El Descubrimiento de America / The Discovery of the Americas
October 19th – November 3rd, 2012
Local Project presents El Descubrimiento de America/ The Discovery of the Americas, a group exhibition featuring the works of Renzo Ortega, Andrea Lira, Roger Carmona, Maria Jose Duran Steinman, Michael Yaikel and Santiago Salvador Ascui curated by The Tree Nomadic.
Traveling means to transit from a specific place and time into a new context. It involves transferring our bodies, which become reminiscence and testimony: the only permanent thing on the ephemeral path of traveling.
Our body: our home.
Unthreading ourselves through space, while living in it; the landscape molds us with its architecture, people and weather. Then our identity transforms itself, making of this new place a home.
The Discovery of the Americas explores how the influences from our surroundings exist or reflect on us physically and psychologically while exploring lands far from our native environment.
Renzo Ortega (Peru/USA), Andrea Lira (Chile/USA), Roger Carmona (Nicaragua/USA), Maria Jose Duran Steinman (Chile/USA), Michael Yaikel (USA/Chile) and Santiago Salvador Ascui (Chile) are Latin American artists whose detailed and graphic-oriented drawings, paintings, sculptures and videos present the human figure inserted within a narrative.
In this exhibition, discovering, surviving and adapting to the unknown are ideas that not only coexist among the artworks but also contradict each other’s worlds.
The exhibition opens on Saturday, October 20th at 6:00 pm in parallel with Standby book launching event and the inaugural day of the new Local Project facade mural by Bryan Gefen.
Standby is a book about crossing borders: countries, cultures, languages, and also literary genres (fiction and non-fiction, narrative and poetry, etc). From 6 to 8 p.m., the author will be offering a bookbinding Workshop and private readings.
One year ago I started an edition of 100 handmade copies of my book Standby, a travelogue written under the pen name Alina Reyes, while traveling between Chile, Europe, Mexico, Guatemala and United States. Standby is a book about crossing borders: countries, languages and also literary genres (fiction and non-fiction, narrative and poetry, etc). This Saturday 20th I will start the second edition of 200 copies with a bookbinding workshop and Confessional, a series of private readings in Spanish and English.
Interested in attending please RSVP
Workshop & book: $20
workshop only: donation suggested $5