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Inverted Utopias is the first exhibition in the United States devoted to the brilliant, innovative contributions of Latin American artists to the phenomenon that became the 20th-century avant-garde.The exhibition spans the decades 1920 to 1970, bringing together more than 200 works by 67 artists from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, and Venezuela. The presentation integrates outstanding examples of the visual arts (painting, sculpture, assemblage, mixed media, installation, and performance) with printed materials (books, manifestos, and reviews).

The works on view are presented in dialogue with two distinctive periods of the 20th century. In the first—comprising the decades 1920 to 1940—artists who were considered the pioneers of the Latin American avant-garde returned from Europe, where they had taken part in cutting-edge movements such as Cubism, Futurism, and Constructivism. Having assimilated these trends into highly innovative ideas that set new standards for artistic creation in Latin America, these forerunners sought to make real the promise of a “new art” for societies undergoing the initial stages of modernization. The second period—the decades 1950 to 1970—witnessed the expansion of avant-garde activities throughout the region as well as the autonomy from contemporary developments in Europe and the United States. 
The exhibition is organized according to the following six constellations: Universal and Vernacular; Play and Grief; Progression and Rupture; Vibrational and Stationary; Touch and Gaze; and Cryptic and Committed. 



Universal and Vernacular - This section addresses the paradoxical desire for a type of art rooted in the vernacular, yet imbued with universal appeal. Artists in this constellation—including David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974), Xul Solar (1887-1963), Joaquín Torres-García, Gonzalo Fonseca (1922-1997), Francisco Matto (1911-1995), and Eduardo Abela (1889-1965)—combine the recovery of native, colonial, and folk art elements with the innovative artistic vocabulary of avant-garde movements such as Cubism, Expressionism, and Constructivism. Some of the issues addressed by these artists are the emergence of a New World artistic consciousness, the exaltation of their origins—whether indigenous, mestizo, black, or mulatto—and the attempt to create a universal means of artistic communication out of codified symbols. This constellation will introduce United States audiences to the little known work of the Brazilian Vicente do Rego Monteiro (1899-1970) as well as the Cubans Eduardo Abela and Carlos Enríquez (1900-1957). 


Play and Grief - Play and Grief brings together artists who reject the formalism of art-for-art´s sake in favor of an open denunciation of social and political injustice. What distinguishes this body of work is its rejection of traditional artistic formats—such as painting and sculpture—in favor of openly unconventional techniques and materials. Works by José Clemente Orozco (1883-1949), Antonio Berni (1905-1981), Jorge de la Vega (1930-1971), Rubén Santantonin (1919-1969), Alberto Heredia (1924-2000), and Carlos Raquel Rivera (born 1923), among others, engage these ideas through parody and allegory, being also irreverent of social conventions and religious myths. Additionally, all of the artists included in this constellation combine traditional artistic genres and stylistic conventions in ways that yield interesting crossings between painting and sculpture, collage and assemblage, everyday objects and fine art. The work of unabashedly critical women artists such as Débora Arango (born 1910)—whose work is being shown for the first time in the United States—and Beatriz González (born 1938) is noteworthy for its early incrimination of violence (Arango) and its outright mockery of artistic genres (González). 



Progression and Rupture - Artists from the Southern Cone region (Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Southern Brazil) who engaged early on in geometric abstraction and constructivism are featured in this constellation. The utopian dimension of these works is centered on the universal appeal of such notions as structure, order, synthesis, and a will for totality. The attempt to imbue geometry with a vital dimension that incorporates the viewer´s active participation of the work was a distinguishing feature of these artists´ approach that both confronts and extends the legacy of Constructivism into an unexplored dimension. Proceeding from the pioneering work of Joaquín Torres-García and Lucio Fontana (1899-1968), the selection highlights the paradigmatic role played by the artist-theoreticians of the Argentinean Madí movement [Gyula Kosice (born 1924), Rhod Rothfuss (1920-1969) and Carmelo Arden Quin (born 1913)], as well as the Brazilian ruptura [Waldemar Cordeiro (1925-1973), Luis Sacilotto (1923-2003)] and Neo-concrete groups [Hélio Oiticica (1937-1980), Lygia Clark (1920-1988), Willys de Castro (1926-1988), Hércules Barsotti (born 1914)]. 



