Art from Latin America: Malba-Costantini Collection

Published on the occasion of the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires's (MALBA) twenty-fifth anniversary, Latin American Art presents the MALBA-Costantini Collection through a chronological structure of five chapters, tracing artistic developments from the early Latin American avant-garde to contemporary practice. Since its inception in 2001, when founder Eduardo F. Constantini donated over two hundred pieces from his personal collection, the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA) has become a leading institution for the study and presentation of modern and contemporary Latin American art. Today, the museum operates as a dynamic cultural center, housing more than seven hundred works of art by artists from Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Mexico, Ecuador, Cuba, Colombia, Venezuela, and Chile, among other countries. MALBA's holdings have recently expanded to include over one thousand additional works by over one hundred artists, with Constantini acquiring the entire Daros Latinamerica Collection in one of the most significant institutional acquisitions of Latin American art in decades. Featuring painting, sculpture, photography, works on paper, and new media, this volume includes key works by artists such as Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Tarsila do Amaral, Wifredo Lam, Antonio Berni, Xul Solar, Joaquín Torres-García, Lygia Clark, León Ferrari, Doris Salcedo, and others. Nineteen newly commissioned essays by leading scholars provide critical perspectives on the collection's historical scope, cultural contexts, and ongoing relevance, alongside an introduction examining Constantini's vision.

Rodrigo Moura is a writer, editor, and curator, who is Artistic Director of the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA). Previously he was Chief Curator at El Museo del Barrio in New York. He has worked in Brazilian art institutions such as Museu de Arte da Pampulha (Belo Horizonte), Instituto Inhotim (Brumadinho), and Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, where he curated exhibitions of Melvin Edwards, Aleijadinho and Teresinha Soares. His monographs include Marcius Galan: Seção (São Paulo: Cosac Naify, 2015) and Patricia Leite: Olha pro céu meu amor (Rio de Janeiro: Cobogó, 2019).