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Installation of Joaquín Orellana: The Spine of Music at Americas Society.
In the News
Sculpture on Joaquín Orellana: The Spine of Music
April 6, 2021
/ Jonathan Goodman

"Orellana’s works are wonderfully inventive and, just as important, equally enjoyable as musical instruments and as visual objects," writes Jonathan Goodman.

Guatemala
Arts & Culture
In Discussion: Presenting Biennial FEMSA XIV
March 30, 2021

Los organizadores de la bienal XIV de FEMSA en México hablaron sobre la importancia de que las artes se descentralizen en un mundo pospandémico.

Mexico
Arts & Culture
Installation of Joaquín Orellana: The Spine of Music at Americas Society. (Image: Alexander Perrelli)
In the News
The New Yorker on Joaquín Orellana: The Spine of Music
March 8, 2021
/ Johanna Fateman

Using instruments made from the materials indigenous to Guatemala, Joaquín Orellana "articulates a radically expansive and humane approach to avant-garde composition," writes Johanna Fateman. 

Guatemala
Arts & Culture
Sebastián Zubieta
In the News
To Express the Sound of a Country’s Soul, He Invented New Instruments
February 19, 2021
/ Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim

The Spine of Music showcases Joaquín Orellana's “sculptural, Surrealist, and darkly sensuous” instruments, per a New York Times review.

Guatemala
Arts & Culture
Joaquín Orellana: The Spine of Music
In the News
4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now
February 17, 2021

"'The Spine of Music' offers a different, vaguely utopian model of peaceful no-rules anarchy, participation and silence," writes Martha Schwendener in The New York Times.

Guatemala
Arts & Culture
Joaquín Orellana: la vértebra de la música
In the News
Los “útiles sonoros” con los que Orellana reimaginó la música llegan a EE.UU.
February 17, 2021
/ Helen Cook

Los instrumentos musicales de Joaquín Orellana parecen de otro planeta, pero salieron de la extraordinaria imaginación del artista guatemalteco, escribe Helen Cook en EFE.

Guatemala
Arts & Culture
Joaquín Orellana: Sinusoido
Music Notes
Music of the Americas: Semana Orellana (casi) electrónica
February 16, 2021

The exhibition Joaquín Orellana: The Spine of Music is on view at our gallery until April 24.

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