This must be the place
Subtitle: Latin American artists in New York 1965-75
By: [curated by Aimé Iglesias Lukin ; foreword by Susan Segal]
Contributors: Americas Society
Publisher: Americas Society
Published: 2021
Place of publication: New York, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781879128491
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Artists; Exhibitions; Latin American Art; Modern Art; Artistes; Expositions; Art latino-américain; Art; New York (State)
Other titles: Latin American artists in New York 1965-75
Description: Americas Society presents "This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York, 1965-1975", a two-part group exhibition exploring the work of a generation of migrants who created and exhibited in New York City between 1965 and 1975. Featuring installation, photography, video art, painting, and archival material, the exhibition brings together a generation that actively participated in experimental artistic movements while pushing forward their own visual languages and ideas, with works exploring topics of migration, identity, politics, exile, and nostalgia. Additionally, the exhibition highlights the important contributions and solidarity initiatives of groups and collectives, testimony of these artists effort to create community and to forge a space for themselves.
Notes: Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Americas Society, New York, September 15, 2021-May 15, 2022.

Includes work by artists: Waldo Balart, Alicia Barney, Carmen Beuchat, Luis Camnitzer, José Guillermo Castillo, Enrique Castro-Cid, Francisco Copello, Eduardo Costa, Beba Damianovich, Jaime Davidovich, Antonio Dias, Juan Downey, Anna Bella Geiger, Rubens Gerchman, Alberto Greco, Carlos Irizarry, Leandro Katz, Anna Maria Maiolino, Laura Márquez, Marta Minujín, Sonia Miranda, Raphael Montañez Ortíz, Abdias do Nascimento, Hélio Oiticica, Lydia Okumura, Sylvia Palacios Whitman, César Paternosto, Rolando Peña, Liliana Porter, Alejandro Puente, Raquel Rabinovich, Omar Rayo, Miguel Rio Branco, Freddy Rodríguez, José Rodríguez-Soltero, Osvaldo Romberg, Zilia Sánchez, Juan Trepadori, Andreas Valentin, and Regina Vater. Also includes work by Taller Boricua/The Puerto Rican Workshop, New York Graphic Workshop, El Museo del Barrio, An Evening with Salvador Allende, Latin American Fair of Opinion, Charas, Young Filmmakers Foundation, The Young Lords Party, Contrabienal, Cha/Cha/Cha, and Brigada Ramona Parra.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-157).
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Susan Segal; title: This must be the place: reimagining community in New York City  -- Aimé Iglesias Lukin; title: Artists and collectives --; title: Selected bibliography --; title: Exhibited works