By: Alexandra Crosby To read the full article click here Well, Sydney is in a bit of a mess. One way people are staying sane is by connecting to civic ecologies by walking. In conversation with 107 Projects and The Rizzeria we decided to release a walking map of Green …
The Armory Show María Fernanda Cardoso Booth 127 | Javits Center | New York, NY September 9-12, 2021 María Fernanda Cardoso, Actual Size XI, [Maratus bubo], 2021. Edition of 5 + 2 AP. Deep focus micro-photography, digital print on paper, Dibond, 62 x 62 x 2 in. Sicardi | Ayers …
EARTH VOICE: PLANT BLINDNESS, MAGIC, AND ART Colombian-born Australian artist Maria Fernanda Cardoso works with vegetal elements. One of her public art installations draws upon 19th-century traditions of scientific observation, whilst also engaging with the conatus and agency of the bottle tree. This paper proposes that Cardoso’s ‘magical’ planting of …
By Emma-Kate Wilson /MutualArt The Colombian artist invests considerable time and resources in her art, creates collaborations with scientists and specialists, and dedicates her life to the observation of nature. Using a breadth of mediums, from installation to video, María Fernanda Cardoso hones in on the ready-made from nature. Her …
Who was Australian Impressionist painter Iso Rae? Born in the age of ‘Marvellous Melbourne’ during the heady years of the Victorian gold rush, she was dubbed one of the “best and brightest” students of the National Gallery of Victoria’s Art School. But she remains one of the lesser-known artists of …
By Soraya Caicedo For this fourteenth edition of ARTBAR Maria Fernanda Cardoso invites attendees to spend the night as Mother Nature intended, by leaving inhibitions at the Museum door and embracing the artist’s nominated theme of Sex Everywhere. The Museum of Contemporary Art transforms into Fernanda Cardoso’s Museum of Copulatory …
Gumnuts transformed into mesmerising artworks Maria Fernanda Cardoso collected about 12,000 eucalyptus seed pods to create her series of intricate wall drawings. To read the full article please click here: https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/arts-and-culture/gumnuts-transformed-into-mesmerising-artworks-20210427-p57mps
By Neha Kale For the past three decades, artist Maria Fernanda Cardoso has blurred the line between the natural world and human artifice, demanding that we look more closely at nature. By Neha Kale. “People love to be afraid of nature. They are fascinated by fear but not love.” – …
UPCOMING EXHIBITION DETAILS: Opening reception and conversation with Judith Blackall: 22 May, 3-5 pm Please rsvp@sullivanstrumpf.com or watch on Instagram LIVE I Show dates: 20 May – 5 June 2021 Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday 10am – 5pm or by appointment I Address: 799 Elizabeth St, Zetland NSW 2017 ___ …
La reconocida curadora colombiana habló con Revista BOCAS. Por: Myriam Bautista 09 de marzo 2021 , 05:00 a. m. Su firma aparece en proyectos curatoriales y museográficos definitivos para el arte en Colombia y en acciones que fortalecieron la escena artística nacional fuera del país, especialmente en la Galería de la Raza …
The work of María Fernanda Cardoso has a consistent feature – looking at the different ways geometry manifesting itself in living creatures. Cardoso has developed a powerful body of work based on the intrinsic forms of animals and plants, and combining them in unexpected ways. Her work evolves in series …
Works from the MCA Collection relating to land, mapping and environmental change. Until 4 September 2022, level 2. This major new display reimagines the MCA’s Level 2 galleries, which are dedicated to the Museum’s permanent collection. MCA Collection: Perspectives on place brings together artworks that explore the social and physical aspects of …
RENOWNED Colombian-born Australian artist Maria Fernanda Cardoso says her artwork commissioned for the Central Acute Service Building (CASB) continues her love and respect for nature and all life in it. Her 16-metre tall piece, A Tree Full of Life – near the front entrance of Westmead’s CASB and adjacent to …
In this 2007 rewind, artist, sculptor and illustrator, Maria Fernanda Cardoso shares the inspiration for some of her evocative works showcased at the ‘The Hours’, an exhibition of contemporary Latin-American art. Watch the episode here https://iview.abc.net.au/show/rewind/series/5/video/AC1926H030S00
from Sullivan+Strumpf Contemporary Art Gallery Sydney, Australia and Singapore – Summer 2020 by sullivanstrumpf. Ahead of her upcoming Sullivan+Strumpf solo debut in May 2021, Colombian-born artist Maria Fernanda Cardoso gives us a tour of her garden and an insight into her inspiration as an artist. Maria Fernanda Cardoso is a …
I am glad to be part of the the largest exhibition of Australian women’s work, “Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now” Part 1: 14 November 2020 – 4 July 2021 Free entry, book your timed ticket knowmyname.nga.gov.au “Know My Name showcases art made by all women. Told …
