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2007
“The (S) Files” are literally “the selected files”, as many of the works on display have been chosen from the unsolicited submissions to El Museo’s Artists’ Archive over the past two years. This selection for the 5 thbienal is the most expansive to date, with 51 artists showcasing work in traditional mediums such as drawing, painting and photography, as well as more experimental projects incorporating light, sound, and interactive elements, mobile sculptures and site-specific installations. “The vitality of our bienal is a testament to the artistic contributions Latinos are instilling within New York City ,” said Julián Zugazagoitia, Director of El Museo del Barrio. “The dynamism continues to increase as we celebrate the fifth edition of El Museo’s Bienal, reflecting the importance of New York , especially among Latino and Latin American artists, as a capital of culture and of the arts.” Press Release- El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files
NEW YORK, NY – September 2007 – Instituto Cervantes New York will host Art Agora from September 13, 2007 – January 6, 2008, as part of El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files 007, the exhibition on view at El Museo del Barrio through January 6, 2008. Eight of the 51 artists participating in El Museo’s Bienal, a survey of emerging Latino and Latin American artists working in the New York metropolitan area, will present work in Art Agora. This 5th edition of the bienal is the most expansive to date, extending beyond El Museo del Barrio and into the galleries of Instituto Cervantes, bringing the most immediate contemporary Latino art to bridge these two cultural institutions. The exhibitions have been curated by Elvis Fuentes, Associate Curator, El Museo del Barrio, and E. Carmen Ramos, Assistant Curator for Cultural Engagement, The Newark Museum, NJ. Corresponding with the mission of Instituto Cervantes, whose commitment is rooted in bridging Spanish-speaking audiences worldwide, Art Agora explores the fragility and fluidity of language. The exhibition, whose title references the ancient Greek forum, or place for gathering for debate, investigates the public dimension of art and the ways in which art intervenes with issues of public interest. Several of the works included in Art Agora emphasize the precariousness inherent in translation, and other work communicates through iconography, style and form to establish dialogues within art history.
THE DISAPPEARED / LOS DESAPARECIDOS On View February 23, 2007 - June 17, 2007
New York, NY – January 30, 2007 –-El Museo del Barrio, New York’s premier Latino and Latin American cultural institution, will present The Disappeared (Los Desaparecidos) from February 23 – June 17, 2007. This traveling exhibition, organized by the North Dakota Museum of Art and curated by Laurel Reuter, brings together visual artists’ responses to the tens of thousands of persons who were kidnapped, tortured, killed and “vanished” in Latin America by repressive right-wing military dictatorships during the late-1950s to the 1980s. The Disappeared (Los Desaparecidos) gathers 14 contemporary living artists from seven countries in Central and South America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Uruguay and Venezuela), all of whose work contends with the horrors and violence stemming from the totalitarian regimes in each of their nations during the mid- to late-20 th century. Some of the artists worked in the resistance; some had parents or siblings who were disappeared; others were forced into exile. The youngest were born into the aftermath of those dictatorships. And still others have lived in countries maimed by endless civil war. These artists whose work is represented in the exhibition are Marcelo Brodsky , Luis Camnitzer , Arturo Duclos , Juan Manuel Echavarría , Antonio Frasconi , Nicolás Guagnini , Nelson Leirner, Sara Maneiro , Cildo Meireles , Oscar Muñoz , Ivan Navarro , Luis González Palma , Ana Tiscornia and Fernando Traverso . Also included is a collaborative installation Identity/Identidad by a collective of 13 Argentinean artists. Press Release - The Disappeared (Los Desaparecidos)
2006
-and THIS SKIN I'M IN: Contemporary Dominican Art from El Museo del Barrio’s Permanent Collection
Press Release - This Skin I'm In
HÉCTOR MÉNDEZ CARATINI: THE EYE OF MEMORY — THREE DECADES, 1974-2003
Selections from this traveling exhibition present Méndez Caratini’s 30-year trajectory of photography and videos. Méndez Caratini (b. 1949, San Juan ) is acclaimed for his examination of historical changes and the cultural heritage of emerging Caribbean nations. Placing his photographs in dialogue with santos de palo , masks, and other folk art objects from El Museo del Barrio’s Permanent Collection allows for first-hand examination of the objects documented. Press Release - Héctor Méndez Caratini
FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES: EARLY IMPRESSIONS
Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Early Impressions will present documents, working papers, and materials from the artist’s period of study and artistic production and activity in Puerto Rico (1978-1985). This material includes poems, photographs, texts and conceptual projects published in newspapers and magazines; stills documenting performances; experimental videos; sketches and proposals for projects never realized; and ephemera such as press releases and invitations. Twelve mature works, borrowed from public and private collections, will be placed in the context of these preliminary projects to reveal the trajectory of Gonzalez-Torres’ conceptual, personal and political concerns as well as the development of his innovative use of popular, mass-reproducible mediums. Included in this exhibition are news clipping works, photograph-imprinted puzzles, and three of the artist’s well-known paper “stack” pieces that shift traditional ideas of ownership, value and meaning by inviting the viewer to individualize the experience of the work by taking a sheet. These stacks simultaneously play upon the idea of the printed poster, an important form in Puerto Rican and Cuban art. Press Release - Felix Gonzalez-Torres
