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13-02-20
IN MARCH: 4 MONOGRAPHS OF 4 FOUR FEMALE ARTISTS

Italians Maria Lai and Bruna Esposito, Chilean Julia Toro and Argentinean Carlota Beltrame are part of the intense 2020 Program which starts in our different venues on March 7th .

For the first time, the exhibitions Diarios del Alma (Notebooks of the soul) by Maria Lai, ¿Qué puede el humo hacerle al hierro?,(What can smoke do to iron?) by Bruna Esposito, and El Estado Fotográfico (The photographic State), by Chilean Julia Toro will be presented in Argentina. The artist from Tucumán Carlota Beltrame will exhibit Memoria Colectiva (Collective Memory) and on the eve of International Women’s Day and in collaboration with the Regional Contemporary Art Fund (FRAC), the French Institute and the French Embassy in Argentina, Constelaciones, a selection of works by 18 artists, 10 of them being women, will also be displayed.

Curated by Diana Wechsler, Artistic Director of the MUNTREF and Director of the Art and Culture Department, and Benedetta Casini, Constelaciones will be presented at the MUNTREF Museum of Visual Arts from March 7. This exhibition practices a series of thematic axes ordered in the form of micro-stories which seek to revise how, through their works, certain artists elaborate a representation of social reality. For this purpose, a set of videos was selected from the FRAC collection that dealt with issues related to transits and migrations and the construction and affirmation of identities, social conflicts, gender and environmental pollution issues that result from them. 

From March 13, at the MUNTREF Center for Art and Nature, an exhibition entitled ¿Qué puede el humo hacerle al hierro?, by Bruna Esposito, one of the most important figures in Italian contemporary art will be displayed. In all the space of the Museum the artist will intervene installations dialoguing with each other, resulting in a game of cross-references of themes linked to nature. With the support of the Italian Embassy in Argentina, this co-production between the MUNTREF and the MAXXI-Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo based in Rome, invites those who will be present to perceive a movement that goes from earth to water and from fire to air, in an alchemical process that transforms and re-signifies everything.

With great commitment and within a universe of her own, Maria Lai is considered an artist of extraordinary productive capacity and is recognized as one of the most unique voices of Italian art. From March 14th, the exhibition of the work Diarios del Alma will take place in Room 1 of the MUNTREF Contemporary Art Centre for Cultural Diversity, Hotel de Inmigrantes.

Curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi and Luigia Lonardelli, it is the winning project of the “7th edition of the Italian Council of the General Directorate of Contemporary Creativity and Urban Renewal of the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism”. Her retrospective at the University Museum will focus on her second period, i.e. on works produced from the 1960s onwards, the years when the artist stopped painting and drawing as she used to and started to experiment with materials such as wool, fabric and wood.

 This exhibition, which also counts with Italian Embassy in Argentina’s support and that was produced jointly by the MUNTREF and the MAXXI, will display more than 100 of the artist’s works and aims to vindicate the career of a key figure in Italian conceptual art, both in terms of performance proposals and of their relationship with traditional domestic practices, particularly textiles and the gender issue.

On the same day at the MUNTREF headquarters, Carlota Beltrame’s (Argentina) and Julia Toro’s (Chile) works will be presented. Carlota Beltrame will display the project Memoria Colectiva individually for the first time in Buenos Aires. Julia Toro, the trans-Andean artist will offer El estado fotográfico, a work curated by Benedetta Casini, which invites those present to get to know the performance of the Chilean photographer, who focuses her work on images related to the passage of time, memory and affections, covering themes linked to spontaneous images of everyday life that highlight environments and the human figure.

Finally, the following exhibitions are scheduled: during the first semester the presentation of Azul de Prusia (Prussian Blue), by Mexican painter Yishai Jusidman, and on the second semester Babel, las rutas de la traducción (Babel, the routes of translation), a project by French philosopher and linguist Barbara Cassin; Lamborghini y sus correlatos contemporáneos (Lamborghini and its contemporary correlates), a research and production of MUNTREF from the Lamborghini fund held at the Institute of research on art and culture Dr.Norberto Griffa (IIAC); Nosotrxs, cuerpos agua (Us, bodies water), by Jimena Croceri and Sarina Scheidegger; and Panorama fotografía francesa y argentina (Panorama, French and Argentinian photography), an exhibition curated by Remi Parcollet.

 All these proposals, in addition to highlighting the gender perspective, aim to internationalize the art scene by seeking to integrate figures from diverse origins and visual traditions, and to foster collaboration with other museums and international cultural organizations. Among other situations, the MUNTREF will present these prestigious artists who work on issues related to the construction and reaffirmation of new identities, social tensions, gender, environmental issues, artistic experimentation through materials such as wool, fabrics and wood, and images that refer to the past and everyday life, as well as the collective memory of a society.