The National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (Malba) presented the winning projects of the First Malba-CONICET research competition The purpose of this project is to encourage the development of new perspectives for analysis and research on the museum’s collection. Both projects will be financed by the Museum.
In this context, CONICET President Daniel Salamone thanked the Museum for the joint work initiative and for opening the doors of culture so that the Council’s researchers can contribute and continue with various research projects. “I am sure that this public-private partnership between the Council and a cultural institution that is a reference in the country and abroad, such as the Malba, will contribute to culture,” said Salamone.
For her part, the Museum Director Teresa Bulgheroni, President of Malba, stressed: “This agreement between both institutions is very important for us because it will result in important studies with unique perspectives on Latin American works in the collection. The Collection identifies us and is the central heart of this museum.”
Meanwhile, María Amalia García, the museum’s Chief Curator and member of the jury, said: “What could be better for the museum than the opportunity to have two researchers working on the pieces, discovering their meaning. The documentary and material cutting that gives shape to the works is carried out in the field of research. We hope that these projects will grow and mutate into curatorships, educational projects and lines of communication.”
The event was attended by CONICET Board member Mario Pecheny, Scientific Technological Development Manager Liliana Sacco, MALBA Development Director Elena Nofal and technical teams from both institutions.
About the winning projects
– The culture of the everyday in modern (South American) art: graphic resources of mass culture in the expansion of visual discourses in the sixties. A reading through the Malba collection by CONICET researcher Silvia Dolinko, who proposes carrying out a study on the role that the use of graphic resources from mass culture played in the configuration of new visual discourses in South American art in the 1960s.
– The flowers of evil (BA) The aim of this project is to actively contribute to remedying the “disparity in awareness of plants” that plagues us as a society, a phenomenon conditioned, in part, by the relative dissociation that exists with the lineage of plants. It will work from the survey of the subset of works present in the museum’s collection that include plants or parts of plants (or that implicitly refer to plants in their titles).
