The exhibition Acción Urgente [Urgent Action] is the result of exhaustive research by Cecilia Rabossi and Rodrigo Alonso. It explores the actions carried out by interdisciplinary groups of artists from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay during the last twenty years, all of which form part of a phenomenon that became vital to the region’s art scene during this period. In response to the surrounding political, social, and economic realities, these groups have deployed artistic practices geared to making an array of issues visible. The works in the exhibition evidence the originality, spontaneity, and range of aesthetic resources used in actions that engage the public space of the city as setting.
Such actions include the satirical and provocative laughter of Grupo Etcétera as, in the nineties, it staged public denouncements of those involved in perpetrating repression during the last military dictatorship in Argentina; the reinvention of graffiti by the Mujeres Creando collective in Bolivia; and the original proposals ofFrente 3 de Fevereiro in Brazil to condemn racism. Together, these and other outstanding proposals formulate the dialogue that runs through the exhibition.
The artists’ collectives challenge individual creation for the sake of highly political collective authorship. They operate at the margins of institutions and use the mass media to circulate, produce, and communicate their actions. As such, these collectives formulate new modes of aesthetic and political experimentation in the public space.
- Artists:
EscombrosCosturas UrbanasEtcétera (Internacional Errorista)Viva Laura PérezMujeres PúblicasIconoclasistasMujeres CreandoFrente 3 de FevereiroOpavivaráContrafiléCuadernos de MovilizaciónJavier López & Erika MezaColectivo Sociedad CivilLa PerreraClemente PadínGrupo Mujeres Artistas en Movimiento - Open:
Saturday, 05 July 2014 - Close:
Sunday, 24 August 2014 - Address:
Av. Pedro de Mendoza 1929 La Boca, Caminito, Buenos Aires, Argentina - Mail:
info@proa.org - Phone:
+54 11 4104 1000 - Web:
Fundación Proa - Opening hour:
Tue – Sun | 11am – 7pm - Closing day:
Monday - Admission:
Free - Transport:
Buses: 20, 25, 29, 33, 46, 53, 64, 152 - Photo credits:
1. Etcétera: OPERACIÓN B.A.N.G. Desembarco errorista en la Cumbre de las Américas. Mar del Plata, 2005, © Archivo Etcétera; 2. Escombros: Crimen seriado, 1995, Intervención en un bosque de La Plata © Escombros; 3. Grupo Costuras Urbanas: Privatizado, 1997, Documentación fotográfica de la acción homónima en el Palacio de Justicia, Córdoba, Argentina © Costuras Urbanas; 4. m.a.m mujeres artistas en movimiento: Despenalización del Aborto, 2003, Documentación fotográfica de intervención urbana realizada en la Plaza 1º de Mayo, Montevideo, Uruguay © m.a.m artistas en movimiento
