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This Thursday’s Research Seminar will be a book talk with Dr Aimé Iglesias Lukin Director and Chief Curator at Visual Arts at Americas Society The session will be chaired by Dr Jamie Forde. Please join us November 10 @ 17:15 in person or online.
📚This Must Be the Place: An Oral History of Latin American Artists in New York 1965–1975
In the effervescent and politically charged New York of the late 1960s and early 1970s, a group of migrant artists from Latin America produced conceptualist artworks that challenged the reigning formalist heterodoxy and purported autonomy of the art object. Responding to their cross-cultural condition and Cold War geopolitics, they addressed national mythologies, uneven power relations, and hemispheric affairs. Their contributions revealed a more diverse and cosmopolitan scene than typically portrayed in the historiography of postwar American art. Actively participating in experimental artistic movements, including minimalism, conceptualism, and Fluxus, they challenged folklorist understandings of the region’s artistic production promoted by most US cultural institutions and the art market. For these artists, “Latin American” was not a label they necessarily identified with before arriving in New York, but, rather, one made relevant by shared experiences and a newfound sense of kinship. In search of new moorings, they recurred to performative dimensions of identity construction to imagine a community for themselves. Diversifying the city’s artistic life, they helped shape New York into the global art center it is today.
This book talk will explore the two part exhibition at Americas Society This Must Be the Place: An Oral History of Latin American Artists in New York 1965–1975) (September 2021-May 2022), and the book of oral histories that it inspired highlighting the contributions of a generation of artists like Luis Camnitzer, Jaime Davidovich, Juan Downey, Anna Bella Geiger, Leandro Katz, Marta Minujín, Hélio Oiticica, Liliana Porter, Sylvia Palacios Whitman, Rolando Peña, and Freddy Rodríguez, among many others. Organized by themes and illustrated with artworks, photographs, primary documents, and other archival material, the testimonies of these artists offer the reader a dynamic, candid, and historically rich memoir of 1960s and 1970s New York.
Visual Arts at Americas Society presents Tropical is Political: Caribbean Art Under the Visitor Economy Regime, held in collaboration with Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico.
September 7–December 17, 2022
In the 1970s, the Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica abandoned his Subterranean Tropicália Projects after a lack of funding made it impossible to realise. 50 years later, his plans have finally been brought to life.
Socrates Sculpture Park
Visual Arts at Americas Society
Americas Society/Council of the Americas
A días de su partida, despedimos con mucho afecto a Fernanda "Nanda" Bonino quien con gran generosidad colaboró con Espigas para completar la colección de catálogos de las Galerías Bonino.
Para recordarla compartimos la entrevista realizada por Aimé Iglesias Lukin (directora de Visual Arts at Americas Society ) publicada en Espigas muestra Bonino:
http://publicaciones.espigas.org.ar/index.php/espigas/catalog/view/5/12/96-1
Imagen: Fernanda y Alfredo Bonino en la galería Bonino de Nueva York, ca. 1965. Fotografía: Lisl Steiner. Archivo Fernanda Bonino.
This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York, 1965–1975 at Visual Arts at Americas Society.
September 22–December 18, 2021
More info: e-flux.com/announcements/419430/
📢 Calling all Latin American and Latinx art buffs!
Visual Arts at Americas Society is hiring a full-time exhibition production coordinator for our gallery in New York.
Is this you or someone you know? Get those applications in today.
Ce soir à 18h : Aimé Iglesias Lukin, conservatrice en chef de Visual Arts at Americas Society, anime un panel avec l'artiste 🇨🇦 sur son travail en relation avec le 🇲🇽, avec la conservatrice Tatiana Cuevas, l'architecte Jose Esparza et l'anthropologue Pablo Landa. Rejoignez-nous :
https://www.as-coa.org/events/terence-gower-and-mexican-modernism
Visual Arts at Americas Society presents Terence Gower: The Good Neighbour.
May 12–July 17, 2021
More information at e-flux.com/announcements/384991/terence-gowerthe-good-neighbour/
¡Conoce más sobre la XIV Bienal FEMSA! 🖼 Mantente al día viendo esta conversación entre nuestro Gerente de Programa Cultural, Luis Quirós, el director artístico de esta edición de la Bienal, Daniel Garza Usabiaga, y la directora y curadora en jefe de Visual Arts at Americas Society, Aimé Iglesias Lukin 👉
https://youtu.be/znLgAYyoxUg
Recuerda que hoy podrás conocer más sobre la XIV Bienal FEMSA a las 4 pm (hora de CDMX). Aimé Iglesias Lukin, Directora y curadora en jefe de la Visual Arts at Americas Society, conversará con Daniel Garza Usabiaga, Director artístico de esta edición, y Luis Quirós Sada, Gerente del Programa Cultural de Fundación FEMSA.
Más información aquí:
https://rebrand.ly/g0ir1oc
Conoce más sobre la XIV Bienal FEMSA, de la mano de Aimé Iglesias Lukin, Directora y curadora en jefe de la Visual Arts at Americas Society, charlará con Daniel Garza Usabiaga, Director artístico de esta edición, y Luis Quirós Sada, Gerente del Programa Cultural de Fundación FEMSA.
Te esperamos este Martes 30 de Marzo a las 4pm, ingresando en el siguiente enlace: bit.ly/3m1okky