Therapy
2021-2022 | Malba Museo de Arte Latinoamericano | Buenos Aires, Argentina.
This exhibition takes as its starting point the influence of psychoanalysis on Argentine art and its establishment as a vector of modernity in our country. It sets off from the weight that this field of knowledge and therapeutic practice exerted and still exerts, which became idiosyncratic of the national, to put forth a selection of works by modern and contemporary artists of the country that are in dialogue with different aspects, themes and problems of psychoanalysis.
Terapia’s aim is not to present a historiography of the discipline, but to constitute itself as an invitation to think, with the help of art, about the reasons why the psychoanalytic impulse is one of the most singular and outstanding features of modern Argentine culture.
Organized in eleven thematic nuclei, the exhibition brings together nearly two hundred works by more than fifty Argentine artists such as Juan Batlle Planas, Pompeyo Audivert, Libero Badii, Emilio Renart, Aída Carballo, Grete Stern, Mildred Burton, Emilia Gutiérrez, Luis Felipe Noé, Martha Peluffo, Ideal Sánchez, Lea Lublin, Narcisa Hirsch, Oscar Masotta, Susana Rodríguez, Roberto Aizenberg, Margarita Paksa, Marcia Schvartz, Eduardo Costa, Roberto Jacoby, Marisa Rubio, Claudia del Río, Nicolás Guagnini and Manuel Aja Espil, among many others. It also includes a vast selection of documentary material that allows us to understand and contextualize the development of psychoanalysis in our country in its relationship with art and culture.
“It is undeniable that, by accepting the romantic position of life, surrealism joins the psychoanalytic theory, because it is the only one that explains and clarifies the fundamental facts of existence,” said Juan Batlle Planas.
The pieces come from more than fifty private collections and important institutions such as: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Museo Sívori, Fundación Klemm, Archivo Di Tella, Fundación Espigas IDA, Fundación Lariviere, Fundación BBVA, CeDInCI and APA, among others.
Curators: Gabriela Rangel, Verónica Rossi and Santiago Villanueva.
