THE COLORS OF THE RESISTANCE: MARCELO BRODSKY AT MUSEO DEL BARRO
The Museo del Barro will present, in the context of Pinta Sud | ASU 2024, the exhibition The Colors of Resistance by artist Marcelo Brodsky. It is under the curatorship of Ticio Escobar.
The exhibition consists of intervened historical photographs. The images represent aspects of resistance movements against the violation of human rights carried out in specific periods of the 20th century throughout the world. Brodsky approaches these representations from a contemporary perspective and through poetic and rhetorical detours that promote new readings of the events. The use of color is related to the idea of collective joy that animates the resistant actions.
Curated by Ticio Escobar and exhibited by Osvaldo Salerno, the exhibition brings together photographs intervened with painting and text, posing a tension between graphic and plastic elements. Thematically, the works constitute a reflection on the memory of acts of resistance to violence.
According to Ticio Escobar, Brodsky “works on crimes against humanity, those that refer to serious attacks on the physical integrity, subjectivity, dignity, freedom and equality of people, as well as those committed against their full living conditions, including the environment”.
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Asunción 1969, parte de la serie “1968, el Fuego de las Ideas”. Fotografías intervenidas por Marcelo Brodsky, provenientes del Archivo de Carlos Pérez Cáceres. Fotografías impresa sobre papel de algodón intervenidas por el artista con crayón y acuarela, 60 x90 cm, ambas son de 1/7 +2 P.A., 2024.
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Asunción 1969, parte de la serie “1968, el Fuego de las Ideas”. Fotografías intervenidas por Marcelo Brodsky, provenientes del Archivo de Carlos Pérez Cáceres. Fotografías impresa sobre papel de algodón intervenidas por el artista con crayón y acuarela, 60 x90 cm, ambas son de 1/7 +2 P.A., 2024.
Marcelo Brodsky (1954) lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Artist and human rights activist, Marcelo Brodsky was exiled from Argentina to Barcelona (Spain) as a result of the military takeover in 1976. There he studied economics at the University of Barcelona and photography at the International Center of Photography. His teacher was the Catalan photographer, Manel Esclusa.
During his exile in Spain, he took photos that immortalized the psychological state provoked by that migration. In 1984, when the military dictatorship ended, he returned to Argentina and had his first individual photographic exhibition in 1986 (Palabras). On the 20th anniversary of the military coup in 1996 he conceived Buena Memoria, a visual essay that deals with the collective memory during the years of the dictatorship, inspired by the emotions and personal experiences of those who lived through it.
Situated on the borderline between installation, performance, photography, monument and memorial, his works combine text and image. His works are part of the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Tate Collection, London, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Jewish Museum, New York, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Argentina, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Museo de la Memoria y de los Derechos Humanos, Santiago de Chile, Museo MALI, Lima, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Pinacoteca del Estado de SP, Princeton Art Museum, Tufts University Art Collection, etc.
Pinta Sud | ASU presents the third and final edition of Asunción’s Art Week, taking place from August 5-11, 2024. The event will feature art exhibitions, events, and various activities free and open to the public, offering seven days of artistic celebration throughout the city.
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