UNITED STATES OF LATIN
AMERICA
curated by Jens Hoffmann and Pablo León de la Barra
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit - MOCAD
4454 Woodward Avenue - Detroit
18/9/2015 - 3/1/2016
Participating artists: Pablo Accinelli, Edgardo Aragón, Juan Araujo, Felipe Arturo, Nicolás Bacal, Milena Bonilla, Paloma Bosquê, Pia Camil, Mariana Castillo Deball, Benvenuto Chavajay, Marcelo Cidade, Donna Conlon and Jonathan Harker, Nicolás Consuegra, Minerva Cuevas, Elena Damiani, Leonardo Engel, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Federico Herrero, Voluspa Jarpa, Runo Lagomarsino, Adriana Lara, Valentina Liernur, Mateo López, Renata Lucas, Nicolás Paris, Amalia Pica, Pablo Rasgado, Pedro Reyes, Gabriel Sierra, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Clarissa Tossin, Adrián Villar Rojas, Carla Zaccagnini
United States of Latin America brings together more than 30 emerging artists from Latin America, many of who will be exhibiting in the United States for the first time. The exhibition is based on an ongoing conversation between two curators, Jens Hoffmann and Pablo León de la Barra, who for over a decade have exchanged research about artists, artworks, and the overall development of the art world from Mexico to Argentina and the many countries in between.
The exhibition brings this conversation into MOCAD in the form of a wide range of works in a variety of mediums: photographs of housing in Havana; a film about the effects of gang violence in Mexico; sculpture addressing the involvement of the CIA in Latin American dictatorships; boulders from a Guatemalen lake that have been turned into flip-flops; and paintings about the interplay of modernist houses, tropical vegetation, and utopian architecture. Mirroring the diversity of Latin America today, this exhibition presents an intentionally fragmented survey of the region and the art being made there, allowing for a glimpse of a place that although geographically near, in many ways seems far away and unfamiliar.
Developed in collaboration with Kadist Art Foundation, United States of Latin America is curated by Jens Hoffmann, MOCAD Senior Curator at Large, and Pablo León de la Barra, Guest Curator. A range of public programs and educational activities will run concurrently with the exhibition, including a public conversation with the curators, lectures by some of the participating artists, film screenings, and performances.
Image: Minerva Cuevas, America, 2006. Acrylic paint on wall. Courtesy Kadist Art Foundation and Galeria Kurimanzutto, Mexico City.
curated by Jens Hoffmann and Pablo León de la Barra
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit - MOCAD
4454 Woodward Avenue - Detroit
18/9/2015 - 3/1/2016
Participating artists: Pablo Accinelli, Edgardo Aragón, Juan Araujo, Felipe Arturo, Nicolás Bacal, Milena Bonilla, Paloma Bosquê, Pia Camil, Mariana Castillo Deball, Benvenuto Chavajay, Marcelo Cidade, Donna Conlon and Jonathan Harker, Nicolás Consuegra, Minerva Cuevas, Elena Damiani, Leonardo Engel, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Federico Herrero, Voluspa Jarpa, Runo Lagomarsino, Adriana Lara, Valentina Liernur, Mateo López, Renata Lucas, Nicolás Paris, Amalia Pica, Pablo Rasgado, Pedro Reyes, Gabriel Sierra, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Clarissa Tossin, Adrián Villar Rojas, Carla Zaccagnini
United States of Latin America brings together more than 30 emerging artists from Latin America, many of who will be exhibiting in the United States for the first time. The exhibition is based on an ongoing conversation between two curators, Jens Hoffmann and Pablo León de la Barra, who for over a decade have exchanged research about artists, artworks, and the overall development of the art world from Mexico to Argentina and the many countries in between.
The exhibition brings this conversation into MOCAD in the form of a wide range of works in a variety of mediums: photographs of housing in Havana; a film about the effects of gang violence in Mexico; sculpture addressing the involvement of the CIA in Latin American dictatorships; boulders from a Guatemalen lake that have been turned into flip-flops; and paintings about the interplay of modernist houses, tropical vegetation, and utopian architecture. Mirroring the diversity of Latin America today, this exhibition presents an intentionally fragmented survey of the region and the art being made there, allowing for a glimpse of a place that although geographically near, in many ways seems far away and unfamiliar.
Developed in collaboration with Kadist Art Foundation, United States of Latin America is curated by Jens Hoffmann, MOCAD Senior Curator at Large, and Pablo León de la Barra, Guest Curator. A range of public programs and educational activities will run concurrently with the exhibition, including a public conversation with the curators, lectures by some of the participating artists, film screenings, and performances.
Image: Minerva Cuevas, America, 2006. Acrylic paint on wall. Courtesy Kadist Art Foundation and Galeria Kurimanzutto, Mexico City.
