ExhibitionDecember 26, 2007

New Perspectives in Latin American Art: Selections from a Decade of Acquisitions

New Perspectives in Latin American Art: Selections from a Decade of Acquisitions is curated by Luis Pérez-Oramas, is open to the public from November 21, 2007 and it will remain on view until February 25, 2008. The exhibition is display at The Paul J. Sachs Prints and Illustrated Books Galleries, second floor and The Paul J. Sachs Drawings Galleries, third floor at The Museum of Modern Art. This exhibition presents some two hundred and fifty works by Latin American artists that have been added to the collection of the Museum over the past ten years. The works on view embrace several artistic mediums and comprises a variety of styles, from early modernism and geometric abstraction to informalism and conceptual art. "New Perspectives in Latin American Art" surveys the wide range of these recent acquisitions and features both historical and contemporary Latin American artists, including Joaquín Torres-García, Alejandro Otero, Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Clark, Carmen Herrera, Geraldo de Barros, Leo Matiz, Willys de Castro, León Ferrari, Gego, Gerd Leufert, Mira Schendel, Waltercio Caldas, Anna Maria Maiolino, Victor Grippo, Guillermo Kuitca, Arturo Herrera, Gabriel Orozco, Carlos Garaicoa, and Santiago Cucullu.
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