Alberto Baraya, Claudio Bravo, Aldo Bonadei, Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Magdalena Fernández, Thomas Glassford, Gabriel de la Mora, Marie Orensanz, Alejandro Otero, Miguel Angel Ríos, Melanie Smith, Ana Maria Tavares October 8 – December 19, 2020 Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino is pleased to present our new exhibition Nature, on view …
I am pleased to invite you to a new exhibition “Nature”, featuring work by me and other artists like Melanie Smith, Ana Maria Tavares, Gabriel de la Mora and more, on view from October 1 through December 19, 2020 at Sicardi Ayers Bacino in Houston, TX. To schedule a visit, …
El primer proyecto artístico a nivel nacional de la pandemia. El arte tiene la capacidad paradójica de jugar entre la catástrofe, la reflexión y la comunicación. Históricamente, siempre ha reaccionado en tiempos de crisis, sacudiendo y despertando la sensibilidad colectiva. Los artistas son enviados especiales de la realidad, que interpretan …
What are the different ways we communicate and connect? Join MCA Artist Educator Liam as he introduces you to the video work On the Origins of Art I–II by artist Maria Fernanda Cardoso in the MCA Collection. Liam focuses on the subject of this work, the Australian Maratus spider. He will lead you through …
Estoy participando de la muestra MIKRÓN vinculada a ARTBO fin de semana digital #ARTBOfds con Phallomedusa solida, una ampliación de la imagen capturada con microscopio electrónico del pene de esta especie de caracol nativo de los manglares de la bahía de Sídney, Australia. Tomé de referente a este espécimen para …
Published on El Tiempo https://www.eltiempo.com/cultura/arte-y-teatro/cultura-la-artista-plastica-maria-fernanda-cardoso-y-su-obra-sobre-el-coronavirus-516720 Considered a Colombian art star, she talks about how to live in the days of covid-19. María Fernanda Cardoso dreamed of being Leonardo da Vinci when she was a child, but not only the Leonardo de La Mona Lisa and the one from The Last …
Artículo publicado en El Tiempo https://www.eltiempo.com/cultura/arte-y-teatro/cultura-la-artista-plastica-maria-fernanda-cardoso-y-su-obra-sobre-el-coronavirus-516720 Considerada como una estrella del arte colombiano, habla sobre cómo vivir en tiempos de covid-19. Por: Fernando Gómez Echeverri María Fernanda Cardoso soñaba con poder ser Leonardo da Vinci cuando era niña, pero no solo el Leonardo de La Mona Lisa y el de La …
Curador: John Ángel Rodríguez. Las obras exhibidas en Simbiosis Entrópica invitan al espectador a establecer conexiones e interpretaciones, que precedan la narrativa tradicional y el discurso hermenéutico de la historia del arte, para de esta manera posibilitar una nueva forma de disertación y renovar la experiencia contemplativa. La tecnología nos permite superar …
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Curaduría por John Ángel Rodríguez Casa Hoffmann Bogotá, Colombia March 6, 2020 – April 4, 2020 Así como el microscopio nos ha permitido observar configuraciones y formas de vida sorprendentes, las piezas aquí presentadas retan la noción de obra de arte convencional, congregando a un grupo de creadores que experimentan …
The internationally acclaimed artist will use the $50,000 Fellowship to create digital portraits of an Australian spider. By Justine Nguyen on March 20, 2020 Maria Fernanda Cardoso has been announced as the recipient of the 2019/20 New Dimensions: NSW Visual Arts (Established) Fellowship, presented by Create NSW and the Museum …
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, the Colombia-born, Sydney-based artist who creates nature-inspired sculptures and installations comprising unconventional and organic materials, has been named the recipient of the 2019–20 New Dimensions Fellowship for established visual artists. The award, which is valued at up to $30,000, is administered by NSW Create—the creative arm of …
Elizabeth Fortescue ARTS EDITOR FEW people would call any kind of creepy crawly “completely charming”. But Maria Fernanda Cardoso does. And the celebrated Sydney artist will use a $50,000 fellowship to photograph Maratus spiders in the midst of their most risky sexual gambits. Whether they make you shudder or not, …
Maria Fernanda Cardoso has been named the recipient of the 2019/20 New Dimensions: NSW Visual Arts (Established) Fellowship, developed in partnership with Create NSW and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA). The partnership between Create NSW and MCA is in its second year and supports the ongoing professional practice of visual arts …
MIKRON Artists: Johanna Arenas, Karen Aune, Marcela Calderón, María Fernanda Cardoso, Ximena Díaz, Yury Forero, Alfredo Gil, Carmen Gil, Aníbal Gomescasseres, Álvaro Diego Gómez, Iván Herrera, Lina Hincapié, Philip Klawitter, Alvaro Lacouture, Andrés Layos, María José Leaño, Luz Lizarazo, Adriana Marmorek, Camilo Manrique, Sonia Rojas, Santiago Torres, Santiago Vargas, Carolina …