Vibrational and Stationary - The attempt to resolve the dilemma between movement and stasis that characterized Western art from its inception is the topic of this constellation that brings together artists working toward the utopian goal of producing an art of pure movement. Artists as disparate as David Alfaro Siqueiros, Antonio Berni, Jesús Rafael Soto (born 1923), Alejandro Otero (1921-1990) and Carlos Cruz-Diez (born 1923) engaged the complex legacies of Futurism and Constructivism and updated other dynamic and kinetic trends from a New World perspective. The originality of their achievements range from Siqueiros´ cinematographic murals, to the serial progressions of Soto, the methodical rhythmicolors of Otero, and the physichromatic vibrations of Cruz-Diez. Gego (1912-1994) is shown for the first time in this context as a critical counterpoint of the well-known narrative of Venezuelan Cinetismo. 



Touch and Gaze - The utopia of a unique art grounded in the combined sensorial experiences of vision and touch interrelates this constellation. Each of the works gathered here illuminates both the optical and the tactile dimensions of human experience. This comparative ensemble ranges from the de-materialized perception of light evident in Armando Reverón´s (1889-1954) white paintings, to the sensorial synthesis of Soto, Lucio Fontana, and Sérgio Camargo (1930-1990), Gego´s spatialized drawing, Lygia Clark´s and Hélio Oiticica´s "haptic gaze", passing through the mobile optics of Julio Le Parc (born 1928), the light-and-water experiences of Gyula Kosice, and culminating in the sensuous color-bath of Cruz-Diez´s chromosaturations. 



Cryptic and Committed -Artists working in the politically repressive countries of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile in the 1960s and 1970s devised highly original conceptual strategies in response to the authoritarian climate of the time. In fact, the practices of artists such as Cildo Meireles (born 1948), Oiticica and Clark, Alberto Greco, León Ferrari, Arte de los Medios, and the Tucumán Arde collective constitute one of the most outstanding chapters of the avant-garde in Latin America. In the last decade, the significance of their contribution has attracted the attention of art historians and critics from all over the world.

avant-garde --- Art --- Latin America --- Art, Latin American --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- History --- Latin American --- Xul Solar, Alejandro --- Reverón, Armando --- Orozco, José Clemente --- Siqueiros, David Alfaro --- Gego --- Oiticica, Hélio --- Abela, Eduardo --- Arango, Débora --- Arden Quin, Carmelo --- Barsotti, Hércules --- Fontana, Lucio --- Cordeiro, Waldemar --- Castro, de, Willys --- González, Beatriz --- Rothfuss, Rhod --- Sacilotto, Luiz --- Santantonin, Rubén --- Monteiro, Vicente do Rêgo --- Torres García, Joaquín --- Cruz-Diez, Carlos --- Parc, le, Julio --- Soto, Jesús Rafael --- Meireles, Cildo --- Clark, Lygia --- Rivera, Carlos Raquel --- Berni, Antonio --- Camargo --- Fonseca, Gonzalo --- Heredia, Alberto --- Kosice, Gyula --- Matto, Francisco --- Otero, Alejandro --- Vega, de la, Jorge --- anno 1900-1999 --- Cuba --- Puerto Rico --- Mexico --- Brazil --- Argentina --- Chile --- Colombia --- Venezuela --- Uruguay

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It is not an exaggeration to write that Hans Ulrich Obrist is everywhere, has curated everything and has interviewed everyone. If "peripatetic" is the word most overused to describe him, it is not inappropriate. The Swiss-born, everywhere-based curator and head of the Programme Migrateurs at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris has an unstoppable wanderlust and a related symptom: his penchant for interviewing anyone and everyone who piques his curiosity, be they artist, scientist, writer, curator, composer, architect, thinker, etc. Since 1993, Obrist has conducted more than 300 interviews, 75 of which are collected here in a selection that respects the cultural and professional diversity of the interviewees. Each interview is introduced by a short text outlining the biography of the interviewee and giving some contextual information on the recording of the interview.

