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LatAm in Focus: The Story behind Joaquín Orellana’s Musical Sculptures
April 14, 2021
/ Luisa Leme

Co-curators Sebastian Zubieta and Diana Flatto share sounds from The Spine of Music.

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Reflections on Joaquín Orellana's Marimba Imaginaria
April 13, 2021

The Spine of Music co-curators invited experts to discuss the artist’s legacy in the music and art scenes.

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Nilko Andreas
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Music of the Americas: Gismonti, Andreas, and Lauzer
April 12, 2021

Bianca Gismonti and Nilko Andreas are back after weeks and years, we revisit Vincent Lauzer's recent concert, and continue exploring the art of Joaquín Orellana. 

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Installation of Joaquín Orellana: The Spine of Music at Americas Society.
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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.

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Installation of Joaquín Orellana: The Spine of Music at Americas Society. (Image: Alexander Perrelli)
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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. 

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Sebastián Zubieta
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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.

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Joaquín Orellana: The Spine of Music
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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.

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