The head of modern and contemporary Latin American art at the Denver Art Museum is increasingly peripatetic, his reach extending beyond the Americas (while nonetheless researching a show of Indigenous Latin American art for 2026 in Denver). His 2024 home gig survey of Sandra Vásquez de la Horra’s work moved first to the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, and then MALBA, Buenos Aires. Fonseca’s edition of the Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre in March was an unusually global affair for the Brazilian show. One such visitor to Brazil was Li Yi-Fan, whose gaming-inflected work was typical of the biennial’s futurist focus, and Fonseca will curate the latter’s representation of Taiwan at next year’s Venice Biennale. Back in the motherland, Fonseca’s encyclopaedic Fullgás: Visual Arts and the 1980s in Brazil moved from Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil in Rio de Janeiro to the bank’s cultural centres in São Paulo, Brasília and Belo Horizonte. Cocurating the Counterpublic Triennial, St Louis, in 2026, and Sequences, Reykjavík, in 2027 will clock him a few more airmiles.
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