For just one more week the Blanton Museum is running an impressive exhibit of 1990s modern art from Buenos, Aires. Curated by the Blanton it is the first exhibition of its kind in North America - capturing numerous pieces following a tumultuous period of change in Argentinian history. After years of violence and oppression through the 1970's to early 1980's, the art from the 1990's show a society in transformation, re-evaluating identity, positions and expression.
Artists represented in this exhibit, curated by associate curator of Latin America art Ursula Davila-Villa include Feliciano Centurión, Sebastián Gordín, Benito Laren, Jorge Gumier Maier, Marcelo Pombo among many others. Davilla-Villa explains: “Recovering Beauty: The 1990s in Buenos Aires’ purpose is twofold: to display the artists’ shared desire to celebrate life through art, and to demonstrate the crucial role the Rojas Gallery, and its artistic community, played in transforming visual art in Buenos Aires during the 1990s.”
"Recovering Beauty" adds to the Blantons growing success as a leader in the field of Latin American art, especially modern and contemporary Latin American Art. These surprising, challenging and exquisite works by Argentinian artists do not disappoint.
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