Art Museum of the Americas -- Exhibit: Art of the Americas:
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On view August 17, 2017-October 28, 2018
The OAS AMA | Art Museum of the Americas announces the second in a series of exhibitions accompanying Art of the Americas: Collection of the Art Museum of the Americas of the Organization of American States, curated by Adriana Ospina. Initiated five years ago, the project aims to rethink the study of the historical and cultural legacy of the AMA | Art Museum of the Americas of the Organization of American States (OAS), beginning with a comprehensive catalog of the permanent collection, made publicly available in 2017.
The Art of the Americas catalog highlights key pieces of the OAS AMA art collection, representing fundamental artistic trends that have developed in Latin America, including new figuration, geometric and lyrical abstraction, conceptual art, optical and kinetic art. Artists such as Cundo Bermúdez, Fernando de Szyszlo, Agustín Fernández, José Luís Cuevas, Alejandro Obregón, Raquél Forner, Rodolfo Abularach, Alfredo Da Silva, Ernesto Deira, and Jorge de la Vega had their first solo exhibitions in the United States in the Gallery of the Pan American Union, now the OAS. The art program outgrew its space, moving into the present-day AMA in 1976. The museum has provided valuable support throughout the years in the expansion of the academic field of modern and contemporary art of Latin America and the Caribbean in the United States. Today, AMA continues and expands this rich cultural trajectory with dynamic exhibitions and educational programs highlighting the art of all the countries of the Americas. AMA’s engagement of museums outside of the U.S. strengthens ties among all OAS member countries. Drawn from Art of the Americas, this exhibition features a new selection of works, assembled with the aim of juxtaposing various facets of AMA’s collection. The resulting exhibition offers a twist on more usual selections, emphasizing a wider range of the collecting practices of AMA’s founding Director José Gómez Sicre, giving a special place to abstract practices developed in Latin America after World War II, specially “gestural, lyrical, calligraphic, and informalist.” In the last few years, AMA has used its first floor galleries to showcase geometric abstraction, while representing other movements on the second floor. Here, AMA flips this this order to give light at other abstract expressions. As scholars Mariola Alvarez and Ana Franco write in their upcoming publication New Geographies of Abstract Art in Postwar Latin America, it is time to “demonstrate the messy and much diverse history of abstract art especially in contrast to the increasingly pervasive presence of geometric abstraction as the face of Latin American art of the postwar years.”
Besides the juxtaposition between modes of abstraction, this exhibition also features Gómez Sicre’s attention to modernist primitivism in the work of Central American and Caribbean artists, as well as the role of the figure in Latin America.
For the Art of the Americas catalog,we invited a select group of curators and scholars who have had close ties with the museum and, above all else, profound knowledge of the collection. Some of them have conducted research in our archives, others have curated AMA exhibitions, and a few are former museum employees. Their perspectives on the steadily growing field of Latin American and Caribbean art are vital to the study and understanding of the collection in a variety of contexts. This exhibition is an effort to bring the content of the book to three-dimensional life, showing AMA’s collecting practices from the time of José Gómez Sicre to today. It is about the canon of Latin American and Caribbean art that the OAS and AMA has been involved with since the 1940s.
The AMA serves as the principal instrument of cultural diplomacy of the OAS. AMA’s mission is founded on the notion that the arts are transformative for individuals and communities. This guiding principle promotes the core values of the OAS by providing a space for cultural expression, creativity, innovation, dialog, and learning, while highlighting themes such as democracy, development, human rights, justice, freedom of expression, and innovation. AMA’s work draws on contemporary art to showcase a constructive vision of the future of the Americas via local and hemispheric cultural exchange.
We would like to thank our selection and research team: Felix Ángel, Alejandro Anreus, Alessandro Armato, Cecilia Belej, Carol Damian, Ana Franco, María Gaztambide, Michele Greet, Olga Herrera, Maria Leyva, Abigail McEwen, Nadia Moreno, and Mark White. We also wish to thank our publishing, design, and photography teams: Aram Asarian, Jill Bernstein, Jennifer Cardiff, Rafa Cruz, Catalina Echaurren, and Camila Matta.
