Menena Cottin lo logró. Siempre lo que se propone con su arte lo logra y lo hace con cariño e imaginación. Por eso consiguió que la exposición que hizo en Caracas mostrando su obra, sus libros, sus diseños, sus actividades participativas, se montaran en un barco y llegaran directo a Wynwood, a la galería Ideobox de la mano de la Fundación SaludArte.....

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.........Community Event, General, Children, Education, For the Family, Seniors, Education
Local non-profit Saludarte Foundation, whose mission is to improve the health of youth and other socio-economic disadvantaged groups through the arts, announces 8-week run of Seeking the Essence, a unique artistic exhibition featuring 18 works of award-winning author and illustrator Menena Cottin. Various community events are programmed for the fully bilingual, family-friendly and interactive exhibition including author presentations, family days and a public opening reception on April 26, 2018, 6-9p.m. Menena Cottin has already touched the lives of many. Her books celebrate curiosity as the author explores themes like: experiencing colors as a blind child, living in a world turned upside down and how reality is really a matter of perspective. Simple in their aesthetics, but profound and transformational in their messages, Menena Cottin’s books have been recognized by the New York Times, The Bogota Post, The Indian Express and the School Library Journal’s Best Books for Children, and some have been translated into as many as 20 languages. A sensation in her native Venezuela, and throughout Latin America, now she looks to crossover into the U.S. market alongside curator Pedro Quintero with an experiential exhibition that promises to spark curiosity and empathy, while awakening the inner child in us all..........

​Artload is a platform focused on creating free content about contemporary art, in video interviews with professionals of all levels of the international art system.
It is an ongoing research project in which art professionals share their background, their personal and professional experiences, their thoughts on the future of the art field, and many other interesting information. They also cooperate with the conception of the interview agenda, so the methodologies and dynamics that shape Artload are essentially collaborative.
The free access to the information generated by Artload is an essential premise for the project, since it promotes debate on art practices and allows researchers to easily find relevant content. The nature of Artload’s content – free videos up to 20 minutes long, with subtitles in Portuguese – only enhances its educational purposes as it reaches audiences of various age groups and backgrounds.
Artload was conceived and is produced – in collaboration with the interview guests – by Vivian Gandelsman and Flavia Soares, who both have more than ten years of experience in working with artists, gallerists, curators, critics, collectors and emerging professionals in the contemporary art scene.

