TEMPORARY EXHIBITION
Marta Minujín. Works 1959-1989
25 November 2010 – 7 February 2011
Gallery 5 (2nd floor), gallery 3 and terrace (1st floor)
Guest Curator: Victoria Noorthoorn
Malba – Fundación Costantini
Avda. Figueroa Alcorta 3415
C1425CLA
Buenos Aires, Argentina
T +54 (11) 4808 6500
F +54 (11) 4808 6598/99
info [at] malba.org.ar
The exhibition includes her early paintings and Informalist works from 1959 to 1961; happenings and participatory environments from 1964 and 1965; experiments with the mass media carried out in 1966; works based on her hippie experiences in the late sixties; performances and fictional operas from 1972 to 1974; critical projects related to the political situation in Latin America from the late seventies; and projects involving mass participation and the destruction of myths produced during the eighties.
Many of Minujín’s most paradigmatic works are represented in this exhibition, including La destrucción (The Destruction, Impasse Ronsin, Paris, 1963), ¡Revuélquese y viva! (Wallow Around and Live!, Instituto Torcuato Di Tella [ITDT], Buenos Aires, 1964), La Menesunda (Mayhem, ITDT, Buenos Aires, 1965, realized in collaboration with Rubén Santantonín), El Batacazo (The Long Shot, ITDT, Buenos Aires and Bianchini Gallery, New York, 1965), Simultaneidad en Simultaneidad (Simultaneity in Simultaneity, ITDT, Buenos Aires, 1966), Importación-Exportación (Import-Export, ITDT, Buenos Aires, 1968), Kidnappening (MoMA, New York, 1973), The Soft Gallery (Harold Rivkin Gallery, Washington D.C., 1973), Imago Flowing (MoMA, New York, 1974), La academia del fracaso (The Academy of Failure, Centro de Arte y Comunicación [CAyC], Buenos Aires, 1975), Comunicando con tierra (Communicating with Earth, CAyC, Buenos Aires, 1976), El Obelisco de pan dulce (The Obelisk in Sweet Bread, Feria de las Naciones, Buenos Aires, 1979), El Partenón de libros (The Parthenon of Books, Avenida 9 de julio, Buenos Aires, 1983)—made from books that had been confiscated during the military dictatorship—Operación Perfume (Operation Perfume, Avenida 9 de julio, Buenos Aires, 1987) and many others. All in all, the exhibition presents artworks from private and public collections, twenty newly-edited film projections, the reconstruction and recreation of historical works, and numerous documents from the artist’s prolific archive.
The exhibition presents Minujín in dialogue with her time, with the national and international events taking place at different moments in her career and with the artistic communities with which she worked, in Argentina and abroad. It reflects the way that her production set forth a dialogue with the diverse movements of the sixties, and specifically with New Realism, Pop Art, Mass Media Art and Conceptual Art, as well as with the investigations around happenings, performance and video art, mass media and new technologies, and public and participatory art, among others.
In conjunction with the exhibition, Malba has published a 300-page bilingual (Spanish-English) catalogue.
Malba – Fundación Costantini
Avda. Figueroa Alcorta 3415 | C1425CLA | Buenos Aires, Argentina
T +54 (11) 4808 6500
F +54 (11) 4808 6598/99
www.malba.org.ar
info@malba.org.ar
Museum Hours
Thursdays through Mondays and Holidays: from 12:00 to 20:00.
Wednesdays: till 21:00.
Tuesdays: closed.
Corporate partners
Citi | Consultatio
Sponsors
Mercedes-Benz | Bloomberg
Technological support
Samsung
Associated media
Revista Ñ
With the support of
Knauf | Escorihuela Gascón | Metro 95.1 | Piero | Zanotti | Microsoft | Andamios Buenos Aires
*Image above:
Courtesy of the artist.
