Latin American Modernism in America, Asia & Europa

Works created by Jesus Soto, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Alejandro Otero, Gego, Lygia Clark, Helio Oiticica and Joaquin Torres-Garcia will make up some of the most eagerly awaited 2013 exhibitions all over the world. This fact shows that Latin American geometric abstraction, especially the kinetic art and constructivism, continues drawing attention from researchers and viewers.

Madrid´s Reina Sofia Art Center housed on January 22 the inauguration of a show with 200 works from Cisneros Collection, given in sync with the institution. La invencion concreta puts together the broadest selection ever exhibited on this heritage, with pieces created between the 1940s and the 1960s such as Box Bolide by Oiticica and Construccion en blanco y negro, by Torres-Garcia. Curators Manuel Borja-Villel and Gabriel Perez Barreiro are trying to retake a key period to the history of art in the continent, thus promoting its flowering as one of the most exhibited and marketed movements or trends in these times.

On the other hand, Paris’ Pompidou Center proposes in February a solo show by Jesus Soto, made up of twenty artworks created between 1955 and 2004, which were donated to the French State by his heirs and allow going deep into the language created by the artist, based on the dialogue with the founders of abstraction and his contemporaries. His name also appears on the list of Lumineux! Dynamique! Espace et vision dans l’art, de nos jours à 1913, at Paris’ Grand Palais. The exhibition gathers artworks that deal with spatial, optical and kinetic notions, and will propose a core devoted to El movimiento, a show by Denise Rene gallery, which shed light on Soto’s work in the French capital, back in 1955.

Cruz-Diez is another privileged artist this year. He is presently showcasing El color en el espacio y en el tiempo at Mexico’s University Museum of Contemporary Art. His pieces participate in Lumineux!..., as well as in other proposals of Des Moines Art Center from Iowa (Vibrations, open through May 12, 2013) and the Phoenix Art Museum (Order, Chaos, and the Space Between, February 6 – May 5, includes works from the Diane and Bruce Halle Collection signed by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Helio Oiticica and Doris Salcedo, among others). He will also be inaugurating a solo show at the Capital Museum of Pekin, China, on March 9.

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