The two-day symposium included contributions by Mira Asriningtyas, Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti, Renata Cervetto, Mateo Chacon-Pino, Galerie (Adriano Wilfert Jensen and Simon Asencio), Natasha Hoare, Kati Ilves, Prem Krishnamurthy, Inga Lace, Latitudes (Max Andrews and Mariana Cánepa Luna), Shona Mei Findlay, Fadwa Naamna, Kim Nguyen, Emma Ines Panza, Aneta Rostkowska and Kuba Woynarowski, Chris Sharp, Niels Van Tomme and Huib Haye van der Werf.
  
We also visited a few exhibitions and attended a few events  programmed for the Art Amsterdam Weekend (24–27 November). One of the highlights was Marinus Boezem's exhibition at Oude Kerk's grand Gothic architecture, one of its finest and oldest examples in Holland. Boezem's pieces resonated with the Gothic style of the church, an architecture that has fascinated him throughout this artistic practice – he has produced several pieces using plans of cathedrals, his most famous one being "Gothic Growing Project" (1978–1987), popularly known as "The Green Cathedral" in a polder landscape near Almere, composed of 178 Italian poplars.
 
And of course Friday is the big day at the Rijksakademie OPEN 2016, where we found interesting presentations by Argentinian performance artist Mercedes Azpilicueta; the Argentinian-Dutch Aimée Zito Lema; the abstracted images of Claudia Martínez Garay (below); the sculptural and archival material of British artist Alex Farrar around his suit; the glass work of German artist Christine Moldrickx; the drawings, paintings and small sculptures of Dutch artist Eva Spierenburg; the sculptural works by the also Dutch artist Marije Gertenbach and the large video work "Band Rumorose" by French artist Pauline Curnier Jardin on the Sicilian festivity devoted to San Sebastiano.


The beautiful retrospective "Machine Spectacle" by Swiss artist Jean Tinguely was cleverly paired with Jordan Wolfson's "Manic / Love" – part 1 of his first solo show in a Dutch institution. The show premieres his newest animatronic in Europe: "Colored sculpture" (2016) and is accompanied by three other works only: the video "Raspberry poser" (2012), a series of large inkjet prints and "The Crisis" (2004), one of his earliest video works. In February a second part (Truth / Love) will follow with his first animatronic (Female Figure, 2014) and a new videoinstallation.



RELATED CONTENT:

• The story behind José Antonio Hernández-Díez's 'San Guinefort' (1991) 29 March 2016
• David Jablonowski's "Hype Cycle" at Fons Welters, Amsterdam 14 December 2014;
• Report from the Amsterdam Art Weekend, 27–30 November 2014 now on Storify 2 December 2014;
• The Dutch Assembly, ARCOmadrid, 15–19 February 2012.

Cover Stories' are published on a monthly basis on Latitudes' homepage and feature past, present or forthcoming projects, research, exhibitions and field trips related to our activities.  

Related content:

• Archive of Cover Stories
• Photos of the launch of the publication 'LAND, ART: A Cultural Ecology Handbook' at the LCE, London 15 December 2006
• Photos of the publication 'LAND, ART: A Cultural Ecology Handbook' (RSA, 2006) 14 December 2006 
• Looking back – Visiting Robert Smithson's 'Spiral Jetty' (1970) 7 September 2004 
• Cover Story, November 2016: Plucking Gilda, synesthetic Toni and dazzling Víctor 2 November 2016
• Cover Story, October 2016: "A Funny thing Happened on the Way to the Gallery, 13 October 2016
• Cover Story, September 2016: "El misterio de Caviria" by Antoni Hervàs 1 Septiembre 2016
• Last chance to read the August 2016 Monthly Cover Story "Fermínlandia" 31 August 2016

In Spring 2015 Latitudes launched a limited edition of tote bags to mark its 10th anniversary. These four specially commissioned silkscreened tote bags feature designs by four artists with whom Latitudes has collaborated over the past decade: Lawrence Weiner (New York, 1942), Haegue Yang (Seoul, 1971), Ignasi Aballí (Barcelona, 1958) and Mariana Castillo Deball (Mexico City, 1975).

We are now offering a 30% discount, a special sale price of 35 Euros per tote (+shipping) valid throughout December 2016 (usually €50 + shipping). 