BETWEEN THE LINES: TEXT AS IMAGE
This project features works by two artists that utilized language within their visual arts practices: the recently-deceased master printmaker Lorenzo Homar (1913-2004) and the renowned poet Reverend Pedro Pietri (1944-2004). Connections will be made from Homar’s calligraphic images that honor poets and bookmaking, to the works of his colleagues and students, including Rafael Tufiño, Antonio Frasconi, and Antonio Martorell. Pietri’s personal, political and performative projects will be linked to the practices of another generation of artists, including Papo Colo, Adál, and Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Press Release - Between the Lines
EL MUSEO’S BIENAL:
THE (S) FILES / THE SELECTED FILES
NEW YORK, NY – August 2005 – El Museo del Barrio, New York’s premier Latino and Latin American cultural institution, is excited to announce our fall exhibition. El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files / The Selected Files highlights the most cutting-edge art produced by emerging Latino/Latin American artists working in the greater New York area. While celebrating the experimental immediacy of contemporary art, the project offers the excitement of noting rising talents. This selection of innovative works by 40 artists includes traditional media such as painting, drawing, photography and video, but also showcases more experimental work incorporating sound, performative elements, interactive projects and site-specific installations that will extend beyond the galleries into the lobby and courtyard as well as into the students’ taller, or workshop. This 4 th edition of El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files continues El Museo’s commitment to up-and-coming artists: many of the works on display have been chosen from the unsolicited submissions to El Museo’s Artists’ Archive over the past two years. The exhibition has been curated by Deborah Cullen , Director of Curatorial Programs, El Museo del Barrio, and Miki Garcia, Executive Director , Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum. For the first time, the 2005 bienal features an invited guest curator who, spotlighting a specific country or region, will bring artists from their home nation to be represented in the show. This year, guest Marysol Nieves, Curator of Contemporary Art, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico , has selected four artists from Puerto Rico for inclusion in the bienal. Press Release - El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files
MEXICO: THE REVOLUTION AND BEYOND
New York, NY March 2005 – El Museo del Barrio, New York’s premier Latino and Latin American cultural institution, is pleased to announce the opening of Mexico: The Revolution and Beyond. Photographs by Casasola 1900 - 1940. This remarkable exhibition will be on view from April 13 through July 31, 2005. One of Latin America’s first photojournalists, Agustín Victor Casasola documented the tumultuous events of the early twentieth century in a style that ranged from the celebratory to the unforgettably tragic. The exhibition of 92 selected photographs, culled from the nearly 500,000-image archive, which is part of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia in Mexico, (INAH); was organized by leading Mexican photography specialist and well-known photographer Pablo Ortiz Monasterio. The images presented in the exhibition document the history of a nation in the midst of transformation. As it entered a new era, Mexico sought to rid itself of a socially repressive regime. Photographers looked at the people in a celebratory way by focusing on figures of prominence as well as everyday citizens. The themes of revolution, work, modernity, and urban life are captured in images that record an epoch full of drama and hope. The work of the Casasola photographers included in the archives is rich in historic content but also hints at the great power of the medium in shaping the way that history is viewed and perceived. Focusing on eight distinct themes, the exhibition reveals Casasola’s compelling choices, technical expertise, and extraordinary drive to document his country during one of its critical periods. About the artist Agustín Victor Casasola was born in Mexico City in 1874, began working in typographic workshops at an early age, and was working as a reporter by the age of twenty. At the turn of the century he had established himself as a photographer. In 1912, he opened one of the first professional photography agencies in partnership with his brother Miguel; later his children and grandchildren joined the partnership. Casasola’s motto for the company was, “I have or can produce the photo you need.” The agency helped Casasola realize his lifelong obsession: the creation of a photographic archive that recorded the history of Mexico as it unfolded. Press Release - Mexico: The Revolution and Beyond
RETRATOS: 2000 YEARS OF LATIN AMERICAN PORTRAITS Curated by Fatima Bercht, Miguel Bretos, Carolyn Kinder Carr and Marion Oettinger On View December 3, 2004 – March 20, 2005
