An exhibition of Latin American art arrives at the Museum of Modern Art in New York

He Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) of New York presents an outstanding exhibition titled “Chosen Memories: Contemporary Latin American Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift and Beyond”an extensive tour of 65 works by Latin American artists -including Argentines- who have turned to history as a material source to create new works during the last four decades and which opens on April 30 in that American city.

This is one of the highlights of the 2023 season of the New York museum, which since its reopening in 2019 decided to disrupt the curatorial axis of its narratives, including countries that have historically been left aside in its canons: this is how works donated to the museum by the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collectionby artists who address history, heritage and memory.

Organized by Argentina Agnes Katzenstein With Julia Detchonthe exhibition presents works by 39 Latin American artists from different generations, such as Alejandro Cesarco (Uruguay), Regina José Galindo (Guatemala), Mario García Torres (Mexico), Leandro Katz (Argentina), Suwon Lee (Venezuela), Gilda Mantilla (Peru ) and Raimond Chaves and José Alejandro Restrepo (Colombia) and Cildo Meireles, Rosângela Rennó and Mauro Restiffe (Brazil), among others.

The exhibition focused on works from the end of the 20th century to the beginning of the 21st century that were part of the donation will be seen until September 9, it was reported.

“The exhibition presents videos, photographs, paintings, and sculptures in dialogue with MoMA’s extensive collection of Latin American art, recent acquisitions, a new commission, and selected loans,” the institution said in a statement.

These productions were selected for their ability to tell the history of the region from new ways and points of view, which had a transformative role.

“Important Latin American artists who have worked during the last decades and who have established a dialogue with the past as a means to repair histories of violence, reconnect with undervalued cultural legacies and strengthen kinship and belonging relationships,” said Argentine Inés Katzenstein. , Curator of Latin American Art and Director of the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute for the study of Latin American art at MoMA.

Since its founding in 1929, MoMA has collected, exhibited, and studied the art of Latin America: Today, the collection includes more than 5,000 works of modern and contemporary art by Latin American artists.as well as artists of Latin American descent, distributed among its six curatorial departments, which represent important figures of early modernism, expressionism, surrealism, abstraction, architecture, and conceptual and contemporary art.

Over the past 25 years, the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection has donated more than 200 works by Latin American artists to the Museum. Additionally, in 2016 the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute for the study of Latin American art was established at MoMA.