OPENING RECEPTION 
Nov, 17th at 7-10 p.m.
SALUDARTE FOUNDATION / IDEOBOX ARTSPACE 
2417 N. Miami Ave. 
Miami, FL 33127
EXHIBITION SERIES DIRECTOR 
Roc Laseca 
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The Exhibition Series Uprooting Architecture reaches its end after a three-year program, with the site-specific project devised by Venezuelan artist Magdalena Fernández, who will present her installation 1i011 at Saludarte Foundation / Ideobox Artspace, along with a selection of her moving drawings and paintings, staging an environment that discusses the way thru which natural and artificial landscapes are perceived.
Since its origin, the series has envisioned a permanent flux of readings, participations, encounters and debates in the form of exhibitions, workshops and panels to contribute a new critical education on topography and the future architecture for the city, made possible in collaboration with Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia), University of Miami, National Media Museum of England, and the galleries that represent the featuring artists.
Uprooting Architectures is the first on-going exhibition series shown in Miami for a three-year long period and has allowed to activate new co-production strategies to evaluate the impact of the city growth.
Después de tres años de continuidad expositiva, el ciclo Arquitectura del Desarraigo llega a término con un proyecto site-specific de la artista venezolana Magdalena Fernández, que ocupará la planta baja de la Fundación Saludarte / Ideobox Artspace integrando su instalación "1i0011" junto a la serie de dibujos y pinturas móviles, haciendo posible la creación de un entorno envolvente que discute las normas que rigen la percepción entre paisajes naturales y artificiales.
Desde sus inicios, la vocación del ciclo ha estado enmarcada en posibilitar un flujo continuo de lecturas, participaciones, encuentros y debates en torno a la sensibilidad de estos asuntos urbanos y fomentar una educación crítica respecto a ellos. Por ello, el ciclo ha contado además con talleres in situ, mesas de trabajo y colaboraciones con la Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia), University of Miami, National Media Museum of England además de las galerías representantes de los artistas invitados.
Arquitecturas de Desarraigo es el primer ciclo continuo presentado en Miami durante este período anual y ha permitido activar nuevas estrategias de co-producción para pensar conjuntamente el alcance del crecimiento urbano de la ciudad.
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ABOUT 1i011, BY MAGDALENA FERNÁNDEZ
ACERCA DE 1I011, DE MAGDALENA FERNÁNDEZ
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In words of Magdalena Fernández: "1i011 (Forest) is a penetrable installation, made of light aluminum rods of various sizes hinged together, which transforms, breaks and become alive when visitors enter it and run through it. It appears, then, as a vibrant, unstable and mobile "Forest", formed from a metal structure in unstable equilibrium that agitates, shakes and trembles, interacting with the bodies and other elements found in the space it occupies. This webbing of branches takes over the place in which is located, and it is virtually transformed into a vibrant piece of unpredictable changes and movements. Thus, each viewer makes this landscape in a proper place that is constantly redrawing, in a spatial grid with which he interacts and plays, in a jungle of memories where he can circulate reflectively. In short, this "Forest", this structure in precarious equilibrium, this exploration through our ways of apprehending and experiencing nature, arises as the possibility of a journey of sensations, in which the occurring mutations, due to the exchange between bodies and spatial intervention device, vitalize the geometric rigor of the structure and the coldness of the materials impregnating them with vibrations, reverberations, waves and resonances".
En palabras de Magdalena Fernández: "La obra 1i011 (Bosque) es una instalación penetrable, realizada con ligeras varas de aluminio de distintos tamaños articuladas entre sí, que se transforma, se quiebra y toma vida al momento en que los visitantes ingresan a ella y la recorren. Aparece, entonces, como un “Bosque” vibrante, inestable, móvil, constituido a partir de una estructura metálica en equilibrio inestable que se estremece, se agitar y tiembla al interactuar con los cuerpos y demás elementos que se encuentran en el espacio que ocupa. Este entramado de ramas se apodera del lugar en el que se encuentra, y se transforma virtualmente en una pieza vibrante, de impredecibles alteraciones y movimientos. Así, cada espectador convierte este paisaje en un lugar propio que se está constantemente redibujando, en una malla espacial con la que interactúa y juega, en una selva de memorias por las que transita reflexivamente. En definitiva, este “Bosque”, esta estructura en precario equilibrio, esta exploración por nuestros modos de aprehender y vivir la naturaleza, se plantea como la posibilidad de un recorrido de sensaciones, en el que las mutaciones ocurridas, a partir del intercambio entre los cuerpos y el dispositivo de intervención espacial, vitalizan la rigurosidad geométrica de la estructura y la frialdad de los materiales al impregnarlos de vibraciones, reverberaciones, ondulaciones y resonancias".
