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ILoveQatar.net
25-05-2025
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8 must-see things at the LATINOAMERICANO exhibit at the National Museum of Qatar
LATINOAMERICANO is the landmark exhibit of the Qatar Argentina and Chile 2025 Year of Culture, hosted at the National Museum of Qatar. It's in collaboration with Modern and Contemporary Art from the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (Malba) and Eduardo F. Costantini Collections. It's the first large-scale presentation of Latin American art in the region. The exhibit features over 170 multidisciplinary artworks that explore Latin America's culture and identity. The (ILQ) team has visited the exhibit and is here to tell you some of the artwork and pieces you shouldn't miss! Sculpture of Dreams by Marta Minujin Ever wanted to walk through a giant, colourful piece of art? 😍 🎨 Sculpture of Dreams by Marta Minujin is a new outdoor art installation at the National Museum of Qatar as part of the Qatar, Argentina, and Chile Year of Culture 2025. ✨ The installation invites visitors to… — ILoveQatar - Live (@ILQLive) April 28, 2025 Before you enter the LATINAMERICANO exhibit, be sure to visit the Sculpture of Dreams by conceptual pop artist Marta Minujin in the outdoor area of the National Museum of Qatar. This sculpture once adorned New York's Times Square and is now in Doha, offering an immersive experience. Visitors can walk through the sculpture's interior and be surrounded by vibrant colours, and are encouraged to whisper their hopes and wishes before leaving. Frida Kahlo's corner One thing you definitely shouldn't miss is Frida Kahlo's corner of the exhibit, featuring her Self Portrait with Monkey and Parrot. Created in 1942, this oil painting is one of Frida's famous self-portraits and showcases her with two animal companions, just like many of her works: a monkey and a parrot. Witness her signature vibrant art style that accentuates her striking features. Frida Kahlo's red and yellow huipil, a cotton blouse worn by Mexican women, is also displayed. Seeing this creates the surreal feeling of Frida's life becoming tangible, as you encounter an actual piece of her clothing. You'll find a handkerchief with Frida's handwriting and a mark of her lipstick beside it, too. The display also includes various photos and portraits throughout Frida Kahlo's life. Quipu Desaparecido (Disappeared Quipu) by Cecilia Vicuña A multi-sensory installation to check out is A Poem in Space by Cecilia Vicuña. The piece showcases the ancient art of record-keeping called quipu, which involves tying knots on fabric or strings. In early centuries, various cultures in South America used tied knots to store information based on dimensions like colour, order, and number. This method of record-keeping was also used to store poems and historical accounts. Her installation Quipu Desaparecido pays homage to this, accompanied by projected scenes and ambient sounds, meant to tell the story of how early civilisations suffered from Spanish colonisation. Analogy IV by Víctor Grippo Analogy IV by Víctor Grippo is an interesting piece that contrasts artificial and organic elements. You'll find a set for two, with the left side featuring a black tablecloth, an acrylic plate, cutlery, and artificial potatoes, while the right side displays a white tablecloth, a ceramic plate, metal cutlery, and three real potatoes. Another interesting piece to see is the Inserções em circuitos ideológicos: Projeto Coca-Cola by Cildo Meireles. Three Coca-Cola bottles are on display with varying levels of fullness. The artist had printed political messages and artwork on the bottles in white ink, using similar branding that becomes almost invisible when the bottle is empty. Reportedly, these bottles were released back into the market through bottle return systems, where factories failed to notice the messages on empty bottles, refilled them, and returned them to the market for consumers to encounter the messages unsuspectingly. These bottles were circulated in Brazil during a time of military dictatorship that lasted from 1964 to 1985. 8 Sobrevivientes (8 Survivors) by Eugenio Dittborn 8 Sobrevivientes is part of Eugenio Dittborn's conceptual Airmail Series and depicts 8 various portraits of survivors who represent those who were censored or "disappeared" during Chile's military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. The piece is meant to be displayed with its envelope and showcases creases and tears, emphasizing the struggles of its journey. Make sure to read the text within the artwork to learn more about some of the survivors' stories. Sinusoide by Oscar Bony Oscar Bony is another conceptual artist whose work has deep political themes. His piece Sinusoide takes the form and pattern of a sine wave, symbolizing political powers that control and enforce censorship over society. Constellations by Kosice Constellations by Kosice is a beautiful, luminous artwork meant to represent stars and galaxies. Take in the piece as a whole and how the lights take shape, and step closer to see the intricate details and images embedded that can only be seen up close. Details
