Film Festival
17th SPANISH & LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL – VIVA! MANCHESTER
5 – 27 MARCH 2011
Highlights of this year’s festival include a solo show from leading Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz and Colombian films: Los Colores de la Montaña and Los Viajes del Viento.
Oscar Muñoz - Biografías
Sat 5 – Sun 27 March; Gallery 1
This solo show features video installation Biografías (2002) and single screen projection Línea del destino (Line of Destiny) (2006). Working across a variety of media that include photography, printmaking, drawing, installation and moving image, Muñoz employs a range of unusual image-making techniques and materials to reflect the transient nature of memories.
Los Colores de la Montaña (12A) – (The Colours of the Mountain)
Dir: Carlos César Arbeláez / Colombia / Spanish with Full English Subtitles / 2010 / 90 mins
Sun 13 & Fri 25 March – 18:20
Winner of the Kutxa-New Directors Award 2010 at the San Sebastian International Film Festival.
Los Viajes del Viento (PG)- (The Wind Journeys)
Dir: Ciro Guerra / Colombia / Spanish with Full English Subtitles / 2009 / 117 mins
Sat 26 March (18:10) & Sun 27 March (16:00)
For more information visit: www.vivafilmfestival.com**************************************
Arts Exhibition
ESCENARIOS ATIPICOS
Recent Drawing from Colombia
18 MARCH - 23 APRIL 2011
Centre for Recent Drawing presents recent drawing from Colombia in the work of Teresa Currea Moncaleano, Alicia Garavito, Luis Hernández Mellizo, Jose Antonio Suarez Londono, Mateo López and Luisa Roa.
“Despite increasingly finding ourselves in a multilateral context, countries that for centuries imposed their economic and cultural hegemony are still yearning for the atypical, for the characteristically local, from countries from parts previously called peripheral. We trace every outline looking for pre-Columbian signs, remains of the colonial period, at least some symbol that brings the exotic and exuberant Macondo to us. Yet what we find here is an amalgam of the centre; for resonating here, too, is the echo of dominant discourses in contemporary art. The tradition of drawing in Colombia has been strong, as seen in the drawing Biennial of Cali, and the Rayo Museum of Drawing and Engraving; both important in the art map of Latin America. What distinguishes these young artists, though, is that they are very conscious of the trends that circulate from the great centres of world art.
This exhibition is an opportunity to reflect on the role of communication technology in the globalization process and specifically in the democratic access to visual information and the repercussions this has had on graphic production. A country that takes its name from that of the controversial "discoverer" provides an appropriate meditation on our understanding of colonization, in all of its permutations and directions.” Julio Lopez
Thu-Sat 1-6pm
Centre for Recent Drawing
2-4 Highbury Station Rd LONDON N1 1SB
+44 2032396936 Charity No.1123530
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Arts Exhibition
BETWEEN TWO WORLDS
BETWEEN TWO WORLDS
A WINDOW ONTO CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY FROM LATIN AMERICA
24 MARCH – 30 APRIL 2011
JUAN PABLO ECHEVERRI | EDOUARD FRAIPONT | ADRIANA LESTIDO MARCOS LOPEZ | BYRON MARMOL | DULCE PINZÓN | CAMILA RODRIGO
OSCAR FERNANDO GÓMEZ RODRÍGUEZ | ALESSANDRA SANGUINETTI
Edel Assanti is proud to present an unprecedented survey of contemporary photography by nine established and emergent Latin American artists. Curated by Evening Standard photography critic Sue Steward, Between Two Worlds is Edel Assanti’s second exhibition establishing a platform in London for contemporary art from the region.
Between Two Worlds explores the juxtaposition of reality and fantasy commonplace in everyday existence and culture throughout Latin America. Split over two floors, the exhibition divides the work into these distinct categories. The varied practices of the nine artists exhibited present a heady mix of poignant and unpredictable images, moving black and white portraits, penetrating cartoon-like fantasy and dashes of magical realism.
The exhibition offers a pinhole viewpoint onto the vast landscape of Latin American photography. The photographers presented in the exhibition offer a diverse and challenging fusion of disparate heritage, technical approaches and conceptual stances. Ranging from institutionally acclaimed artists to the most prominent emergent talent, Edel Assanti and Sue Steward aspire to open new audiences to a geography that is as rich in artistic innovation as it is in cultural identity.
JUAN PABLO ECHEVERRI, Colombia
EDEL ASSANTI
276 VAUXHALL BRIDGE ROAD, LONDON, SW1V 1BB
For more info: art@edelassanti.com; www.edelassanti.com
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Arts Exhibition
FRANCISCO JOSE, SANDWICH MAN
VZ GALLERY
11 - 21 MARCH 2011
Colombian artist, Francisco Jose is presenting the Exhibition "Sandwich Man" a project developed in London after 8 months of living and studying English in the city.
Francisco Jose captures in his work the speed and variety of the city in flux from the perspective of a sandwich seller whose privilege is to observe. The souls of passers-by are transmuted into the colours and shapes of the city landscape, leaving the outlines of those who we could never know to drift anonymously. Our experience of them is determined by the traces of movements, expressions, and sounds that briefly linger behind them.
OPENING HOURS
TUESDAY - SUNDAY: 11 AM-6PM
MONDAY - CLOSED
TUESDAY - SUNDAY: 11 AM-6PM
MONDAY - CLOSED
+44 (0) 20 7739 9096
INFO@VZGALLERY.COM
28, CHESHIRE STREET
LONDON E2 6EH
28, CHESHIRE STREET
LONDON E2 6EH
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Film Screening & Charity event
Los Viajes del Viento (The Wind Journeys) – CHARITABLE SCREENING FRIENDS OF COLOMBIA FOR SOCIAL AID
Los Viajes del Viento (The Wind Journeys) – CHARITABLE SCREENING FRIENDS OF COLOMBIA FOR SOCIAL AID
Wed 3o MARCH 2011
Los Viajes del Viento (The Wind Journeys)
Friends of Colombia for Social Aid (Registered Charity No 274778) presents the acclaimed Colombian film “Los Viajes Del Viento” (The Wind Journeys), directed by Ciro Guerra and winner of the City of Rome Award at the Cannes Film Festival 2009.
The Odeon Panton Street
11-18 Panton Street, London SW1Y 4DP
Doors open at 6:00 pm – Screening starts at 6:15 pm
For further information please visit: www.friendsofcolombia.co.uk.
All proceeds will go towards projects to help to improve the lives of the most disadvantaged children of Colombia. 
