Mecaro: Amazonia in the Petitgas Collection at MO.CO Montpellier / March 13, 2020 by Lucia Pizzani

I’m excited to be exhibiting works that span from 2015 to 2019 in this Museum show of works in the Collection of Catherine Petitgas. A total of 10 artworks from Pizzani that includes her Collodion wet plates, Ceramics, Photograms and works on paper have been chosen to participate, amongst the group of more that 100 pieces from over 50 artists from the Amazonian basin. The show takes place from March the 6th to May 31st 2020 at MO.CO in Montpellier, France.

The exhibition curated by Vincent Honoré, Directeur des expositions, Anna Kerekes, Senior Curator et Jacqueline Kok, Curator with an exhibition design by Mr & Mr, is the first institutional presentation of Catherine Petitgas’ collection. A significant figure in the recognition of contemporary Latin American art in Europe, she has been collecting works for over twenty years. Her collection today consists of more than 900 works from rich the selection was made to be shown at the MO.CO Hôtel des collections.

The exhibition, whose its title means “ the spirit of the forest ” in the Krahô language, emphasizes the relationship between these artists from this territory and their socio-economical and mental environment. There will be an accompanying catalogue with contributions by Kiki Mazzucchelli, Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino and Claire Luna will be available. Two separate interviews with Catherine Petitgas and Sol Calero complete the publication.

Participating artists are:

Armando Andrade Tudela, Claudia Andujar, Brígida Baltar, Alberto Baraya, Milena Bonilla, Vivian Caccuri, Sol Calero, Patricia Camet, Tania Candiani, Carolina Caycedo, Chelpa Ferro, Lygia Clark, Donna Conlon, Alexandre da Cunha, José Damasceno, Elena Damiani, Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez, Sandra Gamarra, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Gego, Anna Bella Geiger, Sonia Gomes, Beatriz Gonzáles, Claudia Jaguaribe, Lucia Laguna, Tonico Lemos Auad, Oswaldo Maciá, Teresa Margolles, Beatriz Milhazes, Paulo Nazareth, Maria Nepomuceno, Ernesto Neto, Rivane Neuenschwander, Lucia Nogueira, Hélio Oiticica, OPAVIVARÁ!, Nohemí Pérez, Solange Pessoa, Lucia Pizzani, Manuela Ribadaneira, Abel Rodríguez, Ivan Serpa, Valeska Soares, Clarissa Tossin, Erika Verzutti, Danh Vo and Luiz Zerbini.

Photos Left to right: Exhibition view (Marc Domage), Amate Paper works by Lucia Pizzani, Black Clay Limbica series by Lucía Pizzani, Mapanare photogram by Lucía Pizzani, MECARO invite, Ligya Clark (Marc Domage), Exhibition view with Elena Damiani, Carolina Caycedo, Clarissa Tossin & Ernesto Neto (Marc Domage) and Sol Calero Hair Salon installation (Marc Domage). Photos by Domage are courtesy of Mo.Co Montpellier Contemporain.

Contagio at Cecilia Brunson Projects / January 29, 2020 by Lucia Pizzani

Exhibiting artists: Cecilia Bonilla, Alexandre Canonico, Martin Cordiano, Patricia Domínguez, Jaime Gili, Lucía Pizzani, Manuela Ribadeneira & Lizi Sánchez & Chino Soria. January 17 to march 6th 2020 at Cecilia Brunson Projects

Patricia Dominguez, Martin Cordiano and Lucía Pizzani. Left to right Photo: Eva Herzog — Patricia Dominguez, Martin Cordiano and Lucía Pizzani. Left to right
Photo: Eva Herzog

Artist Jaime Gili curates this exhibition that brings together nine Latin American artists most of whom live in the United Kingdom. Contagio consists of newly commissioned or recent artworks by: Cecilia Bonilla, Alexandre Canonico, Martin Cordiano, Patricia Domínguez, Jaime Gili, Lucía Pizzani, Manuela Ribadeneira, Lizi Sánchez and Chino Soria. Accompanying the works, there will be a library displaying publications selected by each artist.

In combining art and literature, each artist communicates a personal, poetic or political message that speaks to past and present Latin American and European artistic traditions and cultural circumstances. In doing so, Contagio is an experiment to test the depth of the artists’ shared perspective at the confluence between Latin America and Europe. With nearly every country in the Southern Cone represented, Contagio aims to openly highlight the importance of cultural exchange and illustrate how the flow of artistic and cultural traditions have a ‘contagious’ element to them.

Alongside the exhibition, a catalogue will be published with a text by Kiki Mazzucchelli.

Todopoderosa (2019) C-Print from sepia tined photogram — Todopoderosa (2019)
C-Print from sepia tined photogram

Installation shots below by Eva Herzog. Courtesy of Cecilia Brunson Projects

Fotonoviembre Bienal Internacional de Fotografía de Tenerife / November 12, 2019 by Lucia Pizzani

FotoNoviembre an International Photography Biennial, taking place at the TEA Espacio de las Artes and other spaces in Tenerife will run until march 2020. I have been invited by curator Laura Valles to show my Collodion wetplates and Textile sculptures from El Adorador de la Imagen project (2013) and she also commissioned a new photographic work.

The plates and textiles cocoons are at the TEA Museum in Santa Cruz and the new Pieles (Ensamblaje) is at the Las Catalinas a monastery and art centre run by TEA in San Cristobal de la Laguna.

