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Home > Art > Exhibitions > Past Exhibitions > DIALOGUES: CHAPTERS OF LATIN AMERICAN ART IN THE MOLAA PERMANENT COLLECTION

DIALOGUES: CHAPTERS OF LATIN AMERICAN ART IN THE MOLAA PERMANENT COLLECTION

THE MOLAA PERMANENT COLLECTION

A new selection of works drawn from the MOLAA Permanent Collection will be on view in the Permanent Collection Gallery beginning October 7. MOLAA’s new Chief Curator, Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, has curated the exhibition of more than 50 works which offers both broad and specific views.

The works represent multiple periods, techniques and perspectives from the traditional to the most contemporary and experimental works by Latin American masters, mid-career and young emerging artists.

Displayed as an intersection of five simultaneous displays, the selection of works spans the decades (1930s – 2008) chronologically. They offer a wide range of techniques from traditional painting, drawing and etching to the newer art forms of video art, performance and digital photography; spanning from Abstraction, New Figuration to Postmodern expressions. Each display juxtaposes the old with the new, the traditional with the contemporary and experimental, to provoke new perspectives about the art.

To pose a connection with the special exhibition, The Sites of Latin American Abstraction: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, the first display highlights works by José Gurvich (Lithuania b. 1927, Uruguay d. 1974) and paintings by seminal artists such as Joaquín Torres García (Uruguay, 1874-1949) and Augusto Torres (Uruguay, 1913-1992) from the School of the South. Within this context, several correlating contemporary works are shown by artists such as Silvana Lacarra (Argentina, b. 1962), Edgar Guzmanruiz (Colombia, b. 1969) and Eva Castiel (Brazil, b. 1944). They are counterbalanced with two important video works by Eduardo Costa (Argentina, b. 1940) and emerging artist Amilcar Packer (Chile/Brazil, b. 1974) to create a dynamic exchange between the historic and contemporary.

The axis of the exhibition is the four intimate monographic displays (including the Gurvich display) which profile a collection of pieces by master artists José Luís Cuevas (Mexico, b. 1933), Roberto Sebastián Matta (Chile, 1911-2002) and Francisco Toledo (Mexico, b. 1940). Generating a new and unexpected visual and conceptual
dialogue, these artists are juxtaposed with key works by contemporary video artists Javier Tellez (Venezuela, b. 1969) and Fabiana Cruz (Venezuela, b. 1984). This interchange expands the frame of reference and understanding about each artist exhibited, and generates a sequence of ideas and experiences that relate to modern and
contemporary issues in Latin America.

The final display is devoted to contemporary photography, reuniting a select group of photographic works by Atelier Morales (Cuba, b. 1961 and b. 1960), Amalia Caputo (Venezuela, b. 1964), Leo Correa (Nicaragua, b. 1965), Roberto Huarcaya (Peru, b. 1959) and Veronica Riedel (Guatemala, b. 1961), among others. Placing these photographs together reveals common visual traits and calls attention to the primacy of the human figure placed in both interior domestic settings, and the representation of somewhat dislocated urban landscapes.

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