arteBA 2015

APT artist Uriel Orlow is participating "arteBA 2015". Under the curatorship of the Venezuelan Julieta González the exhibition entitled "El Mundo tal como es y el Mundo como podría ser [The World As It Is and the World As It Could Be]" was held. In a 800-square-meter space were presented over 40 works, performances and workshops by 35 international artists. This section offered artists’ works through their galleries to museums and private collections.

"The world as it is and the world as it could be" inspired by one of the diagrams of the British artist Stephen Willats who proposes a world of transformation and change through self-organization.

In the last edition, Andrea Giunta addressed the genealogies of the contemporary with special emphasis on conceptual strategies that originated in Latin America during the years 60 and 70. The current proposal takes as its starting point some of the ideas she presented mainly about the relationship between art and political action. On the other hand, the desire to include this proposal in the premises, such as the various imaginary libertarian and anarchist movements that emerged in Argentina in the late nineteenth century and the radical dimension and activist Argentine conceptualism of the 60s are at the center.

 This reflection on the relationship between temporary and ephemeral communities with the Utopian projects motivations that inspired anarchists, libertarians, alternative and countercultural through modern history. This reflection has guided the selection of artists and works in an attempt to show how these forms of self-organization and training of temporary communities have been instrumental in the artistic practices of social commitment and for historiography and research works They give visibility to these little known social movements and issues related to them.

The artists and works selected for the exhibition explores ideas about self-organization, the crowd, social movements and grassroots activism from different perspectives ranging from a communion with nature and the environment, to the affective dimension of solidarity social engagement practices.

The project will have an experiential aspect that take the form of workshops and performances that seek to engage the public with these ideas, creating awareness about the world in which we live and providing possible to transform tools. This educational and experiential aspect is essential for the formation of temporary communities in a limited such as the length of a fair and proposes another way to approach the works in this context period.

A series of works that revisit the history of these movements and the way they are still present in the artistic imaginations provide visual and conceptual platform that dialogue with the activation of the aforementioned space for performing and teaching experiences. the relationship between art and activism will also be addressed by a series of works presented in the exhibition as well as a section devoted to historical works that survive through its documentation, which are a core benchmark which shows the genealogy of some of These practices specifically in Argentina but also in other parts of the world.

ARTISTS AND THE GALLERIES REPRESENTING THEM AT DIXIT AXION 2015:

3NÓS3 (Brazil), Galería Jaqueline Martins (Brazil) / Iván Argote (Colombia), Vermelho (Brazil) / Gabriel Borba (Brazil), Galería Jaqueline Martins (Brazil) / Stuart Brisley (United Kingdom), Galería Jaqueline Martins (Brazil) / Cabello/Carceller – Helena Cabelloy Ana Carceller (France/Spain), Galería Elba Benítez (Spain) / Antonio Caro (Colombia), Casas Riegner (Colombia) / Carolina Caycedo (United Kingdom), Instituto de Visión (Colombia) / Wilson Díaz (Colombia), Instituto de Visión (Colombia) / Noemí Escandell (Argentina), Henrique Faria New York/Buenos Aires (USA – Argentina) / Ana Gallardo (Argentina), Ignacio Liprandi Arte Contemporáneo (Argentina) / Ivald Granato (Brasil), Document Art Gallery (Argentina) / Grupo Escombros (Argentina), Document Art Gallery (Argentina) / Helena Producciones (Colombia), Instituto de Visión (Colombia) / Magdalena Jitrik (Argentina), Ignacio Liprandi Arte Contemporáneo (Argentina) / Eduardo Kac (Brazil), Document Art Gallery (Argentina) / Marta Minujín (Argentina), Henrique Faria New York /Buenos Aires (USA – Argentina) / Carlos Motta (Colombia), Instituto de Visión (Colombia) / Jesús Bubu Negrón (Puerto Rico), Henrique Faria New York / Buenos Aires (USA – Argentina) / Uriel Orlow (Switzerland), Mor Charpentier (France) / Luis Pazos (Argentina), Document Art Gallery (Argentina) / Amalia Pica (Argentina), König Galeríe (Germany) / Paul Ramírez Jonas (USA), Galería Nara Roesler (Brazil) / Beto Shwafaty (Brazil), Galería Luisa Strina (Brazil) / Carla Zaccagnini (Argentina), Vermelho (Brazil) / Bik van der Pol (The Netherlands) / Eloísa Cartonera (Argentina) / Rometti Costales (France/ Bielorrusia) / Beatriz Santiago Muñoz (Puerto Rico) / Stephen Willats (United Kingdom).