BASTA!
Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (City University of New York),
West 59th Street at 11th Avenue, New York, NY
On view from May 5-July 15, 2016
Free and open to the public
Opening reception: Thursday, May 5, 2016 from 6:00-8:00pm
Curated by Claudia Calirman and Isabela Villanueva
http://www.bastaexhibition.com/
The Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery at John Jay College of Criminal
Justice presents the exhibition:
Basta!
Curated by Claudia Calirman and Isabela Villanueva
Opening reception on Thursday, May 5, from 6:00-8:00pm.
May 5 – July 15, 2016
The Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
860 11th Avenue
New York, NY 10019
www.shivagallery.org
Gallery Hours: 1- 5 PM, M – F
gallery@jjay.cuny.edu
212-237-1439
Basta! features works in a variety of media by Latin American artists
Ivan Argote (Colombia), Marcelo Cidade (Brazil), Regina Galindo
(Guatemala), Anibal Lopez (Guatemala), Teresa Margolles (Mexico), Jose
Carlos Martinat (Peru), Yucef Merhi (Venezuela), Alice Miceli
(Brazil), Mondongo (Juliana Laffitte and Manuel Mendanha -Argentina),
Moris (Mexico), Armando Ruiz (Colombia), Giancarlo Scaglia (Peru),
Javier Tellez (Venezuela), and Juan Toro (Venezuela). They address
topics such as crime, vandalism, transgression, gender-based violence,
illegal immigration, drug cartels and state power.
The opening will follow the symposium: Art and Violence in Latin America Today
in the Moot Court at John Jay College
Thursday, May 5, 2016
from 3:00-6:00pm
Speakers:
Estrellita Brodsky, Gustavo Buntinx, Claudia Calirman, Cecilia
Fajardo-Hill, Gabriela Rangel, Isabela Villanueva, and artists
Mondongo and Javier Tellez
In a time when we are shocked by images of worldwide atrocities, we
should ask where does the horror of the spectacle stop. For many
artists, the challenging dilemma is how do they present brutality in
the visual arts without adding more terror to it. In order to expose
existing mechanisms of injustice, violence, and inequality, the Latin
American artists featured in Basta! bring their own experiences and
responses to diverse forms of crime, brutality, and exploitation. By
blurring the lines between legality and illegality, crime and justice,
they are interested in the effects of the remains of violence. Their
practices can be viewed as a remembrance of horrific deeds, an act
against indifference and forgetting brutality. They follow the traces
and vestiges left by violence, so the reminiscences of the events
don’t disappear. In most cases they are torn between the desire to
depict traumatic events, and the recognition that it is not possible
to render them in fullness by its mere visual representation.
Generous funding for the symposium and publication is provided by the
Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA). Additional
support provided by the Office for the Advancement of Research (OAR),
John Jay College.
