As part of our program of guest artists, Anne Heyvaert (Spain) visits us this week to join the program of development for local artists inQubarte. The group of sponsored visual artists is developing proposals around the VISIBLE-INVISIBLE concepts.

In this context, Anne will lead a week of meetings in which also participate as guests Rafael Toriz (Mexico) and Denise Najmanovich(epistemologists, focused on the complex and contemporary thought, Professor of Interdisciplinary PhD in Social Sciences, UNER, Parana, Argentina.). This meetings search to reflect practically and theoretically on the topic and work as a way of joining each artists process, open different paths of conceptual and technical exploration and promote opportunities for exchange and international connections.

In her week at ‘ace, Anne Heyvaert will dictate Entre pliegues (Between folds), a theoretical and practical seminar on the crease and wide possibility of technical developments from the graphics around that concept. The artist understands the practice of multiple work from its procedural methodology based on a phenomenology of complexity: action, interaction, feedback. Recalling the etymological root of the word “complexity” from the Latin “plexus” (folded, interlacing …) she will reflect around the words derived from the same roots PLE PLI: folding, unfolding, duplicate, involve, complicated, complex, accomplice … and its involvement with the INVISIBLE / VISIBLE concepts.

Since November 30, 2013, the Critical Mass exhibition was on display for 2 months in ´ace Foundation for Contemporary Art’s Sala Políglota, an International Exchange of portfolios organized by Nathaniel Stern (Professor of Art and Design at the School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, and Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg College of Art, Design and Architecture Research Center) and Rhianna Andrews from the University of Milwaukee in the United States.

The portfolio includes forty artists, all published in Richard Noyce’s books Printmaking at the Edge (2006 | 2008) and Critical Mass: Printmaking Beyond the Edge (2010). The portfolio “explores the evolutionary techniques and approaches, strategies and materials that are used in and with contemporary forms of printing. It is a project of artists – explorers who put hands to work: with ink, metal and stone, with politics and pop culture and characters, and in the bits, bytes and code of new technologies. Artists cross borders with new ways of thinking, doing and collaborating. “