MARTA MINUJIN’S FIRST RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION IN EUROPE
Intensity Life is Marta Minujín’s first retrospective exhibition in Europe, to be held at the Copenhagen Contemporary Museum.
The exhibition at CC unfolds Minujín’s life’s work across periods and geography, showcasing several of her most recent pieces, including gigantic installations, soft sculptures, and large collage paintings covered in Minujín’s iconic neon stripes and illuminated with video projections. Thanks to CC’s close collaboration with the artist, the audience will also have the unique opportunity to explore archival material that highlights some of the most central parts of Minujín’s work from her over 60-year-long career.
La Menesunda: According to Marta Minujín
In 1965, Minujín, in collaboration with artist Rubén Santantonín, created the legendary work La Menesunda, one of art history’s first immersive works. La Menesunda is a labyrinthine piece that takes the audience through 11 imaginative rooms in Buenos Aires. Along the way, visitors encounter, among other things, a neon-lit street, a room that smells of fried chicken, a swamp, a beauty salon where they can get make-up applied or enjoy a quick massage and a bedroom with a couple sitting in bed reading a newspaper. The word “menesunda” originates from local slang, describing a feeling of restlessness, confusion and chaos.
The recreation of this colossal installation is the result of years of research at the Museo Moderno in Buenos Aires, and it required a partnership between four major museums to bring the work to European soil for the very first time. After its premiere at CC, La Menesunda will tour some of the most influential museums in Europe.
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Marta Minujín. Courtesy CC.
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Marta Minujín. Courtesy CC.
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Marta Minujín. Courtesy CC.
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Marta Minujín. Courtesy CC.
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Marta Minujín at her studio in Buenos Aires, photos by Emilia Van Raap.
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Marta Minujín at her studio in Buenos Aires, photos by Emilia Van Raap.
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Marta Minujín at her studio in Buenos Aires, photos by Emilia Van Raap.
Marta Minujín (b.1943) is an iconic figure and one of the most prominent Latin American pop and conceptual artists ever. She created some of art history’s first spectacular immersive installations, and over the last sixty years she has developed happenings, performances, installations and video works that have influenced generations of contemporary artists in Latin America, the US and Europe. Despite her already long and illustrious career Minujín is still a force to be reckoned with, and when she had her first museum exhibition in New York last year, the New York Times featured her in an article headlined ‘Rocking the Art World at 80’.
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