Arab News
07-05-2025
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Deal signed to promote Saudi cultural heritage
Works by renowned 20th-century Latin American artists presented in new exhibition in Doha DOHA: One of revered Mexican artist Diego Rivera's best-known paintings is now on display at the National Museum of Qatar. Titled 'Baile en Tehuantepec' ('Dance in Tehuantepec') and completed in 1920, it depicts a group of female Oaxacan dancers dressed in bright costumes poised to begin the Zandunga dance. The painting, like others by Riviera at the time, aimed to depict the social life of Mexico. With time, the work, exhibited a few years later at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, became one of the most expensive paintings in Latin American art. Lam, Wilfredo, Omi Obini, ALTA. (Supplied) Nearly a century after Riviera painted the work, it is on show in Doha in 'LATINOAMERICANO,' a comprehensive exhibition running until July 19. Showcasing over 170 artworks, including paintings, sculptures, installation, video, photographs, films and archival documentation by over 100 artists from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Paraguay, Mexico, Venezuela and Uruguay, the exhibition offers an in-depth look at Latin American art from 1900 to the present in what marks the first-ever show of its kind in West Asia and North Africa for the genre. The exhibition, organized in partnership with Qatar Museums, is a pivotal aspect of the Qatar, Argentina and Chile 2025 Year of Culture. It presents modern and contemporary artworks from the collections of Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Eduardo F. Costantini and Qatar Museums institutions like Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art and the Future Art Mill Museum, among others. Rivera, Diego, Baile en Tehuantepec, 1928, Colección Eduardo F. Costantini. (Supplied) Curated by Issa Al-Shirawi, a Qatari curator, researcher and head of international exhibitions at Qatar Museums, and Maria Amalia Garcia, curator in chief at Malba, the show ambitiously strives to capture the diverse art and culture of an entire continent. 'The exhibition promotes an exchange of knowledge through art, continuing Qatar Museums' emphasis on showing art histories from underrated and underappreciated art histories,' Al-Shirawi told Arab News, underlining how Latin American artists have consistently challenged narratives, readapted local traditions and influenced artistic movements across the world. There are several pieces Al-Shirawi notes that highlight the artistic exchange between the Middle East and Latin America. Candido Portinari. Festa de Sao Joao, 1936. (Supplied) One is by Uruguayan-born artist Gonzalo Fonseca who traveled to the Middle East during the 1950s where he visited archaeological sites that made a lasting impact on his sculptural work, highly conceptual with great references to architectural forms. Another is a vibrant painting by Lebanese-born artist Bibi Zogbe, who emigrated to Buenos Aires, Argentina and became known throughout South America as 'la pintura de flores' ('the flower painter'). These works are displayed alongside those of both globally renowned artists from the continent, like Colombian artist Fernando Botero, Cuban painter Wilfredo Lam, Belkis Ayon, also from Cuba, known for her work on African influences in the Caribbean island, and Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, among many others. Candido Portinari. Festa de Sao Joao, 1936. (Supplied) The exhibition's in-depth thematic sections provide a first taste for those new to Latin American art. 'At first, we thought we would organize the show chronologically, but then we realized that it was crucial to show the connections between traditional art and various modern and contemporary movements and what influenced these,' Al-Shirawi aid. 'How does the traditional translate back into the contemporary? And how does the contemporary go back to the traditional? A poignant multisensory installation that demonstrates this and that, in Al-Shirawi's opinion, serves as one of the 'anchor' works for the exhibition is by Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuna. Titled 'Quipu desparecido' ('Disappeared Quipu,' 2018), it refers to the Andean civilization's quipus — knotted strings made of colored and spun or plied wood or llama hair — used to record information. The practice was crucial to societal organization across the ancient Incan Empire but was decimated by the Spanish colonization. Vicuna's artwork pays homage to these important threads to reactivate the memory of the quipus, which she refers to as a 'poem in space, a way to remember, involving the body and the cosmos at once.'
