03.22 — 06.09.19
Opening: Thursday, March 21, 7:00 p.m.
Gallery 5. Level 2
Inner world Modern Argentine Photography 1927-1962, presents a broad panorama of the avant-gardes in Argentine photography over three decades, and brings together a selection of 200 works –most in prints from the period– by Horacio Coppola, Grete Stern, Annemarie Heinrich, Anatole Saderman, Sameer Makarius, Juan Di Sandro, Pedro Otero, Hans Mann, George Friedman and Alicia D´Amico, among other well-known photographers who paved new paths in the field of our nation's photography, and with other highly original work by less celebrated figures.
Although photography existed in our country since the mid-19th century, with the first portraits in daguerrotypes and documentary shots, this exhibition shows the emergence of the avant-garde in Argentine photography starting in 1927, and the break it marked with the documentary and pictorialist paradigms that had dominated the era.
Beginning in the 1930s, the photographers represented in this exhibition endowed their work with a modern thinking that aspired to place photography on equal footing with other forms of artistic creation.
In this sense, modernity revealed the relationship with forms of expression such as literature and design, and brought about the creation of the first photo clubs and other appropriate settings for exchanging ideas, which fostered further reflection on the discipline.
Curator: Facundo de Zuviría. Images: Horacio Coppola, Riachuelo, Puente Almirante Brown (1931) and Grete Stern. Cordoba y Esmeralda, (ca. 1959).
Photographers
in the exhibition
Juan Bechis
Horacio Coppola
José Costa
Alicia D´Amico
Juan Di Sandro
Gisele Freund
George Friedman
Manuel Gómez
Annemarie Heinrich
Alex Kein
Sameer Makarius
Hans Mann
Julio Maubecin
Rodolfo Ostermann
Pedro Otero
Humberto Rivas
Anatole Saderman
Ricardo Sansó
Fred Schiffer
Nicolás Schonfeld
Boleslaw Senderowicz
Grete Stern
Augusto Ignacio Vallmitjana
Sivul Wilensky
Guided Tours
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays,
Saturdays and Sundays at 5:00 p.m.
Catalogue
On the occasion of the exhibition, Malba published a 360-page color catalog that includes reproductions of the works in the exhibition, graphic and documentary material from the period, and anthological texts that are no longer in circulation, as well as a text by curator Facundo de Zuviría, a selected bibliography on the subject, and biographical notes on the artists. The catalog is accompanied by a publication that reproduces the complete series of Grete Stern's Dreams: photomontages created to illustrate the page “El psicoanálisis le ayudará” (Psychoanalysis Will Help You) in the magazine Idilio (Editorial Abril) between 1948 and 1951, which also includes a text by Luis Príamo.
In the Press
Foto moderna argentina:
los maestros del instante llegan al Malba
By Pablo Gianera
La Nación, 20/03/19
La modernidad en la fotografía argentina
en una muestra del MALBA
By Marcelo Pajaró
Perfil, 23/03/19
Coppola, Grete Stern, Heinrich y Saderman
reunidos en una muestra monumental
By Jessica Fabaro
TN, 22/03/19
Buenos Aires en los años 30, eje de la primera muestra de fotos en Malba
By Belen Papa Orfano
El Cronista, 23/04/19
Exposição em Buenos Aires apresenta panorama da fotografia moderna argentina
Facundo de Zuviría & Renata Martins
Revista ZUM; 28/05/19
