“Secret Museum – From the reservation to the room” It is the title of the first exhibition with about 300 works that opens the 2025 artistic season in the Pavilion of Temporary Exhibitions of the National Museum of Fine Arts. Historical works, some, first exhibited.
Paints, drawings, engravings, photographs, sculptures of Argentine and foreigners from the nineteenth century to the present. Its director, Andrés Dupratin the opening speech, he referred to the one who pronounced in 1926 the first director, Eduardo Schiaffino (1858-1935) About the need to expand space and to show the heritage that currently amounts to almost 13,000 works, a complex task to show it in its entirety.
In the words of Duprat, “What is exhibited is a panorama of artists, periods, genres and representative themes of a corpus that remains in reservations”. The assembly was carried out in the manner of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Guerrico Sala, located before the pavilion, is a good example: from the ceiling to the ground, the selection in charge of a collective work of the curatorial team and the works are distributed in large nuclei as constellations that enable historical and aesthetic dialogues.
Open the sample “Empress Theodora” (1887) of the French artist Jean Joseph Constant (1845-1902), Orientalist, one of the great portraitists preferred by British high society.
Regarding this sample, it is very important to resort to reading the exciting book of María Isabel Baldasarre “The owners of art-collecting and cultural consumption in Buenos Aires” edited by Edhasa in 2006, a book on what happened between 1880 and 1920 that, apart from the architectural explosion, proliferated the revealing mansions of their prosperous owners and the acquisition of works of art. Thus an incipient art market begins, so the local bourgeoisie combined cultural activity and social distinction. Point out Baldasarre (Buenos Aires, 1972), art historian, that many collections were donated to the State and will constitute the base of the National Museum of Fine Arts, created under the signing of the president Uriburu In 1895, whose first headquarters was at Bon Marché, today, Pacific Galleries.
Masterpieces such as “The bathroom” (1865) of PRILIDIANO PUEYRREDÓNbold work for the time and whose nudes are supposed to be created for private exhibition in a circle of high -class men, related to erotic daguerreotype that circulated in Paris in the mid -nineteenth century, a work away from every historical or literary context. We remember the work done by the Great Sculptor Juan Carlos Distéfano in polyester resin in the manner of Pueyrredón In 1975. Other masterpieces such as the tragic scene “Pizarro’s death” (ca.1884) of Graciano Mendilaharz, Martín Boneo “Agency for Colocations” (1900), iGnacio ManzoniItalian painter based in Buenos Aires, of religious, historical issues, landscapes, portraits, lifes.
As for the landscape, among Argentines there is work of Malharro, Pío Collivadino, Fray Guillermo Butlerthe recently deceased Fermín Eguía, that are mixed with European names, among them, Jean Baptiste Corotvery required by collectors since their bucolic landscapes did not offer conflicts, Camille Pissarro, Maurice Utrillo, De Chirico, Vlaminck, Joaquín Sorolla and Bastida.
In the genre of dead nature, works of Ernesto de la Cárco, Miguel Diomede, Horacio Butler, Emilio Pettoruti and the portrait includes works by Monvoisin, Victorica, Henry Fantin-Latour, Ferfinand Roybet, Emilia Bertolé, Ramón Gómez Cornet, Pierre Puvis by Chavannes, Juan Pablo Renzi, Garabitito.
The ancient drawings of great Italian teachers cannot be mentioned, some belonging to the Bayley collection acquired by Schiaffinor in Rome in 1906 and that under the expert’s curatorship Angel Navarro 112 drawings were exhibited in 2023 under the title “Ancient roles. Italian drawings of the National Museum of Fine Arts “.
Among the sculptors are Leonora Carrington, Martha Minujin, Liliana Maresca, Elba Bairon, Norberto Gómez, Víctor Grippo, Pablo Suárez, Juan Carlos Distéfano, The Italian Pietro consecrates, BastetFrench sculptor of the XIX, Alberto Lagos, Noemí Gerstein, Jesús Rafael Soto, Antoine Bourdelle and also important photographers such as Anatole Saderman, Alejandro Kuropatwa, Marcos López, Robert Mapplethorpe.
Neither the most contemporary engraving or currents are absent in this sample that from the day of the inauguration is full of visitors, avids, perhaps to find works with great content, they are true pearls belonging to different disciplines, and also to know what pictorial style Argentine buyers preferred, what was the role and influence of collecting, how and when modern art entered Argentina, what place the Argentine artists currently occupied and occupied. A vast and welcome sample that requires more than a visit.
Until May 4. Tuesday to Friday from 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Source: Ambito

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