Towards new metaphors of reality

The exhibition Latin America from 1960 to 2013. Photos + Texts organized in collaboration with the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain (Paris, France) opened on May 24th at the Museo Amparo (Puebla, Mexico) lasting until Monday 29 September.

This exhibition, that brings together over 400 works by 71 artists from 11 Latin American countries, explores the multiple ways in which the authors have taken over a wide range of media such as photo printing, offset, screen printing, collages, text, performance, video and installation to go beyond traditional photographic techniques and explore their world. Driven by the need to produce new reality metaphors, to emphasize the plurality of readings of history, the role of minorities, geography, identity and arbitrary power, the artists seek to evade the specificity of a single medium. Under the urge to express and communicate, the text works as a resource that can extend and modify the meaning of the image. Thus, the Chilean Eugenio Dittborn created in the 1980s "Airmail Paintings " which, bent and then sent all over the world, were able to escape the cultural confinement of Pinochet's Chile. On his behalf, argentine artist, Juan Carlos Romero denounces the violence of Argentina´s frontal society in his work “Violencia”, by reproducing images from the popular press.

Curated by Ángeles Alonso Espinosa, Hervé Chandos, Alexis Fabry, Isabelle Gaudefroy, Ilana Shamoon and Leanne Sacramone, together with the Institut des Hautes Études de l' Amérique Latine (IHEAL), the exhibition is divided into four thematic sections: territories, cities, report-denounce and memory and identity. Through this organization, curators seek to promote a synchronous dialogue between artists and works from different geographical areas and put into perspective a complex period in the history of Latin America. As part of the exhibition, there is a documentary film produced by the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain Revuelta (s) by the Paraguayan Fredi Casco and Renate Costa, who toured Latin America to interview artists and photographers exhibiting their work. The catalog Latin America from 1960 to 2013. Photos + Texts has been published jointly by the Amparo Museum and the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain and it contains texts by Luis Camnitzer, Olivier Compagnon and Alfonso Morales. It also includes artist profiles, reviews of the artworks and a detailed chronology of the political history of Latin America, besides reproductions of works in color and black and white.

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