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ARTNEWS / MARCH 4, 2019
Spring Preview: The Most Promising Museum Shows and Biennials Around the World. Bringing together artists from throughout the Caribbean, continental Latin America, and the United States, “Mundos Alternos” looks at the ways in which artists from these regions use science fiction to imagine and create alternate realities and spaces, utopian and dystopian alike.
LAWEEKLY.COM / APRIL 30, 2018
A remarkable new exhibition has just opened in Hollywood; a diverse array of artistic voices working in eclectic mediums, and every single one with a unique, wonderfully relevant story to tell. Each year, the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs awards a group of artists individual grants of $10,000 each and gives them six months or so to finish whatever they’re working on and produce a new body of work for exhibition.
CULTURE MONSTER / MAY 2, 2018
Visions of L.A. Creative freedom runs high in new show at Barnsdall Art Park. COLA Fellowships Exhibition. An upcoming exhibition at the gallery aims to highlight just that. The City of Los Angeles Individual Artists Fellowship exhibition is the culmination of an annual grant celebrating midcareer L.A. artists.
LA Artists Take Us from the Colonial Past to the Interstellar Future. Winners of the City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship highlight contested histories and utopian pasts in their group show.
//READ MORERIVERSIDE, California. – UCR ARTSblock announces the participating artists in Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas. The exhibition, which is part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, brings together works by over thirty contemporary artists and collectives from across the Americas who use science fiction to imagine new realities and alternate worlds.
//READ MORENEVADA MUSEUM OF ART / AUGUST 26, 2017
‘UNSETTLED’ TELLS STORIES OF THE GREATER WEST THROUGH A BROAD SELECTION OF ART AND ARTIFACTS MADE ON THE EDGE // Organized by the Nevada Museum of Art and curated in collaboration with Ed Ruscha, Unsettled features 200 artworks in a variety of media spanning two millennia by 80 artists. It opens in Reno August 26, 2017.
CRAFT & FOLK ART MUSEUM / SEPTEMBER 10, 2017
LOS ANGELES — The Craft & Folk Art Museum (CAFAM) announces The U.S.-Mexico Border: Place, Imagination, and Possibility, an official presentation for the Gettysponsored initiative Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. The group exhibition presents the work of 47 contemporary artists who explore the border as a physical reality (place), as a subject (imagination), and as a site for production and solution (possibility). While the selection largely focuses on work executed in the last two decades, it also includes objects by Chicano artists in California who came together in the 1970s and 1980s to address border issues in their work.
EL PAIS NEWSPAPER / MARCH 3, 2015
El PaÃs is the most influential newspaper in Spain, they choose one of my pieces in the context of the article to describe what they called “The subversive quality of textile design” in contemporary art, pieces made with social content that bring this traditional technique in the main stream. Recently there is a number of international artists that are changing the perception of textile design and show the potential of what textiles design pieces can achieve as a medium, showing all over Europe and the USA.
MODERN MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2014
This article talks about the exhibition at the Museum of Art & Design in New York City that took place from November 2014 to April 2015.
The show is called New Territories, Laboratories from Design, Craft & Art in Latin America, This is a very large exhibition that was extensible reviewed internationally.
In the Modern magazine they talk about my piece (image) In the description they do about the variety of voices that deal with the integration of crafts into an art form.
SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE / JULY – AUGUST 2013
The Smithsonian Magazine is running a beautiful full page article on my new series “Encoded Textiles.”” The author, Maggie Ryan Sanford, has some really smart things to say about my work and does a fantastic job explaining the scope of the project. The July/August 2013 issue of Smithsonian hit newsstands a few days ago. I have included a link to the online version of the article as well as a PDF of the printed story. I’m thrilled by all the attention my work is getting right now. I have invitations to exhibit from museums in New York, Denver, Nevada and South America! I’m feeling very grateful to all the people that have supported my work and otherwise contributed to this project in some way.
I will be heading with my film crew to Oaxaca to work with the Zapotecas in the early fall. We are also slated to work with Arizona State University and some other indigenous groups in the South West.