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ABOUT THE EXHIBITION SERIES
ACERCA DEL CICLO EXPOSITIVO
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Saludarte Foundation / Ideobox Artspace is pleased to announce the second iteration of its Exhibition Series, that was launched in 2014 with the first city commissions by Juan Fernando Herrán (Colimbia), Marcius Galan (Brazil), Carlos Garaicoa (Cuba) and Andrés Michelena (Venezuela), making possible a cluster of public programs comprised of workshops on urbanism and soft territories along with scholar exchanges with architecture foundations from Mexico, Colombia and US.
For this second iteration, directed as well by curator Roc Laseca, Saludarte Foundation / Ideobox Artspace will commission the works of three women artists: Ana Mazzei (Brazil, 1980), Lydia Okumura (Brazil, 1948) and Magdalena Fernández (Venezuela, 1965) intended to articulate the gallery space through the disruptive experiences of the body, and the critical relationships between cultural artifacts and natural environments.
From the very beginning, the curatorial program took the reference of victorian photographer Francis Bedford (1816-1894) to rethink the transformation of the new city imaginary. Bedford’s exotic, boucolic and cosmopolitan photography deploys a new architectural and topographical analysis upon an openly imperial and dominant English society that is presented in an impulsive and optimistic mid-nineteenth century.
The 120 years of the death of Bedford is also the celebration of the end of a playful image, that is architecturally and socially proud-hearted, and that seems to have led to a self-absorbed circular non-place difficult to escape from. Miami presents the crucial stage for a visual cross-conversation that allows us to deepen both into the first progressive capitalist references, and the late current depressive ones. This uprooting architecture necessarily refers to an informed apparatus of its utopian and delocalizing image.
As the city grows through the architectural commissions by Herzog & Meuron, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid or Rem Koolhaas, the urban landscape of Miami describes a deficit of contextual reflection preventing a critical analysis of its rapidly changing topography.
Uprooting Architecture is so, and ultimately, a reading exercise of the city itself, an analytical parenthesis to evaluate Miami’s performing complex biography and modernity.
Saludarte Foundation / Ideobox Artspace se complace en anunciar la segunda edición de su ciclo expositivo Arquitectura del Desarraigo, que arrancó en 2014 con los primeros proyectos comisionados en la ciudad de Juan Fernando Herrán (Colimbia), Marcius Galan (Brazil), Carlos Garaicoa (Cuba) y Andrés Michelena (Venezuela), y haciendo posible un programa paralelo integrado por Mesas de Trabajo sobre urbanismo y territorios blandos, junto a intercambios académicos con fundaciones de arquitectura y diseño de México, Colombia y Estados Unidos.
Para su segunda edición, dirigida igualmente por el curador Roc Laseca, Saludarte Foundation / Ideobox Artspace presentará los proyectos de tres artistas mujeres: Ana Mazzei (Brazil, 1980), Lydia Okumura (Brazil, 1948) y Magdalena Fernández (Venezuela, 1965) en un interés por articular el espacio desde la experiencia disruptiva del cuerpo y las relaciones críticas entre artefacto cultural y entorno natural.
Desde el inicio del Ciclo, la figura del fotógrafo victoriano Francis Bedford (1816-1894) ha marcado la referencia para pensar la transformación de la nueva imagen urbana. Entre exótico, cosmopolita y bucólico, Bedford desarrolla un análisis arquitectónico y topográfico a través de su fotografía a una sociedad inglesa abiertamente imperial y dominante que se despliega a mediados de un siglo XIX impulsivo y optimista.
Los 120 años de la muerte de Bedford son también la celebración del fin de una imagen festiva y orgullosa de los avances arquitectónicos y sociales que parecen haber derivado a un no-lugar circular, ensimismado y de difícil escapatoria. Miami presenta el escenario propicio para articular un pensamiento transversal -y diacrónico- que nos permita dibujar un arco entre la referencia progresiva de los primeros términos del capitalismo, a su referencia depresiva, impulsando imaginarios encontrados que remiten necesariamente a esa arquitectura del desarraigo como un aparato informado de su imagen utópica y deslocalizadora.
Al tiempo que la ciudad crece por medio de los encargos arquitectónicos a Herzog&DeMeuron, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid o Rem Koolhaas, el paisaje urbano de Miami describe un déficit de reflexión contextual que le impide sobreimponerse a sus propios avances y efectuar un análisis crítico de la topografía que está potenciando a pasos agigantados.
El programa curatorial Arquitectura del Desarraigo es así, y en último término, un ejercicio de lectura para la propia ciudad, un paréntesis analítico que dé cuenta de la puesta en valor que se está efectuando sobre una urbe de compleja biografía y modernidad.

