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(NEW YORK, NY – August 2, 2013) – Richard Armstrong, Director, Solomon
R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, today announced that distinguished
independent curator Pablo León de la Barra has been selected as
Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator, Latin America. He is the second curator to
have been chosen to participate in the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art
Initiative, an ambitious collaboration between the Guggenheim Museum and
UBS that was launched last year.
Through the Initiative, the Guggenheim is engaged in a multi-year
effort to identify and support a network of artists and curators from
three major regions—South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the
Middle East and North Africa—in a comprehensive program involving
curatorial residencies, acquisitions for the Guggenheim’s permanent
collection, international touring exhibitions, and extensive educational
and online activities.
Pablo León de la Barra will undertake a two-year residency in New
York, where he will work with the Guggenheim’s curatorial staff to
identify recent artworks by artists of Latin American origin that
reflect some of the region’s most significant contemporary cultural
practices and ideas. Artworks chosen by León de la Barra will enter the
collection and form the basis of an exhibition planned to open at the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 2014 before traveling to two
international venues.
León de la Barra was nominated by a committee of five esteemed
experts on this region: Magalí Arriola, Curator, Fundación Jumex,
Ecatepec de Morelos, Mexico; José Falconi, Fellow, Department of History
of Art and Architecture, Harvard University; Gabriela Rangel, Director
of Visual Arts and Chief Curator, Americas Society, New York; Ana
Sokoloff, art advisor, New York; and Yolanda Wood Pujols, Director,
Center for Caribbean Studies, Casa de las Américas, Havana.
View the full release.
#1309/MAP6
August 2, 2013
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