Art --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Obrist, Hans Ulrich --- Hans Ulrich Obrist ; Edited by Thomas Boutoux --- kunst --- kunstenaars --- twintigste eeuw --- interviews --- tentoonstellingen --- galeries --- muziek --- filmregisseurs --- filosofie --- cultuurfilosofie --- wetenschap --- stedenbouw --- architectuur --- architecten --- kunsttheorie --- theorie --- Abramovic Marina --- Chaitin Gregory --- Acconci Vito --- Ballard J.G. --- literatuur --- schrijvers --- Barney Matthew --- film --- video --- videokunst --- Birnbaum Dara --- Boeri Stefano --- Boltanski Christian --- Boltanski Luc --- Buren Daniel --- Cattelan Maurizio --- Cladders Johannes --- Constant --- De Carlo Giancarlo --- Eliasson Olafur --- Eno Brian --- Esquivel --- Friedman Yona --- Gadamer Hans-Georg --- Gilbert & George --- Glissant Edouard --- Gonzalez-Foerster Dominique --- Gonzalez-Torres Felix --- Gordon Douglas --- Graham Dan --- Grigely Joseph --- Hadid Zaha --- Hall Stuart --- Hirschhorn Thomas --- Höller Carsten --- Hopps Walter --- Horn Roni --- Huang Yong Ping --- Hulten Pontus --- Huyghe Pierre --- Isozaki Arata --- Klüver Billy --- Koolhaas Rem --- Lee Bul --- Maharaj Sarat --- Varela Francisco --- Mancoba Ernest --- Matta Roberto --- Meireles Cildo --- Mekas Jonas --- Merz Mario --- Mofokeng Santu --- Ono Yoko --- Orozco Gabriel --- Otto Frei --- Pape Lygia --- Parent Claude --- Parreno Philippe --- Pistoletto Michelangelo --- Prigogine Ilya --- Rancière Jacques --- Richter Gerhard --- Rosenfield Israel --- Rouch Jean --- Sala Anri --- Sejima Kazuyo --- Sottsass Ettore --- Steels Luc --- Tiravanija Rirkrit --- Varda Agnès --- Weiner Lawrence --- West Franz --- Wyn Evans Cerith --- Zeilinger Anton --- 7.01 --- Arts, Modern --- Interviews. --- Architecture --- creation [doctrinal concept] --- artists' statements --- philosophy of art --- architects --- artists [visual artists] --- Varda, Agnès --- Steels, Luc --- Mekas, Jonas --- Prigogine, Ilya --- Buren, Daniel --- Ballard, James Graham --- Rancière, Jacques --- Huang, Yong Ping --- Ono, Yoko --- Parreno, Philippe --- Rouch, Jean --- Lee, Bul --- Friedman, Yona --- Pistoletto, Michelangelo --- Weiner, Lawrence --- Abramovic, Marina --- Mancoba, Ernest --- Parent, Claude --- Otto, Frei --- Pape, Lygia --- Sottsass, Ettore --- Hultén, Pontus --- Rosenfield, Israel --- Koolhaas, Rem --- Richter, Gerhard --- Varela, Francisco J. --- Boltanski, Christian --- Mofokeng, Santu --- Hall, Stuart --- Hadid, Zaha --- Merz, Mario --- Gadamer, Hans-Georg --- Horn, Roni --- Glissant, Edouard --- Acconci, Vito --- Graham, Dan --- Meireles, Cildo --- Cattelan, Maurizio --- Eliasson, Olafur --- Barney, Matthew --- Birnbaum, Dara --- Gilbert and George --- Gonzalez-Torres, Felix --- Hirschhorn, Thomas --- Sala, Anri --- Tiravanija, Rirkrit --- Höller, Carsten --- Orozco, Gabriel --- Huyghe, Pierre --- Cladders, Johannes --- Matta, Roberto --- Isozaki, Arata --- Gordon, Douglas --- Gonzalez-Foerster, Dominique --- Grigely, Joseph --- Eno, Brian --- Sejima, Kazuyo --- De Carlo, Giancarlo --- anno 1900-1999 --- Ballard, J.G. --- Ballard J.G --- kunstenaarschap