Edition: 35 + 5 A.P. (Haegue Yang's tote is ed. 20 + 10 AP)
Measurements: 38 high × 40 width × 14 base (in cm)
Fabric: 475 gsm natural chlorine-free cotton canvas
Strap: Adjustable Capacity: 15 litres
Weight: 420 gr aprox.
 
Each bag is made from natural durable cotton canvas with a reinforced base. They feature a press-stud closure, an internal pocket with a zip (never loose your keys again!), an adjustable shoulder strap, as well as smaller handles for carrying like a briefcase.

Each bag have been hand silkscreened in Print Workers, Barcelona; this is an artisanal process and each printing results in slight variations.

Place your order(s) from our website. Here some nice pics of our happy customers with their totes:





Related content:

• Latitudes' 4th anniversary (April 2009)
• Newsletter #22 – April 2010
• It's our 10th anniversary! (22 May 2015)
• Latitudes' Limited Edition Totes

Ana Jotta’s “Abans que me n’oblidi (Before I forget)”
PROJECTESD, Barcelona
September 30–November 26, 2016
 
by Mariana Cánepa Luna

"While it has been widely exhibited in her native Portugal, Ana Jotta’s work hasn’t been presented in depth to the Barcelona public since the early 1990s.(1) So this mini-survey of her production from 1980 to the present, framed as part of the Barcelona Gallery Weekend, is overdue. “Abans que me n’oblidi (Before I forget)” begins (or ends) at the intermediary patio space that one crosses before entering the main exhibition space at ProjecteSD. Part of a curved wall is covered with irregular patches of light gray and pale pink paint, as if emulating swatch tests for a redecoration. This playful gesture sets the tone for the exhibition inside, a somber and subtle palette of delicate intonations and provisional arrangements."  

Continue reading...
 
Originally published in art-agenda.com on November 8, 2016.


RELATED CONTENT:

• Writing archive on Latitudes' website;
• art-agenda review of Francesc Ruiz exhibition at garcía galería, Madrid, by Mariana Cánepa Luna, 4 March 2016;
• art-agenda review of Andrea Büttner exhibition at NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona, by Latitudes, 21 July 2014.

Hasta el próximo domingo 13 de noviembre 2016 tenéis oportunidad de visitar la exposición individual "El Misterio de Caviria" de Antoni Hervàs en La Capella. 

En paralelo a la exposicón, se han organizado una serie de actividades que han activado la exposición, la primera de las cuales tuvo lugar el 18 de septiembre en el antiguo local de fiestas Copacabana (actual aparcamiento del Department de Cultura de la Generalitat en La Rambla) cuando Juan de la Cruz el Rosillo, interpretó un emocionante repertorio de canciones acompañado por sus ya famosas castañuelas de cerámica.


A continuación el público se desplazó unos metros hasta el Frontón Colón donde Gerard López, el campeón de España masculino senior de gimnasia rítmica, realizó una coreografía llevando un maillot diseñado para la ocasión por Hervàs – actualmente expuesto en La Capella. El Copacabana fue el primer local de espectáculos de travestismo en la ciudad condal tras la Guerra Civil. Uno de sus números más populares era cuando la travesti Margarita (ahora encarnada en el premiado gimnasta), disfrazada con un traje de volantes hechos con papel de periódico, invitaba a los espectadores a que le prendieran fuego provocando su danza frenética. López interpretó una sinuosa versión de la danza de los siete velos compuesta por Norman Bambi  para esta ocasión, en la que los movimientos gráciles y seductores del atleta, encubren la poderosa y agresiva disciplina que requiere la gimnasia rítmica permitiéndole reavivar las cenizas del extinto local.


El 27 de octubre, en una velada organizada en colaboración con el cineasta Eduardo Gión (director de "Lentejuelas de sangre" (2012) y del espectáculo mensual "El Desplume!" en el Antic Teatre), se proyectaron en La Capella cinco cortos inéditos en Super-8 realizados por el legendario Pierrot (el actor, dibujante, escritor y showman Antonio Gracia (1942-2011)) pionero del fantaterror y del cine experimental barcelonés.



 El programa incluyó:

+ Miss Drácula (22' 36'')
¿Se siente enjaulado? ¿Embriagado todavía por un amor desdichado? ¿Preferiría desaparecer? Muera tal y como ha deseado toda su puñetera vida. Miss Drácula le complacerá. Vaya a verla cuando quiera, ella le está esperando en su castillo.

