The MUAC Launched Catalog of the Ergo, materia. Arte povera Exposition
The said bilingual edition (Spanish-English) contains 215 pages which include an introduction by Graciela de la Torre and another by Roberto Spinelli; a conversation between David Miranda (young artista and curator) and Guillermo Santamarina; texts from Abraham Cruzvillegas, Andrea Giunta, Gabriel Kuri, María A. Iovino M., Mariana Botey, Ricardo Resende, Alejandra Labastida and Giorgio Maffei, as well as profiles and art work lists.
In the text, the master De la Torre, General Director of the Visual Art at UNAM, claims that while the exposition proposes a trail through one of the most singular manifestations of the seventies, also contributes to the reflection of the contemporary artistic practice in Mexico.
In his part, Roberto Spinelli, the Italian Ambassador in Mexico, highlights that the exposed works legitimize expressive languages and embrace suggestions of unedited materials that give the impression of rejecting the discourse about art, subtracting it from rigid schemes.
The exposition
The collection of works presented at MUAC is the most complete collection of Arte Povera that Latin America has seen. It counts with a selection of original works, photographic records, and documents proceeding from important public and private collections from Europe, the United States and Mexico from artists like Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Gilberto Zorio, Alighiero Boetti, Giovanni Anselmo, Giulio Paolini, Mario Merz, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Marisa Merz, Luca Patella and Pier Paolo Calzolari.
The collection forms part of the third curatorial cycle of the MUAC, denominated Hechos y delirios: soporte, materia y trabajo (Facts and Delusions: Support, Medium and Work) , in which the platonic figure of the artist and the poet as illusionist is taken back in order to show the way in which medium in art is the place where the “artisan” frees the force of life and converts work into pure illusion.
Ergo, materia. Arte povera, concludes its exhibition period on October 31.
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