Newsletter of Cultural Events February 2025. | |
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The Consulate General of Argentina in New York
presents
“Instants of Liquefying into Unison”
an art exhibition by Brenda Sabbagh
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Artist statement.
I work in a pendular way between abstraction and figuration, exploring painting as a medium that integrates the material, the narrative, and the gesture that constructs it. The repeated, automated stroke becomes a physical and performative act, directly connected to the body—my body as a tool of production and the bodies that emerge and fade within the work. This focus on gesture often leads me to experiment with other materials, such as ceramics, alternative supports, or the structure of folding screens. Through these explorations, I seek to disrupt the preconfigured images saturating digital media, proposing new approaches to visual and narrative representation. My work embraces experimentation, avoiding linear methods to redefine the final outcome through processes of discovery and transformation.
Brenda Sabbagh.
Opening Night Thursday, February 6th, 5:30 pm.
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12 West 56th St, New York, NY 10019
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With the Support of the
Consulate General of Argentina in New York
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The Slip Presents:
“THE ARGENTINE INTERNATIONAL”
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A group exhibition featuring:
Cecilia Biagini, Ivana Brenner, Rafael Bueno, Bibi Calderaro, Beto De Volder, Dolores Furtado, Julio Grinblatt, Nicolás Guagnini, Claudia Kaatziza Cortínez, Syd Krochmalny, Fabián Marcaccio, Sabrina Merayo Núñez, Luciana Pinchiero, Liliana Porter, Sofía Quirno, Analia Segal, and Pedro Wainer.
Curated by The Office of The Unknown Curator
About The Slip
The Slip is a contemporary art space located in Downtown Manhattan, dedicated to fostering innovative global art perspectives. Designed to challenge established paradigms, it encourages dialogue, reflection, and creative experimentation.
The name "The Slip" draws inspiration from its historical context and subtly plays with the layered meanings of the word. This blend of meanings reflects the space's exploration of transitions—between identities, cultures, and artistic practices—highlighting the tension between what is revealed and what remains concealed, and inviting curiosity and discovery. More than a gallery, The Slip is a high-value platform for cultural exchange among artists, curators, and researchers.
February 5th - March 8th
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25 Peck Slip, New York, NY, 10038
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Presents
Gaspar Libedisnky | Diorama
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Gaspar Libedinsky (Buenos Aires, 1976) is a visual artist, architect, and educator whose interdisciplinary work mediates between urban scale phenomena and the private, intimate space of the human body. Key to his practice is what he calls his ideas fuerzas (driving ideas): the transformation of marginal objects into objects of desire, the conversion of the ordinary into the extraordinary, and the sublimation of everyday products into a “higher life.” Diorama presents three of his most iconic pieces — ‘Nube’, ‘Míster Trapo,’ and ‘Kunstformen der Natur’ — each of which rethinks the properties of basic household cleaning instruments: kitchen rags are upcycled into couture, plastic brooms become striking specimens of coral, and dusters turn into an uncanny explosion of clouds.
Until March 28
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501 W 20th Street, New York, NY 10011
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The Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA)
presents
Luis Fernando Benedit
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Luis Fernando Benedit
Curators: Laura Hakel - Bernardo Mosqueira - Olivia Casa.
Luis Fernando Benedit (Buenos Aires, 1937–2011) was an Argentine artist, architect, designer, and innovator of biological sculpture and systems art, who worked across sculpture, painting, and drawing. He was a key participant in the Buenos Aires–based art institution Centro de Arte y Comunicación (CAYC) and a founding member of the Grupo de Arte y Cibernética Buenos Aires and the conceptual art collective Grupo de los Trece.
In 1963, Benedit graduated from the University of Buenos Aires with a degree in architecture and simultaneously developed a self-taught practice in painting. At this time, Benedit started producing figurative paintings inspired by Art Brut, Informalism, and New Figuration. His later paintings of the mid- to late 1960s reflect his interest in biomorphic forms and living organisms as well as the influence of cartoons and Pop art. Following his first collaborations with CAYC, Benedit explored the relationship between cybernetics and living organisms within natural and artificial environments, shifting from paintings to interactive works. Benedit exhibited the first work in what is known as his series of “habitats,” small architectural structures made from clear acrylic and Plexiglas used for housing live plants and animals, in 1968 at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires. He produced habitats at various scales incorporating different natural elements throughout the 1970s.