+ Lecciones de sexualidad (17')
Pasen y vean: sexo-terror, un delicioso paseo en el cual recrearse y dar rienda suelta a tabúes y perversiones inconfesables.

+ La muñeca (27' 30'')
La sangre de los muertos es semilla de nuevos súbditos de Satán. Un viaje hacia el epicentro del Mal en el que no se conformaron con llamar a sus puertas, sino que arrojaron pedruscos para cerciorarse de que se enteraría.

+ Poseídos (10')
Cuando una está harta de ver levitar a sus hijos y de dejarse la piel al limpiar esa viscosa y supurante espuma verde con la que lo dejan todo perdido, no queda más remedio que tomar asiento y pintarse las uñas mientras se espera la llegada del crucifijo.

+ El diario de Er (6' 50'')
Eredio danza menguante entre las páginas de su diario, en que yace escrito con sangre el apasionado relato de un amor no correspondido. 

Víctor Guerrero.

Finalmente el 3 de noviembre 2016, tuvo un lugar un recorrido antológico por la trajectoria de Víctor Guerrero, showman y diseñador de vestuario, a través del desfile de sus trajes más memorables realizados en los años 70 y hasta la actualidad. El recorrido transformó la instalación de "El misterio de caviria" en un psicodélico desfile feliniano de la mano de los modelos Gabriel, Bruno, Manuel, Yago, Juan David, Víctor y Manel (¡gracias a cada uno de ellos por su complicidad!).





Avanzamos que en Enero 2017 se presentará la publicación que recoge documentación de la exposición así como una entrevista entre Antoni Hervàs y Latitudes, tutores del proyecto, sobre el proceso de trabajo, las escenografías y personajes que han formado parte de "El misterio de Caviria":

"El misterio de Caviria"
Colofón 

"El misterio de Caviria" es un proyecto expositivo de Antoni Hervàs enmarcado dentro de la 10ª edición de la convocatoria de producción artística BCN Producció'16 que se presenta durante la temporada 2016 en La Capella.

Tutoría del proyecto: Latitudes 


Antoni Hervàs agradece al jurado de BCNProducció'16, a todo el equipo de BCNProducció y al fabuloso equipo de montaje liderado por Alberto Calvete.

A Ico Mateo.

A toda la expedición argonauta: Luc, Ainara, Pol, Miquel, Eduardo, Max, Mariana, Lluis, Gerard López, Juan de Cruz, los guerreros de la mina, a los WoMen synchro (Antonio, Iris, Gio, Tammi, Luis, Clara, Claudia y Pau); José Jaén, Victor Guerrero, Pilar Carrión, Violeta la Burra y Gilda Love.

A la capitana de la furgo-Argo: Beatriz Fuentes.

Así como a los fantásticos amigos: Ariadna Parreu, Pau Magrané, Anna Moreno, Fito Conesa, Marc Navarro, David Bestué, Martina Millà, Montse Badia, Lucía C. Pino, Enric Farrés, Araceli Moreno, Claudia Labrador, Ángela Palacios, Evripidis Sabatis, Jordi GG, Corte Moderno, Carlos Valverde, Alicia Rosselló, Manolo Carrión, Marc Vives, Aimar Pérez Galí, Dutor-Mont de Pallol, Sergio Ibañez, Consol Llupià, Jose Begega, Usue Arrieta, Guido, Sara Hervàs & Maria, y a la Katherings: Pilar Cortés.

A Pierrot y a todos aquellos, quienes desde Fregoli, han iluminado los escenarios de la ciudad hasta apagarse.


CONTENIDOS RELACIONADOS:

Related content:

• Archive of Cover Stories
• Cover Story, October 2016: "A Funny thing Happened on the Way to the Gallery, 13 October 2016
• Cover Story, September 2016: "El misterio de Caviria" by Antoni Hervàs 1 Septiembre 2016
• Last chance to read the August 2016 Monthly Cover Story "Fermínlandia" 31 August 2016
• Cover Story, July 2016: Through the grapevine – Rasmus Nilausen’s Soups & Symptoms 3 July 2016
• Last days! Cover Story and exhibition of José Antonio Hernández-Díez: techno-pop, death and resurrection (20 June 2016)
• Cover Story, May 2016: Material histories – spilling the beans at the CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (10 May 2016)
• Cover Story, March 2016: José Antonio Hernández-Díez: The sacred heart of the matter (3 March 2016) 
• Cover Story, February 2016: Sarah Ortmeyer, Towering allusions (9 Febrero 2016)

After much anticipation, we are elated to see (and touch!) Latitudes' five-part interview with Nicholas Mangan as part of his exhibition catalogue "Nicholas Mangan. Limits to Growth" (Sternberg Press, 2016). The publication is designed by Žiga Testen and includes newly commissioned texts by Ana Teixeira Pinto and Helen Hughes, alongside illustrations of Mangan's work and historical source material.

