| “Prada for all, Prada for you” is the
final message of the promotional video for the Martín Sastre
Foundation for Super-Poor Latin American artists, an ironic commentary
on the global art circuits established since the ‘90s in which
the inclusion of Latin American artists became a possibility in
the mainstream and hegemonic art world. “Adopt a Latin American
Artist” is the slogan of this foundation which offers an international
program of sponsorship for artists from the periphery who normally
do not have the economic means of access to international circuits.
The Foundation is not unlike international charities that propose
the long-distance adoption of a child in third world for a modest
price a year. However, it highlights a set of values regarding status
and fame which have become the local currency of the contemporary
art world.
Selected solo exhibitions: 2002: Casa de América.
Madrid; 2000: Colección Engelman-Ost, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Selected group exhibitions: 2002: Brooklyn à
Paris, Chez Valentin, Paris; Dead or Alive, Break 21, Ljubljana;
NUEVA/VISTA Videokunst aus Lateinamerika, IFA. Bonn, Stuttgart/
Berlín; You Think I’m Superficial, Palm Beach Institute
of Contemporary Art, Florida; 2001: El Final del Eclipse: Arte de
América Latina en la transición al Siglo XXI, Salas
de la Fundación Telefónica, Madrid/ Salas de la Diputación,
Salas del Instituto de América y de La General, Granada/
Museo de Arte Iberoamericano, Badajoz/ Universidad de Salamanca,
Spain; Museo de Arte Moderno, Carrillo Gil, Mexico; Todos x Natalia,
Centro Cultural Recoleta de Buenos Aires/Palacio Municipal de Montevideo,
Uruguay; III Bienal Internacional del MERCOSUR; Brasilia/ Porto
Alegre, Brazil; 2000: Big: Quisiera ser grande, Momenta Art, New
York; Vivencias, Generali Foundation, Vienna; Interférences,
CICV Pierre Scheffer, Belfort, France; Trampas Electrónicas,
Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires.
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