Educational Project: Laboratorio de Arte Contemporáneo (2016-2017)
Diploma Course Program focusing on Visual Arts and Productive Creation from Artistic Research.
September 2016–June 2017. Fundación Paiz, Guatemala.
Mentors: Gabriel Rodríguez, Sandra Monterroso and Renato Osoy
Designed and Coordinated by Renato Osoy
Participants: Ricardo Alejos, Nathalie Béard, Yelena Chávez, Mario Alberto López, Cecilia Porras Sáenz, Fredy Rangel, Andrés Rodríguez Decena, Luis Soto, Patricia Urrutia
Intensive formative-educational program for artists, with a focus on experimentation and the development of a research method for the production of art. Participants were given a shared space for developing artistic processes and experiments. The program also featured guest visits to artist studios, as well as guest lecturers and visitors from the local and international art scene, ranging from legendary artists to curators based abroad, providing participants with a broad range of references in the medium of contemporary art. The program concluded with a group exhibition showcasing the participants’ results.
Final exhibition at ArteCentro Paiz, Guatemala City
June 27–July 25, 2017
With this exhibition, the nine months of the Diploma Program of Contemporary Art Laboratory at ArteCentro come to an end. This laboratory is a collaborative project between artists, artists-mentors, figurants, educators and participants of the local art scene in an institutional-experimental context. Each artist has found a different way of approaching content and materials through experimental essays and research processes.
