MAMBA: Summer 2012-2013

Buenos Aires’ Modern Art Museum hosted on Tuesday December 18 the inauguration of several exhibitions that make up the summer program: a retrospective by Margarita Paksa, Massimo Listri’s solo show, a series of Italian videoart, among others.

Paksa (Buenos Aires, 1936) is one of the paradigmatic artists of the conceptual art and videoart avant-garde from the 1960s in Argentina. Her work targets an expressive diversity and represents what she describes as “dematerialization of the object”, to outline reflections on social, politic and communication issues.

Italian Massimo Listri is the first living author that showcases his work at the Vatican in recent centuries. His photographic work is remarkably influenced by his hometown Florence, as well as Roman sculpture. En perspectiva: el vacio interior is the title of the exhibition at MAMBA, which includes pieces in which eyes are focused on internal environments of great architectural importance, places where cultural history has been stratified, usually hidden and inaccessible.

On the other hand, Video Arte Italiano 2004-2012 shows generational, cultural and identity differences on Italian art from the media power of videoart. Some of the materials to be screened were produced by Bianco-Valente, Masbedo, Anita Calà, Stefano Cagol, Joan Jonas, Rosa Jijon, Susan Kleinberg, Sandro Mele, Daniela Perego, Fabrizio Plessi, Daniele Puppi, Arash Radpuor, Guendalina Salini, Studio Azzurro and Carlo Zanni. The curators were Micol di Veroli, Giovanna Sarno and Massimo Scaringella.

Buenos Aires’ Modern Art Museum
Avenida San Juan 350, Buenos Aires City