The porteño private museum malba inaugurates its 2023 exhibition program, with the exhibition “From Heaven Home”which brings together more than 600 pieces including objects, works of art and documents of Argentine daily life from the beginning of the 20th century to the present, in dialogue with the political, social and affective imaginary and completes its launch with an individual exhibition of the artist Marcela Sinclair.
The exhibition, which opens next Tuesday with a conference by the writer Martin Kohanat 18, opts for an ethnographic look that, beyond authorship or processes, invites us to approach material culture from the uses, customs, rituals and symbolism that things generate in a society.
“The network of objects, spaces of life and work, weaves an extended network of meaning: it connects us emotionally with what is ours from a portion of that archive of common life in which design, art, industry and the history hybridize. They summon us to travel to a near past, to conjure once again the events and desires for the future that were inscribed there”, highlights the curatorial team, made up of historians, graphic and industrial designers, architects and editors in charge of the concept and implementation of the The exhibition.
The exhibition covers three large areas: “the identity of the territory, design outside the canons, and the political, social, and economic vicissitudes of our country,” reports Malba, adding that the objects “are grouped without chronology, hierarchies, or distinction of disciplines, thus transgressing the limits of use and blurring the border between art and design”.
The pieces come from different archives and public and private collections, including the collection of the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Airesand the IDA Foundation (Research in Argentine Design)a non-profit created in 2013 and dedicated to the investigation, recovery, conservation, dissemination and enhancement of national design.
The inauguration of the exhibition, which can be visited until June 12, takes place sixty years after the first design exhibition in Argentina (CIDI, 1963), and coincides with the fortieth anniversary of the return of democracy in the country .
In dialogue with this exhibition, Malba presents “Vía pública”, an individual exhibition by the Argentine artist Marcela Sinclair, which is part of a new research process based on the consideration of the public as a space for community building, for the exhibition of conflicts and consensus building.
Under this premise, the artist presents a series of site-specific works whose imaginaries challenge the antagonism between the domestic and the urban and, as a starting point, the exhibition has the figure of the swing made up of a demolition beam and ropes hanging from it. the triple height of the museum which puts into play the assumption of an architecture of swaying, of restlessness.
Contrary to the spatial closure, this work, curated by Nancy Rojasnotices a space capable of throbbing the vocation for the public longing for the choreography of the collective.
For more than a decade, Sinclair has been exploring ways to link his artistic practice with architecture, and for this reason there are two recurring tactics in his installations: the intervention of existing buildings and the design of objects that generate displacements of meaning.
Vía Pública is thus inspired by the idea of spaces as zones of interaction, fictionalization and mixture, of confluence between the inside and the outside”, the information indicates.
The exhibitions, which open on Tuesday, March 21, can be visited until June 12 at Avenida Figueroa Alcorta 3,415, in the City of Buenos Aires.
Source: Ambito
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