Carlos Garaicoa, (Cuban b. 1967), Untitled (L.A.), diptych, 2004, Gelatin silver prints, thread and pins, Each: 100.3 x 150.5 cm, Fund for the Twenty-First Century, 2005, © 2007 Carlos Garaicoa. |
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MoMA's Collection of Latin American Works Acquired in the Last Decade |
Hélio Oiticica (Brazilian, 1937-1980), Metaesquema 19, 1957-58, Gouache on board, 45 x 53.3 cm, © 2007 Projeto Hélio Oiticica.
Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan, 1874-1949), Construction in White and Black, 1938, Oil on paper mounted on wood, 80.7 x 102cm, Fractional and promised gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros in honor of David Rockefeller, 2004, © 2007 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VEGAP, Spain.
Gego (Gertrude Goldschmidt, Venezuelan, b/ Germany. 1912-1994), Untitled No. 17, from the series Líneas paralelas, 1971, welded stainless steel wire, 17 x 12-½ x 13". |
Museum of Modern Art New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006: Selections from a Decade of Acquisitions presents 200 works by Latin American artists that have been added to the collection over the past ten years. The works embrace several artistic mediums — painting, sculpture, drawing, prints, photography, and media — and comprise a variety of styles, signaling a significant shift in MoMA’s acquisitions of Latin American art from early modernism and geometric abstraction to informalism and Conceptual art. This exhibition surveys the wide range of these recent acquisitions and features both historical and contemporary Latin American artists, including Joaquín Torres-García, Alejandro Otero, Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Clark, Alfredo Volpi, Willys de Castro, Carmen Herrera, León Ferrari, Gego, Gerd Leufert, Mira Schendel, Anna Maria Maiolino, Victor Grippo, Waltercio Caldas, Guillermo Kuitca, Arturo Herrera, Gabriel Orozco, Carlos Garaicoa, and Santiago Cucullu. Exhibition curator is Luis Pérez-Oramas joined the Museum in 2003 as adjunct curator in the Department of Drawings. He was appointed The Estrellita Brodsky Curator of Latin American Art in December 2006. Mr. Pérez-Oramas was recently a consulting curator, with John Elderfield, of the exhibition Armando Reverón (February 11-April 16, 2007). He organized Transforming Chronologies: An Atlas of Drawings (2006) and was a member of the curatorial team that co-organized, with Gary Garrels, MoMA at El Museo: Latin American and Caribbean Art from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art (El Museo del Barrio, 2004).
León Ferrari (Argentine, born 1920), Untitled, 1962, Ink on paper, 101.6 x 72.7cm, Purchase, 2003, © 2007 León Ferrari.
Fernando Bryce (Peruvian, born 1965), Trotzky, detail, 2003, Ink on paper, series of ten drawings, 41.9 x 29.8cm, The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift, 2005, © 2007 Fernando Bryce. |
Guillermo Kuitca (Argentine, b. 1961), Diary Paintings, installation view, Venice Biennale, 2007. |