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Art --- art [discipline] --- Modern [style or period] --- moderne kunst --- Oiticica, Hélio --- Afonso, Albano --- Aleixo, Ricardo --- Almeida, Efrain --- Andrade, Sonia --- Barsotti, Hércules --- Bechara, José --- Borba, Gabriel --- Bruscky, Paulo --- Carvão, Aluísio --- Catunda, Leda --- Colares, Raymundo --- Cordeiro, Waldemar --- Costa, Cadu --- Cury, David --- Dacosta, Milton --- Aquino, de, Angelo --- Castro, de, Willys --- Freitas, de, Iole --- Dias, Antonio --- Dias, Caetano --- do Rego Macedo, Ronaldo --- Duarte, Eliane --- Dupla especializada --- Duva, Luiz --- Farhi, Suely --- Ferreira Ribeiro Lima Costa, Lúcio Marçal --- Ferro, Chelpa --- Franco, Anaísa --- Geiger, Anna Bella --- Guerra, Walter --- Horta, Ana --- Jobim, Elizabeth --- Leirner, Nelson --- Leonilson, José --- Machado Moreira, Jorge --- Machado, Ivens --- Magalhaes, Roberto --- Manhães, Mariana --- Manuel, Antonio --- Márcia X --- Marques, Milton --- Milhazes, Beatriz --- Nassar, Emmanuel --- Navarro Vieira de Magalhães, Loio-Pérsio --- Oliveira, Henrique --- Orthof, Gê --- Pape, Lygia --- Parente, Letícia --- Pasta, Paulo --- Patricio, José --- Ramos, Nuno --- Reidy, Alfonso E. --- Saldanha, Ione --- Schendel, Mira --- Senise, Daniel --- Silveira, Marcelo --- Silveira, Regina --- Solá, Marcelo --- Sued, Eduardo --- Tendler, Sidnei --- Tunga --- Vilanova Artigas, João Batista --- Volpi, Alfredo --- Weissmann, Franz --- Zilio, Carlos --- Castro, de, Amílcar --- Barros, de, Geraldo --- Niemeyer, Oscar --- Meireles, Cildo --- Clark, Lygia --- Caldas, Waltércio --- Camargo --- Camargo, Iberé --- Fajardo, Carlos Alberto --- Gerchman, Rubens --- Guinle, Jorge --- Plaza, Julio --- Vergara, Carlos --- Vieira, Mary --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 2000-2009 --- Brazil

