October 2023
A Necessary History of 20th-Century Art.
Series of Lectures
Lecture 1: An Introduction to Latin American Art
- Themes: From the avant-gardes to today. The impact of globalization on the idea of Latin American art. Bienal de São Paulo, Bienal de la Habana, and Bienal do Mercosur. Decolonial theories, anthropophagy, indigenism, and the trap of exoticism.
- Artists Include: Tarsila do Amaral, Anita Malfatti, Joaquín Torres-García, Cecilia Vicuña, Sandra Gamarra, Belkis Ayon, Andy Medina, Benvenuto Chavaday Gonzales, Ana Mendieta
Lecture 2: Performative Practices of Women Artists
- Themes: Expression of resistance during the Latin American dictatorships
- Artists by Country Include:
Brazil: Lygia Pape, Lygia Clark, Martha Araujo.
Mexico: Polvo de Gallina Negra.
Cuba: Ana Mendieta.
Argentina: Graciela Carnevale, Tucuman Arde, Mirtha Dermisache.
Chile: Grupo CADA (Lotty Rosenfeld), Janet Toro + Claudia Winther.
Lecture 3: The ‘Surrealist’ Female Artists
- Themes: Historiographical mistakes. Mexican “Surrealism,” “Expressionism” in Colombia and “Minimalism” in Cuba.
- Artists Include: Leonor Fini, Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, Frida Kahlo, Dorothea Tanning, Wifredo Lam, María Izquierdo, Grete Stern, Amelia Peláez, Débora Arango, Antonia Eiriz
Lecture 4: Avant-Gardes and Neo-Avant-Gardes in Latin America
- Artists Include: Lygia Clark, Lygia Pape, Hélio Oiticica, Gego, Carmen Herrera, Jesus Rafael Soto, Gyula Kosice, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Teresa Burga, Julio Le parc, Marta Minujin.
- Themes: Heirs or simultaneous movements? Brazilian Neoconcretism, Kinetic and Optical Art in Venezuela and Argentina, Cuban “Minimalism,” Installations and performance in Brazil and Argentina.
Lecture 5: Towards Contemporaneity
- Themes: Comments and Debate. Documenta 15 and the Global South. Red Conceptualismos del Sur and ‘artivism’. Anticolonial interventions.
- Artists Include: Red Conceptualismos del Sur, Colectivo Ayllu, Daniela Ortiz, Colectivo Ruangrupa, Abel Azcona, Paloma Ayala.
