A new exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) offers a retelling of the European colonization of Latin America through the eyes of contemporary artists.
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A total of 65 works by 40 artists of different generations and styles reinterpret the history of the region as told by cartographers, missionaries, scientists and adventurers. The exhibition "Chosen Memories", until September 9, is part of the collection of Venezuelan Patricia Phelps de Cisneros who donated it to the Museum of New York. The artists propose new "readings of the history" of European colonialism in Latin America and the revitalization of its cultural heritage, according to MoMA's curator of Latin American art, Inés Katzenstein.
“Chosen Memories: Contemporary Latin American Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift and Beyond” opens tomorrow, April 30, and will be on view until September 9, 2023, at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA, 11 West 53rd Street.) The exhibition also features new acquisitions, loans, and commissions that address the themes of history, heritage,…
The ‘Chosen Memories’ exhibition, featuring donations from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros collection, uses the work of 39 Latin American artists to question the way this region’s history has been narrated to date