​La Fundación SaludArte junto a la JORCAM organiza este viernes 25 marzo un encuentro donde se expondrán diferentes proyectos artísticos que conjugan música, educación y desarrollo social. 
El objetivo es mostrar a los músicos asistentes que existen otras posibilidades de desarrollo profesional y personal para los músicos jóvenes más allá de la orquesta, cámara, escuelas de música o conservatorios.
La música, danza, teatro, literatura, circo, artes plásticas…, las diferentes disciplinas que componen la Cultura, pueden ser una herramienta de desarrollo y transformación social, vinculando la Cultura con una sociedad plural y diversa, con la intención de normalizar la experiencia artística entre colectivos con dificultades de accesibilidad al entorno cultural y artístico.

Saludarte Foundation presents the second edition of Uprooting Architecture Exhibition Series, originally launched in 2014 in collaboration with Universidad de Los Andes, and the National Media Museum of England, that will be developed from March to December 2016, at the Foundation’s location in Wynwood, Miami.
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Saludarte Foundation / Ideobox Artspace is pleased to announce the second edition of its Exhibition Series, that was launched in 2014 with the first city commissions by Juan Fernando Herrán (Colimbia), Marcius Galan (Brazil), Carlos Garaicoa (Cuba) and Andrés Michelena (Venezuela), making possible a cluster of public programs comprised of worshops on urbanism and soft territories along with scholar exchanges with architecture foundations from Mexico, Colombia and US.
For this second edition, directed as well by curator Roc Laseca, Saludarte Foundation / Ideobox Artspace will commission the works of three women artists: Ana Mazzei (Brazil, 1980), Lydia Okumura (Brazil, 1948) and Magdalena Fernández (Venezuela, 1965) intended to articulate the gallery space through the disruptive experiences of the body, and the critical relationships between cultural artifacts and natural environments
From the very beginning, the curatorial program took the reference of victorian photographer Francis Bedford (1816-1894) to rethink the transformation of the new city imaginary. Bedford’s exotic, boucolic and cosmopolitan photography deploys a new architectural and topographical analysis upon an openly imperial and dominant English society that is presented in an impulsive and optimistic mid-nineteenth century.
The 120 years of the death of Bedford is also the celebration of the end of a playful image, that is architecturally and socially proud-hearted, and that seems to have led to a self-absorbed circular non-place difficult to escape from. Miami presents the crucial stage for a visual cross-conversation that allows us to deepen both into the first progressive capitalist references, and the late current depressive ones. This uprooting architecture necessarily refers to an informed apparatus of its utopian and delocalizing image.
As the city grows through the architectural commissions by Herzog & Meuron, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid or Rem Koolhaas, the urban landscape of Miami describes a deficit of contextual reflection preventing a critical analysis of its rapidly changing topography.
Uprooting Architecture is so, and ultimately, a reading exercise of the city itself, an analytical parenthesis to evaluate Miami’s performing complex biography and modernity.


OPPENING RECEPTIONS
Ana Mazzei Episode #5 March, 31 
Lydia Okumura Episode #6 May, 12
Magdalena Fernández Episode #7 TBA
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El gobernador de Ica, Fernando Cillóniz,  la directora representante de CAF en Perú, Eleonora Silva y el director ejecutivo de Sinfonía por el Perú, Miguel Molinari, rubricarán sendos convenios para la implementación de un núcleo de formación musical en la región del sur del país, con miras a promover la música como una herramienta de transformación e inclusión social, dirigida a niños y jóvenes, con el apoyo y compromiso del sector privado de esa región.

Este importante acontecimiento se llevará a cabo el jueves 18 de febrero a las 10:00 am en el Club Social de Ica.

Nos sentimos sumamente contentos de iniciar este nuevo núcleo en la hermosa ciudad de Ica donde 200 niños podrán beneficiarse con este proyecto que busca la formación en valores para la vida como la disciplina, la excelencia y el trabajo en equipo a través del maravilloso poder de la música.