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Pinta and
its exclusive system of alliances with museums for the
acquisition of artworks.
PINTA’s Museum Acquisitions Program has been a decisive
axis in the significant re-reading of Latin American art to
which PINTA has contributed since its first edition, held in
New York in 2007.
Relying on a leading system of its kind, this program incentivates
institutional commitment to incorporate works exhibited by participating
galleries at the show. In this way, during the celebration
of PINTA, a number of museums committed to modern and contemporary
Latin American art are given the chance to enrich their collections
through the incorporation of new artworks.
Up to the present, 250,000 dollars have been donated by PINTA
to activate a matching funds program. The selected museums
match the contributions made by PINTA, and these matching funds
are used to purchase Latin American artworks exhibited at the
fair. During the past year, El Museo del Barrio in New York
incorporated in its collection works by Carlos Karcamo, Fanny
Sanin and Milagros de la Torre; the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, acquired works by Liliana Porter. The Tamayo Museum
also selected a work by the aforementioned artist, in addition
to one by David Lamelas. The Harvard Art Museum enhanced its
collection through the acquisition of a work by Victor Grippo;
the Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo acquired a piece by Hermelindo
Fiamminghi; Tate Modern opted for Horacio Zabala, and the Museum
of Fine Arts, Houston purchased a work by Pedro Costigliolo.
Other museums, such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New
York, have lent their support to this fair that has changed
the vision of Latin American art, and have acquired important
pieces of art in the course of the fair’s previous editions.
Pinta London will repeat the fair’s successful New York
experience. The prestigious institutions that will participate
in Pinta’s Museum Acquisitions Program are Tate Modern,
the University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art, the
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Museo Nacional Centro de
Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo
de Barcelona, MACBA; and the Middlesbrough Institute of
Modern Art, MIMA, England.
Besides the significance of museum acquisitions in the context
of the unstoppable process of globalization of Latin American
art, Pinta’s Museum Acquisition
Program represents both an opportunity and a challenge for
participating galleries.
The transformation of the gaze on the nature of modern and
contemporary Latin American art is inseparable from the broadening
of its market. To participate in Pinta
London implies being
present at a decisive moment for the present and the future
of the market for contemporary Latin American art, and for
the re-reading of works which were essential during the construction
of modernism.
PINTA LONDRES 2010
EARLS COURT EXHIBITION CENTRE
WARWICK ROAD
EARLS COURT
LONDON SW5
UK
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