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11/9/2007

The Geometry of Hope

Grey Art Gallery, New York

Latin American Abstract Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection

The Geometry of Hope, organized by the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin with the Grey Art Gallery, comprises some 125 works of art from the acclaimed collection of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) and provides the most comprehensive scholarly overview to date of Latin American Geometric Abstraction from the 1930s to the 1970s. Organized chronologically, The Geometry of Hope will focus on key cities in the development of abstraction in the Americas: Montevideo (1930s), Buenos Aires (1940s), São Paulo (1950s), Rio de Janeiro (1950s–60s), Paris (1960s), and Caracas (1960s–70s). In tracing the development of ideas from one socio-geographic context to another, the exhibition will challenge the view of Latin American art as a single phenomenon, revealing important differences and tensions among various artistic proposals articulated during the decades under examination.

The exhibition will include works by approximately forty artists. Among them are Joaquín Torres-García, from Montevideo; Gyula Kosice and Tomás Maldonado, from Buenos Aires; Geraldo de Barros and Waldemar Cordeiro, from São Paulo; Hélio Oiticia and Lygia Clark, from Rio de Janeiro; and Jesús Rafael Soto and Carlos Cruz-Diez, from Caracas. The exhibition, along with a 300-page bilingual catalogue and related public programs, is a product of the Cisneros Graduate Research Seminar, a multi-year collaboration between the CPPC and the Blanton Museum of Art. The presentation of The Geometry of Hope at the Grey Art Gallery is made possible in part by the Abby Weed Grey Trust. Public programs are supported by the Grey’s Inter/National Council.

Opening september 11, 2007

Grey Art Gallery
100 Washington Square East - New York
Free admission

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