ExhibitionSeptember 20, 2019
The Norton Museum of Art presenta: Figura humana en el arte latinoamericano
The Norton Museum of Art announced its fall exhibition, The Body Says, I Am a Fiesta: The Figure in Latin American Art, which is the first in a planned series of projects dedicated to Latin American artists.
Largely drawn from the Norton’s permanent collection, the exhibition addresses ideas about the body and its symbolic and societal implications in modern Latin American cultures. The show presents paintings, photography, sculpture, and works on paper by artists active in Latin America and the United States between the 1930s and 2010s, and is on view from Oct. 4, 2019 through March 3, 2020.
Artists represented in the exhibition include: the three great Mexican muralists Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros as well as Mexican artists Eunice Adorno, José Luis Cuevas, Rufino Tamayo; Cuban artists Ana Mendieta, Amelia Peláez, Pavel Acosta, Juan Carlos Alom, and María Magdalena Campos-Pons. Other Latin American artists featured include Brazilian Vik Muniz, Colombian Fernando Botero, Ecuadorian Oswaldo Guayasamín, Salvadorian Ronald Morán, and Peruvian Javier Silva-Meinel. Art Bridges, a non-profit organization founded by Alice Walton to share American Art with museums throughout the country, will add to the exhibition with the loan of Untitled (LA), 1991, a conceptual installation by Félix González-Torres that is part of a series of works often referred to as “candy spills.”
“The Body Says, I Am a Fiesta explores figural representation, exemplifying both the universal elements of the body and the external forces acting upon it,” said exhibition curator J. Rachel Gustafson, Assistant Curator at the Norton Museum of Art.
For more information visit: https://www.norton.org/
Largely drawn from the Norton’s permanent collection, the exhibition addresses ideas about the body and its symbolic and societal implications in modern Latin American cultures. The show presents paintings, photography, sculpture, and works on paper by artists active in Latin America and the United States between the 1930s and 2010s, and is on view from Oct. 4, 2019 through March 3, 2020.
Artists represented in the exhibition include: the three great Mexican muralists Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros as well as Mexican artists Eunice Adorno, José Luis Cuevas, Rufino Tamayo; Cuban artists Ana Mendieta, Amelia Peláez, Pavel Acosta, Juan Carlos Alom, and María Magdalena Campos-Pons. Other Latin American artists featured include Brazilian Vik Muniz, Colombian Fernando Botero, Ecuadorian Oswaldo Guayasamín, Salvadorian Ronald Morán, and Peruvian Javier Silva-Meinel. Art Bridges, a non-profit organization founded by Alice Walton to share American Art with museums throughout the country, will add to the exhibition with the loan of Untitled (LA), 1991, a conceptual installation by Félix González-Torres that is part of a series of works often referred to as “candy spills.”
“The Body Says, I Am a Fiesta explores figural representation, exemplifying both the universal elements of the body and the external forces acting upon it,” said exhibition curator J. Rachel Gustafson, Assistant Curator at the Norton Museum of Art.
For more information visit: https://www.norton.org/
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