These works included Biotrón (1971), an aluminum and plexiglass structure for bees that was presented in the 35th Venice Biennale, and Phytotron (1972), a hydroponic environment for plants that was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Benedit’s work has been the subject of exhibitions at the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (1980); the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires (1996); MALBA Costantini Collection – Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (2009); and the Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat Art Collection, Buenos Aires (2014), among others.
Until April 5
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142 Franklin Street, New York, NY 10013
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El nuevo espectáculo “NOTICIAS DEL AMOR” 2025, nos lleva a un viaje musical y visual con los grandes éxitos del dúo, e imágenes en pantallas gigantes donde Lucía y Joaquín Galán, además de cantar, interpretan a dos conductores de noticias que nos muestran cómo fueron cambiando el amor y las relaciones entre el hombre y la mujer a través del tiempo. Más aún, cómo puede llegar a ser el amor en un futuro no muy lejano con la aparición de la inteligencia artificial. ¿Podrá la inteligencia artificial deshumanizarnos? ¿Continuarán las eternas peleas de pareja? ¿Logrará la mujer la igualdad frente al hombre?.
"Noticias del Amor”, un show inolvidable donde la música, el drama y la comedia están más presentes que nunca.
February 13
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1 Center Street Newark, NJ 07102
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The Joyce Theater
Presents
ANIMA
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Anima Animal
The Joyce Theater opens its Spring/Summer ‘25 Season with a captivating contemporary dance production from Argentina, making its debut on the historic stage. Conceived by renowned American Ballet Theatre Principal Dancer Herman Cornejo, choreographed by Anabella Tuliano, and performed with Grupo Cadabra, Anima Animal draws inspiration from Caaporá, a project envisioned over 100 years ago as the first "Argentine ballet". Remarkably, it was also one of legendary Vaslav Nijinsky's final projects, and finally never staged due to his declining health. Based on an Indigenous legend about a mystical bird from Argentina’s northeastern forests, Anima Animal invites audiences to reflect on love and compassion for the Earth and all its creatures.
Anima Animal is a powerful and immersive new work conceived by renowned dancer Herman Cornejo. It pays homage to a dance work that remained secretly unfulfilled for over a century. In 1917, legendary dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky was invited to stage Caapora, a ballet inspired by the Guarani legend of the Urutau bird—a mystical creature from Argentina’s forests. Though he accepted, illness prevented him from completing what would have been the first “Argentine” ballet.
Inspired by Nijinsky’s everlasting, groundbreaking artistic vision, Cornejo revived this narrative in Anima Animal, inviting audiences to reflect on love, redemption, and compassion for Earth and its creatures. Co-produced with the Teatro del Bicentenario in 2022, Anima Animal features choreography by award-winnin Anabella Tuliano, an original score by acclaimed composers DJ UJI and Noelia Escalzo, and performed with Grupo Cadabra.
February 18 - 23
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175 Eigth Avenue, New York, NY 10011
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Fusion Tango is a dance company established in 2000 by created by choreographer Sandra Antognazzi, that has outstanding Argentine dancers and musicians residing in New York, such as Maurizio Najt (piano), Rodolfo Zanetti (bandoneon), Oscar Feldman (saxes), Armando Orzuza, Nuria Martinez, Mariana Parma, Leonardo Sardella, Walter Perez (dancers)
Mark your Valentine's Day in 2025 with one of the world's most romantic and sensuous dance genres, TANGO! Don’t miss this opportunity to witness the beauty and excitement of tango by enjoy this event that will take place at Ciccone Theatre, Bergen Community College.
