In April, the Pereira Art Museum celebrates its 47th anniversary.
Commemorating more than four decades sharing culture in the region. It is a source of pride for the institution to celebrate one more year of service to the city.
During these years they have had memorable exhibitions, artists who have made a valuable contribution to the history of national art and have configured a visual literacy in the city, bringing the regional public closer to modern and contemporary art, generating educational spaces from various areas of knowledge. that are dynamized in a transversal way, through the aesthetic experiences offered by art.
What better opportunity to learn about the history of the Museum if not through the works that artists have donated during these 47 years. The invitation is to take a tour from the beginning of the Centro de Arte Actual.
During 1974 in Latin America great artists set guidelines within world contemporary art, in Pereira, the Centro de Arte Actual began its activities, first in the Invico building on Circunvalar avenue in Pereira, where it only stayed a couple of months, it moved to Carrera 6ª with calle 15, where he spent more than 20 years making exhibitions of high artistic interest with good logistical conditions.
This place in the center of Pereira remained vital without wineries or adequate spaces for the great works of art that were exhibited, they soon understood that a museum was needed to continue circulating the best of the arts. Over the years, as a result of the effort and collective and inter-institutional work with parliamentary aid and the former presidents of the Republic Ernesto Samper and CÉsar Gaviria, with the support of the Ministry of Culture and different actors of civil society, it was achieved in 1995, the year that begins the construction of a new headquarters, designed by the architect Pereirano Willy Drews, resulting in the building that today is known as the Pereira Art Museum. The current exhibition season is a tribute to all this path traced over all these years. Three curatorial projects that exhibit part of this history, such as the exhibition ‘Entre Nosotras’ with works by the artist María de la Paz Jaramillo, the Museum preserves the largest collection of works by the Caldense artist; The exhibition ‘In this town there are no thieves’ exhibits works by artists who have passed through the Museum from the beginning of the Centro de Arte Actual in 1974, until the year
2012 at the Pereira Art Museum, a whole timeline that involves cinematographic and literary elements.
Finally, the exhibition ‘Introversions’ brings together the new acquisitions of the Museum during the last decade, an opportunity to see the most current artistic panorama, highlighting the Museum’s concerns for the landscape and the management of natural resources.
Until April 28, the current exhibition season will be open, which is available from October 30, 2020. The Museum will begin the assembly process to inaugurate a new season on May 13.
THE MUSEUM COLLECTION
“There are no thieves in this town.” MAP 1974 – 2012 Collection
The exhibition invites us to visit scenes illustrated by Saturnino Ramirez as a storyboard for the story “In this town there are no thieves” from the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez .
‘Introversions’. MAP Collection 2009 – 2020
The works presented in this exhibition are some of the donations the artists have made to the museum in the last decade, during the exhibition tour the public will be able to meet the evolution of industrial technologies and the mass media, economic interests and global development, as well as the ideals of stability during the isthmus of a declining mode of production.
‘Between us’. Maria de la Paz Jaramillo. MAP Collection
It is an exhibition to activate and recognize the works that María de la Paz Jaramillo donated to the collection of the Pereira Art Museum in 1996 when this headquarters was inaugurated.
‘Expanded Collection’. Virtual Collective Exhibition
Since last January 29, the virtual exhibition Acervo Expandido has been available on the website https://museoartepereira.org/portfolio-item/acervo-expandido/
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