ExhibitionMay 24, 2023
León Ferrari. Recurrencias. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
"León Ferrari. Recurrencias", a retrospective exhibition at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The show is organized by the Fundación Augusto y León Ferrari Arte y Acervo (FALFAA) and curated by Cecilia Rabossi and Andrés Duprat. It features nearly 250 works, including drawings, inks, collages, engravings, objects, blueprints, plans, and ceramics from 1960-2011, from the collections of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, the Ferrari family, and FALFAA. The exhibition will be on view until August 13, 2023.
The exhibition was planned for 2020, on the occasion of the artist's centenary, but was suspended due to the global pandemic. Its postponement now coincides with commemorating the fortieth anniversary of the return to democracy in Argentina. 'This fact is significant since many of the chosen works build a kind of story of the dark times of the last military dictatorship. This exhibition becomes a call to reflect on constructing a more equitable and supportive society without violence and authoritarianism,' says Andrés Duprat.
"Leon Ferrari. Recurrencias" is organized into four nuclei. The first, 'Abstractions,' focuses on works the artist called 'abstract,' where the line is a central element, either on the paper's surface or in the three-dimensional. 'Western and Christian Civilization,' the second nucleus, is based on the iconic work of the same name produced in 1965 for the Di Tella Award when it was censored for religious reasons. 'Hell and other devotional issues,' the third axis, focuses on the study that Ferrari undertook, from the 1980s, on Christian texts and iconography. The last nucleus, 'Cities and architectures of madness,' displays plans and urbanizations that exhibit illogical and irrational aspects of modern society. These works were produced during the artist's exile in São Paulo, starting in 1976. There, he experimented with new media, such as heliography, stamps, plans, Letraset, video text, mail art, and expressions with which he manifested the alienation of those living spaces and exposed the oppression of the terrible years of the Argentine military dictatorship.
The exhibition was planned for 2020, on the occasion of the artist's centenary, but was suspended due to the global pandemic. Its postponement now coincides with commemorating the fortieth anniversary of the return to democracy in Argentina. 'This fact is significant since many of the chosen works build a kind of story of the dark times of the last military dictatorship. This exhibition becomes a call to reflect on constructing a more equitable and supportive society without violence and authoritarianism,' says Andrés Duprat.
"Leon Ferrari. Recurrencias" is organized into four nuclei. The first, 'Abstractions,' focuses on works the artist called 'abstract,' where the line is a central element, either on the paper's surface or in the three-dimensional. 'Western and Christian Civilization,' the second nucleus, is based on the iconic work of the same name produced in 1965 for the Di Tella Award when it was censored for religious reasons. 'Hell and other devotional issues,' the third axis, focuses on the study that Ferrari undertook, from the 1980s, on Christian texts and iconography. The last nucleus, 'Cities and architectures of madness,' displays plans and urbanizations that exhibit illogical and irrational aspects of modern society. These works were produced during the artist's exile in São Paulo, starting in 1976. There, he experimented with new media, such as heliography, stamps, plans, Letraset, video text, mail art, and expressions with which he manifested the alienation of those living spaces and exposed the oppression of the terrible years of the Argentine military dictatorship.
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