Antonio Berni’s ManifestaciónThe Mondongo Manifestación exhibit includes a three-dimensional clay-made version of Berni’s painting featuring contemporary artists, activists, and acquaintances of the artists in place of the original faces of low-income workers. According to the artists, the choices of the people in the piece were a way of stating a genealogical review of how Argentine art represented excluded communities and social protest. The piece was purchased by MALBA’s owner, art collector and real-estate mogul Eduardo Costantini. The exhibit also includes a two-meter tondo piece called Villa II, which depicts scenes from slums in Buenos Aires, Dharavi, and Río de Janeiro. Manifestación in FocusThe Mondongo exhibit is part of MALBA’s institutional project Manifestación in Focus, an interdisciplinary investigation into the material, historical and cultural aspects of the piece, which began in 2021.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald June 20, 2024 06:10 UTC