Geometrias
Insubmissas.
At the turn of the 1920s–1940s, Latin America stops importing its forms. It digests them. From Mexico City to São Paulo, from Buenos Aires to the Parisian studios visited and then left behind, a generation of artists invents a modernity that owes nothing more to imitation.
Geometrias Insubmissas brings together twenty-three works around three trajectories that never met in life and that, together, draw the portrait of a continent learning to name itself.
Frida paints her own body as a territory. Tarsila devours the Old World to spit it back tropical. Forner turns war into cosmogony.
The hang favours slow time: few works, much space. You come here to look, not to file past.
Selected works
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Frida KahloAutorretrato com macaquinho, 1945Oil on canvas
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Frida KahloAs duas Fridas, 1939Oil on canvas
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Frida KahloA coluna partida, 1944Oil on canvas
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Frida KahloO veado ferido, 1946Oil on canvas
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Tarsila do AmaralAbaporu, 1928Oil on canvas
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Tarsila do AmaralA Negra, 1923Oil on canvas
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Tarsila do AmaralAntropofagia, 1929Oil on canvas
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Tarsila do AmaralOperários, 1933Oil on canvas
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Raquel FornerEl drama, 1942Oil on canvas
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Raquel FornerLas rocas, 1939Oil on canvas
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Raquel FornerEl juicio final, 1939Oil on canvas
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Raquel FornerSeries del espacio, 1957Oil on canvas
Across the index, works are held as fields of color. The full reproduction opens on each work's own page; where a painting remains under copyright, its entry stands in for the image.
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