MUSEO DEL BARRIO’S AMBITIOUS RESTATEMENT ON THEIR PERMANENT COLLECTION
Museo del Barrio annouces Something Beautiful: Reframing La Colección, the museum’s most ambitious presentation of its unique, complex and culturally diverse permanent collection in over two decades.
Organized by Rodrigo Moura, Chief Curator; Susanna V. Temkin, Curator; and Lee Sessions, Permanent Collection Associate Curator, the exhibition will present approximately 500 artworks, including new acquisitions and artist commissions, through rotating displays over the course of one year. Something Beautiful cuts across traditional chronological, geographic, and media-specific categories, reconsidering the Collection through new interdisciplinary approaches rooted in El Museo del Barrio’s foundational history and legacy. This forward-thinking model focuses on the contribution of Amerindian, African, and European cultures as the basis of visual production in the Americas and the Caribbean.
The exhibition is the result of a multi-year research initiative titled “Identity Reimagined: Reframing La Colección,” where the Museum engaged in communal dialogues with more than 40 artists, scholars, community leaders, and museum professionals to explore the rich possibilities of the Collection.
The title, Something Beautiful, draws from a print in the collection by artist Marcos Dimas with a poem of the same name by Tania Niomi Ramirez. The work both celebrates and invokes the challenges of political, cultural, and historical inheritances, and as such, metaphorically reflects larger ideas proposed by this new reframing.
The first rotation of Something Beautiful: Reframing La Colección is organized in eight sections plus seven artist spotlights. Themes and motifs reappear across sections to create a larger conversation throughout the exhibition. Sections include: Ocama Aracoel: Taíno spirits and forms and their influence on the Nuyorican art movement; Cosmic Visions: Indigenous and non-indigenous artists evoking Amerindian languages, landscapes, and other cultural references; First Impressions: Focusing on early acquisitions and the graphic portfolio in Puerto Rican printmaking; El Barrio: Different facets of life in East Harlem and other Barrios in New York, especially around the stoop, the sidewalk, and the bodega; The Street Transforms: Artists’ and activists’ interventions in public space; Pathos, Hope, Glory: Transhistorical portraits and self-portraits of artists reflecting the diversity of the Latinx experience; Clothed/Unclothed: Artworks that explore, exaggerate, and deconstruct what it means to be male, female, neither, or both; and Abstraccionistas: The protagonism of women in abstract art, matrilinear traditions, opticalities and the framing of reality through abstraction. Artist spotlights will feature the works of Jorge Soto Sánchez (1947 New York, NY – 1987 White River Junction, VT); Alejandro Diaz (b. 1963, San Antonio, TX; lives in New York, NY); Papo Colo (b. 1947, Puerta de Tierra, Puerto Rico; lives between New York, NY and El Yunque, Puerto Rico); Antonio Lopez (1943, Utuado, Puerto Rico – 1987, Thousand Oaks, CA); and Myrna Baez (1931, Santurce, Puerto Rico – 2018, Hato Ray, Puerto Rico). Artists Maria Gaspar (b. 1980 Chicago) and Glendalys Medina (b. 1979 Ponce, Puerto Rico) were commissioned to create new artworks reflecting and responding to Something Beautiful.
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Lotty Rosenfeld, Una milla de cruces sobre el pavimiento (Santiago), 2008 (date of print), 1979 (date of original photopgraph). Digital print from original black and White photopgraph. Collection of El Museo del Barrio.
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Rafael Tufiño. Cortador de Caña, 1951. Linoleum block print. Collection of El Museo del Barrio.
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Taíno culture, Kanari (vessel), A.D. 1200-1500. Ceramic. Collection of El Museo del Barrio.
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Emilio Sánchez, Untitled (Storefront, “Smoke”, West Village), late 1980s. Watercolor on paper. Collection of El Museo del Barrio.
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Lotty Rosenfeld, Una milla de cruces sobre el pavimiento (Santiago), 2008 (date of print), 1979 (date of original photopgraph). Digital print from original black and White photopgraph. Collection of El Museo del Barrio.
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Dalton Paula, Esperança Garcia, 2022. Oil and gols leaf con canvas in 2 parts. Collection of El Museo del Barrio.
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Carmen Herrera, Red on head, 1959. Oil and acrylic on canvas. Collection of El Museo del Barrio.
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Augusto Marín. 1873-1973, 1973. Linoleum block print. Collection of El Museo del Barrio.
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Shaun “El C.” Leonardo, Portrait of El C, 2007. Color photograph in custom frame. Collection of El Museo del Barrio.
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Myrna Báez, Niviembre 1976, 1976. Actylic on canvas. Collection of El Museo del Barrio.
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Asco, First Supper After a Major Riot, 1974. Reprinted 2006C. Print from original 35mm color slide. Acquired with the support from “PROARTISTA: Sustaining the work of Living Contemporary Artists”, a fund from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Trust and a gift from Harry Gamboa Jr.
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