Celebración de Arte Latino Americano!
Phoenix Art Museum – Great Hall
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Join the Latin American Art Alliance for an amazing evening of contemporary, cutting-edge Latin American Art by artists from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela being showcased in one of the world’s most renowned collections: “Order, Chaos and the Space Between.”
Former & Current Members, Free | Non-Members, $10
Paper!
Steele Gallery
May 26 – October 7, 2012
Artists from around the world have long utilized paper in their work, either as a support for drawings, prints and watercolors; a subject of a work of art; or, as a creative material for three-dimensional work. Paper! explores all of these subjects and more.
The Politics of Place: Latin American Photography, Past and Present
Orme Lewis Gallery
August 4- December 2, 2012
Throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, artists from Latin America have embraced photography as a means to capture their surroundings, document episodes of social injustice and political upheaval, and construct images of national identity.
Marta María Pérez Bravo (Cuba 1959)
No zozobra la barca de su vida (The Lifeboat Does Not Capsize), 1995
Gelatin Silver Print
17 x 12 inches
The Judy and Sidney Zuber Collection of Latin American Photography
Film Screening: Cine Latino Film Festival at Phoenix Art Museum
Sundays in September, 2012
To celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, Phoenix Art Museum has partnered with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (The Oscars) and the Latin American Art Alliance to sponsor a Latin American Film Festival at the Museum, a program called Cine Latino that we hope will become an annual event.
Film Screening: Los Olvidados (Mexico, 1950)
October 12, 2012, 7 pm
To accompany The Politics of Place, on October 12th the Latin American Art Alliance is hosting a rare screening of Mexican filmmaker Luis Buñuel’s film Los Olvidados (The Young and the Damned), a cinematic masterpiece that will be shown in 35mm print.
Los olvidados (Mexico, 1950) is considered one of the most important films in the history of filmmaking.
Artist Talk: Milagros de la Torre (Peru, 1965)
Milagros de la Torre
November 28, 2012 7 pm, Singer Hall
In collaboration with INFOCUS, the Latin American Art Alliance presents a lecture by Peruvian photographer Milagros de la Torre, whose work is featured in The Politics of Place. Many of De la Torres’ haunting images reference political violence in countries like Mexico and Peru, although never explicitly.
