La Donación León Ferrari

The exhibition La Donación León Ferrari opened on November 8th, featuring 72 drawings, several sculptures, installations, collages, musical instruments, and heliographs surveying decades of Ferrari's work. With this exhibition, the museum celebrates the receipt of 72 drawings for its permanent collection and the five-year lease of a series of work that will remain on view through February 15th, 2015. This is the most complete exhibition of Ferrari's work since his death. Ferrari's inheritors decided to carry forward the artist's tradition of donating works to the Mamba. Ferrari had already donated during the administrations of Rafael Squirru and Laura Buccellatto. On this occasion, the 72 drawings are given to the museum on a permanent basis, several other works are entrusted free of charge to the institution for a five-year period, and there will be a collaboration with the Augusto and León Ferrari on a catalogue raisonné of the artist's drawings. Ferrari's most famous and controversial work, La civilización occidental y Cristiana, which won the Golden Lion at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007, is not included in this exhibition, but one can intuit it in the collage of 1970s press reports on the disappeared, military power, and the attitude adopted by the Church. The show does feature examples of Ferrari's eroticism, his critique of the Church, and his Braille series, which denounces such entrenched evils as anti-Semitism, homophobia, and violence.