BIENALSUR 2019, the second edition of the cultural event of contemporary art from Argentina to the world, opens on June 29, at 12:30 pm, the exhibition "Homens brancos" curated by the Brazilian Marcelo Masagao, at the Pueyrredón Museum, located in Rivera Indarte 48 - Acassuso- . With free admission it can be visited until October 27th.
The International Biennial of Contemporary Art of South America, together with the General Undersecretary of Culture of San Isidro, inaugurates in the Pueyrredón Museum the exhibition "Homens brancos" in which the Brazilian curator and artist Marcelo Masagao critically revisits the injustices with black people in past centuries and warns about the inequalities that in the same sense still persist and reappear in many regions of the civilized world.
Based on subtle but effective interventions on a series of watercolours by Jean-Baptiste Debret in 1830, Masagao highlights the class constructions in Brazilian colonial society which, however, can be extended to any of the new American states. By cutting out of the scenes all those representations of the white man and leaving a silhouette in its place, the artist generates a tension between the disappearance of the white man and his presence - always white - even in the face of the attempted erasure. Likewise, from different exhibition devices - a small-format box work and large-scale enlargements of some scenes - the public is questioned by the same work but from different perspectives of participation.
On the same day you can also see [IN] VISIBLES, produced by the museum, which brings together original documents, archaeological objects and works of art, that like "Homens brancos", invites reflection on Afro culture.
What happened to the blacks, who are no longer seen? This was the question that was raised at the Pueyrredón Museum when reviewing the documents that account for the importance of slaves in domestic life and in the economy of that house. A conclusion: neither yellow fever, nor deaths in the Liberating Army nor poverty explain the dramatic decline in the country of the Afro population at the end of the 19th century. The exhibition, curated by Eleonora Jaureguiberry, undersecretary general of Culture of San Isidro, along with Cecilia Lebrero and Patricio López Méndez offers a relevant set of original documents, paintings, photographs, archaeological objects and other pieces according to the sense of the museological script, which was selected after a meticulous process of research and survey in different public and private collections. The exhibition, which has the specialized research of Norberto Pablo Cirio, not only anchors in the nineteenth century, but also seeks to reflect on the current Afro-Argentine culture.
