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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