TEMPORARY GALLERY B
Sociales: Débora Arango Arrives Today
September 23, 2012 – January 27, 2013
Organized by Museo de Arte de Medellín, Colombia
Curated by Oscar Roldán
• Members Opening: September 22
Though a product of a traditional, affluent family from the Antioquia province of Colombia, Débora Arango, produced work that pushed the bounds of decorum, vividly touching on delicate and troubling subjects like Colombia's political violence, poverty and brutality. In her work, she depicted a 1950s-era Colombian dictator, Gen. Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, as a toad, and portrayed a military junta as five monkeys wrapped in Colombia's flag. Arango always pushed boundaries; in a career that began nearly 80 years ago and lasted until late in life, she produced a body of work that often depicted the hurdles and indignities she found in being a woman in a strict Roman Catholic country.
PANEL DISCUSSION
Débora Arango / Lola Álvarez Bravo
Sunday, September 23, 2012
2:00 - 4:00pm
Balboa Events Center
Moderator: Cecilia Fajardo-Hill. Panelists TBA
Image Credit: Débora Arango (Colombia)
Justicia, 1944 (detail)
Oil on canvas
Museo de Arte de Medellín
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