ExhibitionSeptember 12, 2022
Forty Latin American Artists at MoMA
The director of The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America, Inés Katzenstein, will curate next year's exhibition of Latin American art at the MoMA, which will take place between April 30 and September 9, 2023. The exhibition’s curatorial axis crosses the work of artists whose underlying theme is history problematization, the use of the past as a place of investigation, and the de-construction and construction of new historical stories.
Katzenstein notes that "The works in this exhibition demonstrate that some of the most relevant contemporary art is conceived through the history retelling and investigation." The 65 works that make up this exhibition vary in format (video, installation, photography, painting, and sculpture) and belong to a variety of Latin American artists from different generations who have worked history as a theme for the last forty years. Among the artists in the show is the Argentine Leandro Katz; the Brazilians Cildo Meireles, Mauro Restiffe, and Rosângela Rennó; Uruguayan Alejandro Cesarco; the Venezuelan Suwon Lee; and the Guatemalan Regina José Galindo.
Likewise, stands out the presence of the Colombian José Alejandro Restrepo, who will be present in the exhibition with his video installation “Paso del Quindío” (1992). In this work, colonial past and present overlap. Through archives and video recording, the artist showcases how the colonial practice of the ‘carguero’ (a person's work carrying on the back people and merchandise through complicated terrain) is perpetuated in the twentieth century. This work belonged to the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, but in 2017 it was donated to MoMA. Noteworthy is the importance of this Collection, which has donated more than 200 works by Latin American artists to the Museum.
Katzenstein notes that "The works in this exhibition demonstrate that some of the most relevant contemporary art is conceived through the history retelling and investigation." The 65 works that make up this exhibition vary in format (video, installation, photography, painting, and sculpture) and belong to a variety of Latin American artists from different generations who have worked history as a theme for the last forty years. Among the artists in the show is the Argentine Leandro Katz; the Brazilians Cildo Meireles, Mauro Restiffe, and Rosângela Rennó; Uruguayan Alejandro Cesarco; the Venezuelan Suwon Lee; and the Guatemalan Regina José Galindo.
Likewise, stands out the presence of the Colombian José Alejandro Restrepo, who will be present in the exhibition with his video installation “Paso del Quindío” (1992). In this work, colonial past and present overlap. Through archives and video recording, the artist showcases how the colonial practice of the ‘carguero’ (a person's work carrying on the back people and merchandise through complicated terrain) is perpetuated in the twentieth century. This work belonged to the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, but in 2017 it was donated to MoMA. Noteworthy is the importance of this Collection, which has donated more than 200 works by Latin American artists to the Museum.
