C-32 Sucursal. La Ene en Malba
Fundación Costantini Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Francisco Alvarez, 08/08/2014 - 10/13/2014
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On August Malba opens C-32 Sucursal. La Ene en Malba, the latest edition of the
Contemporáneo program dedicated to current art from the country and the region. This
exhibition features La Ene, Nuevo Museo Energía de Arte Contemporáneo, a Buenos
Aires-based project geared to institutional criticism started in 2010.
For the duration of C-32 Sucursal, La Ene will move its center of operations to Malba,
occupying the gallery designated for the Contemporáneo program, as well as the
museum’s façade and courtyard. La Ene’s collection, which consists of sixteen pieces,
and its archives will be on display. A series of workshops, interventions, and residency
programs organized jointly by Malba and La Ene will take place. The show will be
coordinated and curated by Gala Berger, Sofía Dourron, Marina Reyes Franco, and
Santiago Villanueva.
“La Ene’s collection took shape in response to the constant difficulties that museums
face in relation to their collections, problems regarding issues like storage and
conservation,” explains Marina Reyes Franco, one of the founders of La Ene and its
current director. The museum set out to work around these obstacles and to find
alternatives to traditional notions of the permanent collection and of institutional
holdings.
The collection revolves around works that can be stored on a hard drive and activated
anywhere. “This does not mean that the collection consists solely of digital works, but
rather that it focuses on works that can be adjusted to digital format for conservation,”
the curators explain.
In the framework of the exhibition, Sofía Olascoaga (Mexico) and Radamés “Juni”
Figueroa (Puerto Rico) will develop projects as artists-in-residence. Olascoaga will
further a research project entitled “Entre utopía y desencanto” [Between Utopia and
Disillusionment] that deals with alternative education in Cuernavaca, Mexico. During the
exhibition, she will explore strains of that research relevant to Argentina. More
specifically, her intention is to share the process that Entre utopía y desencanto, her
research on the historical experiences in Cuernavaca from 1950 to 1990, has addressed,
experiences that gave rise to reflections, practices, and models for community life and
social action that encompass psychoanalytic and feminist perspectives as well as
perspectives relevant to alternative education and social movements.
In keeping with his recent projects for the Whitney Biennial and the New York Sculpture
Garden, Figueroa will make an inhabitable sculpture for Malba’s central space.
Conceived to encourage audience participation, this structure constitutes a platform and
a meeting point, as well as a space of reflection, within the context of the exhibition.
Luis Camnitzer will present his work-text El museo es una escuela [The Museum is a
School] (2011- ), a site-specific installation for museum facades that changes with each
location. First exhibited in Buenos Aires at La Ene in 2013, Camnitzer’s installation with
be on loan to Malba during the exhibition. The work’s complete text reads: “The
museum is a school: the artist learns to communicate, the public learns to make
connections.” In exchange for the loan, Malba will produce a postcard with a photograph
of the museum’s intervened façade to be sent to 100 artists. El museo es una escuela
forms part of Camnitzer’s ongoing work on education and his criticism of art institutions
and art teaching.
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On August Malba opens C-32 Sucursal. La Ene en Malba, the latest edition of the
Contemporáneo program dedicated to current art from the country and the region. This
exhibition features La Ene, Nuevo Museo Energía de Arte Contemporáneo, a Buenos
Aires-based project geared to institutional criticism started in 2010.
For the duration of C-32 Sucursal, La Ene will move its center of operations to Malba,
occupying the gallery designated for the Contemporáneo program, as well as the
museum’s façade and courtyard. La Ene’s collection, which consists of sixteen pieces,
and its archives will be on display. A series of workshops, interventions, and residency
programs organized jointly by Malba and La Ene will take place. The show will be
coordinated and curated by Gala Berger, Sofía Dourron, Marina Reyes Franco, and
Santiago Villanueva.
“La Ene’s collection took shape in response to the constant difficulties that museums
face in relation to their collections, problems regarding issues like storage and
conservation,” explains Marina Reyes Franco, one of the founders of La Ene and its
current director. The museum set out to work around these obstacles and to find
alternatives to traditional notions of the permanent collection and of institutional
holdings.
The collection revolves around works that can be stored on a hard drive and activated
anywhere. “This does not mean that the collection consists solely of digital works, but
rather that it focuses on works that can be adjusted to digital format for conservation,”
the curators explain.
In the framework of the exhibition, Sofía Olascoaga (Mexico) and Radamés “Juni”
Figueroa (Puerto Rico) will develop projects as artists-in-residence. Olascoaga will
further a research project entitled “Entre utopía y desencanto” [Between Utopia and
Disillusionment] that deals with alternative education in Cuernavaca, Mexico. During the
exhibition, she will explore strains of that research relevant to Argentina. More
specifically, her intention is to share the process that Entre utopía y desencanto, her
research on the historical experiences in Cuernavaca from 1950 to 1990, has addressed,
experiences that gave rise to reflections, practices, and models for community life and
social action that encompass psychoanalytic and feminist perspectives as well as
perspectives relevant to alternative education and social movements.
In keeping with his recent projects for the Whitney Biennial and the New York Sculpture
Garden, Figueroa will make an inhabitable sculpture for Malba’s central space.
Conceived to encourage audience participation, this structure constitutes a platform and
a meeting point, as well as a space of reflection, within the context of the exhibition.
Luis Camnitzer will present his work-text El museo es una escuela [The Museum is a
School] (2011- ), a site-specific installation for museum facades that changes with each
location. First exhibited in Buenos Aires at La Ene in 2013, Camnitzer’s installation with
be on loan to Malba during the exhibition. The work’s complete text reads: “The
museum is a school: the artist learns to communicate, the public learns to make
connections.” In exchange for the loan, Malba will produce a postcard with a photograph
of the museum’s intervened façade to be sent to 100 artists. El museo es una escuela
forms part of Camnitzer’s ongoing work on education and his criticism of art institutions
and art teaching.
For More Information