LATIN AMERICAN ART IN THE MALBA-COSTANT

Published in celebration of the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (Malba)’s twenty-fifth anniversary, this volume showcases one of the world’s leading collections of modern and contemporary Latin American art. 

Beautifully designed, this volume is the first comprehensive catalogue exploring the totality of the Malba-Costantini Collection, which is unrivaled for its quality and breadth in the area of Latin American twentieth and twenty-first century art. It includes key works by artists such as Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Tarsila do Amaral, Wifredo Lam, Antonio Berni, Xul Solar, Joaquín Torres-García, Lygia Clark, León Ferrari, Doris Salcedo, and others.

Since its inception in 2001, Malba has become a leading institution for the study and display of modern and contemporary Latin American art. Today, the Malba holdings, combined with the Eduardo F. Costantini Collection―which has been expanded following the recent acquisition of the Daros Latinamerica Collection―comprise more than 3,000 works of art by artists from Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Mexico, Ecuador, Cuba, Colombia, Venezuela, and Chile, among other countries. 

This volume presents the collection through a chronological structure of five chapters, tracing artistic developments from the early Latin American avant-garde to contemporary practices. Eighteen newly commissioned essays by leading scholars provide critical perspectives on the collection’s historical scope, cultural contexts, and ongoing relevance, alongside a thorough introduction by writer, editor, and curator Rodrigo Moura, and a foreword by Eduardo Costantini.

Rodrigo Moura is a writer, editor, and curator who is artistic director of the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA). Previously, he was chief curator at El Museo del Barrio in New York. He has worked in Brazilian art institutions, such as Museu de Arte da Pampulha in Belo Horizonte, Instituto Inhotim in Brumadinho, and Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, where he curated exhibitions featuring the work of Melvin Edwards, Aleijadinho, and Teresinha Soares. 

Gannit Ankori is professor of art history and theory in the Departments of Fine Arts and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and the Schusterman Center, at Brandeis University. She is the author of Imaging Her Selves: Frida Kahlo's Poetics of Identity and Fragmentation; Frida Kahlo: Art, Life, Diary; Palestinian Art; and Frida Kahlo. She is the interim director and chief curator of the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University.