Toda Percepción es una Interpretación: You are part of it

The exhibit titled Toda Percepción es una Interpretación: You are part of it, curated by Eugenio Valdes Figueroa and Katrin Steffen, will showcase 39 artists and 49 works from the Ella Fontanals–Cisneros Collection. The exhibit will open November 30th and remain open until March 12, 2017. Based in part on The Philosophy of Toys by Charles Baudelaire in 1853, where the relationship of children and their toys is used as a metaphor to speak on the morality in founding principles of art and of society. The exhibit aims to examine what would evolve into modern art during the first half of the 20th century. During this time, a trend emerged – both in the art of the time as well as in its market – to stress "perceptual" relationships. The title of the exhibit comes from Liliana Porter's statement and it reaffirms the invitation to the audience to actively participate by inserting itself in certain mental maps with similar concerns. This exhibit is made up of exceptional toys, actions, game inventors, and players, where some of their main thematic axes intertwine and take on other meanings. Toda Percepción es una Interpretación: You are part of it is a retrospective look from the viewpoint of contemporary issues of art, culture, politics and economics. It seeks to reflect on the successive reconfigurations of the art map in the last few decades, on the displacements and relocations of its primary centers, from Paris to New York, from Venice to São Paulo, from Basel to Miami. Some of the artists included in the exhibit are: Elena Ansis (Spain), Paulo Bruscky (Brazil), Pavel Buchler (Czech), Luis Camnitzer (Uruguay), Arturo Cuenca (Cuba), Iran Do Espiritu Santo (Brazil), Leon Ferrari (Argentina), Jose Antonio Hernandez-Diez (Venezuela), Karla Andrei (Puerto Rico), Barbara Kruger (US), Glenda Leon (Cuba), Carlos Martiel (Cuba), Priscilla Monge (Costa Rica), Helio Oiticica (Brazil), and Horacio Zavala (Argentina). Argentinian artist Liliana Porter will recreate her 1968 interactive environmental piece Wrinkle for the show. The exhibit will also be accompanied by a publication featuring a curatorial essay by Katrin Steffen and Eugenio Valdes Figueroa, an essay by Serge Guilbaut, a text by philosopher Zigmunt Bauman, and texts and statements by some of the participant artists. For more information please visit www. cifo.org