MIAMI, FL.- Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts announced the solo exhibition of Silvia Rivas: Tiny Events and Guillermo Srodek-Hart: Animalia on view during the November Wynwood Art District second Saturday gallery walk.

Tiny Events by Silvia Rivas concentrates on group portraiture and those moments in time. For Rivas the portrait is the resource to portray and present singularity, isolation, and to show the individual in its current condition. The sitter is captured in his/her present, in one singular action that extends indefinitely in time. Over a dissociated scene, different elements appear raining, sometimes subtle and fragile items like bubbles or flowers, sometimes geometric holes, showing the gap between the beings and their surroundings. One such group of individuals found in Tiny Events are the young faces of people from Buenos Aires ’ poor suburbs, with their neutral expressions of either sadness, strength or open to interpretation.

About the artist: Silvia Rivas was born in Buenos Aires , Argentina in 1957. She graduated at Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes. In 2001 Rivas was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. Rivas was also awarded with an Artist in Residence Fellowship at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus , Ohio in 2005. In 2006 and 2007 she placed second and third prize at the Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales, Argentina . In addition to her second solo at Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts Rivas has shown at the Bronx Museum, NewYork; El Centro Cultural Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes and Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina; ARCO, Spain; The Havana Biennale, Cuba; Art Basel Miami Beach; Art Basel, Switzerland; the 15th Edition of Video Brazil in Sao Paulo and the Mercosur Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil. She lives and works in Buenos Aires .

In the project room Animalia by Guillermo Srodek-Hart will be on view. The Animalia project is a fantasy world, which holds as a central theme the interactions between animals and humans. The photographs have a common compositional reference, which is that all of them have the animal in the foreground while the human figure remains in the background. The animal in the foreground gazes at the viewer, and turns a recognizable scene inside out. The photographs depict the strange and eerie connection between humans and other animals. Some years later, the artist came back to this project, investigating our relationship to the natural world, but took on a different perspective: Guillermo Srodek-Hart decided to put himself in the picture, and switched from still to moving image. In the 8 minute video exhibited, Srodek-Hart recorded a sleepover with Jackson , a 2-year-old goat. “I was the alien in his world, and was not sure about his reaction to my presence. I tried to direct my actions towards reaching a state of conciliation between both of us,” states the artist.

About the artist: Guillermo Srodek-Hart was born in Buenos Aires , Argentina in 1977. He received his BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University in Boston , MA . In 2004, he moved back to Argentina where he continued exploring the ways in which humans and animals lives intersected. Much of the work was based in the farming lands of the Pampas . He is currently finishing his second year at the Mass College of Art and working on his thesis, and is expected to receive his MFA in 2008. His works are in the Danforth Museum of Art, the Attleboro Museum of Art, the White Collection, the Cambiasso Collection, the Petrobras Collection and the Klemm Foundation. This is his first show in Miami , Florida .