Daros Latinamerica Collection
Daro's Latinamerica Collection in Zurich is one of the most important art collections for contemporary art from Latin America , drawn from renowned artists from various countries on this subcontinent .
history
At the same time, Daros Latinamerica is an art institute based in Zurich , which was founded in 2000 by the Swiss art collector Ruth Schmidheiny and seeks dialogue between Latin America and the international audience of the world's most important art centers. Between 2000 and 2015, Daros Latinamerica was under the direction of the director and curator Hans-Michael Herzog (* 1956).
Daros Latinamerica organizes international exhibitions, issues publications, maintains Europe's largest specialist library for contemporary art in Latin America and connects a growing international network of artists.
The artists represented include, for example, the Argentine painter Guillermo Kuitca , whose focus is on architectural and spatial considerations, and León Ferrari , who also lives there, with his collages and his conceptual art , Doris Salcedo (* 1958 in Bogota), whose sculptures were also in Tate Gallery of Modern Art , as well as Waltércio Caldas (* 1946 in Rio de Janeiro ), who is represented at the MoMA with his paintings . Well-known video artists are Santiago Sierra and Melanie Smith (* 1965), both of whom address increasing urbanization and the social, physical and functional changes associated with it.
The location in Zurich is on Limmatstrasse in Zurich . The collection was made accessible to the public from 2002 to 2011 in its own museum in Löwenbräu Zurich , which is also home to the Migros Museum for Contemporary Art .
From 2007 the Daros Latinamerica Collection developed the Casa Daros in Rio de Janeiro as a platform for Latin American art and used it from 2013 to 2015 for thematic and monographic work exhibitions. Casa Daros was closed at the end of 2015. The neoclassical building in the Botafogo district is now used as a private school by the Eleva Educação group run by the Brazilian-Swiss entrepreneur Jorge Paulo Lemann .
Holdings and library
According to the company's own information, the current inventory (2016) amounts to 1,232 works by over 100 artists including sculptures and photographs. The focus is on the last 20 years, but works from the 1960s and 1970s are also represented.
The library includes over 8500 artist monographs, catalogs of solo and group exhibitions, editions on art history and criticism, selected works of art theory and philosophy, as well as the presentation of more than 20 art magazines from Latin America and Spain. This rare book collection also contains a complete set of catalogs from the 29th São Paulo Biennale .
Exhibitions
- 2016: Without Restraint. Works by Mexican artists from the Daros Latinamerica Collection. Kunstmuseum Bern , Bern, Switzerland
- 2015/2016: Julio Le Parc : Lumière , Umeå Bildmuseet , Umeå, Sweden.
- 2015/2016: Dark Mirror. Latin American art since 1968 . Wolfsburg Art Museum . Catalog.
- 2015: Cuba - Ficción y Fantasía, Casa Daros, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 2015: Colección Daros Latinamerica, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 2015: Made in Brasil, Casa Daros, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 2014: Daros Latinamerica Collection, Fondation Beyeler , Riehen / Basel
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ SHAB publication of October 13, 2015 , accessed on August 31, 2016
- ↑ Casa Daros at the end | Private view. In: Private View. Retrieved April 19, 2016 .
- ↑ contribution "Lemann Investe em escola for Excellence in no Rio" from March 29, 2016 Web site "Opinião e Notícia", accessed on August 30, 2016
- ^ Daros Works Website of Daros Latinamerica. Retrieved August 30, 2016.
- ^ Daros exhibitions website of Daros Latinamerica. Retrieved August 30, 2016.