Cover image from a monograph on artist Modera Emiliano Valdés. The book includes a text by Rosina Cazali.
Cover image from a monograph on artist Modera Emiliano Valdés. The book includes a text by Rosina Cazali.
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The Curator's Perspective: Rosina Cazali (Guatemala)
Originally aired 8/20/12

Rosina Cazali speaks at the ICI's Curator’s Perspective series on March 12, 2012 at the New Museum. Cazali is the former Director of the Centro Cultural de España of Guatemala.

Rosina Cazali is a critic, essayist, independent curator, historian, and festival organizer specializing in contemporary Guatemalan art. She studied arts at Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala and attended the first Cultural Studies lecture organized by FLACSO. She worked as an independent curator since 2000 and participated in several art projects such as La Curandería. In 2000, she co-founded Colloquia, a space for contemporary art, and the art festival Octubre Azul. From 2003 to 2006 she was the director of the Spanish Cultural Centre in Guatemala where she started projects like the photography festival Foto 30. In 2006, she initiated the editorial project Colección Pensamiento, a compilation of interviews with Guatemalan intellectuals about contemporary thought, supported by the Spanish Cultural Centre in Guatemala. In 2010, she received the John Simon Guggehnheim Grant to conduct research on contemporary art in Guatemala. She works and resides in Guatemala City.

The Curator's Perpective is an itinerant public discussion series that features international curators who distill current happenings in contemporary art, including the artists they are excited by, exhibitions that have made them think, and their views on recent developments in the art world. These programs are prepared for radio and posted online by ARTonAIR.org in partnership with ICI.