The Brazilian artist Pedro Zylbersztajn will perform "brickwork" (2017), a physical record of the process of re/constitution of language.
Professor Iliana Cepero (The New School), independent cultural historian Celeste Olalquiaga, and artist Gustavo Prado will discuss specific incomplete architectural and urbanistic projects in Venezuela, Brazil, and Cuba, focused on interrupted and inconclusive buildings that account for transformations at the political and social level.
In the context of Frieze Week, artist Juan Tessi will engage in a conversation with Verónica Flom, Exhibitions and Public Programs Coordinator at Americas Society, to discuss his most recent projects and exhibitions.
POSTPONED: Hoor Al Qasimi, president and director of Sharjah Art Foundation, and Gabriela Rangel, director and chief curator of Visual Arts at Americas Society, will present the recent publication Embodying, focusing on Hassan Sharif’s engagement with experimental performance from 1982–84.
Academics, researches, and practitioners will join in a relevant discussion around public space though readings and examples of current cities of Latin America.
Author Dr. Harper Montgomery will present her new publication The Mobility of Modernism in a discussion with Dr. Edward Sullivan.
The Americas Society exhibition depicts how, over the course of a century of rapid urban growth, sociopolitical upheavals and cultural transitions reshaped the architectural landscapes of major cities in Latin America.
On the eve of the exhibition opening, cocurators Maristella Casciato and Idurre Alonso, along with professors Diana Agrest, Luis Carranza, Galia Solomonoff, and Patricio del Real examine the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century growth and transformations of urban centers in Latin America.
Gabriela Rangel, director of Visual Arts at Americas Society, leads a guided tour highlighting key artworks and ephemera from the exhibition, as well as stories about the artist’s community and network in Brazil.
In conjunction with the exhibition, Americas Society publishes the book José Leonilson: Empty Man.