre set designs. Carmen Mariscal’s work has been selected for the 4th Monterrey Biennale, the 18th National Contest for Young Artists, the 4th National Installation Contest where she received the First Prize in Mexico and the Art Tech Media Contest at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. She won the First Prize for the International Children’s Art Contest organised by The United Nations. Mariscal is also the author of the book ‘Nicolás Mariscal, the architect as an art theorist’. She was the Visual Arts Professor at the Paris Campus for Trinity College University, Connecticut, USA. Mariscal is the creator of the Installation El pueblo creador for the Mexican Pavilion, Expo Hannover 2000. Carmen Mariscal’s monumental installation Chez Nous was shown at the Place du Palais-Royal earlier this year. Photo by Antonio Nodar. #visualarts #artsandculture #latinamericanart #mexicanart #installation #jurymember #artprize #artaward #artcompetition  #opencall #callforartists #viaartsprize #emergingartists
Today we celebrate Latin America 🎊 In 1989, th Today we celebrate Latin America 🎊 In 1989, the Southbank Centre celebrated Latin American culture with a season of classical and popular music, literature programmes, craft exhibitions and a pioneer exhibition covering 160 years of the art of Latin America. ‘Art in Latin America: The Modern Era, 1820-1980’ was curated by the art historian Dawn Ades, with assistance from art critic and curator Guy Brett and an international committee of artists and historians. The exhibition included more than 400 works by over 170 artists from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela, and was the first in Europe to examine the history and development of Latin American art from the time of Independence. The exhibition, which was part of a larger programme of events across the Southbank Centre celebrating Latin America, received 46,725 visitors. Many of the reviews focused on the scope of the exhibition. Andrew Graham-Dixon, writing for The Independent, summarised its reach as: ‘from Aztex to high-tec in three tight-packed floors of breezeblock South Bank architecture.’ (Google Arts and Culture) #latinamerica #art #londonartscene #southbankcentre #modernart #contemporaryart #viaartsprize #opencall #callforartists
Wish you didn’t have to go indoors to get your a Wish you didn’t have to go indoors to get your art fix? London Mural Festival is transforming the capital’s walls into vibrant artworks throughout September. Over 100 artists are taking part in their first edition with over 40 large scale artworks, including Portuguese artist @MrDheo and Spanish artists @art_srx and @mur0ne. #LondonMuralFestival #LMF #londonartscene #londonart #iberoamerica #artistsoninstagram #artprize #artistsupportpledge #emergingartist #contemporaryart #artistsoninstagram #viaartsprize #opencall #artcompetition #callforsubmissions
🚨Our open call closes in just a couple of weeks 🚨Our open call closes in just a couple of weeks!🚨 Artists of any nationality residing in the UK are invited to submit an original artwork specifically inspired by Ibero-American arts and culture. You can apply at zealous.co/viaartsprize2020/opportunity/VIA-Special-Edition-2020 until 27 September. For more information, please visit our website viaartsprize.org #londonartscene #londonart #iberoamerica #latinamericanart #ukartist #artistsoninstagram #artprize #artistsupportpledge #emergingartist #contemporaryart #artistsoninstagram #viaartsprize #opencall #artcompetition #callforsubmissions
#Repost @friezeartfair ‘Glacial Erratic’ by @ #Repost @friezeartfair ‘Glacial Erratic’ by @beatrizcortezflores at Frieze Sculpture at Rockefeller Center is a new sculpture commissioned and produced for Frieze @LIFEWTR Sculpture Prize. The prize supports an emerging artist to create a new large-scale outdoor commission⁠ ⁠ For Frieze Sculpture, LA-based artist Beatriz Cortez created a work evoking a glacially-deposited rock, similar to the numerous glacial erratics that define the landscape of New York⁠ ⁠ Discover this installation at @rockefellercenter until October 2⁠ ⁠ #FriezeSculptureNY #LIFEWTR #BeatrizCortez #latinamericanart #sculpture #contemporaryart
Last week to see Portuguese artist Carlos Bunga’ Last week to see Portuguese artist Carlos Bunga’s major site-specific artwork at the Whitechapel Gallery. Using cardboard, tape and paint, Bunga creates cavernous structures and imaginary buildings to explore the transitory and corporeal nature of architecture. Bunga’s family had escaped the violence of the Angolan War of Independence in the 1970s only to experience the volatility of life at the edge of Portuguese society. Immersing us in his towering structures, Bunga then sweeps them away. Through these cycles of construction and destruction, he explores the mutating city and dispossession. Gallery director Iwona Blazwick said ‘Carlos Bunga is a leading figure in a generation of artists who brilliantly combine sculpture, action, film and painting. Using a material associated with model making and packaging but also life on the streets, he creates powerfully symbolic environments that are both monumental and fragile.’ “Something Necessary and Useful” is on until 13 September. Entry is free but booking is required through the Whitechapel Gallery website. #whitechapelgallery #portugueseart #installation #iberoamerica #artinspiration #londonartscene #artprize #opencall #viaartsprize
