Malba – Fundación Costantini
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| Fernando Bryce, "El mundo en llamas" (detail), 2010–2011 |
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Fernando Bryce
Drawing
modern history
29 June–20 August 2012
Curators: Natalia Majluf and Tatiana Cuevas
Opening: 29 June, 7pm
Malba – Fundación Costantini
Avda. Figueroa Alcorta 3415
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Hours: Thu–Mon, 12–8pm / Wed 12–9pm
T 54 11 4808 6500
www.malba.org.ar
Malba – Fundación Costantini
is pleased to announce Fernando Bryce:
Drawing Modern History. Organized by the Museo de Arte de Lima
- MALI with the support of
Prom Perú, this mid-career survey presents 19 ambitious series consisting of
more than 1000 elements produced between 1997 and 2011 and drawn from public
and private collections in North America and Europe.
Over the past decade Fernando
Bryce (b. 1965, Lima)
has produced an incisive body of work based on historical memory and modes of
representation. Bryce's series focus on crucial historical episodes which he
explores critically and systematically. His method, which he has described as
"mimetic analysis," relies on the careful copying of pamphlets,
official documents, press images, political propaganda, and advertisements in
order to articulate large suites of ink drawings that deal with power relations
and their mediatization in twentieth-century history. Through the basic play of
re-presentation (in the most literal sense of showing again), by copying or by
the simple mise en scène of documents
and objects, Bryce uses appropriation, parody, and irony as weapons to expose
and question the prejudices underlying commonly accepted official discourses.
Through this strategy, Bryce literally recovers the figuration of ideology. His
project thus engages the images of history in the modern world, fixed
selectively to forge a genealogy of the present.
Fernando
Bryce: Drawing Modern History traces the way in which the artist's project
gradually expands to acquire a programmatic character and an almost
encyclopedic ambition. At the turn of the millennium, his work opened up to
take on other regions and other chapters of twentieth-century history, from the
revolutionary cycle and the Cold War in Latin America to the Spanish Civil War,
different episodes of European colonialism, and the Second World War. In these
works, the juxtaposition of images of diverse origin creates dense and powerful
narrative groupings.
For the exhibition at Malba, Fernando Bryce: Drawing Modern History
will be accompanied by a major catalogue in Spanish and English, featuring the
critical essay "Seeing History" by Natalia Maljuf, Director of MALI
and curator of the exhibition, and an interview with the artist by the critic
Carlo Trivelli, as well as installation views of the works in the show.
On the occasion of this survey exhibition, his first in Argentina,
the artist will donate the work The World
Over 1929 (2010) to the permanent collection of Malba.