February 14
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400 Paramus Road, Paramus, NJ 07652
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DON'T TELL MAMA
Presents
Dominquero Tango Trio
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Dominguero Tango Trío is inspired by the founding era of tango, known as La Guardia Vieja. With a repertoire of traditional Tangos to be danced (Guardia Vieja) and modern ones, it seeks to recreate the style of the first ensembles from the beginning of the 20th century, offering a wide repertoire of tangos, milongas and waltzes. The timbre and coloration of its three instruments—flute, bandoneon and guitar—take us to the heart of the music of Buenos Aires.
Thursday, Feb 20th • 7:00 pm.
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343 W 46th St, New York, NY 10036
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Concert & Milonga with
Dominguero Tango Trio & Dancers
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Join us for an unforgettable evening of Traditional-Style Tango, taking you on a journey back to the origins of this passionate and captivating dance.
Saturday, Feb 22 • 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
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19 Wadsworth Street, Buffalo, NY, Buffalo
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The Joyce Theater
Presents
TANGO AFTER DARK
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Argentine dance continues to dominate the Joyce stage for the following two weeks with the New York premiere of Tango After Dark.
International tango superstars and World Champions Germán Cornejo and Gisela Galeassi, along with a cast of eight dancers, bring the highly anticipated New York premiere of Tango After Dark. Featuring live music and set to the revolutionary compositions of Astor Piazzolla, this electrifying production captures the bold, seductive rhythms of Buenos Aires. Cornejo’s innovative choreography fuses the rich traditions of tango with a contemporary flair, embodying the raw passion and precision that mesmerize audiences worldwide.
The Joyce’s presentation of Tango After Dark is a HARKNESS FIRST Joyce Theater debut, generously supported by The Harkness Foundation for Dance.
February 25 - March 9
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175 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10011
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LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATER CLUB
presents
LA CONSAGRACION DE NADIE
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“La consagración de nadie (Unsuccessful)” is about the search of Micaela, an opera singer and actress who was never able to enter the opera scene in Buenos Aires. In a documentary style, she decides to make her own personal bio-dramatic project, to tell her story, her path in art, to occupy spaces for herself and receive the applause she could not find in the opera universe.
The piece intertwines success, talent, destiny, frustrated dreams, challenges, family, ancestors, uprooting, teachers and loves. The need to leave everything behind in search of the desired consecration.
Micaela Fariña and Gonzalo Quintana are a duo of Argentine artists who have been working together for more than ten years. Directors, playwrights and actors in their pieces, rotate roles according to their desires and concerns. They work together, trusting in the idea of taking acting to its full potential by exploring different contemporary stage devices. In the documentary genre they find the key to building new boundaries between reality and fiction. Their pieces are characterized by exploring the musical aspects of the scene, understanding music not only as that which an instrument or voice is capable of reproducing, but as the variable rhythmic and musical treatment of bodies in space.
February 27 - March 2
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66 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003
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The winners of the 15th Annual Cinema Tropical Awards were announced on January 14, 2025. Among them:
Best Film:
UNDEFINED THINGS / LAS COSAS INDEFINIDAS
by María Aparicio, Argentina
Best Director:
THE DELINQUENTS / LOS DELINCUENTES
by Rodrigo Moreno, Argentina
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Dir. María Aparicio
Prod. by Rodrigo Guerrero y Anet Apontes
81 min. 2023.
Eva is a film editor. While working with her assistant Rami on a feature film about blind people, she seems to have lost her enthusiasm for cinema. Added is the recent death of her friend Juan, a film director whose films she edited.
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Dir. Rodrigo Moreno
Spanish with English subt.
190 minutes. 2023.
A heist picture unlike any other, The Delinquents upends genre expectations with a gentle yet deftly constructed existentialist fable. Timid bank clerk Morán (Daniel Elías), fed up with his dead-end middle-management job, decides one day to simply walk into the vault, pack a bag with enough cash to cover his salary until retirement age, and saunter out. This is the beginning of an endlessly surprising tale that Argentinean writer-director Rodrigo Moreno spins for the enjoyment of the viewer.
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ESCUELAS ARGENTINAS EN LA JURISDICCIÓN DE ESTE CONSULADO GENERAL
Ambas escuelas argentinas son independientes y sus programas educativos son complementarios a los programas educativos seguidos por las escuelas del Estado en donde se encuentran.
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