ExhibitionSeptember 10, 2020
Stories of Abstraction: Contemporary Latin American Art in the Global Context and Teresita Fernandez: Elemental at The Phoenix Art Museum reopening in October
The Phoenix Art Museum reopens its doors on October 1, 2020 for its members and October 14 for the public. Among the exhibitions will be Stories of Abstraction: Contemporary Latin American Art in the Global Context, on view until January 31, 2021 at Steele Gallery. Stories of Abstraction showcases more than 40 acquired works of contemporary Latin American art alongside 30 works by American and European artists. The exhibition explores how the visual language of abstraction has generated profound insights into Latin American culture and politics and how Latin American artists have drawn on abstraction’s parallel history in the United States and Europe.
The exhibition includes contemporary Latin American artworks from Venezuela, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Honduras, and Guatemala that were gifted to the Phoenix Art Museum by Nicholas Pardon, cofounder of the former SPACE Collection. To historically contextualize these contemporary Latin American works, Stories of Abstraction incorporates those by artists of an earlier generation from the United States, the Americas, and Europe, such as Alexander Calder, Pedro Friedeberg, Frank Stella, and Jesús Rafael Soto, among others, to highlight their influence on post-1990 Latin American abstractionists and to underscore that abstraction in Latin America didn’t develop independently; rather its genesis is to the region’s history.
Stories of Abstraction include artworks by: Dario Escobar (Guatemala), Marcolina Dipiero, (Argentina), Danilo Dueñas (Colombia), Eugenio Espinosa (Venezuela), Donald Judd (USA), Jac Leirner (Brazil), Pia Camil (Mexico), Alberto Casari (Peru), and Carsten Nicolai (Germany), among others.
Also, from October 1, the Phoenix museum will present Teresita Fernández: Elemental, the first major traveling exhibition and the first mid-career survey of works by contemporary artist Teresita Fernández, considered one of the most innovative artists of her generation.
Co-organized with Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), the retrospective showcases more than 50 large-scale sculptures, installations, and mixed-media wall works created by Fernández over two decades. The exhibition will be on view at Katz Wing for Modern Art.
For more information visit: https://phxart.org/
The exhibition includes contemporary Latin American artworks from Venezuela, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Honduras, and Guatemala that were gifted to the Phoenix Art Museum by Nicholas Pardon, cofounder of the former SPACE Collection. To historically contextualize these contemporary Latin American works, Stories of Abstraction incorporates those by artists of an earlier generation from the United States, the Americas, and Europe, such as Alexander Calder, Pedro Friedeberg, Frank Stella, and Jesús Rafael Soto, among others, to highlight their influence on post-1990 Latin American abstractionists and to underscore that abstraction in Latin America didn’t develop independently; rather its genesis is to the region’s history.
Stories of Abstraction include artworks by: Dario Escobar (Guatemala), Marcolina Dipiero, (Argentina), Danilo Dueñas (Colombia), Eugenio Espinosa (Venezuela), Donald Judd (USA), Jac Leirner (Brazil), Pia Camil (Mexico), Alberto Casari (Peru), and Carsten Nicolai (Germany), among others.
Also, from October 1, the Phoenix museum will present Teresita Fernández: Elemental, the first major traveling exhibition and the first mid-career survey of works by contemporary artist Teresita Fernández, considered one of the most innovative artists of her generation.
Co-organized with Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), the retrospective showcases more than 50 large-scale sculptures, installations, and mixed-media wall works created by Fernández over two decades. The exhibition will be on view at Katz Wing for Modern Art.
For more information visit: https://phxart.org/
