Marta Minujín
Revuélquese y viva
1964-1985
private collection
Marta Minujín
Marta Minujín with Rubén Santantonín in La Menesunda
1965
ITDT
Marta Minujín. Works 1959-1989 – at the MALBA Malba – Fundación Costantini in Buenos Aires presents a retrospective exhibition of Argentine artist Marta Minujín featuring more than 100 works focused on her historical production from the sixties, seventies and eighties. 25 November 2010 – 7 February 2011]]>
Source: MALBA Buenos Aires
Curated by Victoria Noorthoorn, the exhibition invitesviewers to witness the complexity and scope of the production of an artist who, thecurator suggests, “is all about freedom, excess, self-involvement, celebration, and purecreativity and, contrary to what we might imagine, is also about precision, rigor,endurance, generosity and critical spirit. She is a self-manager of artistic projects thelikes of which Argentina has never before seen”. And further, “the aim of this exhibitionis to assert the critical nature of Minujín’s work and emphasize her ongoing relevance. Itpresents a Minujín we are not entirely familiar with due to the historical lack of analyticexhibitions of her work in Argentina”.
Organized chronologically, the exhibition includes her early paintings and Informalistworks from 1959 to 1961; participatory environments from 1964 and 1965; experimentswith the mass media carried out in 1966; works based on her hippie experiences in thelate sixties; fictional operas from 1972; critical projects related to the political situation inLatin America from the late seventies; and projects involving mass participation and thedestruction of myths produced in the eighties.
The exhibition design, with its curved panels, is suggestive of Minujín’s labyrinths. Itpresents artworks from private and public collections, twenty film projections, thereconstruction and recreation of historical works, and several important documents fromthe artist’s prolific archive.
Many of Minujín’s most paradigmatic works are represented in this exhibition, includingLa destrucción (The Destruction, 1963), ¡Revuélquese y viva! (Wallow Around and Live!,1964), La Menesunda (Mayhem, 1965), El Batacazo (The Long Shot, 1965),Simultaneidad en Simultaneidad (Simultaneity in Simultaneity, 1966), Importación-Exportación (Import-Export, 1968), Kidnappening (1973), The Soft Gallery (1973),Imago Flowing (1974), La academia del fracaso (The Academy of Failure, 1975),Comunicando con tierra (Communicating with Earth, 1976), El Obelisco de pan dulce(The Obelisk in Sweet Bread, 1979), El Partenón de libros (The Parthenon of Books,1983) —made from books that had been confiscated during the military dictatorship—Operación Perfume (Operation Perfume, 1987) and many others. Malba also presents aselection of sculptures produced by the artist during the last 20 years is also on exhibiton the museum’s terrace.
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