The Collection Remembers: The Moderno at Parque de la Memoria

A commemorative exhibition of the Museo Moderno Collection fifty years on from the coup d’état

Fifty years after the coup d’état that ushered in the last military dictatorship (1976–1983) and thanks to an initiative of the Parque de la Memoria – Monument to the Victims of State Terrorism, the Museo Moderno will present a significant body of works from its collection to highlight the ways Argentinian artists responded to this complex period of political violence. The exhibition will take place at the park to commemorate this painful chapter in Argentina’s history. 

In a period marked by censorship and political violence, these artists succeeded in placing images and words where silence and disappearance were being imposed. By doing so, they affirmed the power of art as a tool for memory, resistance, and symbolic reparation. This ambitious project contributes to the social promotion of democratic values that prioritise full respect for human rights while re-asserting the capacity of artistic practice as a space for encounters, collective processing and reflection on both the recent past and the present.

Artists: Paulina Berlatzky (La Plata, 1918), Marcelo Brodsky (Buenos Aires, 1954), Juana Butler (Buenos Aires, 1928), Juan José Cambre (Buenos Aires, 1948), Ricardo Carpani (Tigre, 1930), Ricardo Carreira (Buenos Aires, 1948), Juan Carlos Castagnino (Mar del Plata, 1908), Elda Cerrato (Asti, Italia, 1930), Diana Dowek (Buenos Aires, 1942), Roberto Elia (Buenos Aires, 1950), Sara Facio (San Isidro, 1932), León Ferrari (Buenos Aires, 1920), Edgardo Giménez (Santo Tomé, 1942), Norberto Gómez (Buenos Aires, 1941), Carlos Gorriarena (Buenos Aires, 1925), Víctor Grippo (Junin, 1936), Alberto Heredia (Buenos Aires, 1924), Enio Iommi (Rosario, 1926), Leandro Katz (Buenos Aires, 1938), Carlos Langone (Buenos Aires, 1945), Rómulo Macció (Buenos Aires, 1931), Josefina Mazzaglia (Vicente López, 1923), Marta Minujín (Buenos Aires, 1943), Luis Felipe Noé (Buenos Aires, 1933), Marie Orensanz (Mar del Plata, 1936), Diulio Pierri (Buenos Aires, 1954), Josefina Quesada (Buenos Aires, 1930), Juan Carlos Romero (Avellaneda, 1931), Gabriel Salomón (Buenos Aires, 1943), Antonio Seguí (Villa Allende, 1934), Luis Seoane (Buenos Aires, 1910), Aldo Sessa (Buenos Aires, 1939), Carlos Squirru (Buenos Aires, 1934), Carlos Ernesto Uría (Buenos Aires, 1929), Edgardo Antonio Vigo (La Plata, 1928), Horacio Zabala (Buenos Aires, 1943). 

Curated by: Nicolás Cuello, Curator at the Museo Moderno, and Cecilia Nisembaum, Curator at the Parque de la Memoria – Monument to the Victims of State Terrorism