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Wilfredo Prieto is an artist living in Havana, Cuba. He has shown his work at PSI MoMA, the Louvre Museum, the VII Havana Biennial and the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. He recently won the 2008 Cartier Foundation Award (Frieze Foundation/Gasworks Residency in London), and was also selected for the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002. Amidst a hectic European travel schedule, I had the opportunity to converse with Wilfredo about his work.[...]

To ask about the experimental implication of the creators and their work is common in our sector, but it is not so usual to question the processes, the structures (Museums, Galleries, Fairs, Biennial…) that negotiate, make visible, endow value to, and also commercialize, those works.[...]

Chicago-based artist Josué Pellot opened his most recent solo show, titled New Work, at the Chicago Cultural Center last week. The exhibition features photographs and installations that investigate ideas of consumerism and the politics of identity within Puerto Rican culture.[...]

Renwick Gallery is pleased to announce the group show “Beyond Process”. The exhibition will feature nine artists, eight of whom are unrepresented in New York. Artists include Lucas Ajemian, Patterson Beckwith, Phil Chang, Samara Golden, Alexander Hoda, George Kontos, Jason Kraus, Megan Marrin, and Lisa Williamson.[...]

BlackboxArt Foundation and the Consulate of Mexico present forty-three Puerto Rican artists celebrating, through art, folklore and cultural exchange, one of the most important traditions in Mexico, “The Day of the Dead.” The exhibition will take place November 2nd at La Respuesta, 1600 Fernández Juncos esq. Del Parque, San Juan, Puerto Rico from 7:00 – 10:00 pm.[...]

For the last four years, the Lower East Side has been emerging as the place where young galleries have started to thrive. And as happening as Chelsea is on the first couple of weeks of September, the Lower East Side galleries have been consistently presenting contemporary artists with a cutting edge practice. So, during my last trip to New York, I ventured downtown to the Lower East Side for a couple of nights of gallery hopping.[...]

Bitforms Gallery is pleased to announce a third solo exhibition with German photographic artist Michael Najjar and the world premiere of his high altitude work series.[...]

From contemplation to an imagined utopic reality, Manuel Rodríguez’s work, through sculptures, installations and modified found objects and inventions, intends to reconcile possibilities with impossibilities. The idea of flight and of molding air are some of these improbable proposals. In his most recent work, he tackles ideas of gravity, energy, space and speed, referencing artists such as Brancusi and Panamarenko. Manuel maintains that his work “depends a great deal on the relationship between the linguistic and the visual, generated by the juxtaposition of my objects, always keeping the paradox of uselessness and the range of illusion.”[...]

Painting for a Specific Floor is a collaborative work that explores the ideas of horizontality and fluidity, as well as surfaces and topography. The work defies the preconception of the work of art as an object meant solely to be looked at. It also challenges the supremacy of the visual sense over other senses, betting on a direct experience with the work; an encounter between the spectator and the work, the piece and the place it inhabits.[...]