Press Release - Retratos: 2000 years of Latin American Portraits
NO LO LLAMES PERFORMANCE/ DON'T CALL IT PERFORMANCE
Since the 1960s and 1970s, performance has been a pivotal contemporary art form. The term ‘performance’ often refers to an action, an event, a happening, an enactment, a set piece, a form of body art, a vocal or audio event, or any other artistic undertaking that happens in time. Performance has exerted a strong influence on the field of video, which often serves to record, shape and present performative actions. No lo llames performance/Don’t Call it Performance examines recent activities gathered under what has become known as ‘performative’ by presenting the work of over forty artists, paying particular attention to numerous contemporary Latino and Latin American practitioners. Through a mixture of screenings and live presentations, the exhibition provides a framework for analysing contemporary performative works, while drawing attention to both the similarities and differences between past and present. Performance remains the only discipline within the scope of the visual arts that offers a direct, vivid, spontaneous product without recourse to mediation. For many artists, the body continues to be the most accessible and the most malleable of materials, with the capacity to generate immediate critical discourses about everyday politics and life. Paco Barragán is an independent curator, based in Madrid. No lo llames performance/Don’t Call it Performance was organized by the Audiovisuals Department of the Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Nacional (Madrid, Spain), and presented there in 2003. It traveled to Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (Seville, Spain), Centro Párraga (Murcia, Spain).
MoMA AT EL MUSEO:
LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN ART FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
The exhibition is organized chronologically, reflecting the history of acquisitions and donations, as well as the shifting politics that influenced collecting. The first gallery is dedicated to the initial, major acquisitions of 1935; works by "Los tres grandes" Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros, as well as Candido Portinari, and Wifredo Lam. The second section surveys acquisitions after 1942, when the Inter-American fund was established. Important paintings by well-known modernists, such as Frida Kahlo, Rufino Tamayo, and Carlos Merida; Antonio Berni; Matta; Amalia Peláez; and Joaquín Torres-García were incorporated. The third portion focuses on the 1960s, when acquisitions of drawings, print portfolios, and Pop and Op art works markedly increased. Seminal works by Rafael Montañez-Ortiz, Fernando Botero, Julio Le Parc, Gego, Marisol, and Jesús Rafael Soto entered the collection. The exhibition concludes with a compelling range of recent works, created by outstanding contemporary artists. Among them are works by: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Enrique Chagoya, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Ana Mendieta, Los Carpinteros, Guillermo Kuitca, Juan Sánchez, Arturo Herrera, Cildo Meireles, Helio Oiticica and Gabriel Orozco. A lavishly-illustrated, full-color catalogue, and a diverse range of educational programs, will accompany the exhibition.
VOCES Y VISIONES: HIGHLIGHTS FROM
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO'S PERMANENT COLLECTION
New York, NY (November 5, 2003) - El Museo del Barrio, proudly presents Voces y Visiones: Highlights from El Museo del Barrio's Permanent Collection, opening on November 14, 2003 and will remain on view through February 8, 2004. The long-awaited exhibition will feature over 100 works that are considered the major highlights of the museum's permanent collection and display broad range of artistic expressions in a variety of media. The works also represent the complex, diverse reality of contemporary Latino constructs of identity and culture. Voces y Visiones presents work that span from pre-Columbian artifacts to arresting contemporary art. Organized to coincide and mark El Museo del Barrio's 35th anniversary, Voces is the first comprehensive, traveling exhibition the museum has organized. Press Release - Voces y Visiones
RAFAEL TUFIÑO: PINTOR DEL PUEBLO/ PAINTER OF THE PEOPLE Organized by Fatima Bercht, Chief Curator; curated by Dr. Teresa Tío for the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan This exhibition will be Rafael Tufiño's first major retrospective in the United States, presenting the entire breadth of his work (prints, paintings, drawings and sculpture), as selected from the major retrospective held in Puerto Rico from July 6 through October 7, 2001. Tufiño (b. Brooklyn, 1922) is one of the central figures in the history of twentieth-century Puerto Rican art. A member of Generación del Cincuenta ("The Fifties Generation"), Tufiño has been of one of the major forces in founding and furthering modern Puerto Rican art-both on the Island and in the Caribbean diaspora of New York. Tufiño was one of the founders and leaders of the Island's print tradition, and has been one of the hemisphere's most distinguished poster-makers, an illustrator of books and stories, a draftsman and letterist. The expressive and gestural purity of his draftsmanship became a trademark of Puerto Rican graphics of the 1950s and 1960s. Tufiño consistently depicted the Puerto Rican people in all their daily expressions, working and celebrating. Tufiño made many images of dance, music, and religious festivals, and El Museo will offer public music and dance programs and folk art demonstrations as programming to accompany the exhibition.
