November 9th, 2011
The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at FIU presents COLOR ON COLOR- marking the first collaboration with Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Buenos Aires (MACBA). Curated by MACBA director Constanza Cerullo, the exhibition will draw from MACBA’s collection and will open on November 9th, 2011. This will be the first of an ongoing series of programs and exhibitions between the two institutions.
The exhibition, COLOR ON COLOR, presents to the viewer works by different artists in which the use of color is non-objective. In many of these instances, color is not used as a representation, but as the essence of the work. Even in the works that have representation or some kind of reference to the visible world, “the sublime” is evident not in the devastation or denial of the form as such, but in its contrast with the world of the finite and formal things.
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