Economic Upswing in Argentina Affords Greater Room for Risk—and Sales—at arteBA

Artsy Editorial
—Silas Martí

“This sets the tone for most of the pieces in the fair—though, other works are less explicit and tend to sweep the proverbial dust under the rug, disguising it with pristine, sleek surfaces. This is the case with Santiago Reyes Villaveces, an up-and-coming Colombian artist, whose works from Bogotá’s Instituto de Visión are subtle equivalents to throwing a wrench in the gears of a sputtering political machine. In an allusion to a generalized lack of parameters and standards, he scrapes off the measurement markings on two rulers hanging side by side and, in another diptych, draws a meteorite cut in half by order of some politician in the backwaters of Colombia.”

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