The Americas Society will host “Venezuela, The Best Kept Secret of the Caribbean: A Multi-disciplinary Evening of Venezuelan Visual Arts” on Tuesday April 19, at 6:00 p.m., coinciding with its current exhibit Jump Cuts: Venezuelan Contemporary Art, Coleccion Mercantil.

The program features a panel discussion with artists, scholars, curators, and critics examining different aspects of contemporary art production in Venezuela.

The speakers are Luis Perez Oramas (Adjunct Curator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York), Gabriela Rangel (Director of Visual Arts at the Americas Society), Eduardo Subirats (Philosopher and Professor at New York University), and Javier Tellez (Artist exhibiting in Jump Cuts: Venezuelan Contemporary Art).

The panel will be moderated by Sandra Antelo Suarez (Curator and Chief Editor of TRANS>arts.cultures.media).

The evening at the Americas Society also includes a video program with a selection of contemporary video works by Alexander Apostol, Alessandro Balteo, Juan Nascimento & Daniela Lovera, and Javier Tellez.

The video program will be presented by Ruth Auerbach, Director of the Sala Mendoza and curator, who will introduce a book about the 45th Anniversary of the Sala Mendoza ... an alternative model for a Kunsthalle in South America. The discussion will be moderated Yates McKee, a New York-based writer currently enrolled at the Whitney Museum International Studies Program.

Panel discussion on Contemporary Art in Venezuela

Photography: Santiago Padilla