Así como el microscopio nos ha permitido observar configuraciones y formas de vida sorprendentes, las piezas aquí presentadas retan la noción de obra de arte convencional, congregando a un grupo de creadores que experimentan con nuevos recursos discursivos y materialidades, para de esta manera manifestar sutilmente algunas fuentes de referencia …
MIKRÓN es una curaduría cuyo formato de investigación examina el pensamiento multidimensional. Por lo tanto, los artistas y obras que hacen parte de esta exhibición, documentan de forma tangencial el resultado de esa indagación teórica, donde los proyectos proponen miradas transversales a este universo. MIKRÓN, el término que se ha elegido …
Por Simón Posada LA BOGOTANA MARÍA FERNANDA CARDOSO, EGRESADA DE LA FACULTAD DE ARTES DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES Y CON UN MÁSTER EN ESCULTURA DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DE YALE, LOGRÓ AMAESTRAR PULGAS Y CON ELLAS CREÓ UN PARTICULAR ESPECTÁCULO QUE PRESENTÓ EN LA TATE MODERN GALLERY DE LONDRES, …
Curated by Eugenio Viola PAC Milano once again explores international cultures with a major new exhibition showcasing contemporary art from the Australian continent. AUSTRALIA. ANTIPODEAN STORIES is the largest exhibition of contemporary art to be presented outside Australia, and includes 32 artists from established to emerging and from different generations and …
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Invita Ministerio de las Culturas de las Artes y el Patrimonio IV Seminario/Taller; desafíos en la conservación del arte contemporáneo“Sistemas Inestables” El Centro Nacional de Conservación y Restauración, la Galería Gabriela Mistral, el Centro Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo y el Área de nuevos medios del Ministerio de las Culturas las Artes …
Taking its title from the popular Spanish expression, ANOTHER SPACE’s upcoming exhibition Pan y Circo: Appease, Distract, Disrupt will examine how artists from various generations frequently use circus tropes, props and other forms of spectacle, as tools for a political critique on the widespread rise of populism. Originally attributed to …
As a special event organised by the Sydney University Research Community for Latin America (SURCLA) and the School of Languages and Cultures, Dr Fernanda Peñaloza from the University of Sydney and Dr Sarah Walsh from Washington State University will be launching their book Mapping South-South Connections: Australia and Latin America …
Blanc Art has selected ten Colombian artists that are leaving a mark on the art scene. From from photographers to media makers, from sculptures to installations, each artist is special with a unique and bold vision. Let’s inspire, let’s share art! Blan Art Maria Fernanda CardosoBogotá, 1963 (Currently living in …
El Museo de Antioquia en coproducción con el Instituto Distrital para las Artes –Idartes- presentan en Medellín la investigación retrospectiva Retro Visión Espectral: aproximaciones a una historia del videoarte en Colombia con la curaduría del pionero de este medio en el país, Gilles Charalambos, francés de nacimiento, antioqueño por adopción, …
El pasado miércoles 13 de febrero se lanzó la primera exposición del año en el marco de la conmemoración de la Galería Espacio Alterno: Materiales en Expansión · Expresiones en el campo de la creación de artistas Uniandinos, bajo la curaduría de la artista Maria Teresa Guerrero, artista plástica de …
Meet María Fernanda Cardoso, a Colombian artist based in Sydney, Australia. Cardoso creates art that explores nature and its links to culture and science. ‘For me, art is freedom, and of course it’s informed by the natural world’, says the artist. One of the artist’s best-known works is ‘The Cardoso …
Una original e interesante exposición de artistas comprometidos con el tejido en diferentes materiales, técnicas e inspiradas creaciones, en Espacio Alterno, la galería de Uniandinos. By Ana María Escallón Una exposición diversa e interesante se presenta en Espacio Alterno, galería que hace parte de Uniandinos y que cumple treinta años …
By Andrew Goldstein. Oh, Armory Show. So far away, such lines, the bitter cold wind ripping in from the river, the constant drama… but it’s always more fun than you expect, sales are a-poppin’, and, hey, you get to catch up with old business-mixed-with-after-party-pleasure acquaintances you haven’t seen since the …
By Melanie Kembrey What was once a backyard swimming pool is now a murky pond with a budding ecosystem. In a corner of the overgrown garden rests a stone roughly hand-engraved with ‘‘TIME IS’’. The wild cacophony of nature continues inside with native flowers, a pair of preserved emu legs, …
By Esther Allen In 1974, after a decade of life under military dictatorship, a Brazilian artist named Anna Bella Geiger made a video that runs sixteen minutes, eighteen seconds. It shows her head and upper torso against a white wall. Early on, she’s holding a white cat, but at some …
By Art Almanac Sydney-based artist Maria Fernanda Cardoso will create a major new series of sculptures from a rare significant find of approximately 4,000 cubic-metres of ‘yellow Sydney’ sandstone, harvested and commissioned by TWT Property Group. TWT specialise in establishing quality residential communities with a commitment to art and architecture; they’re also …
