“La invencion concreta”: Latin American Abstract Art at Reina Sofia Museum

Reina Sofia National Museum Center of Art is exhibiting (January 23 – September 16) “La invencion concreta” (The Concrete Invention). Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, which tackles the development of geometric abstraction in Latin America, and includes a chronological framework that begins in the 1930s and comes to an end 1970s.

Although this type of abstract art was initially developed in Europe, some South American artists took it as the language of a cosmopolitan and progressive future from modern cities such as Montevideo, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Caracas. So the geometrical abstraction became a vehicle to express the emergency of a continent that explored new political and cultural ideas in mid-20^th century.

Grouped beyond their origin and date of creation, the artworks that make up this display respond to affinity criteria among authors, but the common use of artistic language doesn’t necessarily entail a common result. All of the works included in the show, which was curated by Gabriel Perez-Barreiro, director of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection and Manuel J. Borja-Villel; belong to Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, one of the most important ones in terms of Latin American contemporary art, and Reina Sofia Museum has signed a collaboration agreement with it.

Source:Press release