The fourth confirmed member of our 2020 jury panel The fourth confirmed member of our 2020 jury panel is contemporary visual artist Alexandre da Cunha. Alexandre da Cunha is a Brazilian-born artist who lives and works in São Paulo and London. Da Cunha makes freestanding, wall-mounted, and architectural sculptures using transformed everyday or found objects, which remain identifiable within the abstract assemblages. His practice is influenced by both systems of mass production and artisanal craftsmanship, such that the final objects appear to be a mix between popular consumer object and archaeological relic. Da Cunha’s influences include Marcel Duchamp, European Modernist architecture, and Op Art.   Alexandre’s forthcoming commissions include Alexandre da Cunha: Figurehead II, The Box, Plymouth, England (2020); and a new permanent artwork at Battersea Power Station, commissioned by Transport for London, Art on the Underground (2021). His work is included in major private and institutional collections including the Tate, England; ICA Boston, U.S; and Inhotim, Brazil. Major outdoor sculptures by da Cunha are on permanent view at the Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis, MI; the Monsoon Building in London, and the Rochaverá Tower in São Paulo. #visualarts #artsandculture  #latinamericanart  #brazilianart #sculpture #jurymember #artprize  #artaward  #artcompetition  #opencall  #callforartists  #viaartsprize  #emergingartists
#TBT to VIA 2017, based on the theme ‘Dialogues #TBT to VIA 2017, based on the theme ‘Dialogues with Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese art’. The jury panel included Aaron Cezar, Alistair Smart, Anderson & Low, Cecilia Brunson and Michael Asbury. They chose Susan Phillips’ porcelain sculpture ‘no.42-2015’, as the first prize, with its clear references to Latin American Neo Concrete Art. The runner up was Rafael D’Alo’s analog photograph ‘Belo Monte Incidental number 65’, featuring a traditional Amazonian boat on the River Xingu. Ting Tong Chang, our winner from VIA 2016, presented his winner’s solo exhibition ‘Kosmos’ on the mezzanine level of the gallery, with uncanny robotics and a true cabinet of curiosities to explore. #viaartsprize #artprize #artcompetition #artaward #callforart #callforentries #opencall #ukartist #londonart
Brazilian modernist painter Tarsila do Amaral was Brazilian modernist painter Tarsila do Amaral was #bornonthisday in 1886. Born at the end of the 19th century to a family of coffee plantation owners in São Paulo, Tarsila―as she is affectionately known in Brazil―studied piano, sculpture, and drawing before leaving for Paris in 1920 to attend the Académie Julian, the famous art school that drew many international students. During subsequent sojourns in the French capital, she studied with André Lhote, Albert Gleizes, and Fernand Léger, fulfilling what she called her “military service in Cubism,” ultimately arriving at her signature style of sensuous, vibrant landscapes and everyday scenes. The exhibition focuses on her pivotal production from the 1920s, when she navigated the art worlds of both São Paulo and Paris, and charts her involvement with an increasingly international artistic community, as well as her critical role in the emergence of modernism in Brazil. In 1928, she painted Abaporu for her husband, the poet Oswald de Andrade, depicting an elongated, isolated figure with a blooming cactus. This landmark painting inspired the Manifesto of Anthropophagy, and became the banner for a transformative artistic movement, which imagined a specifically Brazilian culture arising from the symbolic digestion—or artistic “cannibalism”—of outside influences (Museum of Modern Art). #art #brazilianart #modernism #latinamericanart #artinspiration #tarsiladoamaral #viaartsprize #callforentries #callforartists
VIA Arts Prize sponsor @itau.unibanco has one of t VIA Arts Prize sponsor @itau.unibanco has one of the largest Latin American art collections in the world. Itaú Cultural, its non-for-profit cultural institute, was founded by Olavo Setúbal in 1987 to map artistic manifestations in Brazil and foster artistic research and production. Located in São Paulo, the venue which takes the founder's name - Espaço Olavo Setúbal - is home to two permanent collections: 'Brasiliana Itaú' and 'Itaú Numismática'. The 1,364 works on display cover over 5 centuries of Brazilian history. #artcollection #itau #latinamericanart #brazilianart #brazilianhistory #viaartsprize #callforentries #callforartists
We are now one month away from our application dea We are now one month away from our application deadline! Did you know you could draft and save a submission before sending it through to us? You will then get a reminder from our platform right before the cutoff date. Artists of any nationality residing in the UK are invited to submit an original artwork specifically inspired by Ibero-American arts and culture. You can apply at zealous.co/viaartsprize2020/opportunity/VIA-Special-Edition-2020 until 27 September. For more information, please visit our website viaartsprize.org #londonartscene #londonart #iberoamerica #latinamericanart #ukartist #artistsoninstagram #artprize #artistsupportpledge #viaartsprize
Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo was #bornonthisday i Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo was #bornonthisday in 1899. At a time when his contemporaries were painting murals on nationalist and overtly political themes, Rufino Tamayo chose to paint intimate canvases of a more subtle and lyrical nature. His initial preoccupation was with learning the lessons of the artists he most admired: Cezanne, Matisse, and Braque. Concurrently, he discovered Mexico's wonderful plastic traditions, best exemplified in the pre-Columbian art of his ancestors. It is in Tamayo's ability to fuse the most sophisticated aspects of Modernism with the expressive power of the ancient arts of Mexico, that his particular genius lies (William Sheehy, for Latin American Masters). #art #mexicanart #zapotec #latinamericanart #contemporaryart #artinspiration #rufinotamayo #viaartsprize #callforentries #callforartists
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15 July 2020
Call for entries opens

27 September 2020
Call for entries closes

21 October 2020
Pre-selection results published

2 November 2020
Online exhibition opens and People's Choice Award voting begins

2 December 2020
First, second and third prizewinners announced

18 December 2020
People's Choice Award winner announced

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