Andaz Art Week | 28 March – 2 April | Art on Peninsula Papagayo
Twice a year, MÍRAME takes over Studio 3 at Andaz Peninsula Papagayo and turns it into an exhibition space dedicated to Costa Rican contemporary art.
Coming up on 28th March, until 2 April, is our Semana Santa 2026 edition — we’re taking around fifteen artists, with works across painting, collage, textile and print.
We’ll be constructing temporary walls in the middle of the space with the aim to bring in as much natural light of Culebra Bay beyond the floor to ceiling windows of the studio.
Andaz Art Week, December 2024
Art on Peninsula Papagayo
This edition of Andaz Art Week will feature a new mid-sized smoke painting by Miguel Hernández Bastos whose work is consistently appreciated by Andaz audiences. Miguel uses an old-fashioned oil lantern as his instrument, burning flame and smoke directly into the surface of the canvas. His new piece, Éxtasis, shows a single figure mid-dance, arching backwards, smoke wisping across the surface in the gesture of movement.
Miguel Hernández Bastos, Éxtasis, Smoke on canvas
We are also showing a new acrylic painting by Carolina Guillermet who, best known for her geometric paintings of Latin America’s urban fabric, has here turned to the natural world, depicted with the same visual language — colour as feeling, form as structure.
Carolina Guillermet, Untitled, Acrylic on canvas
We are also showing a selection of oil paint and cold wax paintings by Lorena Villalobos, as well as new pieces by Fabian Monge that continue his investigation into optical illusions and nostalgia.
To run alongside Jaime Gurdián’s show at Zarpe, Playas del Coco, there will be a selection of his new beach paintings where he mixes the sand from the beaches into the acrylic paint to help build up highly textured, atmospheric canvases.
Frutas Extrañas, 2021, Oil paint and cold wax on Artboard
We are also debuting work by Ale Rambar who constructs three-dimensional compositions from hand-cut layers of paper, mapping the human form with the precision of a topographer. Our inclusion of Ale in Andaz Art Week follows his recent move to Guanacaste where he has set up a studio in Las Catalinas.
This year we are also dedicating space to the Gyotaku prints of Playas del Coco local, Jimmy Downing. Gyotaku is the Japanese tradition of fish printing, non-toxic ink applied directly to the fish, paper pressed onto the surface. The majority of the prints we’ll be showing in Studio 3 will be the traditional black and white Gyotaku, with two pieces that also integrate colour. On Sunday 29 March, Jimmy will be demonstrating the technique live at Ostra, the hotel's sushi restaurant.
Why Andaz Art Week
Peninsula Papagayo welcomes visitors from across the world, many of them experiencing Costa Rican art for the first time. Across four editions of Andaz Art Week, the conversations we have had in Studio 3 have been some of the most rewarding parts of running MÍRAME.
Reguarly showing art on Peninsula Papagayo is part of a broader effort to build those connections. Alongside our current show at Zarpe in Playas del Coco where we engage with our home community, we are presenting Costa Rican artists to new international audiences and helping place their work in private collections across the world.
That is, ultimately, what we are here to do.
Come and see us.
Andaz Art Week Studio 3, Andaz Hotel, Peninsula Papagayo 28 March – 2 April | 3–8pm daily RSVP or enquiries: [email protected] Follow MÍRAME Fine Art: Facebook | Instagram