Paradise Lost? Aspects of Landscape in Latin American Art
Dr. Edward J. Sullivan, New York University
EXHIBITION: Paradise Lost? Aspects of Landscape in Latin American Art
organized by the Lowe Art Museum, featuring more than 100 paintings,
works on paper, photography, and mixed media/installation pieces by
artists representing 20 countries, traces and explores developments in
Latin American art, within the diverse genre of landscape, from
historic to contemporary.
The exhibition addresses five art historical categories -- travelers;
academics; modernity; contemporary classical tradition; contemporary
idioms -- through more than 100 paintings, works on paper, mixed
media, photography, and video, by 76 acclaimed and emerging artists
representing 20 countries. Paradise Lost? is drawn from the Lowe’s
permanent collection and augmented with important local, national, and
international loans, including the Colección Patricia Phelps de
Cisneros.
In terms of contemporary artistic expressions, nature, or “paradise,”
was more often than not a symbol and metaphor for a variety of complex
situations never far removed from politics, ecology, or humanism. As
Paradise Lost? reveals, early 21st century Latin American landscapes
continue to address issues of nature under attack or threatened by
violent or ecological catastrophe.
The Lowe Art Museum is Miami-Dade’s oldest visual arts institution and
features 5,000 years of world art. For more information call (305)
284-3535 or visit the Lowe’s website at www.lowemuseum.org. Support
for Paradise Lost? Aspects of Landscape in Latin American Art, was
provided by the Funding Arts Network, Burdines, and the City of Coral
Gables. Lowe Art Museum exhibitions and programs are sponsored in part
by the State of Florida, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida
Arts Council; the Institute for Museum and Library Services; the
Miami-Dade County Cultural Affairs Council and Board of County
Commissioners; and the members of the Lowe Art Museum.
