Roberto Valcárcel, versatile creator, constantly challenges pre-established ideas in the art market, galleries, institutions and critics.
He insists that neither the title nor the price of the piece and even less the critics’ opinion, can replace the direct assessment and a subjective interpretation of a work of art.
Rather than invite the observer, Valcárcel challenges them to not use these resources or “crutches”. But confront the art work alone, relying on their senses and own psyche. So, they can even find, surprisingly, a sense humour in the works presented.
Roberto Valcarcel
Born in La Paz, Bolivia (1951). Living in Santa Cruz de la Sierra. His area of work is Conceptual Art (Bank of ideas, creative systems, applied creativity, ideas and texts), Visual Arts (university professor, lecturer and creatic coach) Valcárcel founded the Interplanetary Society of Artists (EMUSA Gallery, La Paz 1984) the Erotic movement (Bienal de Sao Paulo 1983) and the National Bank of Ideas (Santa Cruz 1992).
He has made more than thirty solo exhibitions, among which highlights the work presented at the National Museum of Art (La Paz 1984, 1996) and in four major galleries in the city of La Paz: BHN Foundation Gallery EMUSA. Unique Art Gallery and Sala Guzmán de Rojas.
Opening May 13, 8 pm
Exhibit until June 25th.
When I was a man, my wife asked me for a jaguar. So I saved my money, bought her one, gave it to her for our anniversary. And then the jaguar ate her. An exhibition of recent works by the artist, Karsten Krejcarek, who will be exhibiting video and photographs that were primarily created in […]
There is always a delicate thread which binds the most complex situations, the most fragile, the most unlikely or consistent with an origin sometimes clearly visible and others, the most intriguing, with a subsurface core which demands a little more than curiosity to discover. This proposal highlights these subtle ties that go through the process […]
My work investigates the manner in which collective experience, social context and the production of meaning in quotidian existence inform the construction of personal identity over time. Through the reinterpretation of personal and social frameworks, I attempt to create parallel systems that offer new vantage points for reflection about our conditions and how we perceive […]
Elba Bairon was born in La Paz, in 1947. At the age of five, dhe left Bolivia and moved to Uruguay, where she studied drawing and painting at the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Montevideo and Chinese painitng at the Biblioteca Nacional . In 1967, she moved to Buenos Aires, in 1970s, her work revolved […]
The exhibition “Across the Universe” brings together two of the most renowned contemporary painters of Bolivia; Keiko Gonzalez and Alex Zapata. This exhibition is the outcome of a meeting and dialogue between two artists, painters by trade, both known for opposite approaches and styles in their work. Keiko Gonzalez faithful to the Gestalt, and the […]
An exhibition showing the work of 10 international artists working with the gallery, Dot Fiftyone, Guzman / Perelman, Wynwood Miami. This exhibition brings together a set of 10 artists working in different fields for a utopia of expressions such as drawing, installation, photography, painting and video. The richness of proposals for the exhibit, carefully investigate […]
