The Buenos Aires Museums announced the novelties they will present in June
There will be new exhibitions on textile art, traveling artists and art of the American people at the Museum of Popular Art, the Perlotti and the Fernández Blanco, in addition to the continuity of several samples in the remaining Buenos Aires venues.
First, Thursday 13 The José Hernández Popular Art Museum will inaugurate the exhibition “Patrimonio consentido” and the exhibition of the works from the “XX Salon of Textile Art in Small and Medium Format”. Thursday 27 “Signs of America” will begin. The legacy of our ancestors” at the Luis Perlotti Sculpture Museum and on Friday 28 of June will be presented at the Fernández Blanco Museum “Guido Boggiani and the Chaco. A 19th century adventure. In parallel, Many exhibitions inaugurated in previous months will continue.
“Patrimonio consented” will be officially inaugurated at 18 hours and will have a total of 40 pieces from the museum collection. This series of works includes traditional and contemporary crafts.
On the other hand, at the same time and in the Annex Room, The “XX Small and Medium Format Textile Art Show” is the result of an annual call in which national and foreign artists participate., organized by the Association of Friends and the Museum.
In the Luis Perlotti Sculpture Museum you can see “Signs of America. “The contemporary legacy of our ancestors”, from 18 hours.
The exhibition revolves around extensive research by Argentine artist Pablo Madrid, who has carried out a study on Latin American art, delving deeper into Argentina, Chile, Bolivia and Peru.
In this contemporary artistic repertoire, the value of the oral transmission of ancestral knowledge prevails., rites and ceremonies present in the Andean world. Along these lines they also reflect, and with its own language, guest artists Elsa Mareque and Viviana Paz, in painting and mixed media. His works amalgamate in the visual and sensory itinerary that Pablo Madrid proposes.. further, the exhibition pays tribute to Alfredo Yacussi (1941-1996), great plastic reference committed to the ancestral legacy, whose collection is part of the heritage of the Perlotti Museum.
Likewise, the Fernández Blanco Museum, at its Headquarters Palacio Noel will be the epicenter of the exhibition “Guido Boggiani and the Chaco. A 19th century adventure, that can be enjoyed from 12 hours.
Boggiani was a recognized plastic artist, ethnographer, merchant and photographer, prominent among the group of American and European travelers who toured South America at the end of the 19th century.
In his work his appreciation for the Gran Chaco and Mato Grosso stands out -mainly in the Caduveo and Chamacoco tribes-. The particularity of Boggiani is that he conjugates scientific-ethnographic interest with sensibility, aesthetic intuition and commitment to those “others”.