September 5 - October 14 2023; Tu, Wed, Fri, Sat 10am-5:30pm, TR 11am-7pm
Hosfelt Gallery presents a solo exhibition of the work of one of the most significant Latin American artists working today - the 81-year-old Argentinian, Liliana Porter.
In photographs, video, drawings, and sculptures Porter creates artworks at the intersection of object and image. By mixing the absurd with the philosophical, she creates extraordinary situations which lure us into the realm of an idiosyncratic cast of characters drawn from an eclectic collection of figurines, knickknacks, toys, and souvenirs. Porter places these characters in unexpected combinations and circumstances, creating scenarios tinged with humor and pathos involving incongruous events and unlikely protagonists.
Conceptually rigorous in spite of their playfulness, Porter's artworks invite a range of political, philosophical, and existential interpretation, as well as a full embrace of the human experience in all of its messiness and paradox.
Born in Buenos Aires in 1941, Liliana Porter studied art in Mexico and Argentina before moving to New York in 1964. There, at age 22, she co-founded the famed New York Graphic Workshop with Luis Camnitzer and Jose Guillermo Castillo after an acquaintance offered her access to the printing press in his Greenwich Village apartment. Porter has shown extensively internationally, including most recently solo museum exhibitions at El Museo del Barrio, New York; Perez Art Museum, Miami; Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Centro Cultura de Espana, Santiago, Chile. Her work is in numerous public and private collections in Latin America, Europe and the United States, including the Museum of Modern Art, NY; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Smithsonian Museum of American Art; and Tate Modern, London.
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Presented by Hosfelt Gallery.
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Hosfelt Gallery presents a solo exhibition of the work of one of the most significant Latin American artists working today - the 81-year-old Argentinian, Liliana Porter.
In photographs, video, drawings, and sculptures Porter creates artworks at the intersection of object and image. By mixing the absurd with the philosophical, she creates extraordinary situations which lure us into the realm of an idiosyncratic cast of characters drawn from an eclectic collection of figurines, knickknacks, toys, and souvenirs. Porter places these characters in unexpected combinations and circumstances, creating scenarios tinged with humor and pathos involving incongruous events and unlikely protagonists.
Conceptually rigorous in spite of their playfulness, Porter's artworks invite a range of political, philosophical, and existential interpretation, as well as a full embrace of the human experience in all of its messiness and paradox.
Born in Buenos Aires in 1941, Liliana Porter studied art in Mexico and Argentina before moving to New York in 1964. There, at age 22, she co-founded the famed New York Graphic Workshop with Luis Camnitzer and Jose Guillermo Castillo after an acquaintance offered her access to the printing press in his Greenwich Village apartment. Porter has shown extensively internationally, including most recently solo museum exhibitions at El Museo del Barrio, New York; Perez Art Museum, Miami; Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Centro Cultura de Espana, Santiago, Chile. Her work is in numerous public and private collections in Latin America, Europe and the United States, including the Museum of Modern Art, NY; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Smithsonian Museum of American Art; and Tate Modern, London.
Free
Presented by Hosfelt Gallery.
September 5 - October 14 2023; Tu, Wed, Fri, Sat 10am-5:30pm, TR 11am-7pm
Hosfelt Gallery presents a solo exhibition of the work of one of the most significant Latin American artists working today - the 81-year-old Argentinian, Liliana Porter.
In photographs, video, drawings, and sculptures Porter creates artworks at the intersection of object and image. By mixing the absurd with the philosophical, she creates extraordinary situations which lure us into the realm of an idiosyncratic cast of characters drawn from an eclectic collection of figurines, knickknacks, toys, and souvenirs. Porter places these characters in unexpected combinations and circumstances, creating scenarios tinged with humor and pathos involving incongruous events and unlikely protagonists.
Conceptually rigorous in spite of their playfulness, Porter's artworks invite a range of political, philosophical, and existential interpretation, as well as a full embrace of the human experience in all of its messiness and paradox.
Born in Buenos Aires in 1941, Liliana Porter studied art in Mexico and Argentina before moving to New York in 1964. There, at age 22, she co-founded the famed New York Graphic Workshop with Luis Camnitzer and Jose Guillermo Castillo after an acquaintance offered her access to the printing press in his Greenwich Village apartment. Porter has shown extensively internationally, including most recently solo museum exhibitions at El Museo del Barrio, New York; Perez Art Museum, Miami; Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Centro Cultura de Espana, Santiago, Chile. Her work is in numerous public and private collections in Latin America, Europe and the United States, including the Museum of Modern Art, NY; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Smithsonian Museum of American Art; and Tate Modern, London.
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Presented by Hosfelt Gallery.
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Hosfelt Gallery presents a solo exhibition of the work of one of the most significant Latin American artists working today - the 81-year-old Argentinian, Liliana Porter.
In photographs, video, drawings, and sculptures Porter creates artworks at the intersection of object and image. By mixing the absurd with the philosophical, she creates extraordinary situations which lure us into the realm of an idiosyncratic cast of characters drawn from an eclectic collection of figurines, knickknacks, toys, and souvenirs. Porter places these characters in unexpected combinations and circumstances, creating scenarios tinged with humor and pathos involving incongruous events and unlikely protagonists.
Conceptually rigorous in spite of their playfulness, Porter's artworks invite a range of political, philosophical, and existential interpretation, as well as a full embrace of the human experience in all of its messiness and paradox.
Born in Buenos Aires in 1941, Liliana Porter studied art in Mexico and Argentina before moving to New York in 1964. There, at age 22, she co-founded the famed New York Graphic Workshop with Luis Camnitzer and Jose Guillermo Castillo after an acquaintance offered her access to the printing press in his Greenwich Village apartment. Porter has shown extensively internationally, including most recently solo museum exhibitions at El Museo del Barrio, New York; Perez Art Museum, Miami; Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Centro Cultura de Espana, Santiago, Chile. Her work is in numerous public and private collections in Latin America, Europe and the United States, including the Museum of Modern Art, NY; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Smithsonian Museum of American Art; and Tate Modern, London.
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