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colonization --- Colonial Latin American fine arts styles --- exoticism --- Art --- Latin America --- America --- History of civilization --- history [discipline] --- geschiedenis --- art [fine art] --- Evangelista, Roberto --- Bedia Valdés, José --- Orozco, Gabriel --- Durham, Jimmie --- Caldas, Waltércio --- Agois, Mariella --- Lublin, Lea --- Camnitzer, Luis --- Capelán, Carlos --- Fontana, Lucio --- Solar, Xul --- Clark, Lygia --- Vater, Regina --- Arango, Débora --- Obregón, Roberto --- Meireles, Cildo --- Lamelas, David --- Kahlo, Frida --- Paternosto, César --- Goeritz, Mathias --- González, Beatriz --- Dávila, Juan --- Mendieta, Ana --- Vicuña, Cecilia --- Goeldi, Oswaldo --- Wenemoser, Alfred --- Grippo, Victor --- Orozco, José Clemente --- Muñoz, Oscar --- Dittborn, Eugenio --- Maiolino, Anna Maria --- Torres Garcia, Joaquin --- Barney, Alicia --- anno 1800-1999 --- anno 1500-1799 --- Belgium --- Netherlands --- Amérique Latine --- Antwerpen --- Exposition --- Histoire --- Pays-Bas (anciens) --- Peinture --- USA Etats-Unis d'Amérique --- kunst --- kunstgeschiedenis --- Latijns-Amerika --- Amerika --- Nederlanden --- kolonisatie --- missionering --- zestiende eeuw --- zeventiende eeuw --- achttiende eeuw --- Kunst Zuid-Amerika en de Lage Landen --- Tentoonstellingscatalogi Antwerpen Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten --- Spaanse kolonisatie conquistadores ontdekkingsreizigers --- negentiende eeuw --- (069) --- Beeldende kunst Latijns-Amerika --- twintigste eeuw --- schilderkunst --- (7/8) --- beeldhouwkunst --- kunstnijverheid --- graafische kunsten --- exotisme --- 7.03 --- (Musea. Collecties) --- (Amerika) --- Arts, Latin American --- Arts latino-américains --- Zuid-Amerika --- Indiaanse kunst --- toegepaste kunsten --- 094:970/980 --- 949.19 --- 980 =6 --- -Latin American arts --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Geschiedenis van Noord-Amerika en Zuid-Amerika --- Geschiedenis van de Nederlanden, van de Benelux --- Geschiedenis van Latijns-Amerika --- Asociación Latinoamericana de Libre Comercio countries --- Neotropical region --- Neotropics --- New World tropics --- Spanish America --- -#KVHA:Geschiedenis; Latijns-Amerika --- Latin American arts --- |03436/B --- -Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Geschiedenis van Noord-Amerika en Zuid-Amerika --- 980 =6 Geschiedenis van Latijns-Amerika --- 949.19 Geschiedenis van de Nederlanden, van de Benelux --- 094:970/980 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Geschiedenis van Noord-Amerika en Zuid-Amerika --- Amerika. --- Zuid-Amerika. --- -980 =6 Geschiedenis van Latijns-Amerika --- Arts latino-américains --- Espanja --- Spanien --- Hiszpania --- Spanish State --- España --- Estado Español --- Hispania --- Sefarad --- Sepharad --- Shpanye --- Shpanie --- Reino de España --- Kingdom of Spain --- #gsdbA --- #GGSB: Kunst (cataloog tentoonstelling) --- Exhibitions --- #A0005H --- Spain --- Espagne --- Reino d'Espanya --- Reinu d'España --- Espainiako Erresuma --- Regne d'Espanya --- Reiaume d'Espanha --- Espanya --- Espanha --- スペイン --- Supein --- イスパニア --- Isupania --- Civilization --- -Exhibitions. --- Colonies --- -History --- Exhibitions. --- History --- Beeldende kunst ; Latijns-Amerika --- Kunst ; Zuid-Amerika en de Lage Landen --- Spaanse kolonisatie ; conquistadores ; ontdekkingsreizigers --- Tentoonstellingscatalogi ; Antwerpen ; Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten --- #KVHA:Geschiedenis; Latijns-Amerika --- kunstgeschiedenis (algemeen) --- hedendaagse kunst --- grafiek --- -Exhibitions --- Expositions --- Amérique latine --- Civilisation --- Relations --- Flanders (Belgium) --- Xul Solar, Alejandro --- Torres García, Joaquín --- 980 --- emigratie --- Zuidelijke Nederlanden --- Kunst (cataloog tentoonstelling) --- bookselling --- Découverte et exploration --- Arts, Latin American - Exhibitions --- Latin America - Civilization - Exhibitions --- Spain - Colonies - America - History - Exhibitions --- dekolonisatie --- emigratie. --- Latijns-Amerika. --- Zuidelijke Nederlanden. --- art [discipline] --- Amerique latine --- Pays-bas --- Relations exterieures

