Friday, August 10 & Saturday, August 11, 2012, 11–6pm
Auditorium of Fundación Proa
Avenida Pedro de Mendoza 1929
Buenos Aires, Argentina
T +5411 4104-1049 / [email protected]
For further information and enrollment:
www.proa.org/eng/events
Two days of meetings with presentations by curators, artists, and researchers.
Participants
Curators Paulo Herkenhoff and Rodrigo Alonso, who on Friday the 10th at 11am will present the exhibition, the guidelines underlying its vision, and the symposium.
Special guests
Gonzalo Aguilar, Andrea Giunta, Suely Rolnik, Mari Carmen Ramirez (to be confirmed), Frederico Morais, Manuel Neves, María Amalia García with Cecilia Rabossi
Fundación Proa and the Brazilian Embassy in Argentina announce a symposium to be held on the occasion of the exhibition Art of Contradictions. Pop, Realisms and Politics. Brazil – Argentina 1960, curated by Paulo Herkenhoff and Rodrigo Alonso. The encounter deepens the exhibition’s investigation and proposes “a reflection on the relationships, and points of convergence and divergence, between art produced in Brazil and Argentina during the 1960s, in keeping with local and international sociopolitical contexts. The symposium emphasizes the uniqueness of the vision and thinking of artists from these countries while attempting to capture the complexity of the period and avoid superficial or stereotyped readings in order to recover this aesthetic and political production for art history.”
The programming is subject to modification.
A screening of the film Um domingo com Frederico Morais will be held.
Thanks to the support of the Brazilian Embassy and Tenaris, the limited-capacity symposium will be free of charge.
Coordinator: Isabel Palandjoglou.
*Image above:
Left: Cildo Meireles, Inserções em circuitos ideológicos. Projeto Coca-Cola, (Insertions in Ideological Circuits. Coca-Cola Project), 1970. 3 glass bottles, metal, 24.5 x 6 x 6 cm each. Private collection, Rio de Janeiro.
Right: Roberto Jacoby, Un guerrillero no muere para que se lo cuelgue en la pared (A guerrilla fighter doesn’t die to become a poster on the wall), 1968. Silkscreen, 32.5 x 47.5 cm. Artist’s collection, Buenos Aires.