Argentina in Focus: Visualizing the Concept / Emilia Gutierrez: Drawings and Paintings
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Museum first floor
September 15 - November 21, 2010, Tuesday-Sunday 10am-5pm
Argentina in Focus: Visualizing the Concept
Cristián Segura / Sergio Vega
Curated by Alma Ruiz, Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the exhibit brings together the work of two Argentine artists of different generations. Cristián Segura (b. 1977), who lives in Tandil, a province of Buenos Aires, follows a line of work which comprises a range of strategies to deal with the mechanisms and variability of contemporary art, always with a critical and reflexive eye on the institutional terrain. Sergio Vega (b.1959), who left Argentina in 1991, has developed his professional life in the United States and is an associate professor of photography and sculpture at the University of Florida. His work is characterized by a use of texts, photographs, videos, sculpture-objects, dioramas, scale models, and installations. His complex approach examines historical and contemporary systems of representation to highlight the role that colonial ideologies play in shaping culture and creating social conditions. The exhibit is co-organized by the Art Museum of the Americas and Dani Levinas.
Museum second floor
September 15 - November 15, 2010
Emilia Gutiérrez (1928-2003)
Drawings and Paintings
Born in Buenos Aires in 1928, Emilia Gutiérrez studied at the Fernando Fader School and at the workshop of Argentine artist Demetrio Urruchúa. Although a member of the Grupo del Plata, she maintained her distance from the regular Argentine artistic circuits and is relatively unknown in her country. Since her death in 2003, her singular work has been the focus of renewed interest and re-evaluation. The exhibit is curated by María Teresa Constantin.
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