This Thursday 4 August you can enjoy the exhibition "Contemporary Scenes. Tours of the collection of the National Museum of Fine Arts. Argentine art 1960-2001” that will take place at the Kirchner Cultural Center.

With free entry, the public will have the opportunity to appreciate a total of five routes distributed on the sixth and seventh floors of the Great Lamp of the Sarmiento site 151, where are more than 150 works of Argentine artists, belonging to the collection of Fine Arts, created between the decade of 1960 and the year 2001.

Under the curatorship of Mariana Marchesi, artistic director of the museum, the exhibition includes paintings, engravings, sculptures, photographs and installations of a hundred emblematic Argentine artists, as Carlos Alonso, Antonio Berni, Juan Carlos Distefano, Sara Facio, Leon Ferrari, Nicholas Garcia Uriburu, Carlos Red, Gyula Kosice, Julio Le Parc, Liliana Maresca, Marta Minujín, Luis Felipe Noé, Liliana Porter, Narcissa Hirsch, Diana Dowek and Antonio Segui, among others.

The opening ceremony was attended by the Minister of Culture, Tristan Bauer; the secretary of Cultural Heritage, Valeria Gonzalez; the Undersecretary of Management of Spaces and Special Projects, Martín Bonavetti; the Director of Planning and Programming of the Kirchner Cultural Center, Liliana Pineapple; the director of the MNBA, Andrés Drupat, and its artistic director, Mariana Marchesi.

In statements to the press, Minister Bauer maintained that “once again the artist expresses the time he has to live and our gazes appear, our history. In this tour we evoke the past and reflect on the present from a reflective look, intense, that brings us closer to bright moments and the dark nights of our Argentine history. The art, that reaches the soul, It helps us look at the country and build a better future”.

Andrés Duprat expressed his happiness at concluding the exhibition since “in addition to presenting a selection of important pieces of Argentine art from the collection of our Museum, articulates, in a joint action, to two relevant cultural institutions: the National Museum of Fine Arts and the Kirchner Cultural Center”.

In that context, Duprat stated that the first is "a centennial museum that treasures one of the most significant visual memories, and the second, the newest and most modern cultural center in Argentina”.

"Contemporary Scenes" can be visited until 11 from december from wednesday to sunday, of 14 a 20 hours.