Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires offers virtual tour

The Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires is one of the main museums in Latin America. It is a dynamic and participatory cultural space in which temporary exhibitions of various types are presented, often in partnership with other museums around the world, of Argentine and Latin American contemporary art.

Take a virtual tour of MALBA
The online tour offers a mash-up of Latin American art, including Cubist, Surrealist, Abstract and Kinetic artworks, from the emblematic works of the museum's heritage. The exhibition brings together 230 pieces by more than 200 artists and highlights the artistic and cultural richness of the modern period in Latin America.

Divided into seven thematic nuclei, the exhibition presents a chronological trajectory through the different artistic experiences carried out in the region from the beginning of modernity, in the beginning of the 20th century, until the emergence of conceptual art in the 70s. Xul Solar, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Emilio Pettoruti, Rafael Barradas, Pedro Figari, Joaquín Torres-Garcia, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Wifredo Lam, María Martins, Antonio Berni, Fernando Botero, Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Clark, Lidy Prati, Jesús Rafael Soto, Lucio Fontana, Jorge de la Vega and Alicia Penalba, among others.

The works were chosen among the 600 that now make up the museum's collection, taking into account their relevance to the history of art in the region and their international projection. The selection was in charge of Victoria Giraudo – Head of Curatorship – in fluid dialogue with Eduardo F. Costantini – founder and president of the museum – and with the collector Ricardo Esteves, advisor for the acquisition of the founding pieces of Malba.
VIDEO TOUR
The exhibition begins with the notion of avant-garde in relation to Latin American identity and the mixtures produced in different modernities (blackness, indigenism, migration, politicization). Continue with the variants of surrealism and magical realism, followed by proposals for abstract and concrete art – which, in many cases, overlap chronologically -, to reach the beginning of contemporary art in the late 1950s, with localist productions by neoconcrete artists and internationalists around optical and kinetic art.

In another room, free abstractions, informalism, spiritual Zen calligraphy and spatialism oppose precedent; The New Figurations, the conceptual proposals around the dematerialization of the artistic object and psychedelia, with its tropicalist version, are also represented.
As an open point, since the mid-1960s and in the context of different dictatorships in the region, the rise of conceptual art with a political component is evident and the multiple alternatives of resistance to hegemonic discourses in a decolonial turn.

This creates a complex and diverse panorama in which vernacular and foreign currents mix and hybridize, opening a fertile field for a series of fundamental experiences for understanding the culture of the 20th century.

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