20 em 2020

To answer the complex question about who are the artists who will define the artistic and cultural horizon in this decade that begins, Fernando Ticoulat and João Paulo Siqueira Lopes, founders of the Art Consulting Tool, immersed themselves in a broad curatorial research whose outcome is the present book. With analyses of 14 critics and curators of various nationalities and research, including Cuban Gerardo Mosquera signing the introductory text of the book -, Brazilian women Diane Lima, Júlia Rebouças and Kiki Mazzucchelli, and Mexican José Esparza Chong Cuy and Peruvian Miguel A. López, the book highlights the work of 20 Latin American artists and beyond, artists who relate to the continent through their research. The book compiles individual analyses on each artist's production, as well as presenting their resumes, images of works and exhibition views. Includes names like Colombians Iván Argote e Gala Porras-Kim, the venezuelan Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe, Brazilians Adriano Amaral, Dalton Paula, Jota Mombaça and Yuli Yamagata, the Mexican women Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, Pia Camil and Tania Pérez Córdova, the French Tabita Rezaire, the Argentines Ad Minoliti and Gabriel Chaile, kuwaiti national Alia Farid, among others. The 20 emerging artists, carefully selected by the editors, proclaim the scandalous diversity of contemporary art in Latin America and reject any kind of total exercise. () The artists presented here give us a comprehensive overview of trends, poetics, places, dynamics, laughter, obsessions, sensitivities, actions, reactions, detachments, attacks... Finally, of all the kaleidoscope of art that we consider Latin American due to its geographical scope or by shared historical, cultural and linguistic affinitiesʺ, states Gerardo Mosquera in the introduction of the book.