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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- AOTA_180502_009.JPG: Art of the Americas:
Collection of the Art Museum of the Americas of the Organization of American States
- AOTA_180502_021.JPG: Marcelo Brodsky
The Class from the Series Good Memory, c 1992
- AOTA_180502_039.JPG: Antonio Henrique Amaral
Banana, 1971
- AOTA_180502_048.JPG: Rafael Coronel
All Together II, 1965
- AOTA_180502_053.JPG: Antonio Berni
Ramona, 1965
- AOTA_180502_058.JPG: David Alfaro Siqueiros
Child Mother, 1956
- AOTA_180502_063.JPG: Enrique Grau
Boy with Umbrella, 1964
- AOTA_180502_068.JPG: Carlos Alfonzo
Untitled, 1989
- AOTA_180502_073.JPG: Candido Portinari
Return From the Fair, 1940
- AOTA_180502_079.JPG: Hector Poleo
Andean Family, 1944
- AOTA_180502_085.JPG: Mario Benjamin
Untitled, 1999
- AOTA_180502_091.JPG: Claudio Bravo
Fur Coat Back and Front, 1976
- AOTA_180502_101.JPG: Benjamin Canas
Kafka: Letters to Milena, 1976
- AOTA_180502_109.JPG: Juan Carlos Liberti
Winter, 1972
- AOTA_180502_115.JPG: Cundo Bermudez
Lunes 21 de Decembre (Interior), 1974
- AOTA_180502_120.JPG: Mario Carreno
Sonata of Stone and Flesh, 1967
- AOTA_180502_126.JPG: David Manzur
Elements for an Angel No. 8, 1961
- AOTA_180502_132.JPG: Soeki Irodikromo
Untitled, 1986
- AOTA_180502_137.JPG: Alberto Dutary
Figures at Twilight, 1960
- AOTA_180502_145.JPG: Alejandro Obregon
The Dead Student (The Vigil), 1956
- AOTA_180502_151.JPG: Ramon Oviedo
Sterile Echo, 1975
- AOTA_180502_163.JPG: Jose Luis Cuevas
Tribute to Picasso: The Real Ladies of Avignon, 1973
- AOTA_180502_174.JPG: Georges Liautaud
Crucifixion, 1959
- AOTA_181025_001.JPG: Alejandro Obregon
The Dead Student (The Vigil), 1956
- AOTA_181025_007.JPG: Carlos Colombino
Icaro, 1966
- AOTA_181025_013.JPG: David Manzur
Elements for an Angel No. 8, 1961
- AOTA_181025_021.JPG: Anibal Villacis
Pre-Columbian, 1973
- AOTA_181025_026.JPG: Lola Fernandez
Return of the Ancestor, 1967
- AOTA_181025_032.JPG: Roberto Matta
Hermala II, 1948
- AOTA_181025_039.JPG: Maria Martins
Boiuna, 1942
- AOTA_181025_046.JPG: Asilia Guillen
Heroes and Artists Come to the Pan American Union to be Consecrated, 1962
- AOTA_181025_053.JPG: Joseph Jean-Gilles
Haitian Landscape, 1973
- AOTA_181025_060.JPG: Pedro Figari
The Market Place, c 1935
- AOTA_181025_065.JPG: Soeki Irodikromo
Untitled, 1986
- AOTA_181025_073.JPG: Jose Antonio Velasquez
View of San Antonio de Oriente, 1957
- AOTA_181025_080.JPG: Everald Brown
Totem, 1972
- AOTA_181025_098.JPG: Omar Rayo
Vertical Glass, 1961
- AOTA_181025_109.JPG: Rene Portocarrero
Figures in Yellow, 1952
- AOTA_181025_117.JPG: Joaquin Torres Garcia
Constructive Composition, 1943
- AOTA_181025_121.JPG: Jose Gurvich
Adam and Eve, 1963
- AOTA_181025_129.JPG: Estuardo Maldonado
Memory of Forms, 1963
- AOTA_181025_134.JPG: David Alfaro Siqueiros
Madre Nina (Child Mother), 1956
- AOTA_181025_138.JPG: Jose Guadalupe Posada
Calavera de los Periodicos/Ciclistas, c 1900-1910
- AOTA_181025_142.JPG: Jose Sabogal
Huanca Indian, 1930
- AOTA_181025_147.JPG: Eduardo Kingman
The Poor Supper, 1945
- AOTA_181025_151.JPG: Emilio Pettoruti
The Last Serenade, 1937
- AOTA_181025_161.JPG: Eduardo MacEntyre
Six Forms in Two Circumferences, 1966
- AOTA_181025_168.JPG: Fanny Sanin
Acrylic No. 6, 1979
- AOTA_181025_173.JPG: Alejandro Otero
Color-Rhyth 34
- AOTA_181025_179.JPG: Edgar Negret
Magic Machine, 1959
- AOTA_181025_184.JPG: Vicente Rojo
Painting No. 12, 1962
- AOTA_181025_196.JPG: Armando Morales
Guerrillero Muerto VIII, 1962
- AOTA_181025_209.JPG: Rufolfo Abularach
Fugitive from a Mayan Lintel, 1958
- AOTA_181025_212.JPG: Danilo di Prete
Cosmic Landscape No. 2, 1963
- AOTA_181025_216.JPG: Angel Hurtado
Sign in Space, 1962
- AOTA_181025_224.JPG: Alberto Dutary
Figures at Twilight, 1960
- AOTA_181025_230.JPG: Venancio Shinki
Mesa Grande, 1968
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