By Architecture and Design A new living artwork featuring bottle trees and natural sandstone has been unveiled in Sydney’s Green Square. The idea behind the artwork is that it will grow with the expanding Green Square community and allow people of all ages to interact with the work. While I …
By Arts Review A new living artwork featuring bottle trees and natural sandstone will grow in time with the expanding Green Square community and allow people of all ages to interact with the work. While I Live I Will Grow by Maria Fernanda Cardoso was unveiled at the former Royal South …
‘Apología a lo perecedero’, una muestra del trabajo de María Fernanda Cardoso y Danilo Dueñas, es la última del ciclo expositivo TIMELINE. Abre el 14 de febrero. Desde el año pasado, la galería Casas Riegner se ha preguntado por su historia. Con el ciclo de exposiciones TIMELINE, que se inauguró en …
By María Fernanda Cardoso The following account of the integration of art and science in scientific modelling was originally part of my practice-based doctoral research based on the large-scale installation The Museum of Copulatory Organs As a visual artist and visual thinker, I believe in the power of images and objects …
By Djom Mundine. After experiencing your MCA Artbar work, I asked if you were Amerindian? You said that you don’t claim this status but are of mixed descent (mestizo). In Australia the term half-caste is taken as an insult. Can you explain how being mestizo works in Colombia? Most of …
By Ana María Escallón. María Fernanda Cardoso es una artista que realmente, tiene presencia internacional: en estos días expone en Sydney, Australia, donde vive y trabaja. Y nada menos porque está participando en el Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize 2015, seleccionada por el curador Tim Johnson junto a 21 de los artistas contemporáneos …
by Lara Stevens Abstract When the genome mapping of human sex chromosomes was completed in 2005, mainstream media reports on the findings claimed that the science provided evidence that women were a ‘different species’ to men. Many responses to the findings interpreted the research in ways that reinforced traditional patriarchal …
By Bhakthi Puvanenthiran Maria Fernanda Cardoso may have moved on from snail penises, but the world of insect sex isn’t out of her sights yet. As one of six recipients of the Australia Council’s established artist fellowships, Columbian-born Cardoso can continue her work on the cusp of art and science …
By Andrew Bolt. Scores of writers – very few of whom you’d have heard, let alone read – are angry the Abbott Government has trimmed arts funding, a blow particularly to artists who cannot find a paying audience: We also strongly object to the reduction in arts funding, specifically the Australia …
Written by Roberta Buiani and Gary Genosko Abstract In 2011, Australian-based artist Maria Fernanda Cardoso exhibited her multi-part work It is not Size that Matters, it is Shape at ARC One gallery in Melbourne. It was the first of a series of installations focusing on the reproductive organs of the …
By Melba Escobar Se hizo mundialmente conocida por el Circo de las Pulgas. Hace diez años estuve en el Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, que aunque no trajo el espectáculo completo puso una carpa y un video. Desde entonces pensaba en ella como una artista arriesgada y …
By Morgan Joice Insect genitalia provide inspiration for a trail-blazing artist. Inside a former mental asylum, we sit surrounded by penises. Some are pronged or hooked, others sport dreadlocks. Some are kept for safety under glass. Dr Freud could not have conjured a more disturbing fantasy. Yet all these male …
By Elizabeth Fortescue MARIA Fernanda Cardoso is well and truly over any embarrassment about the identity of the strangely beautiful but rather odd-shaped objects she will present at the 18th Biennale of Sydney, which opens in June. Having discussed the objects with scientists all over the world, Cardoso is sanguine about the …
La bogotana, creadora del Circo de pulgas, participa en la muestra “Dead or Alive” del Museo de Arte y Diseño de Nueva York, en la que expone sus obras junto a artistas de la talla del británico Damien Hirst. Los animales, en especial los insectos, son su obsesión. Tanto que …
By Karen Rosenberg Combine some of the materials in “Dead or Alive” at the Museum of Arts and Design, and you’d have a potent witch’s brew. A single piece by Tessa Farmer, for instance, makes use of a ram skull, a mummified frog and bat, bladderwort, hedgehog spikes, weasel skulls, a …
By Roberta Smith In December 1983 the Argentine Conceptual artist Marta Minujin and a group of helpers spent 17 days building a full-scale model of the Parthenon in a public park in Buenos Aires. Except for a metal scaffolding, it was made almost entirely of books wrapped in plastic. All …
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