ExhibitionOctober 1, 2021
This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York, 1965-1975
From September 22, 2021, through May 14, 2022, you can visit at Americas Society the group exhibition "This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York, 1965-1975," which explores the work of migrant artists from Latin America and the Caribbean who worked and exhibited in New York between 1965 and 1975.
Curated by Aimé Iglesias Lukin (Director and Chief Curator of Visual Arts, Americas Society), the exhibition brings together a generation that actively participated in experimental art movements, including Minimalism, Conceptualism, and the Fluxus movement. They challenged the folkloric understanding of Latin American artistic production promoted by most U.S. cultural institutions and the art market while pushing their visual languages and ideas. The exhibition also includes contributions and solidarity initiatives by groups and collectives such as CHARAS, Taller Boricua, Latin American Fair of Opinion, An Evening with Salvador Allende Concert, Brigada Ramona Parra, Contrabienal, Cha/Cha/Cha, Young Filmmakers Foundation, Young Lords and El Museo del Barrio. Display cases with booklets and pamphlets from art collectives and political collectives demonstrate how connected artists were to each other.
By the late 1960s, New York had become the center of the international art world, and the decade between 1965 and 1975 was a pivotal period for the development of Latin American art in the United States, noted Aimé Iglesias Lukin in a statement.
"For these artists, Latin American was not a label they necessarily identified with before arriving in New York, but rather a label made relevant by shared experiences and a new sense of affinity," he added.
The exhibition features the work of 41 artists: Alberto Greco, Waldo Balart, Luis Camnitzer, Antonio Dias, Juan Downey, Carlos Irizarry, Laura Márquez Liliana Porter, Anna Bella Geiger, Leandro Katz, Marta Minujín, Hélio Oiticica, Cesar Paternosto, Rolando Peña, Sylvia Palacios, Freddy Rodríguez, Alejandro Puente, Omar Rayo, Regina Vater, Zilia Sánchez, Alicia Barney, José Guillermo Castillo, Enrique Castro-Cid, Francisco Copello, Eduardo Costa, Beba Damianovich, Jaime Davidovich, Rubens Gerchman, Lydia Okumura, Anna Maria Maiolino, Laura Márquiz, Sonia Miranda, Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Raquel Rabinovich, Miguel Rio Branco, José Rodríguez-Soltero, Osvaldo Romberg, Máximo Rafael Colón, Juan Trepadori, Abdias do Nascimento and Andreas Valentin.
The 91 works (installations, photography, video art, painting, and other media) presented in this exhibition are relevant to understanding the social and political landscape in the Americas and the tensions and bridges between North and South, exploring themes of migration, identity, politics, exile, and nostalgia.
The exhibition consists of two parts, both with the same artists but with different works. Part I will be on view from September 22 to December 18, 2021. Part II will be on display from January 19 to May 14, 2022.
Two publications accompany the exhibition: an illustrated guide to the exhibition with texts and an exhaustive list of works, and a separate book, produced in collaboration with the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), which includes artists' voices and documents from the period, and which will be available at the opening of Part II.
In addition, there will be a series of public programs, both in-person and virtual, including panel discussions, presentations, and free tours. Assistant curators for the exhibition are Mariana Fernández, Tie Jojima, and Natalia Viera Salgado.
Americas Society gratefully acknowledges the generous support of Arts of the Americas Circle members: Estrellita B. Brodsky; Virginia Cowles Schroth; Emily A. Engel; Diana Fane; Galeria Almeida e Dale; Isabella Hutchinson; Carolina Jannicelli; Vivian Pfeiffer and Jeanette van Campenhout, Phillips; Gabriela Pérez Rocchietti; Erica Roberts; Diana López and Herman Sifontes; and Edward J. Sullivan.
Curated by Aimé Iglesias Lukin (Director and Chief Curator of Visual Arts, Americas Society), the exhibition brings together a generation that actively participated in experimental art movements, including Minimalism, Conceptualism, and the Fluxus movement. They challenged the folkloric understanding of Latin American artistic production promoted by most U.S. cultural institutions and the art market while pushing their visual languages and ideas. The exhibition also includes contributions and solidarity initiatives by groups and collectives such as CHARAS, Taller Boricua, Latin American Fair of Opinion, An Evening with Salvador Allende Concert, Brigada Ramona Parra, Contrabienal, Cha/Cha/Cha, Young Filmmakers Foundation, Young Lords and El Museo del Barrio. Display cases with booklets and pamphlets from art collectives and political collectives demonstrate how connected artists were to each other.
By the late 1960s, New York had become the center of the international art world, and the decade between 1965 and 1975 was a pivotal period for the development of Latin American art in the United States, noted Aimé Iglesias Lukin in a statement.
"For these artists, Latin American was not a label they necessarily identified with before arriving in New York, but rather a label made relevant by shared experiences and a new sense of affinity," he added.
The exhibition features the work of 41 artists: Alberto Greco, Waldo Balart, Luis Camnitzer, Antonio Dias, Juan Downey, Carlos Irizarry, Laura Márquez Liliana Porter, Anna Bella Geiger, Leandro Katz, Marta Minujín, Hélio Oiticica, Cesar Paternosto, Rolando Peña, Sylvia Palacios, Freddy Rodríguez, Alejandro Puente, Omar Rayo, Regina Vater, Zilia Sánchez, Alicia Barney, José Guillermo Castillo, Enrique Castro-Cid, Francisco Copello, Eduardo Costa, Beba Damianovich, Jaime Davidovich, Rubens Gerchman, Lydia Okumura, Anna Maria Maiolino, Laura Márquiz, Sonia Miranda, Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Raquel Rabinovich, Miguel Rio Branco, José Rodríguez-Soltero, Osvaldo Romberg, Máximo Rafael Colón, Juan Trepadori, Abdias do Nascimento and Andreas Valentin.
The 91 works (installations, photography, video art, painting, and other media) presented in this exhibition are relevant to understanding the social and political landscape in the Americas and the tensions and bridges between North and South, exploring themes of migration, identity, politics, exile, and nostalgia.
The exhibition consists of two parts, both with the same artists but with different works. Part I will be on view from September 22 to December 18, 2021. Part II will be on display from January 19 to May 14, 2022.
Two publications accompany the exhibition: an illustrated guide to the exhibition with texts and an exhaustive list of works, and a separate book, produced in collaboration with the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), which includes artists' voices and documents from the period, and which will be available at the opening of Part II.
In addition, there will be a series of public programs, both in-person and virtual, including panel discussions, presentations, and free tours. Assistant curators for the exhibition are Mariana Fernández, Tie Jojima, and Natalia Viera Salgado.
Americas Society gratefully acknowledges the generous support of Arts of the Americas Circle members: Estrellita B. Brodsky; Virginia Cowles Schroth; Emily A. Engel; Diana Fane; Galeria Almeida e Dale; Isabella Hutchinson; Carolina Jannicelli; Vivian Pfeiffer and Jeanette van Campenhout, Phillips; Gabriela Pérez Rocchietti; Erica Roberts; Diana López and Herman Sifontes; and Edward J. Sullivan.
