END THE CULTURAL EMBARGO TO PUERTO RICO NOW! KATY AND BEATRIZ FROM LA CENTRAL DENIED USA VISA TO ENTER PUERTO RICO BECAUSE OF BEING COLOMBIANS

CIRCA LABS, CURATED BY PABLO LEON DE LA BARRA IN SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO

sketches for proposal


Pablo Leon de la Barra’s proposal for CIRCA LABS proposes a laboratory to explore possible cultural scenarios in Puerto Rico, it functions as a kind of Village Fair/Market/Open Museum, where invited galleries, some of the most interesting young contemporary galleries from the American continent, take over containers which become ‘rooms’ of an open air museum which doesn’t exist in Puerto Rico yet. In the space between the containers, a social space is created where different local artists and organizations will create an oasis-activation zone. There will also be a space with hammocks, a bulletin board for cultural proposals for Puerto Rico, a reading area, a hanging painting exhibition and an outdoor cinema. With this, within the art fair CIRCA LABS provides an opportunity to envision future possibilities for cultural life in Puerto Rico and creates a different scenario for market and culture to coexist.

Invited Galleries:
La Central, Colombia
http://lacentral.com.co/

Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City
http://www.proyectosmonclova.com/

Diablo Rosso, Panama
http://www.diablorosso.com/

Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala
http://www.proyectosultravioleta.com/

Revolver, Peru
http://www.revolvergaleria.com

PRETEEN, Hermosillo, Mexico
http://preteengallery.net

In the Outdoor Cinema there will be videos of the following Puerto Rican artists:
Beatriz Santiago, Monica Rodriguez, Michael Linares, Javier Bosque...

In the Outdoor Painting exhibition works by:
Radames Juni Figueroa, Bobby Cruz, Melvin Martinez, Chemi Rosado, Fernando Pintado, Josue Pellot...

Radames Juni Figueroa will create a tropical garden with plants, a coconut fountain and a rainbow...

Esteban Gabriel will create the furniture for the reading room...

Jesus Bubu Negron will create the hamock zone...

Natalia 'Bambi' Valencia http://www.nataliavalencia.com/ will sing her songs...

There will be a reading table containing the printed material from the past puerto rican triennal curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Julieta Gonzalez and Jens Hoffman...

There will also be a reading cart with Puerto Rican art magazine Conboca http://www.conboca.org/ as well as another reading table containing e-flux journal http://www.e-flux.com/journal.

Finally, Beta Local http://www.betalocal.org/, an independent art-school-project residency in San Juan, headed by Michy Marxuach, Bea Santiago and Tony Cruz will create a bulletin board for cultural proposals in Puerto Rico.

'(S)OBRAS' AN EXHIBITION OF WORKS BY CHEMI ROSADO AT CHEMI PLACE, PUERTO RICO

entrance to Chemir Room, curtain made of beer caps




exhibition views


homage to Pollock, plywood, paint and skate marks


History on Wheels



Diary, newspaper cutouts


skater on ramp

Chemi Room y Cooperativa Internacional Tropical invitan a una muestra de (S)obras!
Una exhibición de trabajos de Chemi Rosado y amigos

Jueves 28 de Enero 2010, 7:30-11:00 PM
direccion: Calle Latimer 1407, parte posterior, Santurce, Puerto Rico, cerca de la Placita o Plaza del Mercado
(para llegar: es el 2do edificio del lado derecho en la calle que baja despues de haber pasado el Parkin de Minillas, Casa Amarilla pa dentro.
Alternativamente: salir de la Plaza hacia la Canals, ahi doblar a la derecha, en la proxima a la izq ,calle Latimer, subir entre edificio de apartamentos y casa bonita hasta casa amarilla al lado del parkin, por el porton azul pa bajo. o, al lado de la Asociacion de Empleados Gerenciales y Supervisores de la Autoridad de Carreteras, frente a la Mansion Marron y junto al Parkin Privado de la calle, Latimer 1407 parte posterior...)

