Wednesday, November 5, 2014, 7pm
Please RSVP at [email protected]
Hunter College
695 Park Avenue
Hunter North Building
Kossak Lecture Hall, 15th floor
New York, NY
www.latinamericanartathunter.org
Roberto Amigo is the Chief Curator of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires and is a researcher at the Instituto del Desarrollo Humano, Universidad Nacional General Sarmiento and at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires in Argentina. He has lectured, published, and curated exhibitions on 19th- and 20th-century Latin American art, including, at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Las armas de la pintura: La Nación en construcción (2008); Berni: Narrativas argentinas (2010); Enrique de Larrañaga (2013); and La hora americana 1910-1950 (2014). He has also organized Territorios de Estado: Paisaje y cartografía, Chile, siglo XIX for the Trienal de Chile (2009); El Mariscal: El cuerpo del retrato, Paraguay, siglo XIX at the Museo del Barro in Asunción, Paraguay (2011); and Benjamín Franklin Rawson at the Museo Rawson in San Juan, Puerto Rico (2013). He has written about images of the nation, identity, collecting, display, and historiography relating to a wide range of modern and contemporary artists and objects. Amigo’s research has been supported by the Getty Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Fondo Nacional de las Artes in Argentina, and he has received awards for his writing and exhibitions from organizations such as the Asociación Argentina de Críticos de Arte and Telefónica.
Roberto Amigo is a guest scholar of the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Visiting Artists and Critics program. The program brings key figures from Latin America to Hunter College to address topics in contemporary art and scholarship through talks with students and the New York community. In addition to this forum, Cisneros Visiting Artists and Critics conduct studio visits and seminar discussions with Hunter MFA and MA students during their residency.
For more information about related events organized by Hunter College’s Department of Art and Art History and its initiatives supported by the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, please visit: www.latinamericanartathunter.org.
