Heard on The StreetJune 24, 2021
A Gallery Dedicated to Latin America at the Reina Sofía
The Museo Reina Sofia is working on an ambitious rearrangement of its Collection, culminating in November, and will open gradually. In Nouvel 1, the museum displays a new museography titled "The Enemies of Poetry: Resistances in Latin America," which focuses on the art produced between 1964 and 1987 in Latin America and its relationship with Spain. The political transformations of the time and the emergence of new artistic practices, such as mail art, favored a series of meaningful exchanges for the future of contemporary art.
It is presented in ten rooms with more than 100 works; most have never been exhibited before. The rooms explore the appropriation of new media and mass communication technologies, the use of the body as a tool for expression and social criticism, intervention in the public sphere, the questioning of the art system and institutions, and the redefinition of the role of the spectator. In addition to installations, ephemeral works, mail art, videos, performance, and actions, the galleries contain a wide range of publications, magazines, newspapers, notebooks, and all kinds of documents from the Museum's Library and Documentation Center, holding the exhibition discourse.
As a general idea and chronologically, although with certain punctual synchronicities, the display approaches the reality of Latin America as a complex, broad, plural, and diverse concept. It encompasses many countries, each one with its particularities, its autochthonous features, and in which the idea of place is above that of a map.
As for the artistic practices developed in Latin America between the 1960s and the 1980s, this new part of the Collection includes the psychedelia of the Brazilian Tropicália and the birth of conceptualism and other languages that go beyond abstraction and the practices addressed in previous decades, where artists experimented in different fields such as cinema and photography.
Many of the works on display have been acquired over the last 8 years thanks to the work of members of the Fundación Museo Reina Sofía and donations made by: Jorge M. Pérez, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, María Amalia León de Jorge, Gustavo Nóbrega, Marga Sánchez, Diana López and Herman Sifontes, Silvia Gold and Hugo Sigman, Ricardo and Susana Steinbruch and Juan Carlos Verme.
To learn more, visit: https://www.museoreinasofia.es/coleccion/episodio-2
It is presented in ten rooms with more than 100 works; most have never been exhibited before. The rooms explore the appropriation of new media and mass communication technologies, the use of the body as a tool for expression and social criticism, intervention in the public sphere, the questioning of the art system and institutions, and the redefinition of the role of the spectator. In addition to installations, ephemeral works, mail art, videos, performance, and actions, the galleries contain a wide range of publications, magazines, newspapers, notebooks, and all kinds of documents from the Museum's Library and Documentation Center, holding the exhibition discourse.
As a general idea and chronologically, although with certain punctual synchronicities, the display approaches the reality of Latin America as a complex, broad, plural, and diverse concept. It encompasses many countries, each one with its particularities, its autochthonous features, and in which the idea of place is above that of a map.
As for the artistic practices developed in Latin America between the 1960s and the 1980s, this new part of the Collection includes the psychedelia of the Brazilian Tropicália and the birth of conceptualism and other languages that go beyond abstraction and the practices addressed in previous decades, where artists experimented in different fields such as cinema and photography.
Many of the works on display have been acquired over the last 8 years thanks to the work of members of the Fundación Museo Reina Sofía and donations made by: Jorge M. Pérez, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, María Amalia León de Jorge, Gustavo Nóbrega, Marga Sánchez, Diana López and Herman Sifontes, Silvia Gold and Hugo Sigman, Ricardo and Susana Steinbruch and Juan Carlos Verme.
To learn more, visit: https://www.museoreinasofia.es/coleccion/episodio-2
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