Latin America, Art and Confrontation: 1919-2010

From March 12 to June 5 of 2011, the Palacio de Bellas Artes and the Museo Ex Teresa Arte Actual present the exhibition entitled Crisisss. Latin America, Art and Confrontration: 1919-2010, curated by Gerardo Mosquera. Mounted in six exhibition rooms, it consists of more than 200 works, created between 1910 and 2010, by more than 100 mostly Latin American artists, and proposes a look at works of art that stand out for their confrontational and socially transgressive characteristics. The exhibition includes paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, photographs, recorded performances, sound art, and videos, along with the murals housed in the Palacio de Bellas Artes. The pieces are presented in a dynamic way and include proposals by contemporary artists. The exhibition offers a look at confrontational and socially transgressive works created in Latin America during the last one hundred years and produced in the context of armed struggles. Sixteen countries are represented in the exhibition through the participation of 41 art collections. This project centers on the art of a dissenting nature produced in the region since the Mexican Revolution. Founder of the Havana Biennial and curator of many international exhibitions, Gerardo Mosquera affirms that this exhibition "represents a society in turmoil with a troubled and complex history that has experienced serious social conflicts. The exhibition attempts to convey the role art has played in this context." His curatorial gaze tries to establish communications, tensions, and dialogues among the works. The show includes the participation of artists from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, and Venezuela, among others. There are also works by artists from the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East, whose inclusion reinforce the curatorial thread and message of the exhibition. The works come from private collections and collections from institutions like the Museo de Arte Moderno, the Museo Nacional de la Estampa, the Museo Álvar y Carmen T. de Carrillo Gil, the Collección Coppel, the Colección FEMSA, and the Fundación/Colección Jumex, in Mexico City; the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói and the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil; the Museo de Arte Moderno and the Museo de la Tertulia, in Colombia; the Museo Torres García in Montevideo, Uruguay; the Galería Ignacio Liprandi, in Buenos Aires, Argentina; The Museo de Bellas Artes in Havana, Cuba; the Museo del Barro, in Asunción, Paraguay; the Micromuseo in Peru; The Museo de Arte Costarricense and the Museo Teorética, in San José, Costa Rica; the Galerie Barbara Thumm, in Berlin, Germany; the Daros Latinamerica Collection in Zurich, Switzerland; the George Adams, David Zwirner, Alexander and Bonin, and Peter Blum galleries, in New York City; and the Tate Modern, in London, U.K., among others.