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Roberto Torres Mata
5:00 PM
March 9, 2021
Chazen Museum of Art
Works in Untethered: Our Journey Beyond Borders by Roberto Torres Mata, the 2021 Russell and Paula Panczenko MFA Prize exhibit, on display through May 14.
UW-Madison master of fine arts recipient Roberto Torres Mata is the winner of the 2021 Russell and Paula Panczenko MFA Prize, which means he gets a big exhibition to himself in the Chazen.
Untethered: Our Journey Beyond Borders displays the several media of Mataâs art practice: relief woodblock printing, wood carving and papermaking. The iconography evokes indigenous cultures of the Americas. Itâs literally and figuratively a journey through the gallery. The Chazen is open for in-person viewing
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Madison Museum of Contemporary Art’s permanent collection consists of 5,939 objets d’art.
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“Carousel” by Sam Gilliam, 1970
Louis Pasteur once said that fortune favors the prepared mind. That applies to Madison’s once nascent arts scene and a surprise gift given more than a century ago.
In 1913, Florence Shirlaw, widow of landscape artist Walter Shirlaw (a former bank note engraver who helped found and served as president of the Society of American Artists), contacted what was then the Madison Art Association. She’d been donating her late husband’s pieces to museums across the country and wondered if the association would like two of his landscapes. Officials happily accepted the gift, which became the seedlings of one of Madison’s largest troves of hidden artistic treasures.
Roberto Torres Mata is the Chazen Museum of Art s 2021 Panczenko MFA Prize winner
Please/Por favor, 2021, spit bite with aquatint, screen print, lithograph.
MADISON, WIS
.- MFA candidate Roberto Torres Matas exhibition Untethered: Our Journey Beyond Borders takes the 2021 Russell and Paula Panczenko MFA Prize. The exhibition is on view in the Garfield Galleries April 6-May 14, 2021.
Visitors will be led on a journey through the exhibition, guided by a path of migrating birds. Archaic symbols impressed into handmade paper evoke indigenous cultures of the Americas, while the words of migrants themselves are recorded on linen sheets suspended from the gallery ceilinga work made in collaboration with Dani Zelko.