Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros

Open Storage

Breaking the Frame

Zanna Gilbert, from the Getty Research Institute, and Pia Gottschaller, from the Getty Conservation Institute, demonstrate how Argentine artists working in the 1940s broke the tradition of painting-as-window with shaped paintings (marcos recortados) and works that even pushed beyond the wall to blur the boundary between sculpture and painting. Watch Video

CPPC Videos Win Two GLAMi Awards

News

We are proud to announce that the three in-gallery videos, produced by El Tigre Productions for the exhibition "Making Art Concrete: Works from Argentina and Brazil in the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros", were awarded two GLAMi awards More

Open Storage

How Can an Artist Show us Time?

Since 1997, artist José Antonio Suárez Londoño has maintained a daily practice of drawing that presents overlapping visions of time. Watch Video

Ethnography and Contemporary Art

Debates

Moderator

Sabrina Moura

In recent years, the Brazilian art scene witnessed a number of exhibitions that sought to question the national artistic canon... More

Statements

The CPPC Enters Its Fifth Decade of Building Bridges, Not Walls

Patricia Phelps de Cisneros

Patty Cisneros looks ahead as the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros begins its fifth decade of initiatives supporting knowledge of and appreciation for the art of Latin America. More

Art and Politics in Cuba in the New Millennium

Cite, Site, Sights

Felix Suazo

Félix Suazo discusses examples of Cuban art from the the 1970s to the present that exemplify the changing dialogue between art and politics, which has been "simultaneously oriented toward the interior of the field of art and toward the public realm ... via the critical revision and disassembling of the symbols and strategies of power." More

White on White (cube): Public Museums and Private Spaces

Cite, Site, Sights

Lucas Ospina

Lucas Ospina analyzes Nicolás Consuegra's exhibition "El espacio del lugar. El lugar del espacio" to discuss the value that some artists in Latin America attribute to the "white cube". In this case, Consuegra reproduces a space within another space, expanding the limits of the pictorial plane and making the white cube the work itself. More

Statements

Repoliticizing Modernity: Military Spectacles in Venezuela

Lisa Blackmore

Excerpted from her book Spectacular Modernity, Lisa Blackmore’s statement posits that the political, social, and cultural forces that converged to create Venezuela’s “modern spirit” in the mid-20th century unfolded as a spectacle, revealing the spaces, practices, and aspects of life comprising the combined aesthetic and political agenda of its power relations. More

Female Eyes on South America: Ida Pfeiffer (1797–1858)

Cite, Site, Sights

Katherine Manthorne

Katherine Manthorne makes a case for the Austrian nineteenth-century world traveler Ida Pfeiffer as a proto-feminist. Pfeiffer wrote accounts of her journeys, undertaken beginning when she was 45 years old and had separated from her husband after raising the couple’s sons. Published in her native German, the journals were popular enough to be translated into several languages. More