March 17 – June 2012
Air de Lyon
Curator: Victoria Noorthoorn
With the support of La Biennale de Lyon / Tenaris –Techint Organization
July – September 2012
Pop, Realisms and Politics. Brazil – Argentina
Curators: Paulo Herkenhoff / Rodrigo Alonso
Organization: Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro / Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires
Travelling to Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro (2013)
Pop, Realisms and Politics… accounts for the diverses experiencies in Brazil and Argentina connected to Pop Art, Realism and “political art”, revising the place of subject, the uses of popular culture, the emergence of new media and the preeminence of politics and consumption. Iconic images, such as Coca Cola and Che Guevara, reveal the ideas of that time, shared by many artists. Institutional confrontation and exchange between both countries created multiple dialogues.
Works by Cildo Meireles, Jorge de la Vega, Claudio Tozzi, Hélio Oiticica, Marta Minujín, Antonio Dias, Rubens Gerchman, Glauco Rodrígues, and Antonio Berni, among many others.
With the support of Tenaris Confab – Ternium – Techint Organization
October 2012 – January 2013
Alberto Giacometti
Collection from the Alberto and Annette Giacometti Foundation
Curator: Véronique Wiesinger
Organization: Fundación Alberto and Annette Giacometti, París
Travelling to Pinacoteca do Estado, Sao Paulo / Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro
The first retrospective in South America of the sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti, one of the greatest figures of 20th Century art.
Through more than 130 works, the exhibition covers all his periods, from the initial stage in his native Switzerland, African art in the 1920s, and his most famous studies of heads and portraits, his embematic female and walking figures in the 1940s, 50s and 60s. A timeline that allows us to appreciate the various disciplines experimented by Giacometti throughout his caree (sculpture, painting, drawing, engraving, decorative art), and the revolution produced to the sculptural practice.
The works selected by Véronique Wiesinger belong to Giacometti Foundation in Paris.
With the support of Tenaris Confab
* Image: Alberto Giacometti. L’homme qui marche I, 1960. © Sucessão Giacometti / AUTVIS, 2012