Pan American Modernism at Lowe Art Museum
Featuring works by artists from across the Americas, Pan American Modernism: Avant-Garde Art in Latin America and the United States, curated by Nathan Timpano, explores, for the first time at the Lowe Art Museum, the rich visual dialogues that exist between objects produced by individuals working in 13 countries in North, South and Central America during the 60 year period that spans 1919 to 1979.
Showcasing more than 75 important works of art – many of which are not currently on view or have not been previously exhibited – this exhibition includes paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photography, and mixed media that represent the Lowe’s diverse, multi-cultural holdings.
Rather than perpetuating modernist narratives centered on the United States alone, which tend to diminish and polarize works of art produced by artists in Latin America, this exhibition analyzes how pan-American artistic exchanges, rather than stylistic transmission, construct a fuller understanding of modernism as an international phenomenon across the Americas. Dialogues across the Cuban avant-garde, Mexican muralism, abstract expressionism, and modernist photography explore commonalities and disconnects throughout these regions. These exchanges moreover examine the legacy of geometric abstraction in constructivism minimalism, and optical and kinetic art. Artists documented in the exhibition include Joaquín Torres-García, Eduardo Abela, Wifredo Lam, Man Ray, José Clemente Orozco, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Adolph Gottlieb, Edward Weston, Fernando Botero, Gordon Matta-Clark, Roberto Matta, Robert Motherwell, and Carlos Cruz-Diez, among others.
Pan American Modernism is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with essays by curator Nathan Timpano, Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History at the University of Miami, as well as Heather Diack, Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History at the University of Miami, and Edward Sullivan, Helen Gould Sheppard Professor, Professor of Art History at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Organized by the Lowe Art Museum and curated by Nathan Timpano.
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Tuesday, July 2
Tuesday, August 6
Tuesday, September 3
Tuesday, October 1
First Tuesdays are Donation Days.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Gallery Tour at 11 a.m. of Pan American Modernism
Thursday, July 18
Modernist Film Series
The Violin (2005, Mexico)
7 p.m.
Encore: Saturday, July 20, 6 p.m.
UM Cosford Cinema
Thursday, August 29
Modernist Film Series
The Clandestine Childhood (2011, Argentina)
7 p.m.
Encore: Saturday, August 31, 6 p.m.
UM Cosford Cinema
Tuesday, September 3
Pan American Modernism: Avant-Garde Art from the Lowe Art Museum
Exhibition Curator Nathan Timpano, Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History at the University of Miami
Lecture: 7 p.m., Storer Auditorium, UM School of Business
Reception: 8 p.m., Lowe Art Museum
Thursday, September 5
Teacher Workshop
8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Open to Miami-Dade County School Teachers. To register, please contact Curator of Education Jodi Sypher atjsypher@miami.edu or 305.284.
Thursday, September 5
LoweDown Happy Hour
7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Gallery Tour at 8 p.m. of Pan American Modernism
Lowe Art Museum
Thursday, September 12
Modernist Film Series
Choking Man (2006, US)
7 p.m.
Encore: Saturday, September 14, 6 p.m.
UM Cosford Cinema
Sunday, September 22
Pan American Music Program presented by UM Frost School of Music
7 p.m.
UM Gusman Concert Hall
Thursday, September 26
Geometry and Gesture: Notes on Abstractions in the America
Edward Sullivan, Helen Gould Sheppard Professor of the History of Art, Institute of Fine Arts, Department of Art History, New York University
Lecture: 7 p.m., Storer Auditorium, UM School of Business
Reception: 8 p.m., Lowe Art Museum
Thursday, October 10
Modernist Film Series
Black Orpherus (1959, Brazil)
7 p.m.
Encore: Saturday, October 12, 6 p.m.
UM Cosford Cinema
Sunday, October 13
"Parabola optica": Thinking about Modernism and Photography in Mexico
Heather Diack, Assistant Professor, Modern & Contemporary Art Dept. of Art & Art History, University of Miami
Lecture: 1 p.m., Storer Auditorium, UM School of Business
Reception: 2 p.m., Lowe Art Museum
RSVP - for Lowe programs at 305.284.5587 orlowersvp@as.miami.edu
For admission and information on the Modernist Film Series, visitcosfordcinema.com or call 305.284.4861
For admission on and information on the Frost Music Concert, visitmusic.miami.edu and click events or call 305.284.6784
Funding for the exhibition and catalog was made possible through Beaux Arts, Friends of Art, and the membership of the Lowe Art Museum, with additional support from the Linnie E. Dalbeck Memorial Foundation Trust. Additional funding is provided through the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, the Mayor and the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners.
.................
June 22, 2013 - October 13, 2013
Lowe Art Museum
1301 Stanford Drive
Coral Gables, Florida 33124
305.284.3535
-
b. 1908, Caracas, Venezuela - d. 1995, Caracas, Venezuela
Puerto Nutrias 1949, 1949 (printed 2003) gelatin silver print - 14 1/8 x 13 3/4 in. (35.9 x 34.9 cm)
Gift of Javier and Monica G. Mora, 2006.45.2
© Alberto Vollmer Foundation
-
b. 1905, Munich, Germany Lived and worked in Bogotá, Colombia - d. 1969, Key Biscayne, Florida
Surreal Native Woman, 1960s - watercolor on paper 25 1/2 x 22 1/8 in. (64.8 x 56.2 cm)
Bequest of Cristina Wiedemann, 91.0476.26
-
b. 1897, Yaguajay, Cuba - d. 1968, Havana, Cuba
Untitled, 1963 gouache on cardstock 22 3/4 x 14 1/8 in. (57.8 x 35.9 cm) Gift of Martha Frayde Barraqué Collection of Hispanic Art and Culture, 2007.9.7
© 1963 Amelia Peláez. Courtesy of the Amelia Peláez Foundation
