CIFO’s Exhibition The Places Of Latin American Abstraction in Spain
At the time of a well deserved recognition of Latin American art as the cradle of contemporary art that draws the most interest, the Es Baluard. Museu d'art modern i contemporani de Palma will be the first institution in Spain to present the valued collection Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) of Miami- but also a selection of this collection that supposes an urgent look at the origins and the most crucial moments of the geometric abstraction in Latin America.
The Places of Latin American Abstraction, curated by Juan Ledezma, proposes an interesting comparison between the languages of painting, sculpture, photography, and drawing. The exposition includes more than a hundred pieces by about sixty artists proceeding from Latin American countries, but especially from Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Venezuela. All the pieces date from the late 30s to the late 70s, and are considered references of past generations.
The exposition includes 139 pieces by 67 artists. With Works signed by Joaquín Torres-García, Soto, Horacio Coppola, Carlos Cruz-Díez, León Ferrari, Thomaz Farkas, Lucio Fontana, Gego, Mathias Goeritz, Julio Le Parc, César Paternosto, Grete Stern, Annemarie Heinrich, Leo Matiz, Gaspar Gasparian, and Lygia Clark, among many other, this exhibition from the collection is a profound study of the concomitant visions that relates the different geometric abstraction languages and the different countries in Latin America.
Surprising visual analogies
More than a hundred works, including drawings, paintings, sculptures, and a great number of magnificent photographs, are shown to be surprising visual analogies, to the point of offering a closer encounter not only with Latin American art, but also to an alternative to the traditional museum exhibition.
The exposition is centered mostly in the 50s, 60s and 70s of the past century, which are the pinnacle of the geometric abstraction movement.
The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation is a non-profit organization, founded by Ella Fontanals Cisneros and her family in 2002, with the cultural objective of supporting Latin American artists. Its headquarters in Miami, which inaugurated in 2005, and provides a wide variety of activities and exhibitions that promote emerging Latin American artists as well as the study of consolidated artists. Ella Fontanals-Cisneros´s collection, includes three major areas of interest: Latin American Geometric abstraction, contemporary art with emphasis on video art, and contemporary photography dedicated to architecture.
