► Video | Art Sessions | Max Hernández-Calvo & Carlos Zevallos Trigoso
Thursday 29 August 2019
7:30pm
Proyecto AMIL
Lima
For the tenth edition of AMIL-Art Sessions, curator Max Hernández-Calvo and researcher Carlos Zevallos Trigoso present It’s Alive: Figuring Out the Art Market from its Fundamental Interactions, a talk that will explore the changes that the contemporary art market in Lima has experienced during the last decade. Although based on strategies and modes of production typical of a precarious artistic world, dedicated to mere subsistence, the field of contemporary art in Lima–especially its market–has grown significantly. This development has led to a specialization of the circulation and consumption systems of contemporary art, encouraging public debates about the interaction between the mandates of the commercial apparatus and traditional narratives on the importance of art in society. With the aim of describing these transitions within an unstable, not-yet-institutionalized and contradictory ecosystem that is nevertheless quite alive and, sometimes, seemingly prosperous, the talk will focus on the contemporary art market from the perspective of the interaction between its producers (artists), intermediaries (gallery owners, distributors, etc.) and consumers (mainly collectors).
AMIL-Art Sessions is a series of monthly encounters at Proyecto AMIL aimed to expand artistic and curatorial practice beyond the temporal and spatial limitations of exhibition making. Throughout this series Proyecto AMIL seeks to promote alternative ways to talk about and experience contemporary art; as well as create a platform for exchange between artists, curators, researchers and our local audience.
Max Hernández-Calvo (London, 1969) is an independent curator, researcher and art critic. He received the Cisneros Scholarship for Latin American curators (2005-2007). He was an Education Director for the Dia Art Foundation in New York (2007-2009); researcher in art and corporate social responsibility in culture for the University of Malaga (2009-2011); and is currently a professor-researcher at the Art Department and a professor of the Master in Art History and Curatorship of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. His most recent curatorial projects include: the Peruvian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015); Legado y Divergencia: 78 años de arte en el Centenario de la PUCP (2017); Peru Section, Countries Project, Pinta Art Fair in Miami (2017); Bellas Artes: una trayectoria de imágenes(1918-2018), exhibition organized in the context of the centenary of the ENSABAP (2018); SinCrónicas: Horizontes del arte peruano desde el Coleccionismo, organized by the CIFO Foundation at El Instante Fundación, Madrid (2019).
Carlos Zevallos Trigoso (Lima, 1985) has a Master in Visual Anthropology by the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, where he is a member of the Research Group in Visual Anthropology and a teacher at the Departments of Communication Sciences and Art and Design. He also teaches at the Art and Design School Corriente Alterna. As a researcher he works on: photography as a representation technology, the contemporary art system in Lima and visual culture in the digital age. In 2017 he published the essay La era posmedia y la estética en el campo de producción artística de la fotografía en Lima in the book Arte y Antropología: estudios, encuentros y nuevos horizontes (Borea, 2017). He has investigated the dynamics of the contemporary art market in Lima, as well as the visual representation of political violence in Peru in TAFOS workshops at the University of San Marcos. He has presented papers on these subjects in Lima, Washington and London.
