Hammer Museum's 'Radical Women' to showcase Latina artists on the politics of the female body
The LA Times looks forward to the Hammer's contribution to the next Pacific Standard Time series
In the fall of 2017, the Hammer Museum at UCLA will present "Radical Women, Latin American Art, 1960-1985" featuring the work of 116 artists from the U.S. Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America. All of the artists selected are female.
"Latina and Latin American women artists rarely get air time in U.S. museums. That changes next fall when the Pacific Standard Time series of exhibitions devoted to art from Latino and Latin American artists around the globe touches down in Los Angeles.
Of particular note will be “Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985,” at the Hammer Museum, set to take place in the fall of 2017. Today the museum released the list of participating artists — a lengthy lineup that includes 260 works by 116 artists (all women) from the U.S., Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and South America. Even Paraguay, never a contender in surveys about Latin American art, has two artists represented in the show.
“We are looking at a lot of women that have been completely overlooked,” says Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, one of the exhibition’s guest curators. “These are women that have shaped how we understand contemporary art today, how we use our bodies, how we can think about our bodies at a conceptual level.”
The exhibition will feature well-known artists such as Ana Mendieta, the Cuban American artist known for her earthy body works, and Lygia Pape, the Brazilian sculptor known for her psychological approaches to space. (The recent exhibition of sculpture by women at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel in downtown Los Angeles featured an ethereal installation by the latter, consisting of near-invisible gold threads woven into a corner, so that they appear like a shimmering mirage of a prism.)"— Carolina Miranda, Sep. 28
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