Encuentros / Tensiones. Arte latinoamericano contemporáneo.
Encuentros / Tensiones. Arte latinoamericano contemporáneo features a selection of over 100 works of contemporary Latin American art belonging to the museum collection and a series of comodatos.
As part of this exhibition, MALBA presents the induction into its collection of six new works by Ana Mendieta (Cuba), Ernesto Neto (Brazil), Oscar Muñoz (Colombia), Alfredo Hlito (Argentina), Pablo Suárez (Argentina), and the duo formed by Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla (Puerto Rico).
Encuentros / Tensiones. Arte latinoamericano contemporáneo includes paintings, drawings, objects, installations, and videos by 60 renowned Latin American artists. The show unfolds in seven nuclei based on thematic and formal affinities and organized as follows:
Conceptualisms: Mira Schendel, Liliana Porter, Antônio Dias, Luis Camnitzer, Anna Maria Maiolino, Guillermo Deisler, Nelson Leirner, Margarita Paksa, Marta Minujín, Helio Oiticica, Ana Mendieta
The 80s, Postmodernism: Guillermo Kuitca, Julio Galán, Marcia Schvartz, Pepe Fernández (José María Fernández), Pablo Suárez, José Bedia Valdés
Neo Dada: Marcelo Pombo, Alejandra Seeber, Liliana Porter, Liliana Maresca, Sergio Avello, Feliciano Centurión, Omar Schilliro, Andrés Toro, Los Carpinteros, Allora & Calzadilla, León Ferrari, Jorge Gumier Maier, Jorge Macchi, Mondongo
New minimalists: Anna María Maioilino, Artur Lescher, Waltercio Caldas, Iran do Espirito Santo, Mariano Dal Verme, Ramsés Larzábal, Lucio Dorr, Oscar Bony, Tomás Saraceno, Fabio Kacero
Transformation of matter: Leo Battistelli, Artur Lescher, Daniel Joglar, Tomás Espina, Víctor Grippo, Ernesto Neto
Violences: Alfredo Jaar, Fernando Brizuela, Adriana Bustos, Tomás Espina, Oscar Muñoz, Alejandro Cesarco, Víctor Grippo
Geopolitics: Cristina Piffer, Francis Alÿs, José Carlos Martinat, León Ferrari, Miguel Angel Ríos, Fernando Bryce, María Teresa Ponce, Sociedad Civil Collective
In the second-floor gallery, works by Matías Duville, Eduardo Stupía, Pablo Siquier, Gachi Hasper, Cristina Schiavi, Mónica Giron, and Gabriel Baggio will also be on exhibit.
