Color, sound and movement, the hallmarks of Argentine Marta Minujín

Known for immersive works in which she combines color, sound and movement, Argentine artist Marta Minujín wins her first panoramic exhibition in Brazil, with more than 100 works and projects, at Pinacoteca de São Paulo.

Those who visit the museum or pass by it in the first week of the exhibition will see a large work by the artist in the parking lot. It is the Escultura de los Deseos (1922), a 17-meter high inflatable taken to Lollapalooza in Argentina last year.

Marta Minujín: Ao Vivo, on display until January 28, 2024 (with free admission on Saturdays), celebrates the 80th birthday of the conceptual artist who inherited a taste for strong, lysergic chromaticism from the pop school and is curated by Ana Maria Maia.

The common thread of the exhibition, which occupies the seven rooms on the first floor of Pinacoteca Luz, is the artist's contribution to an avant-garde that thinks about Latin America in micro and macropolitical terms.
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In the 1970s, with dictatorships spreading across Latin America, Minujín sought an artistic project to integrate these countries. One of her works from that period, Comunicando con Tierra (1976), was also reassembled for this exhibition. In it, there is the Nido de Hornero, an installation in the shape of a giant hornbill's nest.

The show ends with one of the artist's most recent video installations, Implosión! (2021). The new version of the work promotes immersion in a multicolored musical cube.