10 Galleries To See At Art Central Hong Kong 2019

10 Galleries To See At Art Central Hong Kong 2019

Hong Kong Tatler

Hong Kong-based gallery Puerta Roja is showcasing a mix of works by leading and emerging artists from Spain and Latin America at this exhibition centred around the concept of movement.

Among the works on show are Op Art by Franco-Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez, unconventional nature-inspired paintings by Chilean artist Fernando Prats, and bamboo installations by Laurent Martin ‘Lo’, alongside pieces by abstract artists Javier León Pérez and María García Ibáñez.

10 Galleries To See At Art Central Hong Kong 2019, Hong Kong Tatler, March 26, 2019

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VISIONS IN MOTION: DIALOGUES ACROSS MEDIA AND GENERATIONS

VISIONS IN MOTION: DIALOGUES ACROSS MEDIA AND GENERATIONS

Zolima City Magazine

Visions in Motion features evocative works by six artists from the gallery’s stable, from Cruz-Diez’ masterful optical illusions to gravity-defying bamboo sculptures by French artist Laurent Martin ‘Lo’ (b. 1955) and Chilean artist Fernando Prats’ (b. 1967) unconventional and unpredictable images generated by nature.

The artists use the movement of the viewer, the illusion of movement, the movement of light, the movement in nature or the movement of the artwork itself to conjure a fluid and hypnotising sensation that only exists through the observers’ experience.

VISIONS IN MOTION: DIALOGUES ACROSS MEDIA AND GENERATIONS, Zolima City Magazine, 2019

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Art Insider: Adriana Alvarez-Nichol

Art Insider: Adriana Alvarez-Nichol

Oliver Giles, Hong Kong Tatler

Art gallery Puerta Roja is not only unique in Hong Kong—it’s unique in the whole of Asia. Founded in 2010 by Adriana Alvarez-Nichol, Puerta Roja is the only gallery on the continent that specialises in art from Spain and Latin America, shining a light on part of the world that was previously overlooked by many art lovers.

Who in the art world most inspires you and why?

“I think I would have to choose Carlos Cruz-Diez. At 95, the artist continues to work every day with unparalleled energy and positive spirit. Despite his global stature, Cruz-Diez remains a humble, kind soul, constantly searching for intellectual answers while affecting emotionally everyone that meets him. He has also involved his family in his work, developing a vision for his legacy that I think is unique among artists.

As for gallerists, I would need to say Denise René, who launched the career of the likes of Vasarely, Soto, Agam and Cruz-Diez himself. So powerful was her influence in post-war art that she was nicknamed the “Pope of Abstraction”. I founded Puerta Roja in 2010, two years before Denise René’s passing at the age of 99. This past spring, I was privileged to organise a joint exhibition with Galerie Denise René, which is now led by her nephew, Denis Killian.”

Art Insider: Adriana Alvarez-Nichol, Oliver Giles, Hong Kong Tatler, October 25, 2018

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Fernando Prats: Church of the Divine Providence, Santiago de Chile

Fernando Prats: Church of the Divine Providence, Santiago de Chile

Maria Elvira Iriarte, Art Nexus

“It was not necessary to share a specific belief to engage in an aesthetic dialogue with these works. Prats’ work was made from a world at the edge of any representation or figurative evocation. The language was pure, the result of a profound artistic investigation, which enabled the artist to negotiate the historical distance between the artistic and the sacred, recovering what might be seen as one of the essential characteristics of art at its remote origins–its sacredness as an expression with which transcends man himself.”

Fernando Prats: Church of the Divine Providence, Santiago de Chile, Chilean Art Nexus, article, 1998

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Mega project by artist Fernando Prats to represent Chile at the 2011 Venice Biennial (Spanish)

Mega project by artist Fernando Prats to represent Chile at the 2011 Venice Biennial (Spanish)

The Chilean Antarctic Institute

With an aesthetic proposal inspired by Chile, its geography and its telluric conditions, Fernando Prats seeks to exalt the subject capable of assuming a heroic position. The “Gran Sur” project invites reflection upon the role of geography on the identity of this country.

Mega proyecto del artista Fernando Prats representará a Chile en la Bienal de Venecia 2011, Chilean Antarctic Institute, article, 2011

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Fernando Prats: a note about the Sismografías project.

Fernando Prats: a note about the Sismografías project

Fernando Castro Flórez, 1F Media Project

When catastrophe approaches, in that moment when life (figuratively speaking) becomes unbearable a purification happens, which, undoubtedly, teaches us something. The curtain drops or the “deus ex machina” precipitates to the stage with a racket so that logical thought can assume, after the period of hoping, the conflict of what we have left. It’s precisely what is left that Fernando Prats obsesses about.

Fernando Prats: a note about the Sismografías project, 1F Media Project, article, 2011

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Fernando Prats. Physical Actions for Alternative World Geopolitics (Spanish)

Fernando Prats. Physical Actions for Alternative World Geopolitics (Spanish)

Teresa Blanch, imarte

In this artist, the painter, the collector, the explorer and the director of ceremonies come together. There is a brave responsibility of radical tone in confronting the pictorial fact left over by the world- a vast, living and potentially conscious thing that is already sufficiently complex in its self representations.

Fernando Prats. Acciones físicas para otra geopolítica del mundo, imarte, article, 2011

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Great South: A New book that revisits Fernando Prats’ work at the Chilean pavilion of the Venice Biennial

Great South: A New book that revisits Fernando Prats’ work at the Chilean pavilion of the Venice Biennial

José Andrés Alvarado, Art Agenda

Prats’ Chilean pavilion is an exhibition composed of three works: Chaitén (2008), born from the largest volcanic eruption in Chile; 03:34:17 which refers to the devastating earthquake in Chile in 2010; and Great South (2011) which was constructed in the Antarctic Chilean territory, and consists of an installation of neon letters that reference explorer Ernest Shackleton’s 1911 expedition to Antarctica.

Great South: A New book that revisits Fernando Prats’ work at the Chilean pavilion of the Venice Biennial, Art Agenda, article, 2011

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Fernando Prats: Chilean Impressions

Fernando Prats: Chilean Impressions

Maria Giovanna Tumino, Vogue Italia

Vogue Italia’s People & Stars section introduces Fernando Prats and his Venice Biennale contribution ‘Gran Sur’ (2011).

Fernando Prats: Chilean Impressions, Vogue Italia, article, 2011

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The Logic of Place (Spanish)

The Logic of Place (Spanish)

J.C.R., Arte y Parte

“In other cases, living things like birds leave pictorial traces from their movements on a surface made from time and chance.”

La lógica del lugar, Arte y Parte, article, 2010

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