Rafael Tufiño, Pintor del Pueblo / Painter of the People
Closed.
Organized by Fatima Bercht, Chief
Curator; curated by Dr. Teresa Tío for the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico,
San Juan
This exhibition will be Rafael Tufiño's first major
retrospective in the United States, presenting the entire breadth of his
work (prints, paintings, drawings and sculpture), as selected from the
major retrospective held in Puerto Rico from July 6 through October 7,
2001. Tufiño (b. Brooklyn, 1922) is one of the central figures in the
history of twentieth-century Puerto Rican art. A member of Generación del
Cincuenta ("The Fifties Generation"), Tufiño has been of one of the major
forces in founding and furthering modern Puerto Rican art-both on the
Island and in the Caribbean diaspora of New York. Tufiño was one of the
founders and leaders of the Island's print tradition, and has been one of
the hemisphere's most distinguished poster-makers, an illustrator of books
and stories, a draftsman and letterist. The expressive and gestural purity
of his draftsmanship became a trademark of Puerto Rican graphics of the
1950s and 1960s. Tufiño consistently depicted the Puerto Rican people in
all their daily expressions, working and celebrating. Tufiño made many
images of dance, music, and religious festivals, and El Museo will offer
public music and dance programs and folk art demonstrations as programming
to accompany the exhibition.
October 24, 2002 - February 16, 2003 |
 Featured Artist: Karin Schneider |
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Brazilian artists. The
exhibition, which opens on October 12th and remains on view
through February 3rd, 2002, is part of a celebration of
Brazilian art and culture that includes exhibitions at the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the National
Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. O Fio da
Trama/The Thread Unraveled has been organized by El Museo del
Barrio in collaboration with BrazilConnects, an independent
nonprofit organization that celebrates, preserves and supports
Brazil's most treasured cultural and ecological assets.
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Voices From Our Communities On view through September 16, 2001, Voices From Our Communities culminates a comprehensive five-year effort to explore the connection between a museum's permanent collection and its highly diverse audiences. This exhibition features over 100 works created by Latino artists in the United States, as well as by artists working in the Caribbean and Latin America. Noteworthy pieces include paintings, sculptures, photographs, prints, and mixed-media works by contemporary artists, including Rafael Ferrer, Miriam Hernandez, Alfredo Jaar, Pepón Osorio, and Liliana Porter, as well as Shipibo vessels and Haitian vodun flags, Puerto Rican ex-votos and colorful Chicano prints, Mexican masks and an extraordinary 17th century book by Bartolomé de las Casas. Pre-Columbian and traditional arts, such as masks, textiles, and devotional objects, are also highlighted. The variety and richness of artworks in this exhibition derive, in great measure, from the expansion of El Museo del Barrio's mission in 1994 to represent and include, beyond the founding Puerto Rican community, all the Latin American communities that are transforming El Barrio, New York City, and the country at large. Members of these communities as well as artists, curators, anthropologists, etc. have been invited to contribute to the interpretation of works in the collection. The soundtrack of their diverse "voices" and points-of-view will be incorporated as a crucial and lively element of the exhibition, through a sound installation in each gallery. |
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| Contemporánea 2001 Permanent Visibility by Ingrid Menendez On view June 12th through September 16, 2001 Curated by Deborah Cullen, Curator, El Museo del Barrio Ingrid Menéndez, a Venezuelan sculptor (b. 1963, Caracas) living in New York, creates an interactive installation. Each visitor, alone in an intimate gallery, must decide on how to interface with her experimental artwork. Menéndez's work investigates the boundaries between private and public experience, and the ever-increasing role played by the technologies of surveillance. |
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T he following is a partial listing of exhibitions El Museo del Barrio has presented over the past thirty years. Please check back as we update and expand this area of El Museo's website in the future. 2000 - 2001 Here & There
/ Aquí y Allá: Six Artist From San Juan Each artist is repreented by a
one-room installation using such wide-ranging media as video
projection, sculpture, found objects, color photographs, drawings
and plastic ready-mades. Antonio Frasconi: Langston
Hughes' "Let America Be America Again" A Portfolio of
Woodcuts Frasconi's woodcut illustrations and
sophisticated design deftly compliment Hughes' eloquent words.
Informal typeface used for Hughes' poem is, at times overlaid
directly onto images; other times, it stands alone. The striking
images form a seamless whole with the text, offering the viewer a
powerful and memorable experience. Neighbors: An Installation by
Leandro Erlich The installation functions like a
mysterious set design in which viewers actually participate in the
narrative. In a typical apartment building corridor, we expect
things to be what they appear to be. Erlich, however, confounds us
by interweaving the real and the illusory, paradoxically proving and
disproving the adage, "What you see is what you get." Latin American
Artist-Photographers from the Lehigh University Art Galleries
Collection
Nacimiento: A Christmas
Crèche
¡Llegaron Los Muertos! Monumentos
para los que viven en nuestros corazónes by
Santiago-Hoge
Este Es Mi Mexico
The Caribbean and Latin American
Traditionlal Art Series 1999 - 2000 The S-Files/Selected
Files Ernesto Pujol: Conversion
of Manners Latin American Still-Life: Reflections of
Time and Place
Franco Mondini-Ruiz:
Mexique Carlos Irizarry: The '60s Plus
Picasso Pressing the Point: Parallel Expressiosn in
the Graphic Arts of the Chicano and Puerto Rican
Movements Juan Sanchez: Printed Convictions Prints amd
Related Works on Paper
Pepon Osorio:
TRANSBORICUA
Caribbean and Latin American Traditional Arts
Series Part I Viva la Muerte: Artwork Inspired
by the Day of the Dead Celebration A Tribute to En Foco: 25 Years of
Making Photographic History
1998 - 99 The S-files: The Selected
Files Marta Chilindron: Cinema
Kinesis
Puerto Rican Santos de Palo:
Sculptures Between Heaven and Earth Altares de los Orishas: Afro-Caribbean Sacred
Spaces Buscando Milagros - Searching for
Miracles: Photographs by Héctor Méndez Caratini The Art of Jack Delano Gods, Spirits, and Legends: Twentieth-Century
Art from El Salvador
Casitas: Gardens of
Reclamation Domino/Dominó by Bibiana
Suarez 1997 - 98 El Mexterminator II
(Ethno-Cyborgs & Artificial Savages) Beatriz González Carmen Herrera Brian Nissen: Bronze
Sculptures Recurrent Memories by Diamantina
González Taíno: Pre-Columbian Art and Culture from the
Caribbean The Taíno Legacy Coaybay: Site of the
Afterlife 1996-97 Re-Aligning Visions: Alternative
Currents in South American Drawing Diamantina Gonzalez Recurrent
Memories Alicia Creus The Veiled Mirrors:
Recent Works Lyrical textile collages BIO *As in 'biography',
'biology', 'biogenesis'
The Conceptual Trend: Six Artists
from Mexico City Nativity Scene Contemporanea: An Installation by
Maria Elena Gonzalez
Santos: Sculptures Between Heaven
and Earth Day of the Dead The Liberated Print: The
Portfolio in Puerto Rican Graphics Antonio Martorell La Casa
Letrada 1995-96 ADAL Out of Focus
Nuyoricans Eloy Blanco Pursuits in Painting,
1950 - 1984 Ana Busto Working
Shoes Luis Camnitzer
AMANAPLANACANALAPANAMA
Pa'lante
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