{"id":19285,"date":"2024-03-18T23:44:37","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T06:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/?p=19285"},"modified":"2024-03-15T00:45:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T07:45:08","slug":"seguimos-contemporary-art-in-costa-rica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/seguimos-contemporary-art-in-costa-rica\/","title":{"rendered":"Seguimos: Contemporary Art in Costa Rica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opening March 30<sup>th<\/sup> at Craig Krull Gallery, thirteen Costa Rican artists present <em>Seguimos<\/em>, an exhibition that offers original and vibrant contemporary artwork previously unseen in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>As co-curated by Los Angeles-based gallerist Hannah Sloan and the Craig Krull Gallery, work by Adri\u00e1n Arguedas Ruano, Alina Gonz\u00e1lez, Allegra Pacheco, Christian Wedel, Isaac Lor\u00eda, Javier Calvo, La Cholla Jackson, Luc\u00eda Howell, Luciano Goizueta, Matias Sauter Morera, Mimian Hsu Chen, Priscilla Romero-Cubero and Valiente Pastel explore a wide range of mediums while providing a fresh perspective on subjects such as the body, identity, and place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/02.PriscillaRomero_Cubero-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-19290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/02.PriscillaRomero_Cubero-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/02.PriscillaRomero_Cubero-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/02.PriscillaRomero_Cubero-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/02.PriscillaRomero_Cubero-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/02.PriscillaRomero_Cubero-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/02.PriscillaRomero_Cubero-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/02.PriscillaRomero_Cubero-648x432.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/02.PriscillaRomero_Cubero-288x192.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Video, photography, and installations are joined by paintings, works on paper, and free-standing sculptures. <em>Seguimos<\/em>, which translates as \u201cwe keep going\u201d takes its name from an exhibited installation that features some 120 works on paper by conceptual artist Priscilla Romero-Cubero.<\/p>\n<p>Romero-Cubero registered liquid latex imprints of fingers \u2013 those of dozens of individuals. The imprints are positioned in groupings of four and marked with the slashes of diagonal tally marks. What is being tallied is a harsh statistic revealing the continued counting of the disappeared and silenced, victims of death and injustice. Thematically, this piece, and the overall exhibition, shape a powerful testimony to unforgettable lives and memory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19289\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"951\" height=\"633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image003.jpg 951w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image003-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image003-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image003-648x431.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image003-288x192.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 951px) 100vw, 951px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The personal and the political are both intrinsic to the exhibition. Javier Calvo\u2019s \u201cEl Blanco es Relativo\u201d (\u201cWhite is Relative\u201d) focuses on racial stereotype with an image of Calvo\u2019s arm, on which these words are tattooed. The pointed message behind them relates to a racial stereotype in a country that is often incorrectly generalized as being non-white.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Morphing her own nude figure within mirrored fragments and the landscape of Costa Rica itself, artist Lucia Howell shapes video art that infuses a symbolic magic into a world that exudes the mystery of a mythological realm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/11.AlinaGonzalez.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-19297\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/11.AlinaGonzalez-755x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/11.AlinaGonzalez-755x1024.jpg 755w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/11.AlinaGonzalez-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/11.AlinaGonzalez-768x1041.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/11.AlinaGonzalez-648x879.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/11.AlinaGonzalez-142x192.jpg 142w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/11.AlinaGonzalez.jpg 944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Body image is also at the core of works from Alina Gonz\u00e1lez that serve as a reflection of identity as a transgender woman. The artist combines these self-portraits with those of star talent in the transgender pornography industry as well as those of iconic cultural figures such as Bridget Bardot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/14.ValientePastel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-19300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/14.ValientePastel-731x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"908\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/14.ValientePastel-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/14.ValientePastel-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/14.ValientePastel-768x1075.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/14.ValientePastel-1097x1536.jpg 1097w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/14.ValientePastel-1463x2048.jpg 1463w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/14.ValientePastel-648x907.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/14.ValientePastel-137x192.jpg 137w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/14.ValientePastel.jpg 1557w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Queer culture in Latin America is also the subject of the irreverent and witty images of Valiente Pastel, who paints over erotic advertising and found objects to create a narrative that normalizes and satirizes sexual behaviors often hidden or occluded by shame, society, or both.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_2086.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_2086.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"1004\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_2086.jpg 915w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_2086-273x300.jpg 273w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_2086-768x843.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_2086-648x711.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_2086-175x192.jpg 175w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the works of Allegra Pacheo, (above) intimate paintings of boxers and MMA fighters in motion emphasize her own body and physicality as she trains in an intensely masculine setting. The artist and documentarian\u2019s work is suffused with energy and vigilant fierceness.