Ernesto Oroza Workshop

Miami International Art Fair, January/2010
A Music Performance & Interactive Art Happening Preview event for the Miami International Art Fair (MIA)

E-flux Journal Reader 2009
Anton Vidokle (Author, Editor), Julieta Aranda (Editor), Brian Kuan Wood (Editor)

Rent Electricity Gas at 380 NW 24^th Street

On behalf of Terri and Donna, Miami based curator Agatha Wara has set up a curious space called RENT ELECTRICITY GAS (a title borrowed from a Martin Kippenberger artwork). Featuring artworks in the form of seats and benches by Jim Drain, Nick Lobo, Ernesto Oroza and a young German artist Phillip Zach the space’s main function is as a bar. When asked “why a bar?”, Wara simply replied “ because what is the point of making more exhibitions?”

Art Baselita Mama's Little Girl at Ede Zones. Curated by Glexis Novoa. More info here.

Alonso Art at PhotoMiami 2009

les cravates par Hermès

organized by designboom, in collaboration with Hermès, FRANCE

3rd ex-aequo prize
'cleverness patterned # 2'
design by liliam dooley + ernesto oroza
More info: designboom
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If you haven’t seen the current group show at the Centro Cultural Español, do yourself a favor and check it out. The group show, Proyecto Habitar (featuring works by Raúl Cárdenas/Torolab, Santiago Cirugeda/Recetas Urbanas, Democracia, Gean Moreno, Ernesto Oroza, Juan Carlos Robles, and Todo por la Praxis), explores ideas of habitability drawing on everything from architecture to urban decay as subject matter.

The focus today is on the collaborative works of Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza. Lately the two have been making works utilizing everyday “unnoticed” objects that have optimal and single-minded purposes. Things such as milk crates, for instance, which are designed and utilized solely for the purpose of transporting milk, the two artists slot these items together into architectural entities in ways that hope to undermine their intended usage.

Today from noon to 2 p.m., Moreno and Oroza were slated to hold a workshop, but the artists opted instead to do something a little different. They’ve gathered a bunch of supplies: scissors, papers, balsa wood, a copy machine, and stacks free magazines of which the pages will be blackened out, and the artists invite workshop goers to come out and engage in discussion and also help them create makeshift collage zines that will document their current project.

Centro Cultural Español: 800 Douglas Rd. Suite 170, Miami 305-448-9677; ccemiami.org

TIME + TEMP: Surveying the Shifting Climate of Painting in South Florida

TIME + TEMP: Surveying the Shifting Climate of Painting in South Florida [More info here]
Nov. 16, 2009 – Jan. 10, 2010
Opening Reception: Fri., Nov. 20, 6-9 pm
Art and Culture Center of Hollywood
1650 Harrison St.
Hollywood, FL 33020
954. 921. 3274