Pop, Realisms and Politics

Buenos Aires

Fundación Proa currently presents Art of Contradictions. Pop, Realisms and Politics. Brazil – Argentina, 1960. The exhibition evidences the effervescence of artists, as well as the challenges they faced, as they navigated the eagerness to modernize and the urgency of revolutionary struggles.

In the 1960s, a decade of deep changes, Brazil and Argentina developed their own vision of Pop Art. The icons of Che Guevara, Coca-Cola, and the dollar bill are images of resistance and struggle. The happening and participation art left institutional spaces behind to take to the spaces of daily life. Aesthetic practices partook of pop culture and the power of reality organized artistic experience. Experimentation was bound to commitment.

Art of Contradictions. Pop, Realisms and Politics. Brazil – Argentina, 1960 brings together more than 100 works by 59 artists; it includes films, paintings, installations, drawings, documents, performances, and photographs belonging to outstanding museums and private collections.

Fundación PROA

July 14th – September, 2012
Av. Pedro de Mendoza 1929
C1169AAD Buenos Aires
Argentina

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