EL MUSEO’S BIENAL:
THE (S) FILES 2002/ THE SELECTED FILES
Capturing the unique energy of innovative contemporary artists based in the greater New York area, The (S) Files are "Selected" from on-going submissions to El Museo. The (S) Files expands the definition of contemporary Latino/Latin American art, nurtures the development of groundbreaking young artists, and reinforces El Museo's commitment to emerging artists by fostering an inclusive, ever-broadening group of artist-stakeholders.
FRIDA KAHLO, DIEGO RIVERA, AND TWENTIETH-CENTRY MEXICAN ART
O FIO DA TRAMA / THE THREAD UNRAVELED
El Museo del Barrio is pleased to present O Fio da Trama/The Thread Unraveled: Contemporary Brazilian Art, an exciting exhibition of sixty-three works in diverse media, created from the 1990s through early 2000, by twenty-one contemporary Brazilian artists. The exhibition, which opens on October 12th and remains on view through February 3rd, 2002, is part of a celebration of Brazilian art and culture that includes exhibitions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. O Fio da Trama/The Thread Unraveled has been organized by El Museo del Barrio in collaboration with BrazilConnects, an independent nonprofit organization that celebrates, preserves and supports Brazil's most treasured cultural and ecological assets.
VOICES FROM OUR COMMUNITIES
Voices From Our Communities culminates a comprehensive five-year effort to explore the connection between a museum's permanent collection and its highly diverse audiences. This exhibition features over 100 works created by Latino artists in the United States, as well as by artists working in the Caribbean and Latin America. Noteworthy pieces include paintings, sculptures, photographs, prints, and mixed-media works by contemporary artists, including Rafael Ferrer, Miriam Hernandez, Alfredo Jaar, Pepón Osorio, and Liliana Porter, as well as Shipibo vessels and Haitian vodun flags, Puerto Rican ex-votos and colorful Chicano prints, Mexican masks and an extraordinary 17th century book by Bartolomé de las Casas. Pre-Columbian and traditional arts, such as masks, textiles, and devotional objects, are also highlighted. The variety and richness of artworks in this exhibition derive, in great measure, from the expansion of El Museo del Barrio's mission in 1994 to represent and include, beyond the founding Puerto Rican community, all the Latin American communities that are transforming El Barrio, New York City, and the country at large. Members of these communities as well as artists, curators, anthropologists, etc. have been invited to contribute to the interpretation of works in the collection. The soundtrack of their diverse "voices" and points-of-view will be incorporated as a crucial and lively element of the exhibition, through a sound installation in each gallery.
CONTEMPORÁNEA 2001: PERMANENT VISIBILITY BY INGRID MENÉNDEZ Curated by Deborah Cullen, Curator, El Museo del Barrio On View June 12th - September 16, 2001
Ingrid Menéndez, a Venezuelan sculptor (b. 1963, Caracas) living in New York, creates an interactive installation. Each visitor, alone in an intimate gallery, must decide on how to interface with her experimental artwork. Menéndez's work investigates the boundaries between private and public experience, and the ever-increasing role played by the technologies of surveillance.
HERE & THERE / AQUÍ Y ALLÁ: SIX ARTIST FROM SAN JUAN On View February 8th - May 20th, 2001 Here & There / Aquí y Allá refers to the rich and complex cultural relationship that contemporary Puerto Rican artists from San Juan have developed with the United States and, especially, New York. The exhibition showcases exciting new work by six artists based in San Juan: Nayda Collazo-Llorens, Charles Juhász-Alvarado, Ana Rosa Rivera Marrera, Freddie Mercado, Carlos Rivera Villafañe, and Aaron SalabarrÍas Valle. Each artist is repreented by
a one-room installation using such wide-ranging media as video projection,
sculpture, found objects, color photographs, drawings and plastic
ready-mades.
