Center for Curatorial Studies Presents

Talk: Inés Katzenstein

This lecture is presented as part of the CCS Bard course When Radical Attitudes Become Form: Reinvention and Destruction of Art in 1960s Latin America, led by Mariano López Seoane.

Rebellion, Nonsense and Despair: Latin American Artists at the end of the 60s
By the end of the 1960s, Latin American art reached a threshold. In Argentina, the mainstream art historical narrative tells how, pushed by increasing politicization, many artists withdrew from the art world to engage in political activism. But there are other stories to be told. This presentation focuses on three artists who died young, but who were some of the most brilliant and original figures of the decade: Alberto Greco, Jorge Bonino and Federico Manuel Peralta Ramos. Inés Katzenstein narrates how, like other politicized artists, these three also refused the conventions of the art world and radicalized themselves. The presentation asks how to recuperate the value of rebelliousness and nonsense vis-à-vis the dominance of the discourse of rationality.

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For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected],
or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/events/699-ines-katzenstein.

Time: 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: CCS Bard, Classroom 102

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