6 – 7 pm
ESTE FOCUS | About good practices
Guillermo García Cruz, artist (Montevideo-Dubai)
Bruna Truffa, artist (Santiago)
Moderated by Verónica Flom, director, Fundación Ama Amoedo
This program will be held in Spanish, without translation

GUILLERMO GARCÍA CRUZ
Visual artist and professor of visual arts. He has integrated the Washington Studio School and the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design in Washington. He teaches in the Bachelor of Visual Arts program at the Catholic University of Uruguay. His work has been individually exhibited in Montevideo, Lima, Buenos Aires, Mexico, Miami, Washington, New York, Madrid, Lisbon, and Tianjin. Among numerous articles and mentions, in 2019, he was highlighted among the 12 global artists in the focus of the next generation by the Ibero-American site Arte Informado. Currently, he lives and works in the city of Dubai, where he develops an interdisciplinary body of work consisting of painting, photography, action, and installation. He explores a contemporary approach to the geometric and various conceptual interpretations that arise from its formal disruption. Recently, his work has become part of the collections of the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Chicago Northwestern University, Luis Bassat, Alberto and Ginette Rebaza, MACA, among others.

BRUNA TRUFFA
Bruna Truffa was born in Arica, Chile, in 1963. She studied Art at the University of Chile and Painting at the Institute of Contemporary Art from 1980 to 1986 in Santiago. Later, in 1989, she traveled to and lived in Madrid for 5 years, where she pursued a master's degree in Theory and Aesthetics of 20th-century Arts at the Autonomous University of Madrid. She has exhibited both individually and collectively in Mexico, France, Cuba, the United States, Brazil, Germany, Spain, and Italy. Her work is part of private and state collections, both in Chile and abroad.

VERÓNICA FLOM
Verónica Flom is the Director of Fundación Ama Amoedo. She was trained as an art historian and curator with a focus on Latin American Art. Before joining the Foundation, Flom served as Curator at Dot Fiftyone Gallery in Miami (2018–2020), where she curated Pedro Friedeberg “Amaze Me and I Amaze You” (2021) and Anastasia Samoylova “FloodZone” (2020), among others.  Previously, she worked as Public Programs Coordinator of Visual Arts at Americas Society in New York (2015–2018) as well as Assistant at the Art Department of Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires (2009–2013). Flom received an M.A. in Museum Studies at New York University. She lives between the USA, Uruguay, and Argentina.