Please let me know if you would like to visit my studio or are interested in doing a tax deductible contribution to the project.
PETER FRANK / ESSAY OF THE PMCA EXHIBITION / OCTOBER 2012
The Digital Age has found its way into regions of the globe largely untouched by the Mechanical Age before it. Throughout the Third World, computers sit in schoolrooms that never saw typewriters, cellphones buzz where telegraphs were unimaginable, MP3 files play where LPs never did. The poor, the earthbound, and the indigenous, long the subjects (not to mention victims) of advanced technology, are now its confident operators. In his series of Encoded Textiles Guillermo Bert symbolizes, even embodies, this newfound mastery by collapsing traditional and newly invented methods of communication into one another.
LAWEEKLY.COM/ OCTOBER 31, 2012
At Guillermo Bert’s art studio in The Brewery, old technology fuses with new in the most harmonious way possible.
Bert’s show “Encoded Textiles,” which started Sunday at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, literally weaves together large-scale tapestries with QR codes that can be read with smart phones — leading the audience to find out something more about the native cultures whose indigenous design inspired the works.
WHICH WAY, LA? / OCTOBER 29, 2012
Bar codes with a message: Guillermo Bert fuses ancient traditions with modern technology: The Pasadena Museum of California Art kindly requests you bring your cell phone to its new exhibit, Encoded Textiles. If you snap a photo of one of Guillermo Bert’s textiles in the gallery with a bar code reader, you’ll decode a story that transports you to the people and stories of Bert’s native Chile.
LATIMES.COM/ OCTOBER 27, 2012
Who knew ancient pictograms used by a Chilean tribe of hunters and gatherers would dovetail aesthetically with bar code graphics that store information for drivers licenses, plane tickets and hospital bracelets? Artist Guillermo Bert, that’s who. “The pixelation, the geometric pattern, the black and white repetition that you find in bar codes is very similar to traditional South American textiles made by the Mapuche tribe in the south of Chile,” Bert says. “The similarities really blow my mind.”
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ARTWEEK.LA / OCTOBER 22, 2012
In this excerpt from the exhibition catalogue, Peter Frank writes, “Guillermo Bert has based his elaborate project on a simple, if imposing, premise: human technology, however used, measures humanity – all humanity, not just specific civilizations responsible for specific devices.” Opens October 27 at the Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA).
HUFFPOST / OCTOBER 22, 2012
Guillermo Bert: Encoded Textiles | In an excerpt from the exhibition catalogue, Peter Frank writes, “Guillermo Bert has based his elaborate project on a simple, if imposing, premise: human technology, however used, measures humanity — all humanity, not just specific civilizations responsible for specific devices.
IMPACTOUSA.COM / OCTOBER 10TH 2012 / SPANISH
Primero fueron los codigos de barras. Guillermo Bert se dio cuenta de que esa etiqueta que llevan las mercancias podrian ser el simbolo de la cosificacion de la vida publica. Asi fue como empezo a crear cuadros basados en esos simbolos.
LAOPINION.COM / OCTOBER 27TH 2012 / SPANISH
Que tienen en comun los textiles de muchos pueblos nativos de las Americas y la mas alta tecnologia de codigos en dos dimensiones que se leen usando un movil?
KCET.ORG / SEPTEMBER 13TH 2012
The chronicles of my youth are strewn about my mother’s attic; scrapbooks, posters, pictures, and mementos hold significant amounts of memory within objects, telling a story without words. Some people choose to write in diaries or journals to record their experiences, but sometimes tangible things can tell your story. Objects, places, scents, colors, imagery and sensations; these elements evoke thoughts, feelings or memories. Sometimes words aren’t enough.
HUFFPOST / SEPTEMBER 12TH 2012
One picture, goes the saw, is worth a thousand words. But each word in fact contains several pictures. Writing is as much a pictorial as a literary craft; originating in hieroglyphs, written words emerged as stylized depictions of the things they connoted, and the traces of those depictions have persisted even in our phoneme-based alphabets. Information is information, and as we tell it we hear it and as we hear it we see it.