ExhibitionApril 26, 2005

Exhibition of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Art from the Cisneros Collection at the Bogota Museum of Modern Art

Diálogos: Arte Latinoamericano de la Colección Cisneros is the title of the exhibition presented by the Bogotá Museum of Modern Art ¿Mambo¿, May 5 thru June 29. The show was created by the Cisneros Foundation in collaboration with the Bogotá Museum of Modern Art, curated by Ariel Jiménez, the Collection curator. Diálogos gathers 97 pieces. It is the first show to present examples of the three areas of deepest focus in the collection, with works by Latin American artists: contemporary art, geometric abstraction from the 1940s to the 1970s, and Latin American landscape art, including works by artists/explorers. In this way, it affords a generous view of the wide scope of Latin American art and fosters a ¿dialogue¿ between diverse works of art, revealing at times surprising connections between very different pieces and aesthetic traditions. The show is organized in seven sections, each exploring a single theme through different ages and movements. The themes are: the autochthonous and the foreign; the dialogue between viewer and artwork; landscape, light; time; line; and, finally, introspection. The show was first presented at the Art Museum in Lima, Peru (June ¿ September, 2004,) and then at the National Fine Arts Museum in Santiago, Chile (November 2004 ¿ February 2005.) Several Colombian artists have been added for the presentation in Bogotá.
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