Three Latin American visual artists, José Guedes (Brazil), Olmedo Alvarado (Ecuador) and Pablo Caviedes (Ecuador), exchanged catalogs with the team of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA), represented at this meeting by the artist and deputy director of the institution, Ivonne Ferrer.
Ivonne Ferrer thanked the artists for the donation of their catalogs and, in turn, presented them with a copy of one of her recently published art books and an issue of the MoCAA magazine. Also present at the pleasant meeting were Hernán Pacurucu, founder and curator of the NOMADE Biennial, and Leonardo Rodríguez, founder and general director of MoCAA Florida. This exchange activity is part of the strategy that the MoCAA team has been developing for some time in the informational and bibliographic field, through its international projects and its systematic ties with the artistic community of the Americas and the Caribbean.
José Guedes is a Brazilian visual artist born in Fortaleza, state of Ceará, in 1958, whose career of more than five decades is characterized by experimentation with diverse languages and media, including painting, photography, video, sculpture, installations and urban interventions. His production explores the relationships between color, form, image and perception, as well as the poetic possibilities of everyday objects, which he transforms through operations of decontextualization and resignification.
Olmedo Alvarado (Cuenca, Ecuador, 1955) is a multidisciplinary visual artist, educator and cultural manager from Ecuador, considered a relevant figure in the development of contemporary art in his country. His production spans painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, installations, performance, video art and urban interventions, through proposals that explore the social, political and symbolic dimensions of reality. Throughout his career he has developed an experimental and critical language, characterized by the questioning of artistic conventions and power structures.
Pablo Caviedes (Cotacachi, Ecuador, 1971) is an Ecuadorian American visual artist based in New York, whose multidisciplinary practice encompasses painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, installations and digital media, including video art and animation. Trained at the Daniel Reyes Higher Technological Institute of Visual Arts in Ecuador and at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris, in 1994 he received the Paris Prize, a recognition that boosted his international projection. His work addresses questions related to cultural identity, migration, memory and the coexistence between human beings and nature, establishing dialogues between his experiences in Ecuador, Europe and the United States.
