ExhibitionAugust 11, 2023
Marta Minujín: Live at Pinacoteca de São Paulo
Pinacoteca de São Paulo presents the most comprehensive retrospective exhibition on Marta Minujín. Ana Maria Maia curates the show.
“Marta Minujín: Live” is also the first retrospective exhibition in Brazil dedicated to Minujín, one of her generation’s most significant Latin American artists. The show brings together more than a hundred works from 1963 to the present and reviews crucial moments in the artist’s career, although it is not organized chronologically. It gives a new presentation to the iconic El Batacazo, first created in the Torcuato Di Tella Institute in 1965, as well as to works such as Galeria Blanda [Soft Gallery] (1973) and La caída de los mitos universales [The Downfall of Universal Myths] (1978-). At the Pina Luz parking lot, an inflatable structure will welcome the public on the first days of the exhibition. The Escultura de los deseos [Sculpture of Desires] (2022) is 17 meters high and was a great success at the Argentinian Lollapalooza.
Marta Minujín achieved artistic recognition in the early years of her career in the 1960s. Internationally recognized as the great pioneer of happening and participatory art, Minujín has been producing tirelessly to this day, shifting between different media, scales, and artistic and social circuits. With her mirrored glasses and larger-than-life personality, she has lived through new realism, pop art, conceptualism, public art, and multimedia art.
“The exhibition celebrates the power with which her entire trajectory not only mirrors but also intensifies the forms of lived reality. ‘Live’ is a phrase that alludes to liveliness and bodily presence and even more directly denotes urgency in the vocabulary of mass media, a discursive and technological platform that has always attracted the artist’s attention. Whether in radio and TV broadcasts in the 1960s or on her Instagram channel today, Marta has created art as an excuse for herself and for all people to be able to express themselves with energy and freedom,” the curator explains.
“Marta Minujín: Live” is also the first retrospective exhibition in Brazil dedicated to Minujín, one of her generation’s most significant Latin American artists. The show brings together more than a hundred works from 1963 to the present and reviews crucial moments in the artist’s career, although it is not organized chronologically. It gives a new presentation to the iconic El Batacazo, first created in the Torcuato Di Tella Institute in 1965, as well as to works such as Galeria Blanda [Soft Gallery] (1973) and La caída de los mitos universales [The Downfall of Universal Myths] (1978-). At the Pina Luz parking lot, an inflatable structure will welcome the public on the first days of the exhibition. The Escultura de los deseos [Sculpture of Desires] (2022) is 17 meters high and was a great success at the Argentinian Lollapalooza.
Marta Minujín achieved artistic recognition in the early years of her career in the 1960s. Internationally recognized as the great pioneer of happening and participatory art, Minujín has been producing tirelessly to this day, shifting between different media, scales, and artistic and social circuits. With her mirrored glasses and larger-than-life personality, she has lived through new realism, pop art, conceptualism, public art, and multimedia art.
“The exhibition celebrates the power with which her entire trajectory not only mirrors but also intensifies the forms of lived reality. ‘Live’ is a phrase that alludes to liveliness and bodily presence and even more directly denotes urgency in the vocabulary of mass media, a discursive and technological platform that has always attracted the artist’s attention. Whether in radio and TV broadcasts in the 1960s or on her Instagram channel today, Marta has created art as an excuse for herself and for all people to be able to express themselves with energy and freedom,” the curator explains.
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