Corso di Porta Ticinese 87, 20123 Milan, Italy
Luis Molina-Pantin presents Los Peñeros* (2009), 16 photographs of landscapes with empty fishing boats in the Caribbean. Through this series, the artist reflects in a subtle way on the issue of displacement that has moved more than 7 million Venezuelans from their homeland.
*Peñero, coloquial name for small fishing boats in Venezuela.
Luis Molina-Pantin (Venezuelan, born in Geneva, 1969) Based in Mexico City. The artist obtained a BFA at Concordia University, Montreal (1994) and a MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute, California (1997). Molina-Pantin has been featured in solo exhibitions at Fundación Mercantil, Caracas (2019); Henrique Faria, New York (2021, 2016, 2013); Federico Luger, Milano (2008, 2006); Periférico Caracas | Arte Contemporáneo, Caracas (2009); Villa Bardini, Florence (2008); Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid (2008); and Sala Mendoza, Caracas (2007, 2003, 1997). His work was included in the recent exhibition Chosen Memories at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2023); also at the 3rd ICP Triennial, New York (2013), 7th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2008), 25th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo (2002), VII Havana Biennial, Cuba (2000) and has also participated in group exhibitions at The Photographer’s Gallery, London (2019); Museo Amparo, Puebla (2019); Simon Preston Gallery, New York (2013); Americas Society, New York (2012); Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin (2009) and Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas (2001). Molina-Pantin has been published in various periodicals including the New York Times, the New Yorker, Art Forum, Flash Art, Liberation, Bomb, Cabinet, Gatopardo and Peter Sloterdijk’s Spheres III. The artist's works belong to important collections including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix; Jumex Collection, Mexico City; Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, New York; Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla and Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas.
