Latin American Art

A few of my favorites from a visit to the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA). Caption text is from the exhibit descriptions.

Inhabiting the Limit: “The world is complicated and sad. It is almost impossible to make people understand one another” said Maria Martins in speaking about her work The Impossible, a plaster sculpture of two figures caught in a state of tension between attraction and repulsion. At play in this work where Martins addresses eroticism and desire, where she represents the complexity of human bonds is the concept of the limit.

Men Tira (Lies Tear the Mind Apart) — Cecilia Vicuña

Exclusion — Pablo Suárez

Disappeared Quipu – Cecilia Vicuña
Ancient textiles and cords sway to haunting music in a darkened room. Alludes to the legacy of politically motivated kidnappings and murders perpetuated by a number of twentieth-century Latin American dictators. Missing victims of repressive regimes were called desaparecidos — the disappeared.

Beginning and End of Ecology – León Ferrari
Plastic butterflies, copper wire, marker on acrylic

Diego and I — Frida Khalo

Batato – Marcia Schvartz
Next to Batato Barea—a self-described “clown-transvestite-man of letters” and a major player on the theater and performance scene of the period—are some of the items he used in his performances: rings and necklaces that he himself would make, a fur stole, a toy gun, a clown doll, a teddy bear, a plastic piranha, and a collapsible plastic cup. The vibrant wallpaper background contrasts with the withered and faded flower in a vase. There is something sad about the image. Rather than convey the histrionics associated with Barea, it presents an unstable set of elements under a melancholy gaze that looks out into an indecipherable beyond.

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