Exhibited artist include: Ana Mendieta, Claude Cahun, Nan Goldin, Graciela Iturbide, Tacita Dean, Wolfang Tilmans, Andres Duque, Carla Zaccagnini, Patricia Dominguez, Eva Fabregas and Eli Cortiñas, amongst others. More info: http://fotonoviembre.org/

The public programme is curated by Alba Colomo and includes Silvia Federici and other speakers and activities and the main exhibition is also curated by Mette Kjaergaard and Cine Porvenir. They have devised a collective way to work dividing the Bienal in 4 sections: Image, Body, Entanglements and Now (Imagen, Cuerpo, Ahora, Enredos y Ahora). Imagen by Laura Vallés, Cuerpo by Cine Provenir, Enredos by Mette Kjaergaard and Ahora by Alba Colomo.

*Pieles Ensamblaje (2019) exhibited in Las Catalinas Monastery*

Exhibitions views with works by Eva Fabregas, Ana Mendieta, Ahlam Shibli, Ludovica Carbotta, Patricia Dominguez, René Magritte and Eli Cortiñas.

Group exhibition at House of Egorn, Berlin / July 4, 2019 by Lucia Pizzani

Titled “Sticky: like a Summer night” this show curated by Àngels Miralda Tena at House of Egorn include the following artists: Julie Favreau, Nicholas William Johnson, Martín Llavaneras, Lucía Pizzani and Juana Subercaseaux.
Im showing the Capullo ceramics and the collodion wet plates Impronta Series. Both part of The Worshipper of the Image an exhibition that took place in Caracas and London as the result of Premio Mendoza I received in 2013.

The show will be open until July 27th at Potsdamer Straße 96
MORE INFO HERE

*Installation view. Photo by Joseph Devitt*

Commission for The Photographers Gallery / July 4, 2019 by Lucia Pizzani

Survival Mode: A Long and Complicated Venezuelan Tale

This commissioned piece that was published in June at The Photographers' Gallery website is part of Urban Impulses: Latin American Photography: 1959 to 2016.

The show curated by Maria Willis and Alexis Fabri from the Poniatowski collection will be on view until October the 6th.

This collaboration is a text that accompanies my Basic food basket photogram series (Cesta Basica) and it aims to communicate the story and current situation in Venezuela while talking about the photographic response to it.
READ IT HERE

Artist in Residency at Fundación Marso, Ciudad de México / February 28, 2019 by Lucia Pizzani

From Februrary 10 to March the 11th I’ll be in residency at Fundación Marso. The experience has been enriching and exhilarating. To finalise the stay in México I’ll be presenting “Coraza” a solo exhibition at Marso that will open on March 7th and will be on view until April 15th. Some the activities so far have a been a research trip to Oaxaca and a In Conversation with Curator Carlos Palacios. Find images below and more information on this LINK

Showing at Artissima 2018 and booth awarded / November 6, 2018 by Lucia Pizzani

The Límbica series were exhibited at the 25th anniversary of Artissima in Torino, with Cecilia Brunson Projects in a joined booth with Alejandro Corujeira. This project was selected as one of the winners of the New Entries Fair Fund Award.

The ceramic sculptures were accompanied by the Extremidades photographs that play along with human skin and the textures of the pieces. Publicactions of the artist were also available to the public.

Pizzani was included in the Walkie Talkies held by collector Frances Reynolds and curator Milovan Farronato. This series of talks toured around the fair to explore and discuss selected artworks and Pizzani together with Cecilia Brunson were invited to talk about the works and the booth proposal.

Limbica Series (2018)

Extremidades (2018)
C-Prints on aluminium and acrilyc

Nuevo País de la Artes / Publicación / January 11, 2018 by Lucia Pizzani

Un proyecto editorial de Banesco. Editado por Antonio Lopez Ortega
Entrevistada por Edmundo Bracho con fotografías de Ivan Gonzalez.
Leer el libro completo aquí
Leer entrevista a Lucia Pizzani aquí

Artistas incluidos: Lucía Pizzani, Starsky Brines, Nayarí Castillo, Suwon Lee, Esmelyn Miranda, Leonardo Nieves, José Vivenes, Daniel Medina, Christian Vinck, Juan Pablo Garza, Érika Ordosgoitti, Paul Parrella, María Virginia Pineda, Ana Alenso, Sol Calero, Miguel Braceli, Iván Candeo, Conrado Pittari, Armando Ruiz, Florencia Alvarado, Oscar Abraham Pabón, Camilo Barboza, Armando Rosales, Raily Yance y Luis Mata.

Nuevo País de las Artes es la tercera entrega de la colección Los Rostros Del Futuro, iniciada por el Fondo Editorial Banesco en 2015. Después del primer volumen dedicado a los nuevos talentos musicales y del segundo dedicado a los nuevos escritores, esta tercera entrega corresponde a los nuevos artistas visuales de Venezuela. Los tres volúmenes cuentan con la edición y compilación del escritor Antonio López Ortega. Para la selección de los 25 artistas que se incluyen en Nuevo País de las Artes se conformó un Comité de 20 especialistas entre críticos, curadores, investigadores, museógrafos, museólogos, galeristas y promotores. Cada uno de ellos elaboró su listado particular y, una vez cruzados todos los postulados, se escogieron los artistas que contaran con más menciones o votos. La categoría de jóvenes artistas o artistas emergentes se definió a partir de sus años de nacimiento, entre 1975 y 1990.

De cada uno de los artistas se publica una entrevista en profundidad sobre aspectos de vida y obra, acompañada por una sesión de retratos realizados por fotógrafos reconocidos. Cincuenta profesionales, periodistas y fotógrafos expertos en procesos culturales, son quienes trabajan con estos artistas, y este proceso enriquece el resultado final y consolida un diálogo colectivo donde sobresalen visiones de mundo, perspectivas de dimensión humana, poéticas individuales e importantes lecturas sobre el país. En un proyecto como este la imagen es dominante, y gracias a la curaduría de Pietro Daprano y Carmen Julieta Centeno, el libro contiene, como apéndice, una selección de obras de cada uno de los artistas que remite a variedad, complejidad y belleza.