“Cold America”, Latin American Geometric Abstraction at the Juan March Foundation
The Juan March Foundation inaugurated in its Madrid head quarters the exposition Cold America. Latin American geometric abstraction (1934-1973), in order to map, in a fast and systematic way, the complex history of geometric abstraction in Latin America.
The resulting map shows how Latin American abstract artists were influenced by artists from the old continent, as well as the decisive rupture with the artistic European tradition: the renovation and the differentiated character that geometric abstraction assumed in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Uruguay, Venezuela and Mexico.
The exhibition is made of about 300 pieces (made up by art works and documents, some of them never before seen outside of their country of origin) from more than 60 artists from the countries that have been mentioned, and will be in Madrid until May 15th. The pieces come from museums and private collections in Europe, the United States, and Latin America, in the biggest effort ever made to collect the best pieces of the best exhibitions
with the purpose of constructing a panoramic vision of the abstract currents in the American continent.
This Project from the Juan March foundation, curated by Osbel Suarez has counted with the
participation of some of the most prominent artists and art experts of Latin America, such
as Ferreira Gullar, Cesar Paternosto, Luis Perez Oramas, Gabriel Perez Barreiro, Maria
Amalia Garcia and Michael Nungesser, amongst others.
The catalog (available in English and Spanish) that accompanies the exposition, richly
illustrated and documented, extends the panoramic view of the exposition to those who
are interested in the art of a continent that is still widely unknown to the greater public.
In addition to being approached by countries with renowned specialists, it also includes
a detailed chronology of the abstract movements in Latin America, biographies of the
