The Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) is presenting “Sites of Latin American Abstraction: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection,” which inaugurates the Museum’s 2009-2010 schedule. The exhibit, which will remain on view through Jan. 24, proposes a fresh approach to the Latin-American tradition of geometric abstract art produced between the decades of the 1930s and the 1970s.
The visually engaging display of 200 works, from intimate drawings to black-and-white modernist photography to paintings and mechanized constructions, embrace a collection of modern works by 81 Latin-American artists. They created within and outside of the historical art movements defined as Constructive Universalism (1930-50), the Madà Group (1940s), Perspectivism (late 1940s), Optical and Kinetic art (1950s-1970s) and Concrete and Neo-Concrete art (1960s-1970s), among others. The pursuit of geometric abstraction by these artists coincided with Latin America’s mid-20th century shift toward modernity, industrialization, urban development and a renewed cultural identity.
“Sites of Latin American Abstraction: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection” is accompanied by a fully-illustrated 248-page hardbound catalog for sale in the museum store.
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