ANTONIO FRASCONI: LANGSTON HUGHES' "LET AMERICA BE AMERICA AGAIN". A Portfolio of Woodcuts A suite of 32 woodcut and relief prints inspired by Hughes' poem. Organized by Fatima Bercht, Chief Curator, as part of the Focos series, this exhibition highlights the contribution by Frasconi, an internationally-recognized master of the woodcut print. Frasconi's woodcut illustrations and sophisticated design deftly compliment Hughes' eloquent words. Informal typeface used for Hughes' poem is, at times overlaid directly onto images; other times, it stands alone. The striking images form a seamless whole with the text, offering the viewer a powerful and memorable experience.
NEIGHBORS: AND INSTALLATION BY LEANDRO ERLICH Commisioned by El Museo del Barrio and curated by Dr. Julia P. Herzberg, Consulting Curator Erlich's Neighbors is an architectural installation that questions notions of reality. The installation functions like a mysterious set design in which viewers actually participate in the narrative. In a typical apartment building corridor, we expect things to be what they appear to be. Erlich, however, confounds us by interweaving the real and the illusory, paradoxically proving and disproving the adage, "What you see is what you get."
Latin
American Artist-Photographers from the Lehigh University Art Galleries
Collection Organized by Guest Curator Ricardo Viera, Director/Curator of the Lehigh University Art Galleries, Professor of Art at Lehigh University and a nationally recognized specialist of Latin American and Caribbean photography.
Nacimiento: A Christmas Crèche
¡Llegaron Los Muertos! Monumentos para los que viven
en nuestros corazónes by Santiago-Hoge
Este Es Mi Mexico
The Caribbean and Latin American Traditional Art Series
Our Lady of the Apocalypse
The S-Files/Selected Files
Ernesto Pujol: Conversion of Manners
Latin American Still-Life: Reflections of Time and Place
Franco Mondini-Ruiz: Mexique
Carlos Irizarry: The '60s Plus Picasso
Pressing the Point: Parallel Expressiosn in the Graphic Arts of the Chicano and
Puerto Rican Movements
Juan Sanchez: Printed Convictions Prints amd Related Works on Paper
Pepon Osorio: TRANSBORICUA
Caribbean and Latin American Traditional Arts Series Part I
Viva la Muerte: Artwork Inspired by the Day of the Dead Celebration
A Tribute to En Foco: 25 Years of Making Photographic History
1998 - 1999
The S-files: The Selected Files
Marta
Chilindron: Cinema Kinesis
Puerto Rican Santos de
Palo: Sculptures Between Heaven and Earth
Altares
de los Orishas: Afro-Caribbean Sacred Spaces
Buscando Milagros - Searching
for Miracles: Photographs by Héctor Méndez Caratini
The
Art of Jack Delano
Gods,
Spirits, and Legends: Twentieth-Century Art from El Salvador
Casitas:
Gardens of Reclamation
Domino/Dominó by
Bibiana Suarez
1997 - 1998
El Mexterminator II (Ethno-Cyborgs & Artificial Savages)
Beatriz González
Carmen Herrera
Brian
Nissen: Bronze Sculptures
Recurrent
Memories by Diamantina González
Taíno: Pre-Columbian Art and
Culture from the Caribbean
The
Taíno Legacy
Coaybay:
Site of the Afterlife
1996-97
Re-Aligning Visions: Alternative
Currents in South American Drawing
Diamantina Gonzalez Recurrent
Memories
Alicia Creus The Veiled
Mirrors: Recent Works Lyrical textile collages
BIO *As in 'biography',
'biology', 'biogenesis'
The Conceptual Trend:
Six Artists from Mexico City
Nativity Scene
Contemporanea: An Installation
by Maria Elena Gonzalez
Santos: Sculptures Between
Heaven and Earth
Day of the Dead
The Liberated Print: The
Portfolio in Puerto Rican Graphics
Antonio Martorell La Casa
Letrada
1995-96
ADAL Out of Focus Nuyoricans
Eloy Blanco Pursuits in
Painting, 1950 - 1984
Ana Busto Working Shoes
Luis Camnitzer AMANAPLANACANALAPANAMA
Pa'lante
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