We suggest you visit the collection of the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires online. "Walking" through its rooms will be transformed into a journey through the most diverse artistic manifestations that give content to its heritage. In each space a small white circle on the floor will indicate the route, and on the walls, an eye in black ink will allow us to access the explanatory texts.
If we move towards the permanent collection, the first narrative will install us at the main crossroads of this time with a look SOUTH OF THE SOUTH. These challenges make the spirit of the museum with works of the present dialoguing with the oldest ones; inserts "that break the chronological lines to offer a panorama of the main problems of art in their encounter, in the manner of a fugue, with aesthetic and social debates that invite the memory to sprout far and forward".
The walk -we assure it- becomes intoxicating, and stopping at Self-portrait with monkey and parrot by Frida Kahlo, will immerse us in the most exalted Latin American art. The explanatory text installs us in the motivations that drove the author, the most intimate, the everyday, and the philosophical and political.
And just by going one step further, we will find the work of Emilio Pettoruti, three important manifestations of his transgressive art with the geometrization of forms and the application of flat colors in the ten and twenties of the last century. Pettoruti returned from Europe in 1923 and the following year he exhibited for the first time in Argentina; that show caused a huge stir. Critics and the local public were divided over the audacity of his creations. This exhibition at the Witcomb Gallery was a milestone in national painting; abstract art and non-figuration were presented to the Argentine public for the first time. You will find in the MALBA text a brief and concise description of that disruptive moment in Argentine art. We assure you, it is worth strolling through this unique museum without leaving your home. And just by clicking now: Visit