The Paradox at the Center

The Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires presents the permanent exhibition "The Paradox at the Center." Collection of the Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires: Rhythms of Matter in the Argentine Art of the 1960s. The inauguration took place on August 14 and will remain open to the public until 2017. Through 130 works created primarily during the 1960s, Javier Villa, curator of contemporary art of the museum, proposes a fresh take on a period of transformation in the history of Argentine art: the various ruptures of the traditional formats of modernity that paved the way for the emergence of new models of expression in contemporary art. The exhibition includes works by Carmelo Arden-Quin, Antonio Berni, Nelson Blanco, Oscar Bony, Jorge de la Vega, Juan Del Prete, Lucio Fontana, Raquel Forner, Alberto Greco, Alberto Heredia, Alfredo Hlito, Enio Iommi, Kenneth Kemble, Raúl Lozza, Tomás Maldonado, Marta Minujín, Tomás Monteleone, Luis Felipe Noé, César Paternosto, Federico Manuel Peralta-Ramos, Emilio Pettoruti, Liliana Porter, and Emilio Renart, among others. According to Villa, "The Paradox at the Center" is developed from the fundamental contribution of artist Lucio Fontana, in an attempt to rethink certain practices of the sixties—before 1967—based on that filter. It is an exhibition that underscores the problem with visual language during very turbulent times. The curatorship under Villa proposes the display of different works during different exhibition periods in order to generate a sense or renewal among viewers.