Claudio Perna News Today

The land of the brave and home of the free has always been bearish about borders, about who gets in, who stays out. Politically we’re feeling tha

Our critic says “Chosen Memories” at MoMA is one of the most stirring recent collection shows. The theme of change and instability is a binding thread.

Gego’s retrospective in New York’s Guggenheim is a small part of a wider effort by Venezuelan curators and artists of different generations to show the creative treasure still alive in Venezuela and the exiled communities

A fixture of the Southern California art scene, Perna was known for his quirky sculptures and photography that ignited the imagination.

The Venezuelan artist wrestles with the seeming rigidity of the grid in pursuit of something truly abstract. Composed of a partially stretched canvas divided into 25 squares and filled with small sandbags on the inside, Untitled (1971) is one of Venezuelan artist Eugenio Espinoza’s many unique variations on the grid. Playfully humorous and seriously inquisitive, Espinoza seems to accept as a challenge the art-historical proposition that the grid is “impervious to change.”[1] He t...