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Certain Encounters: Daros-Latin America Collection

2006 / ISBN 0-88865-787-0
48 pages, b/w and colour, paperback

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Exhibition catalogue from Certain Encounters: Daros-Latin America Collection at the Belkin (7 April-4 June 2006) with an essay by Keith Wallace. Certain Encounters presents the work of 21 artists who have made important contributions to visual art in Latin America. The Daros-Latin America Collection is based in Zürich, Switzerland and was initiated in 2000. It currently includes more than one hundred artists from all regions of Latin America and the works focus primarily on the past 20 years with important examples included from the 50s, 60s and 70s. One of the main challenges in working with a collection is making a selection from a finite number, a selection of works that already has an identity determined by a particular acquisition program. This necessitates a process of curating an entity that is, a sense, already curated. Rather than attempting to extract a thematic exhibition from the collection or to provide a linear overview of Latin American art, this exhibition emphasizes three important areas from the past five decades. They include abstract, perceptual work from the 1960s and 1970s, conceptual language-based work from the 1970s and 1980s and the more overtly social/political work of the past twenty years. The work of many of these artists has never been seen before in Vancouver. Certain Encounters includes work by Carmelo Arden Quin, Fernando Arias, Waltercio Caldas, Luis Camnitzer, Iván Jesús Capote Puentes, Lygia Clark, Carlos Cruz–Diez, Antonio Dias, Juan Manuel Echavarria, León Ferrari, Jorge Macchi, Teresa Margolles, Ana Mendieta, Vik Muniz, Oscar Muñoz, Hélio Oiticica, Manuel Piña, Nelson Ramos, Lázaro Saavedra, Santiago Sierra and Melanie Smith.

 

  • Keith Wallace

    Curator, Writer

    Independent curator Keith Wallace (Canadian, b. 1951) has been a curator of contemporary art since 1979. From 1991 to 2001 he was Curator, then Director/Curator, of the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver where he developed a program of regional, national and international exhibitions. He has organized exhibitions for the Vancouver Art Gallery, National Gallery of Canada, The Power Plant, Toronto, and the Belkin, where he was Associate Director/Curator from 2005 to 2008 and 2012 to 2015. Wallace has travelled to India more than a dozen times over close to thirty years and artists of South Asian descent he has exhibited in Vancouver include Shani Mootoo, Sunil Gupta, Vivan Sundaram, Subodh Gupta, and Anita Dube. From 2004 to 2020, he was Editor-in-Chief of Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, the first English-language publication on contemporary Chinese art that is edited and designed in Vancouver and published in Taipei, Taiwan.

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    7 April 2006 – 4 June 2006

    Certain Encounters: Daros-Latin America Collection

    Certain Encounters: Daros-Latin America Collection presents the work of 21 artists who have made important contributions to visual art in Latin America. The Daros-Latin America Collection is based in Zürich, Switzerland and was initiated in 2000. It currently includes more than one hundred artists from all regions of Latin America and the works focus primarily on the past 20 years with important examples included from the 50s, 60s and 70s.

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