The five-part interview weaves together a discussion around five of his recent works ‘Nauru, Notes from a Cretaceous World’ (2009), ‘A World Undone’ (2012), ‘Progress in Action’ (2013), ‘Ancient Lights’ (2015) and his newest piece ‘Limits to Growth’ (2016) commissioned for this exhibition survey. Latitudes’ dialogue with Mangan, began around a research trip to Melbourne in 2014 and continued in the form of the public conversation event that took place at the Chisenhale Gallery, London, in 2015, as well as over Skype, email, snail mail and walks.






 
The publication release coincides with Mangan's eponymous exhibition survey which began in July in Melbourne's Monash University Museum of Art and just opened this past weekend in Brisbane's IMA. The show will further tour to Berlin's KW Institute for Contemporary Art in the Summer of 2017.

"Nicholas Mangan. Limits to Growth" 
Publisher: Sternberg Press with the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; and Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne.
Editor: Aileen Burns, Charlotte Day, Krist Gruijthuijsen, Johan Lundh. 
Texts: Latitudes, Helen Hughes, Ana Teixeira Pinto 
Design: Žiga Testen;
October 2016, English;
17 x 24 cm, 246 pages + 2 inserts, edition of 1500; 
40 b/w and 102 colour ill., with colour poster and postcard Softcover;
ISBN 978-3-95679-252-6;
30 Euros.





















RELATED CONTENT:

• Interview with Nicholas Mangan for his forthcoming catalogue ‘Limits to Growth’, 20 Abril 2016;
• Cover Story, July 2015: Nicholas Mangan’s ‘Ancient Lights’
• Locating Ancient Lights signs around London with Nicholas Mangan;
• In conversation with the artist Nicholas Mangan at Chisenhale Gallery, London, 7 July 2015, 19h. 22 June 2015;
• Interview 'What Lies Beneath' between Nicholas Mangan and Mariana Cánepa Luna of Latitudes, Mousse Magazine #47, February–March 2015
• Max Andrews' of Latitudes feature article 'Landscape Artist', Frieze #172, June–August 2015.

Related content:

• Archive of Cover Stories
• September Cover Story: "El misterio de Caviria" by Antoni Hervàs 1 Septiembre 2016
• Last chance to read the August 2016 Monthly Cover Story "Fermínlandia" 31 August 2016
• Cover Story, July 2016: Through the grapevine – Rasmus Nilausen’s Soups & Symptoms 3 July 2016
• Last days! Cover Story and exhibition of José Antonio Hernández-Díez: techno-pop, death and resurrection (20 June 2016)
• Cover Story, May 2016: Material histories – spilling the beans at the CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (10 May 2016)
• Cover Story, March 2016: José Antonio Hernández-Díez: The sacred heart of the matter (3 March 2016) 
• Cover Story, February 2016: Sarah Ortmeyer, Towering allusions (9 Febrero 2016)

Antoni Hervàs (Barcelona, 1981) estudió Bellas Artes en la Universitat de Barcelona (2006) y realizó un ciclo en grabado y estampación en Escola Llotja. Entre sus recientes exposiciones individuales destacan “Hércules en la luna”, Espai Cultural Caja Madrid, Barcelona (2012); “Kakanoures i kitschades”, galería SIS, Sabadell (2015) y “Agón”, Galería ETHall, Barcelona (2016). Hervàs ha participado en numerosas colectivas entre las cuales se incluyen “Capítulo II. Huidas. La ficción como rigor” dentro del ciclo “El texto: Principios y Salidas”, Fabra i Coats Centre d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2014); “PUNK. Sus rastros en el arte contemporáneo”, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2016) y “Deshaciendo el texto”, La Casa Encendida (2016). Como parte de su práctica artística Hervàs ha dirigido “Fénix” (2013–16), el programa educativo del centro Sant Andreu Contemporani involucrando a diversos artistas de la ciudad en sus varias fases. Además ha realizado numerosos proyectos editoriales autogestionados como “Grapandmopotheper” (2009), “Tributo a Ray Harryhausen”, DeGénero Ediciones (2014) o “La trama” para Mataró Art Contemporani (2015). Asimismo ha comisariado exposiciones periódicas como “Doméstica” junto a Ariadna Parreu (desde 2009) y eventos performáticos como “Mercuri Splash” junto a David Bestué para la Fundació Miró (2015). En el 2010 recibió el Premio INJUVE a la Creación en la categoría de ilustración.