<\/p>\n<p>La Cholla Jackson presents a gritty and absorbing assemblage, shaping fashionable stiletto heels and pumped sneakers into a large-scale sculpture that reimagines high fashion through the lens of her own drag performances.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition traverses the terrain of geographic bodies as well as those of the human form. Mimian Hsu Chen creates her own sculptural work recontextualizing items of clothing and adornment as a 26-foot \u201cwaterfall\u201d of diaphanous fabric sewn with embroidery, beads, and pearls. This textile work represents the seaweed and algae that drifts between the countries of Costa Rica and Taiwan, flotsam with no conception of political boundaries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/07.MatiasSauterMorera-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19292\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/07.MatiasSauterMorera-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/07.MatiasSauterMorera-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/07.MatiasSauterMorera-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/07.MatiasSauterMorera-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/07.MatiasSauterMorera-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/07.MatiasSauterMorera-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/07.MatiasSauterMorera-648x432.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/07.MatiasSauterMorera-288x192.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Matias Sauter Morera (above) depicts rich photographic images of the tropical, biodiverse Costa Rican landscape; self-taught painter Isaac Loria (below) offers light-filled fecund images painted al fresco on unstretched canvases that capture the lush beauty of his grandfather\u2019s remote farm, the location where he paints.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/12.IsaacLoria.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-19298\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/12.IsaacLoria-794x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/12.IsaacLoria-794x1024.jpg 794w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/12.IsaacLoria-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/12.IsaacLoria-768x990.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/12.IsaacLoria-648x836.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/12.IsaacLoria-149x192.jpg 149w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/12.IsaacLoria.jpg 953w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The vibrant physical landscape is also the subject of Christian Wedel\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/09.ChristianWedel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-19295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/09.ChristianWedel-1024x835.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/09.ChristianWedel-1024x835.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/09.ChristianWedel-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/09.ChristianWedel-768x626.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/09.ChristianWedel-648x529.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/09.ChristianWedel-235x192.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/09.ChristianWedel.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>His images examine the coexistence and comingling of the qualities shared by both flora and humans in the density of the tropics.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image001-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19287\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image001-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"726\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image001-2.jpg 726w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image001-2-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image001-2-648x527.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image001-2-236x192.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 726px) 100vw, 726px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Engravings and woodcuts created by renowned Costa Rican printmaker Adri\u00e1n Arguedas Ruano (above) depict a traditional masquerade festival in his hometown.<\/p>\n<p>And Luciano Goizueta (below)\u00a0 brings the video project, \u201cColecci\u00f3n de Ahoras\/Collection of Nows\u201d to the gallery, a luminous work that reflects brief incidental moments in the life of a Costa Rican artist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/15.LucianoGoizueta.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-19301\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/15.LucianoGoizueta-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/15.LucianoGoizueta-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/15.LucianoGoizueta-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/15.LucianoGoizueta-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/15.LucianoGoizueta-1536x865.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/15.LucianoGoizueta-2048x1153.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/15.LucianoGoizueta-648x365.png 648w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/15.LucianoGoizueta-341x192.png 341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each of the works in <em>Seguimos<\/em> is in its own way both self-reflective and universal, dedicated to the dynamic hope and belief that art, landscape, and humankind each shape a passionate commitment to the idea that \u201cwe continue.\u201d It is an exhibition both as deeply devoted to the soul as it is to each of these bodies.<\/p>\n<p><em>Seguimos <\/em>will be on view March 30 through May 18, 2024. The artist reception runs from 4:30 to 6:30 on the 30<sup>th<\/sup>, with several of the participating artists taking part in an artist talk at 3 p.m., prior to the opening reception. Craig Krull Gallery is located at Santa Monica\u2019s Bergamot Station in building B3.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Genie Davis; images provided by the exhibition<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening March 30th at Craig Krull Gallery, thirteen Costa Rican artists present Seguimos, an exhibition that offers original and vibrant contemporary artwork previously unseen in the U.S. As co-curated by Los Angeles-based gallerist Hannah Sloan and the Craig Krull Gallery, work by Adri\u00e1n Arguedas Ruano, Alina Gonz\u00e1lez, Allegra Pacheco, Christian Wedel, Isaac Lor\u00eda, Javier Calvo, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/seguimos-contemporary-art-in-costa-rica\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Seguimos: Contemporary Art in Costa Rica<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[1777,1776],"class_list":["post-19285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-uncategorized","tag-craig-krull-gallery","tag-seguimos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image002-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19305,"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19285\/revisions\/19305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}