The Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín celebrates its 35 years of activity with an exhibition titled La gente en la colección del Museo, curated by Alberto Sierra, who was the institution's founder in 1978.
The exhibition comprises works from the 1950s, by artists like Norman Mejía, Hernando and Lucy Tejada, and Saturnino Ramírez; portraits of women, with works by Débora Arango and Javier Restrepo, in whose paintings we see Marilyn Monroe or Rita Hayworth in Medellín's barrios and balconies. There are also photographs by Alberto Aguirre, pictures of 1970s Medellín.
Also included in the exhibition are Miguel Ángel Rojas, Santiago Cárdenas, Óscar Muñoz, and Beatriz González, who deal with urban themes; photographs by Luz Elena Castro, which begin to show Medellín in the 1980s, riddled with drug trafficking; and photographs by Jesús Abad Colorado, who reveals life at its most hardest in recent times, showing funerals, the suffering after a massacre, hands holding caskets, and—one of his strongest entries—paramilitary forces looking over Medellín from the comuna 13.
The exhibition will remain open to the public through August 18th. The museum will soon start expansion work to go from its current 2,607 to 6,783 square meters.