The Colleción Fortabat opened in Buenos Aires on October 22, with the landmark inauguration welcoming the public to view the private collection of Maria Amalian Lacroze de Fortabat in a 6,000-square meter building designed by architect Rafael Viñoly.
One of the finest exponents of Latin American Kinetic and Op art, the Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez is a legend among contemporaries such as Jesus Soto and Alejandro Otero. In 2008, the Americas Society orchestrated Cruz-Diez's first solo exhibition in the United States, for which Carlos Cruz Diez: InFormed by Color is the exhibition catalogue—the first comprehensive publication in English devoted to the artist.
Conceived as a monographic show, this exhibition focused on the process of collaboration that Brazilian artist Paula Trope has undertaken with children and adolescents for more than a decade.
Beginning with a Bang! proposes a movement between two artistic scenarios and is organized into two distinct sections. The first, a selection of action-based projects by artists working in Buenos Aires; the second, a documentary section exploring the rich historical foundations that link these projects to the 1960s and 1970s.
This exposition aims to illuminate the collection of Maya textile selections as unique and inimitable “pieces of art” that are distinguished by the aesthetic quality of their composition, authenticity, and structural perfection, reaching beyond their utilitarian function and the rich symbolic content each incorporates.
This innovative exhibition explores the descriptive tradition of "costumbrismo" as it developed in South America in the first half of the nineteenth century. The catalogue focuses on the cultural responses opened up by trade and commerce in the nineteenth century, and also traces the broad circulation of costume books, prints, and watercolors within South America, Asia, and Europe.
