Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires

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The Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (MAMBA) is a museum for modern art in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires .

history

The museum opened on April 11, 1956 and was an initiative of the sculptor and diplomat Pablo Curatella Manes and the lawyer, art critic and art patron Rafael Squirru . The latter was also the museum's first director. From the beginning, the museum was intended as a venue for works from a wide variety of artistic disciplines that could be assigned to the avant-garde . The decree establishing the museum states that a “museum for modern art” should be created, which is subordinate to the Ministry of Culture and whose main objective is to document all the various visual artistic expressions and manifestations that fall under the museum name. It was to be installed in the future Teatro Municipal General San Martín designed by Mario Roberto Álvarez , which was still under construction in 1956 and was not due to open until mid-1960. In the first four years of its existence, the collection that had been started moved around and was to a certain extent " nomadic ". The facility was named "Ghost Museum" by the press.

In 1960, when the Teatro Municipal General San Martín was ready for occupancy, floors eight and nine were assigned to the museum. It opened at the time with a major international exhibition, the Primera Exposición Internacional de Arte Moderno . The catalog, the introduction of which is in three languages ​​and in the artistic part in black and white and Spanish , was distributed worldwide. German and Austrian artists were not represented, Switzerland represented Walter Bodmer , Le Corbusier and Max Bill .

In 1963 the art critic Hugo Parpagnoli took over the management. He continued Squirrus' philosophy of open-mindedness and introduced several innovations, such as competitions with prizes or the creation of a collection of photographs. In 1971 Guillermo Whitelow, a key figure in promoting culture in public spaces, began directing . He was a writer and contemporary art critic and headed the museum, with one interruption, until 1983. During his tenure, the exhibition on system art (“Systems Art”; formed from aspects of conceptual art and minimalism ) with national and international events, conceived and organized by Jorge Glusberg , fell international artists such as the Argentinian David Lamelas and the Americans Joseph Kosuth and Richard Serra . The next director of the Museo de Arte Moderno was from 1983 to 1989 Roberto del Villano. His plan to relocate the museum to a converted building that previously housed a warehouse for the Piccardo Tobacco Company was made possible by the support of the Asociación Amigos del Museo de Moderno, of which the architect Santiago Sánchez Elía was the chairman at the time . In 1986 the museum moved to its current location in the San Telmo district . The reopening ceremony, attended by more than five thousand people, took place on September 1, 1989.

Under the direction of Raúl Santana (1991–1997) memorable exhibitions by Joseph Beuys (1993) and the Grupo CoBrA (1994) were shown. In 1994, the versatile Argentinian artist Clorindo Testa , of Italian origin, was honored with a retrospective .

During Laura Buccellato's long tenure (1997–2013), exhibitions from the MAMBA's holdings alternated with exhibitions on loans from Argentinian and foreign artists such as Yoko Ono (1998), Juan Carlos Romero (2000) and Federico Manuel Peralta Ramos (2003).

Due to the growing stock and the need for more flexible exhibition spaces, an expansion of the museum headquarters was deemed necessary in 2005. The museum later temporarily closed its doors for the architectural measures planned by Emilio Ambasz . The first expansion phase was opened in December 2010: an 11,000 square meter building with extensive exhibition galleries and storage rooms in which the collection can be stored according to international standards.

In August 2013 Victoria Noorthoorn was appointed director. During her tenure there were presentations that went beyond the previous concept in order to reach a new audience. Great importance was also attached to media presence: publications about Argentine artists and special art campaigns, online research opportunities and digitization projects . Public donations underlined the great importance of the house. In 2018, the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main developed one of the largest exhibitions in its history together with the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires as part of the Museum Global program , which aims to put German collections into a more global perspective. A voluminous catalog was also published for this.

The MAMBA collection includes over 6000 works, including those by Josef Albers , Antonio Berni , Joseph Beuys, Pablo Curatella Manes, Salvador Dalí , Raquel Forner , Romulo Macció , Marta Minujín , Joan Miró , Emilio Pettoruti , Pablo Picasso , Xul Solar and Wassily Kandinsky . Through an extensive program with artists from home and abroad in all phases of its existence and exhibitions that tell the different stories of the parts of the collection, the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires has established itself as a world-class avant-garde art institution and a valued home for Artist positioned.

Important catalogs

  • Primera Exposicion Internacional de Arte Moderno. First International Modern Art Exposition. Premiere exposition Internationale D'Art Moderne. Museo de Arte Moderno Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires 1960. (330 pages)
  • A Tale of Two Worlds. Experimental Latin American Art in Dialogue with the MMK Collection, 1940s– 1980s. A joint exhibition of the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt am Main and the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires. Experimental art from Latin America from the 1940s to the 80s in dialogue with the MMK collection. A joint exhibition by the MMK Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt am Main and the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires. Curated by / curated by Klaus Görner, Victoria Noorthoorn, Javier Villa. Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt am Main, Museo de Arte Moderno Buenos Aires (Ed.), Kerber Art, Bielefeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-7356-4028-4 . (496 pages)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i History. In: museomoderno.org. Retrieved on August 16, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Museo de Arte Moderno Buenos Aires (ed.): Primera Exposicion Internacional de Arte Moderno. First International Modern Art Exposition. Premiere exposition Internationale D'Art Moderne . Buenos Aires 1960, Suiza (unpaginated).
  3. ^ Clorindo Testa: pintor, arquitecto, maestro. Decoración. In: eldia.com. September 9, 2008, Retrieved August 16, 2019 (Spanish).
  4. ↑ Peter Gorschlüter , Victoria Noorthoorn: Acknowledgments . In: Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt am Main, Museo de Arte Moderno Buenos Aires (ed.): A Tale of Two Worlds. Experimental Latin American Art in Dialogue with the MMK Collection, 1940s– 1980s. A joint exhibition of the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt am Main and the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires. Experimental art from Latin America from the 1940s to the 80s in dialogue with the MMK collection. A joint exhibition by the MMK Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt am Main and the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires. Curated by / curated by Klaus Görner, Victoria Noorthoorn, Javier Villa. Kerber Art, Bielefeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-7356-4028-4 , p. 11/13 .
  5. ↑ Colección. Conocé las obras de arte argentino e internacional de los siglos XX y XXI integran el Patrimonio del Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires. In: buenosaires.gob.ar. Buenos Aires Ciudad, accessed August 16, 2019 (Spanish).

Web links

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Coordinates: 34 ° 37 ′ 19 ″  S , 58 ° 22 ′ 14 ″  W.