Performance EL TANQUE
January 22, 2016.
6:00 p.m.
Performance produced as part of the group exhibition “An Island Apart: Cuban Artists in Exile” curated by Janice Glowski.
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Miller Gallery | 33 Collegeview Road, Westerville, OH 43081
NOV 20 – NOV 22, 2015
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY NOV 20 FROM 6 TO 10 PM
CLOSING RECEPTION: SUNDAY 22 FROM 4 TO 7 PM
COURT SQUARE STUDIOS is pleased to present the first group show exhibition of Francisco Bustamante, Carlos Martiel, Jake Scharbach.
Curated by Manuela Viera-Gallo
The three pieces presented in Crossing Boundaries unfold from the Self of their authors: their experiences, the reality of their everyday lives, the city they live in, their being men. They are made palpable through the visual as well as the impulses which sink their roots in the magma of the unconscious. The corporal expressionism of the work is evident: there is distress, there is resistance, there is denunciation. They speak of suffering and the threat of a diffuse violence that runs through American life.
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Court Square Studios | 2138 44th Rd, Long Island City, New York 11101
Durational performance produced as part of the group exhibition Time Sensitive curated by Jesús Fuenmayor.
December 2 – 6, 2015.
As part of PINTA Miami’s curatorial projects this year, curator Jesús Fuenmayor will present a series of artistic proposals that explore the incorporation of time in the work of art, focusing on works that are sensitive to the relation between the temporal and the spatial. The idea is to bring together a group of works by prominent artists from Ibero-America (Latin America, Spain and Portugal); created by well-established artists as well as by younger generations, but all of whom take up the question of time, one of the most defining elements in contemporary art’s reception. Here, the incorporation of time in the artwork is essential since it functions as a trigger that makes the fair’s public sensitive to its perceptual conditions and the paradoxes that govern this context.
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Mana Wynwood | 318 NW 23rd Street, Miami, FL 33127.
Upcoming performance
Carlos Martiel: EMPIRE
September 26, 4-5
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STEVE TURNER| 6830 Santa Monica Blvd. Los Angeles CA 90038
Simiente, Installation view, Nanjing International Exhibition Center, September 2015
“A Beautiful New World”
16-26 September 2015
Opening: 16th, September h.15:00
Curator: Eleonora Battiston
Artists: Nobuyoshi Araki, Fernando Bayona, Alessandro Brighetti, Norbert Bisky, Olga Chernysheva, Braco Dimitrijevic, Jan Fabre, Regina José Galindo, Lyra Garcellano, Debbie Han, Candida Höfer, Phill Hopkins, Glenda León, Carlos Martiel, Luis Moscardó, Erwin Olaf, Hans Op de Beeck, Joao Vasco Paiva, Liliana Porter, Eddi Prabandono, Raul (Marco Lullo), Deva Sand, Tejal Shah, Richard Streitmatter-Tran, Wire Tuazon, Keke Vilabelda, Jason Bard Yarmosky.
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Nanjing International Exhibition Center | 88 Longpan Road, Xuanwu District, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
4th Performance Festival Thessaloniki
29.06 – 09.07.2015
11 performances from Greek and international artists, two tributes and exhibitions, video performances, workshop, one-day conference and an opening concert.
Curator – Coordinator: Eirini Papakonstantinou
Art Historian-Curator of the State Museum of Contemporary Art
Artists / Participations: George Grocer (workshop, GR), Márcio Carvalho (PT), Harry Elektron & Rosita (concert, GR), Victoria Gray (UK), Leda Papaconstantinou (tribute-GR), Jonas Kocher – Daphne Stephen – Janosch Perler – Ruedy Schwyn (CH / GR), Mischa Kuball (DE), Carlos Martiel (CU), Menti Mega (GR), Rhiannon Morgan (GR / UK), Surabhi Saraf (IN / USA), SUKA OFF (PL), Ulay (Tribute & performance, DE), Cyprus International Performance Art Festival (CY), Videoplay (AR)
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Por Andrés Isaac Santana
Especial/el Nuevo Herald
Desde que en el 2013 recibiera el Premio Arte Laguna de Performance en Venecia, a propósito de su obra Prodigal Son, 2010, el discurso estético del joven artista cubano Carlos Martiel (La Habana, 1989), se ha instalado en los principales circuitos del arte internacional asistido por fuertes resortes de legitimación y de prestigio. Su próxima intervención, que tendrá lugar en Mandragoras Art Space, en la ciudad de Nueva York y bajo el título Ascensión, se inscribe dentro de esa línea de insubordinaciones y desobediencias desenfrenadas tan propias a su proyecto. Se trata de una puesta en escena francamente escalofriante, respaldada por una altísima cuota de extrañamiento y dolor. El cuerpo se traviste en soporte discursivo de un cuestionamiento ético y humanista acerca de dónde residen los límites (presumibles) entre dos sujetos antagónicos y cercanos a un tiempo: el héroe y el asesino.
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Agape Charmani for Art-Sheep
Carlos Martiel is a Cuban performance artist, whose work could be described as an aggressive comment on the ethics, history and behavior of the world.
His provocative and raw performances explore the nature of existence, social barriers and cultural traditions. His work is a form of disagreement against the established values, through physical expressions that remind one of rituals and ceremonial procedures. Commenting on issues such as censorship or persecution for cultural or political reasons, especially in his country, the artist sees his performances as a response to the way society and history have treated the minorities and the outsiders.
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