"Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship" at Americas Society in New York
"Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship" at Americas Society in New York
Opened through July 20, the exhibition focuses on the fraternal collaborations between Solar and Borges, which contributed to the philosophical and aesthetic renewal in Argentina during the 1920s.
NEW YORK, NY.- Americas society presents Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship, an exhibition that explores friendship as a cosmopolitan agency that informed Argentine art and culture through the intellectual exchange between the mystic artist Xul Solar (1887-1963) and the writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1985.) The Art of Friendship focuses on the fraternal dialogue and collaborations between Solar and Borges, the most singular cultural figures in Buenos Aires in the twentieth century who contributed to the philosophical and aesthetic renewal in Argentina in the 1920s by cultivating a form of “fluid nationalism.” The exhibition is curated by Gabriela Rangel, director of visual arts and chief curator at americas society with the collaboration of poet Lila Zemborain and the assistance of Christina de Leon and Anya Pantuyeva. It is on view from April 18 through July 20, 2013, travelling in the fall to the Phoenix Art Museum. For Gabriela Rangel, “Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges were central to the process of invention of a local universal identity, which seems paradoxical, but is rather extraordinary and unique.”
The exhibition covers over forty years of friendship between Solar and Borges, who met after their return from Europe in 1924, in the literary and artistic circles of the journal-magazine Martin Fierro and collaborated on different projects until Solar’s death in 1963. In the search of a new Argentine avant-garde identity, Borges and Solar, along with other martinfierristas, developed a Neo-Creole identity that fused the tactics of the European modernists with nationalist ideas and the gaucho vernacular culture....
