Review: Al calor del pensamiento (in the heat of thought)

摘要

The exhibition Al Calor del Pensamiento, containing works from the Daros Latinamerica Collection, exposed the European public to the hybridism of artistic production on the other side of the Atlantic. In the show, at the Santander Bank Foundation in Madrid, the Swiss curator Katrin Steffen made use of the metaphor in the exhibition's title to demonstrate how Latin American artistic production can be highly conceptual, whilst at the same time provoking a certain aesthetic of the senses. In order to juxtapose these two aspects of contemporary art, over seventy works by twenty-two artists from various Latin American countries were selected for the exhibition, in which works by the Brazilians Cildo Meireles and José Damasceno stood out.