Art over four decades from Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico and Cuba, and artists such as Joaquín Torres-García, who founded the Asociation of Constructivist Art in Montevideo in 1935; the Madí Group in Buenos Aires, founded in 1946 by Gyula Kosice, Carmelo Arden Quin, Rhod Rothfuss, Martín Blaszko, Diyi Laan); Lucio Fontana, who settled in Argentina in the same years and published the Manifiesto Blanco on spatialist art; Alejandro Otero, Carlos Cruz-Díez and Jesús Rafael Soto in Venezuela; the Brazilian geometric movement, etc. etc.
Also included are interesting cross-currents with artists who spent large periods in South America, including Calder, Josef Albers, Vasarely and the great Spanish sculptor Jorge Oteiza.
Curated by Osabel Suárez.
Francisco Calvo Serraller reviews the show in El País:
El ardor artístico de la 'América fría'
"For the non-specialist, this exhibition demolishes the common notion that Latin American art stands out only for surrealism, Mexican muralism and the realisms of the inter-war period."
"...the artistic production of this fertile current of geometric art in Latin America was not at all limited to simply following the European vanguard, part of which moved to New York during the Second World War... Rather it made decisive and original contributions that reflect a local sensibility y and an extremely rich cultural tradition."
Translated by DC
Juan March FoundationCastelló, 77
Madrid
Monday to Saturday 11.00 – 20.00 h.
Sunday and holidays 10.00 – 14.00 h.
CLOSED April 21-24 for Easter
Pictured above:
Lola Soldevilla
Carte Celeste en Amarillo Nº 1
1953
National Museum of Fine Arts, Cuba
From the Juan March Foundation web page
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