ExhibitionFebruary 6, 2024
El Dorado: Myths of Gold (Part II)
Americas Society presents the second part of El Dorado: Myths of Gold, curated by Aimé Iglesias Lukin, Tie Jojima, and Edward J. Sullivan. The exhibition will be on view until May 18, 2024. Organized in collaboration with Fundación PROA in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Museo Amparo in Puebla, Mexico.
El Dorado: Myths of Gold presents artworks by over sixty artists from the pre-Hispanic period to the contemporary era that challenge, reinforce, and question the continuity and effects of the myth in the Americas into the present. El Dorado is a tale of searches, quests, delirium, and violence. During the colonization of the Americas, stories of an Indigenous kingdom built with gold and precious stones quickly permeated the European imagination. Despite never being found, the mythical El Dorado functioned as a foundational ethos for the colonization of the Americas that persists until today. The city of gold has transformed into more intangible, though equally powerful, personal and collective values—such as individualism, greed, and consumerism—central to contemporary capitalist societies.
El Dorado offers new interpretations and interrogations on the myth from a hemispheric lens, engaging artists from across the continent and throughout its history.
For this opening, Americas Society is launching the second publication connected to the exhibition El Dorado: A Reader, featuring essays by scholars and primary sources on the topic of El Dorado. Edited by Aimé Iglesias Lukin, Tie Jojima, Edward J. Sullivan, and Karen Marta.
El Dorado: Myths of Gold presents artworks by over sixty artists from the pre-Hispanic period to the contemporary era that challenge, reinforce, and question the continuity and effects of the myth in the Americas into the present. El Dorado is a tale of searches, quests, delirium, and violence. During the colonization of the Americas, stories of an Indigenous kingdom built with gold and precious stones quickly permeated the European imagination. Despite never being found, the mythical El Dorado functioned as a foundational ethos for the colonization of the Americas that persists until today. The city of gold has transformed into more intangible, though equally powerful, personal and collective values—such as individualism, greed, and consumerism—central to contemporary capitalist societies.
El Dorado offers new interpretations and interrogations on the myth from a hemispheric lens, engaging artists from across the continent and throughout its history.
For this opening, Americas Society is launching the second publication connected to the exhibition El Dorado: A Reader, featuring essays by scholars and primary sources on the topic of El Dorado. Edited by Aimé Iglesias Lukin, Tie Jojima, Edward J. Sullivan, and Karen Marta.
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