En caso de perderse o no encontrar la dirección, llamar:
Chemi 7874843543
Pablo 9392456415

Medallas Light a precio economico y especialidades del chef Daniel

'IT IS IT' CURATED BY MARIA INES RODRIGUEZ IN PUERTO RICO

exhibition view, Carlos Garaicoa tables, David Shrigley 'It is It' painting, 2004


exhibition view


Claire Fontaine 'Passe-partout (Paris 10eme), 2006


Jenny Holzer, 1998




Martha Roesler, 'If it's too bad to be true, it could be DISINFORMATION', 1985



Carlos Garaicoa, 'To Transform Political Speech into Acts, Finally', 2005


Liam Gillick, 'An Experimental Factory in the North of Europe', 2004 (wish it was an experimental factory in the Caribbean!)


Lawrence Wiener, 1989


Gabriel Kuri, 'Quick Standards', 2006


Kendell Geers, 'Batons (circle)', 1994


exhibition view


Claire Fontaine, 'Foreigners Everywhere', 2007


Stan Douglas, 'Set for Inconsolable Memories, Vancouver), 2005


Allora & Calzadilla, 'Citizen-Ship', 2005


Stanley Brouwn, '1KM', 1976


Adrian Paci, 'Centro di Permanenza Temporanea', 2007


Jesus 'Bubu' Negron, 'Igualdad' 2004


Tania Bruguera 'Tatlin's Whisper no. 6', 2009


Carolina Caycedo, 'Herstory', 2009


Lutz Bacher, Carolina Caycedo


Lutz Bacher, 'Jokes (Barry Goldwater)', 1987


Exhibition reading room with lamps by Jorge Pardo (another way of being cuban different to Tania Bruguera's!)


David Lamelas, 'The Dictator'. 1978


Christoph Buchel, 'Parade', 2005




On Kawara 'I am Still Alive', 1984



in the Project Room: Carolina Caycedo, 'Swarm', 2009


Carolina Caycedo in front of her work


two cheverista women! curator Maria Ines Rodriguez and Carolina Caycedo


It is it and something else...
curated by Maria Ines Rodriguez

This season, Espacio 1414 presents three exhibitions that propose reflections
on the position of the artist towards the real, a confrontation of what the world
is and what it could be. Both It is It, Swarm and the works selected for the
Painting Room prove the complexity of the contemporary world and the geopolitical,
social and economic implications it entails. The new cartographies of
power that have arisen in the wake of contemporary conflicts, have redefined
new kinds of hierarchies and interests affecting civil society. Whether at a local
or a global level artists generate, through their work, another kind of cultural
construction that questions the universality of notions relating to territory,
totalitarianisms, displacement, belonging or exclusion and, therefore, the limits
of contemporaneity. Based upon the exhibited works, we state that art
continues to be one of the few remaining possibilities we have to create
interstices between terror and escape, room for reflection and discussion that
allows both artists and public to build a critical position towards the context in
which they live.

If, as writer Édouard Glissant pointed out, “the role of artists is to make certain
things visible in the mind and the imaginary so that change can come about”,
we might add that the role of the spectator, in turn, is to assume itself as an
active and emancipated player towards what the artist proposes, so that the
possible change suggested by Glissant can take place.

María Inés Rodríguez.
Curator.

http://www.espacio1414.org/

RADAMES 'JUNI' FIGUEROA, HOUSE-STUDIO VISIT IN SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO

Radames 'Juni' Figueroa's plant-shoe painting


Esteban Gabriel, Juni's friend and collaborator, covering plastic chairs in silver tape


sketch for a rainbow


sketch for rainbow and beer cooler


Juni's garden


Juni's rooftop with view to San Juan's bay and cruises


autoportrait of Radames 'Juni' Figueroa as Dracula, showing tatoo in chest and holding a bottle of 'Juni' Daniels


Radames 'Juni' Figueroa's tropical mural at computer shop


Radames 'Juni' Figueroa's zebra bar at El Local

see some of Juni's previous work here:
tropical bus stop, rooftops in La Perla, and whisky-coconut fountain!