Tenth Anniversary of MALBA

The prestigious Latin American Art Museum in Buenos Aires reaches ten years of preservation work, study and diffusion of Latin American art. During this decade, the institution has had the opportunity of educating viewers on the recognition of the region’s cultural and artistic diversity, promoting exchange among museums and art centers in Argentina and all over the world.

This time, it offers a series of activities to be held from Wednesday September 21 to Friday September 30. The first day will witness the inauguration of a new tour through Latin American from the 20th century, with emblematic works included in the permanent collection and fourteen artworks that belong to The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and a retrospective of kinetic artist Carlos Cruz-Diez. Besides, an international seminar will be carried out with the participation of museum curators and directors who have taken part in transformations on Latin American art during the last decade.

Carlos Cruz-Diez: El color en el espacio y en el tiempo–through March 5, 2012 at Halls 5 and 3–, organized by The Museum of Fine Arts and Cruz-Diez Foundation, counted on the special support of MetLife Foundation and curatorship by Mari Carmen Ramirez. It’s the first retrospective in Argentina dedicated to this French-Venezuelan artist, and showcases a selection of over 120 artworks –paintings, drawings, silk screens, structures and chromatic environments, as well as mock-ups and one documentary video on his urban intervention projects– created since 1940 to these days.

On the other hand, viewers will have the opportunity of enjoying at Hall 2, through February 6, 2012, a new tour through Latin American from the 20th century. Artworks given by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) complete the perspective of this local collection, with signs such as Lygia Clark, Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Gego, Helio Oiticica; David Alfaro Siqueiros and Jesus Rafael Soto, among others. This loan comes within the framework of an agreement kept by MALBA and MFAH since 2005, in order to stimulate exhibitions and collections exchange and collaborate in publications and other initiatives aimed at promoting Latin American art in the US and South America. MALBA’s collection will travel to MFAH in April 2012.

The international seminar, titled Arte latinoamericano. Diez años de cambios, perspectivas y proyecciones will be held from September 21 - 23 at the Auditorium, and though the entry is free, previous registration is required, which is available through www.malba.org.ar. Eight of the projects related to Latin American art and linked to the organization of exhibitions, catalogues, congresses and collections, will be presented at the event. Also participating Mari Carmen Ramirez, curator at Wortham Latin American Art and Director of the International Center for the Arts of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts Houston (MFAH); Hans-Michael Herzog, curator in chief of Daros Latinamerica AG (Daros Museum Zürich / Casa Daros Rio); Natalia Majluf, director of Lima Art Museum (MALI), Peru; Luis Enrique Perez-Oramas, curator of MoMA, New York; Marcelo Mattos Araujo, executive director of São Paulo Art Gallery; Rodrigo Moura, curator at Inhotim Institute, Minas Gerais; Adriana Rosenberg, president of Proa Foundation, Buenos Aires; and Marcelo E. Pacheco, curator in chief at MALBA-Costantini Foundation.

Likewise, Malba exhibition will be showcased. Diez años, will be displaying images and stories telling the Museum’s history through November 21.

Other activities will be carried out at the institution in that period. Further information at www.malba.org.ar.