Displayed in Three large galleries at the Moderno, this ambitious exhibition highlights the important collections that make up our Museum’s heritage. It allows us to visualise the growth and research processes that have given rise to so many exhibitions, publications and actions throughout the 68 years of its existence. Through a selection of 300 works created over the last 100 years, the exhibition offers a journey through the movements of modern and contemporary Argentinian art from a plural and federal perspective.
The Moderno has, in recent years, begun the process of cataloguing and digitising the documents from its historical exhibitions and has made the results of this work available to the public on its website. Thanks to these efforts, the exhibition is now displayed as a ‘meta-exhibition’. Each work or group of works exhibited is literally open via QR code as a gateway to the vast information on the historical exhibitions at the Moderno in which they took part, or on the research carried out on them, often captured in books and audio-visual records. In this way, the Moderno gives material form to an idea that inspires us: art as a vehicle for knowledge about reality and about ourselves; imagination as a driver of human and educational development.
As we explore these rooms, we can appreciate the history of this public collection’s construction. The works on display are a selection of the major acquisitions made by the Museum’s first directors, Rafael Squirru and Hugo Parpagnoli, the donations that comprised the Ignacio Pirovano Collection and the Alberto Heredia bequest, and the 622 works incorporated in the last ten years. Among recent donations, we wish to thank the artists and artists’ families, gallery owners and patrons. Recent acquisitions have been made possible by the Moderno’s Acquisitions Committee, the support of civil society and the crucial support of the Buenos Aires City Government and the Asociación Amigos del Moderno. Throughout its history, it is the Moderno’s extended family that allows us to tell an increasingly fair, inclusive, plural and federal history of Argentinian art to generations to come. Welcome to this great house of art and non-stop research!
Victoria Noorthoorn, Director and Francisco Lemus, Head of the Curatorial Department
Artist: Susi Aczel, Roberto Aizenberg, Julián Althabe, Carmelo Arden Quin, Pompeyo Audivert, Antonio Berni, Martín Blaszko, Inés Blumencweig, Ricardo Carpani, Juan Cavallero, Luis Centurión, Eugenia Crenovich (Yente), Jorge de la Vega, Ernesto Deira, Juan Del Prete, Hugo Demarco, Germaine Derbecq, Mirtha Dermisache, Noemí Di Benedetto, Juan Carlos Distéfano, Ana Eckell, Marcelo Epstein, Noemí Escandell, León Ferrari, Arnoldo Gaite, Nicolás García Uriburu, Noemí Gerstein, Edgardo Giménez, Guillermo González Ruiz, Alberto Greco, Alberto Heredia, Alfredo Hlito, Enio Iommi, Kenneth Kemble, David Lamelas, Julio Le Parc, Reinaldo Leiro, Raúl Lozza, Eduardo Mac Entyre, Rómulo Macció, Víctor Magariños, Tomás Maldonado, María Martorell, Juan Melé, Marta Minujín, Oski, Eduardo Painceira, César Paternosto, Luis Pazos, Martha Peluffo, Rogelio Polesello, Emilio Renart, Juan Pablo Renzi, Juan Carlos Romero, Rubén Santantonín, Eduardo Serón, Aldo Sessa, Carlos Silva, Oscar Smoje, Juan Stoppani, Pablo Suárez, Luis Tomasello, Silvia Torras, Georges Vantongerloo, Gregorio Vardánega, Miguel Ángel Vidal, Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Sesostris Vitullo, Luis Alberto Wells, Horacio Zabala y Pablo Ziccarello
Curated by: Victoria Noorthoorn and Francisco Lemus
Exhibition Design: Daniela Thomas, Felipe Tassara and Iván Rösler
A Meta-Exhibition of the Moderno Collections and Temporary Exhibitions
Modeno and MetaModerno: The playlist
Following the curatorial script of the exhibition, this playlist highlights moments in which the concept of modernity as an avant-garde attitude or trace was present in jazz, tango, pop music, electronic music and hip hop. Sound artists from Argentina and the world have been chosen without distinction, following the international drive of modernism and its (meta) revision from the 1990s onwards.
Sound design: Fernando García and Franco Pellegrino, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, 2024.
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