Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
Art and Ideas from Latin America

Hércules Barsotti's Ink Drawings

Twelve ink drawings by Hércules Barsotti explore a radical geometry and a systematic mode of working that, already in 1960, point to a new mode of working for the Brazilian artist... More

The Cultural Activist as Collector

In this article, originally published in Revista Goya, the journalist and researcher Estrella de Diego examines the typology of the collector by drawing on literature, anthropology, and even psychoanalysis. She concludes that more than a collector, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros is a cultural agitator. More

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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

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The Challenge of a Straight Line

Pia Gottschaller, from the Getty Conservation Institute, explains the challenge that Concrete artists from Brazil and Argentina faced in making the perfectly straight lines that characterize their work. Three main methods—straight edge, ruling pen, and self-adhesive tape—all leave tell-tale traces, observable through microscopy or even by the naked eye. Watch Video

Le kaxaan mako'ob

In his text, Nicolás Gerardi invites us into the depths of Tulum, Mexico—as we call it today—leading us through three distinct paths that inform the artistic practice of those who inhabit this region. More

Alejandro Otero's Colorhythms

Colorhythms, a group of works by Venezuelan artist Alejandro Otero made in the 1940s and 1950s, are vertical or horizontal rectangular paintings that unfold in countless serial compositional variations... More

An Interview with Patricia Phelps de Cisneros

This interview between Glenn D. Lowry and Patricia Phelps de Cisneros was originally published in the catalogue for the exhibition "Sur moderno: Journeys of Abstraction—The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift." More

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