Anna María Guasch and her Vision of the Crossroad of Latin American Art at the MUAC
Anna Maria Guasch, accredited Art History professor at the Universidad de Barcelona and art critic, made a lecture about her essay: “From the new internationalism to local speeches: the crossroad of Latin American art on the way to post-modernity in a global age”, at the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, MUAC, Mexico City. Guasch covers the process from the peripheral appropriation of modernity, the penetration of pluralization, and the complicating of the post-modern process to the current cartography of the global, defined by new information technologies and communication under multinational capitalism.
She analyses the process of the initial attraction of the hegemonic centers to the other part of the world, with which they achieved the legitimization of peripheral art that the 90s recognized with the “new internationalism and political correctness”. 21st century Latin American art has been added to the “archipelagean” model or constellation, reinventing mobility and traveling as formal elements in art in the post-imperial age.
Since 1994 until today, the investigation that Anna Maria Guasch leads moves around the study of the creative processes of international art in the second half of the 20th century. Among her publications in this period: El arte del siglo XX en sus exposiciones: 1945-1995 (Barcelona,1997); Los manifiestos del arte posmoderno. Textos de exposiciones 1980-1995 (Madrid, 2000); El arte último del siglo XX. Del posminimalismo a lo multicultural: 1968-1995 (Madrid, 2000); La crítica dialogada. Entrevistas sobre arte y pensamiento contemporáneo ( Murcia, 2006); Oteiza. Escultura dinámica (Pamplona, 2008), y Autobiografías visuales. Del archivo al índice (Madrid, 2009) should be distingushed. She is co-author with Joseba Zulaika of the books Learning from the Bilbao Guggenheim (Reno, 2005; Aprendiendo del Guggenheim Bilbao, Madrid, 2007).
Besides the textual collection Akal/Arte Contemporary, she has directed courses and seminars, including several international seminars during the summer semester at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (El Escorial), and she has participated in various symposiums and congresses, such as the International Symposium of Art Critique in a global world (Macba, Barcelona 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008), the International Congress of Visual Studies (Madrid, 2004) and the International symposium Learning from the Guggenheim Bilbao: Five Years Later (Reno-Nevada 2004).
During the period of 2000-2009, she has been Visiting and Guest Professor at Princeton, Yale, Columbia and San Diego, California. In 2002-2003 she was a scholar in the Getty Research Institute of Los Angeles, and she has been an invited professor at the universities of Santiago de Chile, Bogotá, México, D.F, Monterrey, Havana and Caracas. She directs an investigation project about the relation between art and globalization at the Universidad de Barcelona and is part of the research teams of the international projects Visual Culture Studies in Europe (VCE/Network), Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) and Arte/Archivos: América Latina y otras geografías (The University of Austin, Texas). She has been curator of the exhibition La memoria del otro (Bogotá, 2009, and Santiago de Chile, April, 2010). She is the director of the Travesías Culturales project. The Canaries in the Atlantic axis. (www.entreculturas.info).
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