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PLURAL DOMAINS: SELECTED WORKS FROM THE CISNEROS ART FOUNDATION COLLECTION
PRESS RELEASE
University Gallery
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For Immediate Release: September 1, 2021
Contact: Bryan Yeager, Gallery Manager
ug@arts.ufl.edu
Writers: Mark Hodge, Macarena Deij Prado
Plural Domains: Selected Works from the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) Collection
Curator: Jesús Fuenmayor, Program Director & Visiting Curator at University Galleries, School of Art + Art History, University of Florida
Curatorial Assistant: Macarena Deij Prado
Dates: This exhibition is presented simultaneously in two venues, UF’s University Galleries (September 14–December 3, 2021) and the Harn Museum of Art (September 7, 2021– April 24, 2022)
Gainesville, Fla. — Plural Domains: Selected Works from the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) Collection reflects on both the multidisciplinary practices of Latin American contemporary art and on its diversity as a conceptual frame that is inclusive of a varied universe of voices. The exhibition comprises 31 established, mid-career, and emerging artists from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela, and features works of art in multiple media, including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, video, as well as large-scale multimedia installations. Having debuted at the Cuenca Biennial in 2018, this is the first time this exhibition is presented at an arts institution in the United States.
The different fields of knowledge addressed by the artists highlight contemporary Latin American art’s plurality. As stated by the curator of the exhibition, Jesús Fuenmayor, the artworks included in Plural Domains evidence “the critical awareness of the political, social, economic, and cultural conditionings of an ever more globalized and at the same time atomized world, the epistemological problems of contemporaneity, and the relationship of art to other disciplines.” This diversity of media and concerns has been used by the artists to explore, for example, how past artistic practices address social issues in a transformative way. In other cases, the artworks emerge as a critique of the appropriation of knowledge and technology as instruments of colonization.
The collection of the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation is one of the most respected and well-known collections of contemporary Latin American art. The Foundation provides the artists with unparalleled possibilities by funding the production and exhibition of their works of art. This collaboration has ensured the preservation of the works included in this exhibition, which the artists have donated to the Foundation. Furthermore, CIFO features a collection of Latin
American artists whose works are intellectually, politically, and aesthetically compelling for how they address the current shifts of existence and thinking in a global context.
Macarena Deij Prado
Curatorial Assistant & Doctoral Candidate in Art History, UF
Artists included at the Harn Museum of Art:
Miguel Amat (Venezuela), Leyla Cárdenas (Colombia), Antonio Caro (Colombia), Elena Damiani (Peru), José Gabriel Fernández (Venezuela), Marcius Galan (Brazil), Richard Garet (Uruguay-U.S.), Ana Linnemann (Brazil), Marco Maggi (Uruguay), Carlos Martiel (Cuba), Claudia Martínez Garay (Peru), Jorge Méndez Blake (Mexico), Alice Miceli (Brazil), Glexis Novoa (Cuba), Jorge Pedro Núñez (Venezuela), Daniela Ortíz (Peru), Nicolás París (Colombia), Manuela Ribadeneira (Ecuador), Antonieta Sosa (Venezuela), Antonio Vega (Mexico), Horacio Zabala (Argentina).
Artists included at University Gallery:
Miguel Calderón (Mexico), Celia y Yunior (Cuba), Rubén D’Hers (Venezuela), David Lamelas (Argentina), Runo Lagomarsino (Suecia-Argentina), Felipe Meres (Brazil), Sandra Nakamura (Peru), Amalia Pica (Argentina), Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa (Guatemala), Javier Castro (Cuba [February 12–March 12, 2021]).
Related Events:
Thursday, September 09, 2021, 7:30 pm @ Museum Nights
Gallery Tour
Macarena Deij Prado, UF PhD candidate in colonial art of the Americas will lead a gallery tour of Plural Domains focusing on key themes and artists in this exhibition of work by contemporary artists from throughout Latin American.
Location: Harn Museum of Art
Saturday, October 02, 2021 3pm TBC
Public Conversation
A conversation on collecting and supporting dynamic artists from Latin America with Ella Fontanals-Cisneros, Founder & Honorary President of the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO); Onye Ozuzu, Dean of the UF College of Fine Arts; and Jesús Fuenmayor, Program Director and Curator at the UF University Gallery.
