Geles Cabrera: Museo Escultórico
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Geles Cabrera: Museo Escultórico
Geles Cabrera: Museo Escultórico explores the legacy of Mexican sculptor Geles Cabrera, presenting a selection of works created over 40 years of the artist’s career. The first solo show of Cabrera in the United States, this exhibition will include sculptures that reveal the artist’s interest in the human body and her experimentation with different materials alongside archival documentation of her artistic practice in Mexico City. Born in 1926, Cabrera occupies a unique place in the trajectory of Mexican art as one of Mexico's most prominent female sculptors. Situated between abstraction and figuration, her visionary sculptures offered new understandings of the human form.
The exhibition was on display from June 8 to July 30, 2022.
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This exhibition is curated by Aimé Iglesias Lukin, Tie Jojima, and Rachel Remick.
Image is from the Geles Cabrera Archives. Courtesy of the artist and Galería Agustina Ferreyra.
Edited by Aimé Iglesias Lukin and Karen Marta, this is a pocket book released to accompany the Americas Society exhibition on the Mexican artist.
The presentation of Geles Cabrera is made possible by the generous support from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation. The project is also supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Additional support is provided by the Smart Family Foundation, the William Talbott Hillman Foundation, and Galería Agustina Ferreyra.
Americas Society acknowledges the generous support from the Arts of the Americas Circle contributors: Estrellita B. Brodsky, Virginia Cowles Schroth, Emily A. Engel, Diana Fane, Galeria Almeida e Dale, Isabella Hutchinson, Carolina Jannicelli, Vivian Pfeiffer, Phillips, Gabriela Pérez Rocchietti, Erica Roberts, Diana López and Herman Sifontes, and Edward J. Sullivan.
"Her intuitive understanding of how the body moves in space became a distinguishing feature in her lively figural work," writes Jan Avgikos.
La revista chilena destaca la exposición de Americas Society, en exhibición hasta el sábado, 30 de julio.
The Mexican artist used "terracotta, volcanic rock, and bronze to carve and mold the sculptures…in this Edenic atmosphere," writes Johanna Fateman.
Museo Escultórico se dedica a "la pionera en practicar de manera profesional la escultura en México", escribe Merry MacMasters en La Jornada.
"[Cabrera] is attentive to posing and the shape of the body and visual cues related to gender," said co-curator Rachel Remick to The Art Newspaper.
Geles Cabrera es "una poderosa artista que, literalmente, logró hacerse un espacio para sí misma", dijo Aimé Iglesias Lukin a Agencia EFE.
Join co-curator Rachel Remick for a public tour of the first exhibition of the Mexican sculptor in the United States before it closes.
Join us for a private guided tour of the first exhibition of the Mexican sculptor in the United States.
Americas Society hosts the Mexican sculptor on Instagram Live to discuss the artist Geles Cabrera.
Americas Society invites you to a public tour of the first exhibition of the Mexican sculptor in the United States.