arteBA

(23/05/2014 - 26/05/2014)

http://www.arteba.org/

arteBA
Buenos Aires
Argentina

arteBA is one of the most important art fairs geared primarily to production in Latin America. A leading cultural event in Buenos Aires, the fair takes place in May in the premises of La Rural, in the neighborhood of Palermo. On average, the fair gets approximately 100,000 visitors each year. Now celebrating its twenty-third anniversary, the 2014 edition will feature an international roster of exciting, world-leading galleries from Latin America, the USA and Europe distributed in distinctive sectors.

To meet the varying needs of galleries, collectors, museums, and the viewing public, the fair consists of different sections with specific profiles. Contemporary art galleries are at center stage in the fair. Open to the public free of charge, the engaging OPEN FORUM is one of arteBA’s strongest sections. Similarly important is the Acquisitions Program in which museums, institutions, and private companies take part. TATE Gallery from London and MALI from Peru are among the museums that have confirmed their participation in the 2014 edition of arteBA.



MAIN AREA

This section consists of established galleries chosen by an independent selection committee pursuant to review of their applications.


2014 Selection Committee:

Sonia Becce (freelance curator, Buenos Aires, Argentina) - President.

Eduardo Brandão (Vermelho Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil).

Henrique Faria (Henrique Faria Fine Arte, NY, USA and Henrique Faria, Buenos Aires,

Argentina).

Orly Benzacar (Ruth Benzacar Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina).



CABINET LAN

Cabinet is a specific area within the galleries booths in the main section of the fair. In Cabinet, one or more works by a single artist are exhibited. The aim of the section is to show important, unique, or emblematic works by modern and contemporary artists. An advisory board determines the selection.


2014 Advisory Board:

Sonia Becce (president of the Selection Committee for the main section).

Victoria Noorthoorn (director of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina).

José Roca (Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art at the TateGallery of London and artistic director of FLORA ars+natura, an independent space for contemporary art in Bogota).



DIXIT

A curator organizes an exhibition on thebasis of an original hypothesis on art now.This section will offer works by artists to museums and private collections through their galleries.


In this opening edition of Dixit, Argentine curator, writer and researcher Andrea Giunta will present an exhibition entitled When DoesContemporary Art Begin? Interventions from Latin America.



U-TURN PROJECT ROOMS

BY MERCEDES-BENZ

A curator invites galleries to present a specific project featuring up to three artists and selects each work to be exhibited.


The 2014 edition of U-TURN will be curated by Agustín Pérez Rubio (historian, art critic, freelance curator, and former director of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain).



SOLO SHOW ARCOS DORADOS

DE PINTURA LATINOAMERICANA

At the invitation of a curator, six Latin American artists, in conjunction with their galleries, participate in Solo Show, in which one work by each artist competes for a purchase prize of USD 15,000 in the Latin American Painting Competition.


The 2014 edition of Solo Show will be curated by José Roca (Estrellita B. BrodskyAdjunct Curator of Latin American Art at theTate Gallery of London and artistic director of FLORA ars+natura, an independent space for contemporary art in Bogota).



PHOTOBOOTH CITI

A curator invites galleries to present photographs by historical and contemporary artists.

The opening editions of Photobooth will be curated by Octavio Zaya (originally from the Canary Islands, Zaya is a curator and editor of art publications who has lived in the United States since 1978).




BARRIO JOVEN CHANDON

This section is for new galleries focused on Latin American art. It encourages recent production and new enterprises whose approaches differ from the traditional system for the exhibition and sale of

contemporary art. An independent selection committee assesses the applications of interested galleries.


2014 Select ion Committee:

Akio Aoki (Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil).

Mariano Mayer (poet, art critic, and freelance curator based in Madrid, Spain).

Marina Reyes Franco (independent curator and director at La Ene; she lives and works

in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and San Juan, Puerto Rico).




ISLA DE EDICIONES FUNDACIÓN PROA

A team of curators invites independent presses and publishing houses to make available for public sale individual volumes and collections that provide theoretical support and information on

contemporary art.


2014 Curatorial Team:

Lucrecia Palacios (freelance curator, Buenos Aires, Argentina).

Facundo de Falco (editorial advisor, Buenos Aires, Argentina).