Research Catalog

Title

Verboamérica.

Author

Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires.

Publication

Buenos Aires : Fundación Eduardo F. Costantini - MALBA, 2016.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Giunta, Andrea.
• Pérez Rubio, Agustín.

Description

373 page : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

In the framework of the celebration of the 15th anniversary of MALBA's founding, the museum presents Verboamérica, a new exhibition of its permanent collection, curated by historian and researcher Andrea Giunta and by the museum's artistic director, Agustín Pérez Rubio. The exhibition -the fruit of a wider research project that has been underway for over two years- proposes a living history of Latin America in actions and experiences, a postcolonial history that does not understand Latin American art in the terms proposed by European art, but rather on the basis of the words that the artists themselves used in devising their aesthetic agendas. As a comprehensive project, Verboamérica encompasses all areas of the museum. A catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition. The catalogue includes a glossary of key terms tied to the works in the collection and to the broader artistic, social, and cultural experience of Latin America. The catalogue opens with a glossary of terms, nomenclatures, and definitions that can be seen as part of a specifically Latin American vocabulary. As such, Verboamérica is a possible re-writing of modern and contemporary Latin American history. "It recognizes the works and concepts that structured the European avant-gardes to then swallow them up and add local ingredients (terms). A crucial component of the project is, for us, the power of language to create realities and to construct worlds-and not only in order to represent them: anthropophagic and speaking America," Pérez Rubio explains. The terms in the glossary are not only related to style and art; they are also political, social, literary, and cinematographic in nature. The array of terms in the glossary includes "Activism," "Destructive Art," "Military Dictatorship," "Madi," "Postcolonialism," and "LGBT." The glossary is envisioned as a living organic project; researchers and students, as well as the general public, are invited to suggest new entries on the website http://www.glosario.malba.org.ar/en. Those suggestions will then be analyzed by an advisory committee. The aim is for the glossary to expand over time and beyond the context of the exhibition. Verboamérica also brings together the research and exhaustive cataloguing of the collection's contents that has been in process under the auspice of the museum's Curatorial Department for the last two years. A team of eminent researchers in the field of Latin American art was put together and assigned, according to area of expertise, the task of compiling thorough technical information and of writing academic texts on each of the works in the collection, in order to re-write its history." --Provider web page. Some of the artists include: Claudia Andujar, Miguel Covarrubias, Tarsila do Amaral, Emiliano Di Cavalcanti, Pedro Figari, Anna Bella Geiger, Frida Kahlo, Wilfredo Lam, José Carlos Martinat, Ana Mendieta, Luis Ortiz Monasterio, Héctor Poleo, Cándido Portinari, Jesús Ruiz Durand y Xul Solar, amongst others.

Alternative Title

Malba collection

Subjects

• Art museums > Argentina > Buenos Aires
• Art > Argentina > Buenos Aires > Catalogs
• Art, Latin American > 20th century > Catalogs
• Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires Art collections > Catalogs
• Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires Art collections > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Printed on the occasion of the exhibition "Verboamerica" held in September 2016 at MALBA in Buenos Aires.
• Includes glossary.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• In Englsih.

Contents

Introduction / Eduardo F. Constantini -- Open History, Multiuple Time. A New Turn on the MALBA Collection / by Agustín Pérez Rubio -- All the Parts of the World / Andrea Giunta -- I. In the beginning -- II. Maps, geopolitics and power -- III. City, modernity and abstraction -- IV. Lettered city, violent city, imagined city -- V. Work, crowd, and resistance -- VI. Country and outskirts -- VII. Bodies, affects and emancipation -- VIII. Indigenous america, black america -- Work reproduced -- List of artists in alphabetical order.

ISBN

• 9789874615442
• 9874615443
• 9789874615459
• 9874615451

OCLC

• ocn978423721
• 978423721
• SCSB-1876789

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library