Virginia Pérez-Ratton
Subtitle: Centroamérica : deseo de lugar = Central América : desiring a place
By: textos, Paulo Herkenhoff [and four others] ; edición, Miguel A. López, M. Paola Malavasi Lachner
Contributors: TEOR/éTica (Art Gallery); Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo
Edition: Primera edición = First edition.
Series: Folio MUAC -- 76; Folio MUAC -- 76.
Publisher: MUAC, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, UNAM; TEOR/ética; RM Verlag
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Ciudad de México; San José, Costa Rica; Barcelona
Language: spa
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9788417047993; 9789968899413
Subjects: Exhibitions; Criticism and interpretation; Art museum directors; Biography; Women art dealers; Women artists
Other titles: Centroamérica :; Central América :; Virginia Pérez-Ratton.; Virginia Pérez-Ratton. English.
Description: This exhibition is intended to review the contribution made by noted curator, artist and art critic Virginia Pérez-Rattón  (b. San José, Costa Rica 1950-2010) from a number of facets: her own artwork, her projects as a curator both working independently and with institutions, and her constant collaboration with women artists, writers, thinkers and curators. The exhibitions underlines how her work transformed the ways of reading and writing about the region, in dialogue with the global debates and realities. Perez Ratton, founded in 1994 the Museo de Arte y Diseño (MADC), and the editorial TEOReTica, amongst other spaces of cultural promotion for the Central American and Caribbean regions.
Notes: "Published on occasion of the exhibition "Virginia Pérez-Ratton. Central América : Desiring a place" (June 29, 2019 to January 5, 2020) MUAC, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo. UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, in collaboration with TEOR/ética, San José, Costa Rica."--Facing Title Page.

Includes bibliographical references.

Texts in Spanish and English.
Table of contents: title: Virginia Pérez-Rattón. Una práctica situada = Virginia Pérez-Rattón. A situated practice / Miguel A. López, M. Paola Malavasi Lachner; title: Virginia Pérez-Ratton y la reinvención de Centroamérica = Virginia Pérez-Ratton and the reinvention of Central América / Paulo Herkenhoff; title: ¿Qué región? Apuntando hacia un estrecho dudoso = What region? Pointing towards a dubious strait / Virginia Pérez-Ratton; title: Dar voz es llenar un vaciío = To give voice is to fill a void / Mari Carmen Ramírez; title: Semblanza = Biographical sketch; title: Catálogo = Catalogue.