Location: Harn Museum of Art
Saturday, October 23, 2021, time tbd [about between 1-3] pm
Gallery Tour
Macarena Deij Prado, UF PhD candidate in colonial art of the Americas will lead a gallery tour of Plural Domains focusing on key themes and artists in this exhibition of work by contemporary artists from throughout Latin American.
Location: Harn Museum of Art
Tuesday, October 26, 6:15 pm
Artist Lecture: Glexis Novoa
Visiting Artist Lectures Series
Little Hall, Room 101 (tbc)
Wednesday, October 27, time tbd
Artist Presentation
Artist Glexis Novoa will give a presentation of his work in the exhibition Plural Domains.
Location: Harn Museum of Art
Thursday, November 04, 2021, 6pm
Public Lecture
Residues and Relations: Thinking Identity at the Edge of Modernity
Dr. Monica Amor, Associate Professor at Maryland Institute College of Art
Chandler Auditorium at the Harn Museum of Art
Dr. Amor will lecture on late modern artistic practices by artists from Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela whose works exceed dominant narratives of art history.
Sponsored by HESCAH.
Saturday, November 13, 2021, 3:00 PM
Gallery Talk
Jesús Fuenmayor, Program Director and Visiting Curator at the UF University Gallery, and curator of the exhibition Plural Domains, will speak in the gallery about this remarkable exhibition of art by contemporary Latin American artists. This talk will highlight the work of individual artists who address contemporary social, political and aesthetic concerns in their art.
Location: Harn Museum of Art
Thursday, February 24, 2022, 6 pm
Artist panel
Plural Domains: Art in, of, from Latin America
Panel Participants: José Falconi (moderator) Amalia Pica, Alice Miceli, José Gabriel Fernández
Thursday, February 24, 2022, 6-8 PM
Chandler Auditorium at the Harn Museum of Art
Artists featured in Plural Domains will participate in a live discussion of their work and of contemporary artistic practice more broadly, moderate by José Falconi.
This event is sponsor by the Center of Latin American Studies and HESCAH.
Thursday, March 10, 2022, 6-9pm
Museum Nights: Creative Domains
Join us for an evening of art, tours, performances, and activities taking inspiration from the exhibition Plural Domains.
Location: Harn Museum of Art
About University Galleries
University Galleries is comprised of three art galleries that play an integral role in the teaching mission of the School of Art + Art History, College of the Arts at the University of Florida, as well as serving the entire UF and Gainesville community.
University Gallery (UG) UG’s primary mission is to provide the greater Gainesville community with a contemporary venue that explores new directions in visual art, incorporating historical perspectives as well. UG collaborates with myriad UF colleges, community and regional entities in creating a trans-disciplinary venue for artwork that is relevant to education at UF, and the greater north-central Florida region. Exhibitions feature nationally/internationally known artists, a studio art faculty exhibition, and MFA graduating thesis project exhibitions.
Gary R. Libby Gallery presents art exhibitions that are organized by graduate student curators, in conjunction with the director of the galleries, providing an opportunity for students to learn experientially about curation, exhibition design, and presentation, and visitors to view professionally presented shows that primarily feature contemporary art.
Constance and Linton Grinter Gallery of International Art presents exhibitions organized by graduate student curators, in conjunction with the director of the galleries that feature international and multicultural artworks. This venue allows graduate students to learn experientially about curation and exhibition design, and visitors to experience art and artifacts from across world cultures.
Parking Information
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About the College of the Arts
The College of the Arts is one of the 16 colleges and more than 150 research centers and institutes at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. The College of the Arts offers baccalaureate, master’s and Ph.D. degree programs in its three institutionally-accredited schools — the School of Art + Art History, School of Music and School of Theatre + Dance. The college is home to the Center for Arts in Medicine, Center for Arts and Public Policy, Center for World Arts, Digital Worlds Institute, University Galleries and the New World School of the Arts in Miami. More than 100 faculty members and approximately than 1,200 students work together daily to engage, inspire and create. The college hosts more than 300 performances, exhibitions and events each year. Faculty and students also exhibit and perform at other local, national and international venues. To learn more, visit www.arts.ufl.edu.
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