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Conceptual --- ruimtelijke kunst --- conceptuele kunst --- Art styles --- anno 1900-1999 --- Conceptual art --- Art conceptuel --- History. --- Influence. --- Histoire --- Influence --- Conceptual art. --- Conceptuele kunst ; 2de h. 20ste eeuw ; naslagwerken --- 7.038 --- kunst --- twintigste eeuw --- kunst en politiek --- fotografie --- installaties --- schilderkunst --- beeldhouwkunst --- Acconci Vito --- Ader Bas Jan --- Adorno Theodor W. --- Genpei Akasegawa --- Alberro Alexander --- Antin Eleanor --- Arakawa --- Arman --- Art Workers Coalition --- Burnham Jack --- Artist Placement Group --- Asher Michael --- Atkinson Terry --- Baldessari John --- Baldwin Michael --- Barry Robert --- Barthes Roland --- Baudrillard Jean --- Becher Bernd --- Becher Hilla --- Beckett Samuel --- Becher Bernd & Hilla --- Beuys Joseph --- Bochner Mel --- Boetti Alighiero --- Bony Oscar --- Brecht George --- Broodthaers Marcel --- Brouwn Stanley --- Buchloh Benjamin H.D. --- Buren Daniel --- Burgin Victor --- Burn Ian --- Cage John --- Calle Sophie --- Chicago Judy --- Christo & Jean-Claude --- Clark Lydia --- Claura Michel --- Coleman James --- Costa Edouardo --- Darboven Hanne --- Debord Guy --- Dibbets Jan --- Dimitrijevic Braco --- Doherty Willie --- Drucker Johanna --- Duchamp Marcel --- Ehrenzweig Anton --- Escari Raul --- Foster Hal --- Fulton Hamish --- Gober Robert --- Goffman Irving --- Gonzalez-Torres Felix --- Goodman Nelson --- Gostomski Zbigniew --- Graham Dan --- Grupo de Artistas de Vanguardia --- Haacke Hans --- Hajas Tibor --- Harrison Margaret --- Hesse Eva --- Hi Red Center --- Hiller Susan --- Hilliard John --- Holzer Jenny --- Horkheimer Max --- Huebler Douglas --- Hunt Kay --- Jaar Alfredo --- Jacoby Roberto --- Johns Jasper --- Kabakov Ilya --- Kantor Tadeusz --- Kaprow Allan --- Kawara On --- Kelly Mary --- Kienholz Edward --- Klein Yves --- Komar and Melamid --- Kosuth Joseph --- Kozlov Christine --- Kozlowski Jaroslaw --- Kruger Barbara --- Kubler George --- Kubota Shigeko --- Kuhn Thomas S. --- Latham John --- Lawler Louise --- Levine Sherrie --- Lewin Curt --- Lewitt Sol --- Lippard Lucy R. --- Long Richard --- McCollum Allan --- Macunias George --- Malraux André --- Manzoni Piero --- Marcuse Herbert --- Marx Karl --- Matta-Clark Gordon --- Matsuzawa Yutaka --- Meireles Cildo --- Mendieta Ana --- Metzger Gustav --- Miyajima Tatsuo --- Morris Robert --- Murakami Saburo --- Nauman Bruce --- N.E. Thing Co. --- Baxter Iain --- Baxter Ingrid --- Newman Michael --- O'Doherty Brian --- Oiticica Hélio --- Ono Yoko --- Opalka Roman --- Paik Nam June --- Parker Rozsika --- Piper Adrian --- Pivovarov Victor --- Ramsden Mel --- Rauschenberg Robert --- Rosler Martha --- Ruscha Edward --- De Saussure Ferdinand --- Schneemann Carolee --- Serra Richard --- Shimamoto Shozo --- Shiomi Mieko --- Shiraga Fujiko --- Shiraga Kazuo --- Siegelaub Seth --- Smithson Robert --- Snow Michael --- Toroni Niele --- Ukeles Mierle Laderman --- Wall Jeff --- Warhol Andy --- Weiner Lawrence --- Wilke Hannah --- Wilson Fred --- Wittgenstein Ludwig --- Wodiczko Krzysztof --- Young la Monte --- Zhang Huan --- kunst 20e eeuw --- Kunstgeschiedenis ; 1950 - 2000 --- kunstgeschiedenis - kunst na 1945 --- Kuhn Thomas S --- Lippard Lucy R --- N.E. Thing Co --- Adorno Theodor W --- Buchloh Benjamin H.D --- Art, Conceptual --- Concept art --- Language art (Fine arts) --- Possible art --- Post-object art --- Art, Modern --- Performance art --- Earthworks (Art) --- Sky art --- History --- Conceptual art - History. --- Conceptual art - Influence.