Title: Modern and contemporary masterworks from Malba - Fundación Costantini
Description: "In 2001, Eduardo Costantini, the founder of the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), began collecting artworks from across Latin America. Today, the renowned Costantini Collection consists of more than two hundred works, encompassing drawings, paintings, sculptures, and objects by seventy-eight artists from various countries, including Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Uruguay, and Venezuela.In the spirit of cultural exchange, MALBA and the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, are joining together to exhibit fifty of these works, spanning from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. Among the celebrated artists represented in this beautiful book are Frida Kahlo, Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, and Diego Rivera. Also of note are works by Tarsila do Amaral, Rafael Barradas, Antonio Berni, and Alfredo Guttero. An interview by Mari Carmen Rami;rez with Costantini sheds light on his philosophy of collecting, and texts by Marcelo Pacheco offer insights into the broad range of modern and contemporary art created in Latin America"--

"Modern and Contemporary Masterworks from Malba - Fundación Costantini highlights affinities among modern and contemporary Latin American artworks from MALBA (Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires). The book includes an in-depth interview by Mari Carmen Ramírez with Eduardo Costantini, an internationally renowned art collector and the founder of MALBA"--
Subjects: ART / Caribbean & Latin American, Exhibitions, ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / Permanent Collections, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), Latin American Art, Art, latin american, Art, modern, 20th century, exhibitions, Art, modern, 21st century, exhibitions
Time periods: 20th century, 21st century