Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros

An Archival Trail: Concrete Art in Argentina

Cite, Site, Sights

Zanna Gilbert

The Getty’s special collections archives include a wealth of ephemera, such as magazines, flyers, and pamphlets, related to the mid-twentieth century Concrete art movement in Latin America. Zanna Gilbert describes how these primary documents shed light on the inventive and interdisciplinary work of Concrete artists represented by a group of their works from the CPPC on loan to the Getty for a three-year investigation into their physical processes and philosophic foundations. More

Open Storage

Painting in an Industrial Age

Zanna Gilbert, from the Getty Research Institute, and Pia Gottschaller, from the Getty Conservation Institute, show us how Brazilian artists such as Judith Lauand and Geraldo de Barros responded to increasing societal industrialization by experimenting with industrial paints and application methods that eliminated evidence of the painter’s hand. Watch Video

Statements

Latin Exchanges: the Connections Between and the Reception of Latin American Art in Britain

Tanya Barson

From the perspective of the UK, it has often seemed that the much contested field (and term) of Latin American art has been far less evident... More

Intercontinental connections

Artist John Carter RA explains how his work resonates with Buenos Aires artists in the exhibition ‘Radical Geometry’. More

Re/Neo/De/ Colonial Art: What’s in a Name?

Debates

Moderator

Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros

Over the past few years, universities and museums have been turning away from the term “Colonial Art” to describe the art and artifacts made under the Spanish and Portuguese dominion of most of the Americas during the 16th–19th centuries... More

A Constructive Vision

2010 eng + esp

Mira Schendel's Graphic Object

Another work included in the recent Cisneros' gift to the Museum is Mira Schendel's Objeto Gráfico (1967)... More

Private Collections: To Build or Not to Build?

Debates

Moderator

Patricia Phelps de Cisneros

At the invitation of Patty Cisneros, a group of her art world associates and friends weigh in on how best to ensure the longevity of private collections. More

Carlos Cruz-Diez's Physichromie 21

Physichromie 21 by Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez is another highlight of the recent Cisneros' gift to the Museum... More