“Juan Francisco Elso: Por América” a retrospective of the Cuban artist—curated by visitor curator Olga Viso, in collaboration with Susanna V. Temkin (El Museo curator)—is on view at EL Museo del Barrio (El Museo del Barrio, 1230 fifth Avenue, New York, New York) till March 26, 2023. The present will probably be accompanied by a publication, co-published by El Museo del Barrio, which is able to provide the primary complete bilingual examine devoted to the artist (obtainable early 2023).
Juan Francisco Elso: Por América investigates the transient but important profession of the late Cuban artist Juan Francisco Elso (1956-1988). Primarily based in Havana, Elso was a part of the primary technology of artists born and educated in post-revolutionary Cuba, who gained worldwide recognition within the early 1980’s.
Created largely utilizing pure, natural supplies, his sculptural follow examines the advanced types of up to date Cuban, Caribbean, and Latin American identities, as inflected by the cultural influences of Indigenous traditions, Afro-Caribbean non secular beliefs, in addition to the traumas of colonial oppression. Elso’s dedication to such histories – which relate to El Museo del Barrio’s personal foundational ethos – presage present post- and decolonial views. The exhibition examines such legacies and parallels by inserting Elso’s prescient work alongside a multigenerational group of artists energetic within the Caribbean, and all through North, South, and Central America.
Introduced via a contextual quite than monographic strategy, Juan Francisco Elso: Por América is organized into a number of, interrelated thematic sections that discover very important crosscurrents between Elso’s artwork and the inventive output of each shut colleagues and others who, regardless of having not recognized him, exhibit parallel affinities. That includes 45 works by greater than 30 artists, the exhibition consists of Belkis Ayón; José Bedia; Ricardo Brey; Tania Bruguera; María Magdalena Campos-Pons; Luis Camnitzer; Los Carpinteros (Alexandre Arrechea, Marco Castillo, and Dagoberto Rodriguez); Albert Chong; Papo Colo (Francisco Colón Quintero); Jimmie Durham; Melvin Edwards; Scherezade García; Silvia Gruner; Karlo Andrei Ibarra; Graciela Iturbide; Magali Lara; Kcho (Alexis Leyva Machado); Glenn Ligon; Rogelio López Marin (GORY); Ana Mendieta; Senga Nengudi; Lorraine O’Grady; Gabriel Orozco; Marta María Pérez Bravo; Gustavo Pérez-Monzón; Ángel Ramírez; Michael Richards; Alison Saar; Leandro Soto; Renée Stout; Gerardo Suter; and Ruben Torres Llorca, in addition to new commissions by Tiona Nekkia McClodden and Reynier Leyva Novo.
Following its presentation at El Museo del Barrio, Juan Francisco Elso: Por América will journey to Phoenix Artwork Museum and the Museum of Up to date Artwork, North Miami. The present is accompanied by a publication, co-published by El Museo del Barrio, which is able to provide the primary complete bilingual examine devoted to the artist (obtainable early 2023).
For extra info, see https://www.elmuseo.org/elso