Current Exhibition

April 18, 2013 - July 20, 2013

Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship is an exhibition that explores friendship as a cosmopolitan agency, which 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 León and Anya Pantuyeva. It will be on view from April 18 through July 20, traveling in the fall to the Phoenix Art Museum.

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Xul Solar, "Pan ajedrez," ca. 1945. Box with 110 chess figures and two containers; wood painted with oil, metal, 16.9 x 16.1 x 1 inches.

The Visual Arts program boasts the longest-standing private space in the U.S. dedicated to exhibiting and promoting art from Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada; it has achieved a unique and renowned leadership position in the field, producing both historical and contemporary exhibitions. The Visual Arts program present three exhibitions annually, each accompanied by a series of public and educational programs featuring outstanding artists, curators, critics and scholars.

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