ExhibitionJanuary 28, 2021
I Wanna Be With You, an homage to private collecting in Colombia
14 November 2020 – 7 March 2021
I Wanna Be With You. A journey, an exploration and an homage to private collecting in Colombia is a group exhibition that investigates the concepts of contact, interaction, communication, proximity, exchange, and collaboration strategies. On the other hand, isolation, seclusion, social distance, detachment, and separation. A curatorial discourse built from the health crisis worldwide and its sociological impact.
The project offers an exceptional itinerary of Colombian and international art history from the 1970s to the present. Thus, the exhibition underlines the importance of private collecting, a vital part of the art structure and an exciting alternative to approach and experience it.
"I Wanna Be With You offers a wide range of visual associations, short circuits between artists of different generations, geographic origins, and approaches, linked by formal assonances or poetic intuitions. In this way, the exhibition allows the masters of contemporary art to dialogue with emerging artists in a surprising continuity, supported by a playful and eccentric coherence," comments Eugenio Viola, Chief Curator of MAMBO.
I Wanna Be With You, entitled after Rineke Dijkstra's work (Annemiek - I Wanna Be With You, 1997), brings the viewer closer to works that are not easily visible since they are rarely displayed publicly. It offers new incentives for delving into the idea of a collection and, therefore, of a museum as a place that challenges conventional narratives while providing a critical approach to the junction between the public dimension of a museum and private collections' intimacy.
The museum will bring yearly curatorial projects, including private collections' artworks, denoting the importance of getting into their discourse works outside of the public display relevant within the contemporary art scene. Also, it explores the intellectual or sentimental attachment, the obsessive drive, and the simple desire to possess that sustains the act of collecting.
I Wanna Be With You. A journey, an exploration and an homage to private collecting in Colombia is a group exhibition that investigates the concepts of contact, interaction, communication, proximity, exchange, and collaboration strategies. On the other hand, isolation, seclusion, social distance, detachment, and separation. A curatorial discourse built from the health crisis worldwide and its sociological impact.
The project offers an exceptional itinerary of Colombian and international art history from the 1970s to the present. Thus, the exhibition underlines the importance of private collecting, a vital part of the art structure and an exciting alternative to approach and experience it.
"I Wanna Be With You offers a wide range of visual associations, short circuits between artists of different generations, geographic origins, and approaches, linked by formal assonances or poetic intuitions. In this way, the exhibition allows the masters of contemporary art to dialogue with emerging artists in a surprising continuity, supported by a playful and eccentric coherence," comments Eugenio Viola, Chief Curator of MAMBO.
I Wanna Be With You, entitled after Rineke Dijkstra's work (Annemiek - I Wanna Be With You, 1997), brings the viewer closer to works that are not easily visible since they are rarely displayed publicly. It offers new incentives for delving into the idea of a collection and, therefore, of a museum as a place that challenges conventional narratives while providing a critical approach to the junction between the public dimension of a museum and private collections' intimacy.
The museum will bring yearly curatorial projects, including private collections' artworks, denoting the importance of getting into their discourse works outside of the public display relevant within the contemporary art scene. Also, it explores the intellectual or sentimental attachment, the obsessive drive, and the simple desire to possess that sustains the act of collecting.
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