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Everything Which We Love is Lost
ASPECTS OF MODERNISM AND CONTEMPORANEITY IN BLACK AND WHITE 21 Oct - 26 Nov 2023Mira Schendel, Waltercio Cáldas, Victor Vasarely, Eduardo Terrazas, Jorge Riveros, Joaquín Segura, Ernesto Leal, Johanna Calle, Rafael Echeverri, Jaime Bellechasse, Lucio Celis, Federico Ovalles, Antonio Pichillá, Ernesto Briel, Juan Iribarren, Pedro Tagliafico, Guillermo García Cruz, Carlos Rojas, Pedro de Oraá, Eduardo Ramirez Villamizar, Alfredo Hlito, Alberto Miani, Beatriz Grau, Andrés Michelena, Eduardo Mac Entyre, Milton Becerra, Eugenio Espinoza, Julio Le Parc, Julia Carrillo, Manolo Vellojín, and Belkis Ayón.Read more -
HETEROTROPISMOS. Federico Ovalles. Lima, Perú
Federico Ovalles solo exhibition @ the Cultural Center of San Isidro Lima 10 May - 15 Jun 2023Federico Ovalles has a unique language that stems from the historical and social framework of his Venezuelan origin, common to a region that was forged under urban utopian promises that...Read more -
FEDERICO OVALLES @ PArC LIMA
SOLO EXHIBIT @ SOLO DUO PROJECTS CURATED BY FLOR BATTITI 19 - 23 Apr 2023I am interested in working with divergent ideas between triumphs and failures of Latin American modernity and its consequences, expressed in those areas of the current city that function as "non-city" and in contrast with the architectural majesty of great works that erected the modern Latin American city of the mid-twentieth century. The main axes of my observation and exploration are architecture, geometry, abstractionism and historical constructivism, approaching it beyond tradition, through immediacy, provisionality, spontaneous order and constructive precariousness that so much marks the reality in the present of Latin America. I counterpose dissimilar materials to create pieces of assemblage and installations that reference the architectural in a fragile or provisional way, I also build geometries on fabrics or natural fibers and with materials found in the city.Read more -
ZONA MACO 2023
Lucio Celis Julia Carrillo Ernesto Leal Federico Ovalles Joaquin Segura 8 - 12 Feb 2023In our first international art fair participation at Zona Maco 2023, we are proud to convey two of our gallery’s most important messages through the artworks of five of our...Read more -
ETHOS
22 Oct 2022 - 25 Feb 2023'Ethos' is defined as the 'Set of traits and modes of behavior that make up the character or identity of a person or community.' Ethos is part of the main...Read more -
ZONA MACO 2022. LGM Gallery
Jorge Riveros & Federico Ovalles 9 - 13 Feb 2022 -
Destrudo Substrato Medellin
Federico Ovalles exhibit @ the Alliance Française of Medellin. Curated by Nydia Gutierrez 2 Dec 2021 - 28 Jan 2022Federico Ovalles was born in Caracas in 1972. During the seventies and eighties, the decades of his growth and artistic training, the city simultaneously witnessed the successes and weaknesses of the promises of modernity.Read more
On the one hand, since the 1950s a large group of Venezuelan artists -from Paris- had taken on with vigor, and much added originality, the avant-garde tendencies affiliated with the experimentation of the European metropolis. But also in that period Caracas was already beginning to witness the failure of those dreams that, on the other hand, can be seen as dreams close to those cherished by many Latin American cities, including Medellín.
Also in artistic events —in the popularity of the various forms of abstractionism— a path advanced that took geometric abstraction to the unusual circuit of boom, popularity, officialization to the point of monumentalization... and disenchantment. From there arises the work of Federico Ovalles, in whose context he appears destroyed, developed mostly in Medellín for this exhibition.
Nydia Gutierrez
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UTOPÍAS DE LO INMATERIAL
Federico Ovalles 18 Nov 2021 - 14 Mar 2022Curated by Francisco ArévaloRead more