Ibero-American Art from the Colección IVAM

The exhibition entitled Ibero-American Art from the Colección IVAM is presented in the context of the activities organized to mark the 25th anniversary of a Museum with a collection of 241 artworks created by 41 different artists from several Ibero-American countries. The curatorial proposal by curator Fernando Castro is based on a survey of Twentieth and Twenty-First Century art that includes117 works by 26 artists born in Latin America and Spain. The works reflect the relationship between aesthetic movements at the international level, the contribution of inherently territorial elements, as well as the history and culture of each artist's country of origin. Likewise, it showcases the visual power of Ibero-American creators from the times of the vanguards to this day, through different mediums: painting, sculpture, photography, photomontage, installation and audiovisual. The IVAM has maintained a special relationship with Ibero-American art. Since the beginning of its collection it has acquired works by prominent artists like Joaquín Torres-García and—going back in history to the 1930s—from artists like Horacio Coppola and Grete Stern, whose photographs and photomontages are now part of the collection as result of having been shown in retrospective exhibitions organized by IVAM. Other great Latin American creators whose works are part of the exhibition are: Wifredo Lam and Roberto Matta, two central referents from the surrealist movement. With the arrival of the vanguardist movements to the Latin American art scene during the decades of the 1960s and 1980s, artists like Guillermo Kuitca, Eduardo Kac and Jorge Pineda standout. This exhibition and the works by Latin American artists included in it, allow for the visualization of multiple territories of creation and, at the same time, for an understanding of the political and artistic relationships in this territory of uncertainties and recognitions, diaspora and dialogue, conflict and understanding; as well as an appreciation for the thing in common with Ibero-American art, its potential and peculiarities.