Valentina Locatelli

EL CASTILLO DE LAS JUNGLAS IMPOSIBLES:

CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICAN ART AT THE CHÂTEAU DE SERRIGNY

LADOIX-SERRIGNY, FRANCE, 29.08 – 04.10.2020

A project organized by art+château

art+château is excited to present El Castillo de las junglas imposibles (The Castle of the Impossible Jungles), its first-ever exhibition, which will be on view from August 29 to October 04, 2020 in the historic setting of the Château de Serrigny in Burgundy. The show features 14 artists from Latin America and approximately 50 artworks of all mediums, genres and sizes both on loan from the artists or produced and installed in situ and presented inside the main building of the castle, as well as throughout the property and its grounds.

In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath, El Castillo de las junglas imposibles offers the opportunity for a thought-provoking reflection on the process of art creating and on the intrinsic freedom and autonomy of art from the mechanism of the art establishment. Reassessing the need for a more authentic encounter with art, the exhibition offers an opportunity to investigate art’s ability to take the viewer on a fantastic and multisensorial exploration. Entering the Château de Serrigny during the exhibition will be like embarking on a journey without leaving the premises of the château and its substantial grounds, enabling visitors to undertake their own unexpected cultural dis-encounters.

El Castillo de las junglas imposibles is a space where things impossible elsewhere become possible, through which art can transgress the limits between opposing dimensions, between past, present and future, between life and death, identity and alterity, norm and exception. Bringing forth an independent production of an exhibition of artworks by contemporary Latin American artists, without the involvement of any representing galleries or institutions, El Castillo de las junglas imposibles aims to generate a strong symbolic subversion and to evade the traditional power constellation of art patronage and the market. The work of the invited artists, selected by the artists themselves in conversation with the curators, offers a reflection on the process of art creating and the articulation of its freedom and democratization on a global scale, connecting their local realities, traditions and experiences with those of the Burgundian past and present.

Curators: Valentina Locatelli and Hans-Michael Herzog.

Exhibited artists: assume vivid astro focus / avaf (b. 1968 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; lives and works in Sao Paulo, Brazil and New York, USA); Miguel Calderón (b. 1971 in Mexico City, Mexico; lives and works in Mexico City); Luis Camnitzer (b. 1937 in Lübeck, Germany; lives and works in Montevideo, Uruguay and New York, USA); Javier Castro (b. 1984 in La Habana, Cuba; lives and works in La Habana, Miami, USA and Doha, Quatar); Juan Manuel Echavarría (b. 1947 in Medellin, Colombia; lives and works in Bogotá, Colombia and New York, USA); Juliana Góngora (b. 1988, Bogotá, Colombia; lives and works in Bogotá); Yaron Michael Hakim (b. 1980, Bogotá, Colombia; lives and works in Los Angeles, USA); Julia Isídrez (b. 1967 in Itá, Paraguay; lives and works in Itá); Oswaldo Maciá (b. in 1960 in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia; lives and works London, UK and Santa Fe, USA); Carmen Mariscal (b. 1968 in California, USA, lives and works in Paris, France); Ricardo Rendón (b. 1970 in Mexico City, Mexico; lives and works in Mexico City); Betsabeé Romero (b. 1963 in Mexico City, Mexico; lives and works in Mexico City); Teresa Serrano (b. 1936, in Mexico City, Mexico; lives and works in Mexico City); Adán Vallecillo (b. 1977 in Danlí, Honduras; lives and works in Tegucigalpa, Honduras).