He Malbaa museum that changed the cultural life of the people of Buenos Aires, has just turned 23 years old and its celebrations added the announcement of the new headquarters that will be inaugurated in Escobar. Malba Puertos will open its spaces to the public next Sunday 45 kilometers from its headquarters, with a new style, similar to that of the open-air art of Inhotim Institute, in Brazil. But, more than anything, with unlimited space.
The Malba has become too small to exhibit its own collection and contemporary works. Some, like the clay figures of the family of the Tucuman Gabriel Chailehave grandiose dimensions. The president of Malba, Eduardo Costantinibought in 2022 the five works of Chaile which were exhibited at the 59th Venice Biennale. However, the Malba public was then left wanting to know and understand the wonderful fusion of Chaile with pre-Columbian art. There was no space in the museum to house it. But today, Chaile has a glass pavilion named after him.
Considering that large formats abound in 21st century art, Malba Ports It offers a solution to the essential expansion of a museum whose collection is growing. In this way, the difficulties involved in building 3,000 meters of work that must be underground are somewhat avoided. The Buenos Aires Legislature approved the plans to extend the Malba years ago and the cost was close to 10 million dollars.
This exact figure was spent on the construction of the 5,500 metres of rooms and public spaces between the gardens and forests of Puertos. The truth is that no one at the Malba was willing to dig more than seven metres underground where there is water very close, because the museum is close to the river. The same problem is faced by the National Museum of Fine Arts, the Fortabat Collection and the Proa Foundation, with water extraction pumps installed, just in case.
Ports It is designed as a brand new city – the specialty of Costantini– around a lake of two hundred hectares and next to the Luján River Nature Reserve. But on a firm territory without borders, with ample possibilities of expansion.
The urban development project plans to be in direct contact with a museum without walls and with translucent ceilings, occupied by works that require large spaces. From the entrance, the artist Fabian Burgos dominates with his production the access roads and the parking lot. Made from a conceptual painting from the year 2000, “Sleep deprivation”The original work features grouped series of dots of different colors that are never repeated.
The transition from painting to flooring was made possible by the solutions and technology provided by the architect. Mariano Clusellaswho helped Burgos when solving the presentation of colored dots with special paving stones. “I like the idea that the work is not just there to be contemplated, but also to be used”the artist points out. And in this sense, the curators of “Furniture sculpture” In the Salas del Bosque, they do nothing but reiterate the same questions that the artists raised Jorge Michel either Paul Reinosoboth present with their benches in the collection of the Malba in Buenos Aires.
The art of Portsmostly Argentine and contemporary, is what is demanded by a public that needs the reliable guidance that museums provide. The Malba is dedicated to exhibiting Latin American artists, but for years and almost until the present, Argentine art from the generations of the 80s and 90s has been absent from the institutions that legitimize it.
The best example is the Lake Room exhibition curated by Alejandra Aguado. The installation is on display there until the end of August. “Argentina (landscapes)”made by the group Tripe (Juliana Laffitte and Manuel Mendanha)). First, it must be acknowledged that the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires presented this masterpiece in 2013, but afterwards, it is also true that for years almost no one visited the institution. Then, the ignored painter from Rosario Luis Ouvrardcontemporary of Bernishares the room dedicated to the landscape. Ouvrard He was a Sunday painter for years.
The portrait of his father had already entered the Municipal Museum of Fine Arts of Rosario when the artist himself said: “At dawn we were already in the ravine waiting for the sun to rise and dye the trees gold and for the mist so dear to the impressionist masters to lift”. In 1925, with Manuel Musto and Augusto Schiavonihis companions in painting outdoors, added to Angel Guido and Lucio Fontanaamong others, founded the Nexus group.
However, one of the most significant expressions that animates this distant undertaking is provided by the art of Tripe. A long frieze, 10 centimetres deep and 45 metres long, modelled in plasticine, envelops the viewer.
Its history begins in 2009, with a trip by the artists to a field in Entre Ríos. Shocked by the encounter with untouched nature, they discovered the thick wild forest, the bed of a dry river, the tangled shapes of the roots of bare trees. The landscapes were engraved in their memory and the monumental size of the work is equivalent to the intensity of that experience. “It is an overwhelming geography that envelops you, dazzles you and confuses you”the artists observed. And perhaps it was there that they began to feel the country, Argentina, as something of their own.
On the way to access the museum, in addition to the work of Fabian Burgosin the Public Art Circuit, 23 site-specific works by Argentine artists were placed The film stars Mimi Laquidara, Marcela Sinclair, Matias Duville, Jorge Macchi, Carolina Fusilier, Daniel Basso, Sol Pipkin, Irene Kopelman, Florence Almiron, Irina Kirchuk, Sebastian Mercado, Hernan Marina, Eugenia Calvo, Paula Castro, Diego Bianchi, Martin Blaszko, Ramiro Oller, Pablo Accinelli, Nicolas Robbio, Daniel Joglar and the Brazilian Artur LescherNobody knows if Malba Puertos will win over the local public, but without a doubt, the people of Buenos Aires will get there first.
Source: Ambito
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