At the Pinacoteca, a giant inflatable marks the new exhibition by Marta Minujín

The exhibition “Marta Minujín: Live” is the first panoramic exhibition in Brazil of one of the most important Latin American artists of her generation. On display at the Pinacoteca de São Paulo , the exhibition brings together more than 100 works by the Argentine Marta Minujín , who moves between different languages, scales, artistic and social circles. In the first days of the exhibition, visitors are welcomed by the Escultura de los deseos , a 17-meter inflatable in the parking lot of the Pinacoteca , Luz building. The public will also be able to walk through the gallery of multicolored fabrics and mattresses — such as the Galeria Blanda [Galeria Mole], a 1973 installation made with 200 mattresses that fill, along with projections, the first exhibition room. The exhibition “Marta Minujín: Live” covers crucial moments in the career of the Buenos Aires artist. Her research into the social phenomenon of communication and its dissemination potential resulted in several works whose documentation is concentrated in the fourth exhibition room, in works such as Simultaneidad en simultaneidad [Simultaneity in Simultaneity] (1966) and Leyendo las noticias en el Río da Plata [Reading the News on the River Plate] (1965). In the political context of the 1970s , the proliferation of military dictatorships throughout Latin America led Minujín to artistic practices aimed at raising awareness of a sociopolitical reality and a project of integration between the countries of the region.

The artist's most emblematic work in this sense was Comunicando con tierra (1976), reassembled for this exhibition. It includes Nido de hornero [Ovenbird's Nest], an installation in the shape of a giant ovenbird's nest . The 1965 work El Batacazo was recreated especially for the Pinacoteca . In it, media icons lead the audience, who pass by soccer players from Brazil and Argentina, climb stairs meeting playboys and cosmonauts and go down a slide to land on an inflatable doll shaped like the face of Italian actress Virna Lisi. The exhibition ends with one of the artist's most recent video installations , I mplosión! [Implosion!] (2021). The new version of the work promotes immersion in a multicolored musical cube .

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Location: Pina Luz, 1st floor Date: July 29, 2023 to January 28, 2024 Address: Luz Square, 2, Sao Paulo — SP. Opening hours: Wednesday to Monday, from 10am to 6pm (extended Thursdays: from 10am to 8pm, with free entry from 6pm).