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Compositions presents five artistic interventions in unique sites across the neighbourhoods of the city of Barcelona. Each of the commissioned artists is represented by a gallery participating in the second edition of the Barcelona Gallery Weekend.

Curated by Latitudes for the second time (see 2015 edition), the project further explores Barcelona as a rich fabric of the historic and the contemporary, the unfamiliar and the conspicuous. Resisting an overall theme, and instead developing from the artists’ responses to the specificity of each context—people, as well as places—the five art projects form a temporary thread that links evocative locations and public space, running parallel to the Weekend’s exhibitions in galleries and museums. 

In its second edition, Composiciones will present interventions by Lúa Coderch (Club Billar Barcelona); Regina Giménez (Antigua Fábrica de Can Trinxet, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat); Lola Lasurt (Biblioteca Pública Arús); Robert Llimós (connecting all the participating galleries) and Wilfredo Prieto (Unitat Muntada de la Guàrdia Urbana de Barcelona). Their projects will offer moments of intermission, intimacy and bewilderment throughout the weekend, highlighting some lesser-known aspects of the city’s cultural heritage and municipal life.

Interior of the Club Billar Barcelona. Photo: Courtesy Club Billar Barcelona.

Zoom in a map here.

Interior of the Biblioteca Pública Arús.

Thursday 29 September, 6pm: 

Free guided visit by Lola Lasurt and Latitudes at the Biblioteca Pública Arús, Passeig de Sant Joan, 26.

Interior of Can Trinxet factory in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat.

Zoom in a map here.

Free guided visit by Regina Giménez and Latitudes at Can Trinxet, c/ Santa Eulàlia 182–212, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat.

Façade of the Unitat Muntada de la Guàrdia Urbana de Barcelona in Parc de la Ciutadella.

Location of the Unitat Muntada in the southeastern part of the Parc de la Ciutadella. Zoom in a map here.

Conceived by Wilfredo Prieto as his project for the Composiciones programme, "Pantalones rotos" (Torn Jeans), 2012, is realised by the horses of the Guàrdia Urbana de Barcelona. The action-sculpture takes place at the Mounted Unit’s stables, a historic venue next to the city zoo that is not normally open to the public and whose exercise paddock is overlooked by the twin towers of the Torre Mapfre and Hotel Arts. In his work, Prieto makes reference to an image which appears on the tag of every pair of classic Levi’s denim jeans—two horses trying in vain to break a pair of reinforced trousers. Since their invention in 1873, Levi Strauss & Co.’s famous copper-riveted denim has become synonymous with the working people of the western United States—cowboys, lumberjacks, and railroad workers. Yet in "Pantalones rotos", this symbol of the American frontier myth has been already torn apart with bathos as two harnessed horses each drag one half of a torn pair of jeans. – Latitudes  

Saturday 1 October, 12am:
Free guided visit by Latitudes at the Unitat Muntada de la Guàrdia Urbana. Meeting point: c/ Wellington s/n. (Opposite the tram stop Ciutadella–Vil·la Olímpica)

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The Barcelona Gallery Weekend is an initiative of the de Art Barcelona and is supported by the Ajuntament de Barcelona (ICUB), the Generalitat de Catalunya (ICEC), the Ajuntament de L’Hospitalet de Llobregat and Acción Cultural Española (AC/E), as well as by private sponsors and individual patrons. http://www.barcelonagalleryweekend.com/


Related content:

• Composiciones 2015 commissions;
• 2015 social media archive;
• Instagram of the Barcelona Gallery Weekend;
• PRESS RELEASE: Latitudes curates "Composiciones", a series of five artists' commissions for the first Barcelona Gallery Weekend, 1–4 October 2015; 
• NOTA DE PRENSA: Comisariado de "Composiciones", cinco intervenciones artísticas para el primer Barcelona Gallery Weekend, 1–4 Octubre 2015;