Miquel Navarro Fun Facts:

1. Born in Mislata, Valencia (Spain) in 1945.
2. Started his career as a painter and since the seventies has devoted himself to sculpture.
3. His practice reflects on the role of architecture in shaping geographical space.
4. Unmistakable representations of cities or “clusters” displayed as sculptural installations grouping together small pieces, configured as diverse urban buildings.
5. “City Metaphors” creates a sort of Cubist chronology where antiquity and modernity merge.
6. The current exhibition is characterized by massive sculptures and features over a thousand elements of different materials such as aluminum, zinc, and wood.
7. This exhibit is Miquel’s first exhibit in South Florida.

Don’t forget to visit the CIFO Art Space since the exhibition will be closing its door this weekend on Sunday May 12, 2013!

CIFO on the news! The Miami Herald newspaper wrote an article about our current ongoing exhibition ‘Miquel Navarro: City Metaphors – Selections from the IVAM Collection.’ Don’t forget to visit the CIFO Art Space since the exhibition will be closing its door this weekend on Sunday May 12, 2013. Please click on the link for the full article. Enjoy!

Two Miami exhibitions link art with city life (The Miami Herald)

[In the picture from left to right: Curators Miguel A. Lopez (Perú), José Roca (Colombia) and Ella Fontanals-Cisneros

CIFO presented yesterday its new book “Pulses of Abstraction in Latin America” at the MAC museum during PArC in Lima (Perú Arte Contemporáneo). We would like to extend our sincere appreciation to the PArC organizers.

CIFO is happy to announce Sharon Lerner as a new member to our Advisory Committee. Congratulations!

SHARON LERNER (LIMA, 1979)

Curator of Contemporary Art at Museo de Arte de Lima – MALI. Obtained an MA in Curatorial Practice at the California College of the Arts (2010). In 2008 she was part of the curatorial team in charge of the Visual Arts Office at the Miraflores Public Galleries, where she participated in the development of several exhibitions. In 2010 she was awarded the Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts 101 Curatorial Fellowship  supported by the Kadist Art Foundation, institution for which she also developed research. She is co-author of Fragmented Corpus: Actions in Lima 1966-2000, in “Arte No es Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas 1960-2000” (Museo del Barrio, NY, 2008) and “Post- Ilusiones. Nuevas Visiones. Arte Crítico en Lima (1980-2006)” (Lima, Fundación Wiese, 2007).

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Last week with much success we kicked off our new collaborative exhibition “City Metaphors” with Spanish artist Miquel Navarro and the Instituto de Valencia d’Art with over 15 works. To show our appreciation we hosted an intimate brunch with Spanish Omelets and Croquettes!

Here are more pictures of our Opening Preview Brunch: http://bit.ly/10PO42F

We hope you are able to visit this great exhibition, closing May 12, 2013.

Don’t miss our next Curatorial Talk with Roc Laseca Ph.D on Saturday April 20 from 6-7 pm

Cocktail Reception to follow.

For more information: http://bit.ly/10z5gJN

Rsvp required info@cifo.org

THE SPACE IS (NOT) ENOUGH. Sculpting and expanding in the Spanish contemporary scenario.

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Roc Laseca, PhD

Join us on April 20 at 6pm for the next Curatorial Talk, followed by a cocktail reception.

Part of the programming for the Miquel Navarro, City Metaphors exhibition.

Roc Laseca is a musicologist (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and semiotician (Helsinki University) with a PhD in Art Theory and Cultural Prospective from University of La Laguna, where he held a research position between the years of 2006 and 2011. He is currently a member-elect of the Board of Directors of the ATADEM Society and the Athenaeum of La Laguna (Tenerife), where he served as Secretary of the Arts for the period 2011-2013. Laseca has developed curatorial programs for institutions and museums in Europe, Latin America and the United States. He has been guest professor at Lanús University (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Nova University (Lisbon, Portugal) and Miami Dade College (Miami, Florida), among others. In 2012, he coordinated the Long Beach, California Museum of Latin American Art’s public program ‘Peripheral Thought’, and is co-founder of LA F_LTA, Cultural Research Center, of the Canary Islands, which is currently affiliated to University of La Laguna. Part of his work on contemporary semiotics has been published by the University of Rome Tor Vergata, the Institute of Canarian Studies, and others. Laseca latest curatorial projects in Miami are ‘BILL VIOLA: LIBER INSULARUM’, presented at MOCA North Miami (Dec. 2012 – Mar. 2013); ‘THE SPANISH SWING”, presented at Ascaso Gallery (Mar. 2013 – present) and ‘REMEMBERING/PROVIDING/RESISTING: EUGENIO ESPINOZA + ANDRES MICHELENA’, presented at CCEM with the collaboration of CIFO (Apr. 2013-present).

Please join us for a Talk and Cocktail at the CIFO Art Space from 6-7 pm.

In February, Ella Fontanals-Cisneros was interviewed by HoyEsArte.com at ARCO Madrid where CIFO Europa was launching the new publication Pulses of Abstraction in Latin America from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection.

Check out the interview below. (Video in Spanish)

For the full article in Spanish (http://bit.ly/16rZInS)

CIFO’s Founder and President Named Among Miami Legends by MIAMI TODAY.

We are excited to announce that Ella Fontanals-Cisneros has been named among MIAMI TODAY’s 30 Legends, individuals who have made an indelible imprint on our community over the past 30 years through their endeavors beyond their business accomplishments. MIAMI TODAY celebrates 30 years with a special reception honoring the 30 legendary leaders this coming Thursday, March 28 at the Freedom Tower in Miami.

We would like to thank MIAMI TODAY and congratulate the 30 Miami Legends:

Horacio Aguirre Sr., Norman Braman, Paul Cejas, Alicia Cervera Sr., Ella Fontanals-Cisneros, Armando Codina, Paul and Swanee DiMare, Peter Dolara, Judy Drucker, Gloria & Emilio Estefan, T. Willard Fair, Maurice Ferre, Martin Fine, Phillip & Patricia Frost, Senator Bob Graham, Tibor Hollo, Mitchell Kaplan, Jay Kislak, David Lawrence Jr., Dr. Modesto Maidique, Manny Medina, Nat Moore, Eduardo Padrón, Arva Parks, Jorge Perez, Garth Reeves, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Merrett Stierheim, Michael Tilson Thomas, Bob Traurig, and Sanford Ziff.

Pablo León de la Barra is an exhibition maker, kunst-worker, independent curator, researcher, editor, blogger, museum/art fairs/collections adviser, occasional writer, snap-shot photographer, retired architect, aesthetic dilettante, and more. He was born in Mexico City. León de la Barra has a PhD in History and Theories from the Architectural Association, London.

León de la Barra is co-director of the Novo Museo Tropical and founder and director of the First Bienal Tropical in San Juan Puerto Rico (2011). He lives and works between London, Mexico City, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, San Juan, Bogota, Lima, Athens, Beirut…

Congratulations!