THE SITES OF THE LATIN AMERICAN ABSTRACTION
- Curatorship:
- JUAN LEDEZMA
Curated by Juan Ledezma and coorganized with Fundación Bancaja, “The Sites of Latin American Abstraction. Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection” proposes an extremely interesting comparative exercise and demonstrates the important analogies between painting, photography, sculpture and drawing.
At a time when Latin America is receiving considerable recognition for its major role as a birthplace of contemporary art, Es Baluard Museu d'Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma is the first European institution to present the “The Sites of Latin American Abstraction. The Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection” exhibition, a revealing look at the origins and zeniths of Latin American geometric abstraction.
The exhibition includes 132 works of art by 66 artists from almost all the countries of Latin America, but particularly from Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Venezuela. They date from the 1930s to the end of the twentieth century, with special emphasis on the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and are considered reference works for subsequent generations.
With pieces signed by, among many others, Joaquín Torres-García, Jesús Soto, Horacio Coppola, Carlos Cruz-Díez, León Ferrari, Mira Schendel, Lygia Clark, Lucio Fontana, Gego, Julio Le Parc, Helio Oiticica, César Paternosto and Lygia Pape, this is not a customary collective exhibition, but a profound and rigorous study of the synchronicity between the different geometric abstract languages and the different countries of Latin America.
Location-Hall: Floor -1
Production: Es Baluard Museu d'Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma and Fundación Bancaja
