Pop, Realisms, and Politics. Brazil - Argentina

The Fundación Proa presents Pop, Realisms, and Politics. Brazil–Argentina, an exhibition curated by Paulo Herkenhoff and Rodrigo Alonso that conveys the volatility and challenges artists of this region must face when dealing with the modernizing forces and the urgency of revolutionary struggles.

The exhibition includes works by 59 artists from Brazil and Argentina who developed important artistic productions during the 1960s; productions that are now rescued by the two curators of this exhibition. Videos, photographs, performances, designs, paintings, objects, sculptures; works belonging to prominent museums and private collections are presented to attest to a decade that broke and surpassed the limits of art, music, and everyday behavior. These authors led artistic movements and proposed new forms of approaching and participating in art.

A catalog entitled Pop, Realisms, and Politics. Brazil–Argentina has been published to accompany the exhibition. Included in its more than 300 pages are images, manifestos, documents, historic texts and writings by the curators.

The exhibition will remain open at the Fundación Proa until the month of September. Later it will also be presented at the Museu Oscar Niemeyer, the Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo (GAMeC), in Italy, and at the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (MAM) in Brazil.