The Bronx Museum of the Arts presents Beyond the Supersquare, a major exhibition, specially commissioned pavilions, and series of publications devoted to the indelible influence of Latin American and Caribbean modernist architecture on contemporary artists from the region today. Featuring approximately 60 artworks representing a range of media (photography, video, sculpture, installation) that respond to major modernist architectural projects executed in Latin America and the Caribbean from the 1920s through the 1960s, Beyond the Supersquare examines the complicated legacies of Modernist architecture and thought—as embodied by the political, economic, environmental, and social challenges faced by countries throughout Latin America today—through the unique perspective of 29 contemporary artists.
This exhibition represents the culminating phase of a major four-year research initiative at the Bronx Museum spearheaded by Executive Director Holly Block and independent curator María Inés Rodriguez. Many of the exhibition themes are drawn from a three-day conference held at the Bronx Museum in October 2011, which brought together artists, architects, urban planners, and scholars to discuss the complicated legacies of modernist architecture and thought in Latin America and the Caribbean. For the exhibition, the Museum seeks to examine the complexity of formal strategies as well as the depth of social critique found in the work of contemporary Latin American artists, covering the broader political, social, economic, and environmental issues surrounding contemporary discourse on Latin America and the Caribbean—such as the region’s unstable economies, ad hoc urbanism, militarized police forces, and rapidly exhausting natural resources. Artists in the exhibition include Leonor Antunes, Alexander Apostol, Alexandre Arrechea, Felipe Arturo, Alessandro Balteo Yazbeck, Alberto Baraya, Carlos Bunga, Los Carpinteros, Jordi Colomer, Livia Corona, Felipe Dulzaides, Carlos Garaicoa, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Terence Gower, Andre Komatsu, Ishmael Randall-Weeks, Mauro Restiffe, Pedro Reyes, Karin Schneider, among others.
AC/E collaborates, through the mobility programme of the PICE, with The Bronx Museum of the Arts supporting the participation of the Spanish artist Jordi Colomer with two works: Avenida Ixtapaluca, 2009 (video 6:10 min.) y Co-Op City, 2010 (video 8:13 min).
This exhibition represents the culminating phase of a major four-year research initiative at the Bronx Museum spearheaded by Executive Director Holly Block and independent curator María Inés Rodriguez. Many of the exhibition themes are drawn from a three-day conference held at the Bronx Museum in October 2011, which brought together artists, architects, urban planners, and scholars to discuss the complicated legacies of modernist architecture and thought in Latin America and the Caribbean. For the exhibition, the Museum seeks to examine the complexity of formal strategies as well as the depth of social critique found in the work of contemporary Latin American artists, covering the broader political, social, economic, and environmental issues surrounding contemporary discourse on Latin America and the Caribbean—such as the region’s unstable economies, ad hoc urbanism, militarized police forces, and rapidly exhausting natural resources. Artists in the exhibition include Leonor Antunes, Alexander Apostol, Alexandre Arrechea, Felipe Arturo, Alessandro Balteo Yazbeck, Alberto Baraya, Carlos Bunga, Los Carpinteros, Jordi Colomer, Livia Corona, Felipe Dulzaides, Carlos Garaicoa, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Terence Gower, Andre Komatsu, Ishmael Randall-Weeks, Mauro Restiffe, Pedro Reyes, Karin Schneider, among others.
AC/E collaborates, through the mobility programme of the PICE, with The Bronx Museum of the Arts supporting the participation of the Spanish artist Jordi Colomer with two works: Avenida Ixtapaluca, 2009 (video 6:10 min.) y Co-Op City, 2010 (video 8:13 min).