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31/8/2012

A global exchange

MACBA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Buenos Aires

Curatorship of the inaugural exhibition, "A global exchange. Geometric abstraction since 1950s" was conducted by Joe Houston, chief curator of the Hallmark Collection and author of the emblematic catalogue "Optic Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960s". In a path which reintroduces the precepts of the historic exhibition "A Responsive Eye", Houston reveals his theories on optical art observing and analyzing a selection of works from the Museum's permanent collection, of national and international artists.

This catalogue has been selected to participate in the program Mecenazgo Cultural-Buenos Aires Ciudad (Cultural Patronage- Buenos Aires City). The exhibition was also declared of Cultural Interest by the Government of Buenos Aires.

CONTRIBUTORS

Joe Houston is a curator and author who has organized numerous exhibitions on postwar and contemporary art, many with an emphasis on modes of abstraction. He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, San Antonio Art Institute, and Northwestern University, from which he earned an MFA in painting and criticism. His publications include In Monet’s Garden: The Lure of Giverny (Scala, 2007), Optic Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960s (Merrell, 2006), and Post-Digital Painting (Cantz, 2002). He has held curatorial positions at the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio, Cranbrook Art Museum in Detroit, Rockford Art Museum in Illinois, and other institutions in the United States. He is currently curator of the Hallmark Art Collection in Kansas City, Missouri.

María Constanza Cerullo is Chief Curator of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires (MACBA). She received her curatorial degree at the Philadelphia Institute, Buenos Aires, and an architectural degree at the Universidad de Palermo, Buenos Aires. She curated the exhibitions Color on Color for the Frost Art Museum in Miami, Florida, and 4 Museos + 40 Obras, which traveled to four venues throughout Argentina. In 2010 she was the curator for the first public MACBA exhibition, Art First, which was shown at the Fundación Atchugarry in Uruguay. Cerullo has also worked as curator for the Magda Frank Museum in Buenos Aires and participated as an intern at arteBA, worked on various cultural projects, and performed several independent curatorial works.

Frances Colpitt is a specialist in American art since 1960. She holds the Deedie Potter Rose Chair, an endowed professorship in contemporary art history, at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. She is a corresponding editor for Art in America and the author of Minimal Art: The Critical Perspective (University of Washington Press, 2011) and Abstract Art in the Late Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2002). Her writing focuses on abstraction and in particular its history and current practice in Southern California, which she has explored in recent exhibition publications Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Mid-Century (Prestel, 2007), organized by the Orange County Museum, and Under the Big Black Sun: California Art in the Age of Pluralism, 1974–81 (Prestel, 2011), organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Colpitt has also organized exhibitions of contemporary American art at various venues, including the University of Texas at San Antonio, Fisher Gallery at the University of Southern California, and the Phoenix Art Museum.

Robert C. Morgan is an art historian, cultural critic, abstract painter, and curator. He holds both a MFA in sculpture and a PhD in art history and aesthetics. His essays and books have been translated into many languages, including German, French, Polish, Korean, Finnish, Chinese, Spanish, Italian, Farsi, and Swedish. In 1999 he was awarded the Premiere Arcale award in international art criticism in Salamanca; in 2005 he was appointed Fulbright Senior Scholar in the Republic of Korea, and in 2011 he was inducted into the European Institute of Sciences and Arts in Salzburg, Austria. Since 1988 he has taught contemporary art, music, and literature at the School of Visual Arts and graduate seminars at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Among his many books are El fin del mundo del arte y otros ensayos (1998) and Duchamp y los artistas contemporáneos postmodernos (2000), published by Eudeba, Libros del Rojas, Universidad de Buenos Aires.

Carter Ratcliff is a poet, art critic, and contributing editor of Art in America. His art writing has been published by major art journals in the United States and Europe and in catalogues published by the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona; Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum, and many others. His many honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism from the College Art Association. Among Ratcliff’s books on art are The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art (Icon Editions, 1998) and Out of the Box: The Reinvention of Art, 1965–1975 (Allworth Press, 2000). He has also published monographs on Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon, John Singer Sargent, Georgia O’Keeffe, and others. His most recent book of poetry is Arrivederci, Modernismo.

Opening: Saturday, September 1st, 1 p.m. Free admision

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