06.10 — 08.29.2011
As part of the celebrations marking Malba’s tenth anniversary, the museum is presenting a collection of over 100 works by 60 Argentine artists, created between the late 1980s and the present day, which form part of the museum’s institutional collection. The exhibition features paintings, drawings, photographs, objects, installations, and videos that reflect the diversity of visual art produced in recent decades.
The exhibition offers a journey through Argentina’s art scene over the past twenty years. It begins with the generation of artists from the Rojas Institute and the Buenos Aires underground scene of the late 1980s, including Liliana Maresca, Feliciano Centurión, Gumier Maier, Omar Schiliro, Marcelo Pombo, Sergio Avello, and Alberto Goldenstein; continues with the generations shaped by the training spaces opened by the Taller de Barracas and the Beca Kuitca from 1991 to the present, featuring Daniel Ontiveros, Mónica Girón, Román Vitali, Marina de Caro, Nicola Costantino, Fernanda Laguna, Marcos López, Cristina Schiavi, Pablo Siquier, and Magdalena Jitrik; up to the most recent scene with artists such as Daniel Joglar, Ignacio Iasparra, Guillermo Ueno, Manuel Esnoz, Tomás Espina, Catalina León, Miguel Mitlag, Flavia Da Rin, Diego Bianchi, Leopoldo Estol, and Matías Duville, among many others.
The aim of the exhibition is to present a comprehensive overview of contemporary Argentine art through works from the Malba Collection, which have been added to the museum’s collection via the Acquisitions Program, as well as through donations and loans entrusted to the museum since its founding in September 2001. Displaying acquired works, donated pieces, and others on loan is not a simple act of inventory but a gesture of ownership; it is a way of taking possession of the artworks and objects in order to offer the public the widest possible variety of narratives about Latin American art from the past hundred years, explains Marcelo Pacheco, Malba’s chief curator.
