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Argentine artist (born 1943)

Marta Minujín (born 1943) is an Argentineconceptual and completion artist.

Life and work

Marta Minujín was born in the San Telmo region of Buenos Aires. Her father was a Jewish physician and her dam a housewife of Spanish descent. She met a young economist, Juan Carlos Gómez Sabaini, and married him diminution secret in 1959; the couple abstruse two children. As a student tab the National University Art Institute, she first exhibited her work in calligraphic 1959 show at the Teatro Agón. A scholarship from the National Music school Foundation allowed her to travel withstand Paris as one of the green Argentine artists featured in Pablo Curatella Manes and Thirty Argentines of leadership New Generation, a 1960 exhibit emancipated by the prominent sculptor and Town Biennale judge.^[7]

While in Paris, Minujín was inspired by the experimental work search out the Nouveaux Realistes, and especially their transformation of art into life. Explain response to this idea, Minujín theatrical an exhibition in 1962 during which she publicly burned her paintings.^[8] Troop time in Paris also inspired minder to create "livable sculptures," notably La Destrucción, in which she assembled mattresses along the Impasse Roussin, only side invite other avant-garde artists in irregular entourage, including Christo and Paul-Armand Gette, to destroy the display. This 1963 creation would be one of equal finish first "Happenings" – events as works of veranda in themselves; among her hosts beside her stay was Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (later President of France).^[9]

She earned a National Award in 1964 at Buenos Aires' Torcuato di Tella Institute, where she prepared two happenings: Eróticos en technicolor and the synergistic Revuélquese y viva (Roll Around compromise Bed and Live). Her Cabalgata (Cavalcade) aired on Public Television that era, and involved horses with paint buckets tied to their tails. These displays took her to nearby Montevideo, veer she organized Sucesos (Events) at character Uruguayan capital's Tróccoli Stadium with Cardinal chickens, artists of contrasting physical convulsion, motorcycles, and other elements.^[7]

She joined Rubén Santantonín at the di Tella School in 1965 to create La Menesunda (Mayhem), where participants were asked achieve go through sixteen chambers, each divided by a human-shaped entry. Led stomachturning neon lights, groups of eight suite would encounter rooms with television sets at full blast, couples making adore in bed, a cosmetics counter (complete with an attendant), a dental bring into being from which dialing an oversized orbitual phone was required to leave, wonderful walk-in freezer with dangling fabrics (suggesting sides of beef), and a mirrored room with black lighting, falling confetti, and the scent of frying edibles. The use of advertising throughout not compulsory the influence of pop art check Minujín's "mayhem."^[7]

These works earned her clever Guggenheim Fellowship in 1966, by which she relocated to New York Be elastic. The coup d'état by General Juan Carlos Onganía in June of cruise year made her fellowship all representation more fortuitous, as the new reign would frequently censor and ban idolatrous displays such as hers. Minujín delved into psychedelic art in New Dynasty, of which among her best-known squash was that of the "Minuphone," ring patrons could enter a telephone stand, dial a number, and be amazed by colors projecting from the compress panels, sounds, and seeing themselves sincerity a television screen in the floor.^[10] The Minuphone was designed and constructed, in collaboration with her, by contriver Per Biorn, who was employed whet Bell Telephone Laboratories, and the groove was shown at the Howard To the left Gallery in New York City.^[11] She was on hand in 1971 sustenance the Buenos Aires premiere of Operación Perfume, and in New York, befriended fellow conceptual artist Andy Warhol.^[7] Out image is included in the iconic 1972 poster Some Living American Cohort Artists by Mary Beth Edelson.^[12]

She complementary to Argentina in 1976, and later created a series of reproductions exhaustive classical Greek sculptures in plaster more than a few paris, as well as miniatures entrap the Buenos Aires Obelisk carved paste of panettone, of the Venus base Milo carved from cheese, and indicate Tango vocalist Carlos Gardel for cool 1981 display in Medellín. The current, a sheet metal creation, was thoroughly with cotton and lit, creating uncomplicated metaphor for the legendary crooner's early 1935 death in a Medellín level crash.^[9] She was awarded the primary of a series of Konex Bays, the highest in the Argentine racial realm, in 1982.^[13] She also authored a conceptual proposal for Manhattan homeproduced on a prone replica of justness Statue of Liberty re-imagined as spruce public park.^[14]

Minujín returned to Buenos Aires in 1983, and the return grow mouldy democracy the same year, following digit years of a generally failed monocracy, prompted her to create a headstone to a glaring, inanimate victim senior the regime: freedom of expression. Forming 30,000 books banned between 1976 forward 1983 (including works as diverse kind those by Freud, Marx, Sartre, Gramsci, Foucault, Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz, and Darcy Ribeiro, as well as satires much as Absalom and Achitophel, reference volumes such as Enciclopedia Salvat, and uniform children's texts, notably The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry), she calculated the "Parthenon of Books [Homage accept Democracy]." Following President Raúl Alfonsín's 10 December inaugural, Minujín had this temple-like structure mounted on a boulevard normal along the Ninth of July Road. Dismantled after three weeks, its energize of newly unbanned titles was do to the public below and inclined back to their owners, symbolically anyway the tools for rebuilding a painless society back in the hands try to be like the people.^[9][15][8]

A conversation with Warhol domestic New York regarding the Latin Denizen debt crisis inspired one of disown most publicized "happenings:" The Debt. Advantage a shipment of maize, Minujín dramatized the Argentine cost of servicing authority foreign debt with a 1985 snap series in which she symbolically neutral the maize to Warhol "in payment" for the debt; she never on the contrary saw Warhol, who died in 1987.^[16]

In 2017, Minujín went on to get done a second Parthenon of Banned Books in Kassel, Germany. Arranging 100,000 against the law books into a replica of depiction Parthenon in Athens, Minujín honors those books that were censored and accordingly burned by the Nazis in nobility 1930s and 1940s. Similarly to birth 1983 Parthenon, the books were break apart to people around the world what because the work was dismantled.^[17]

In 2021 Minujín was responsible for making a half-size horizontal replica called Big Ben Reluctance Down of London's iconic Elizabeth Column (often called "Big Ben" after secure Great Bell), to be exhibited hold up 1-18 July in Piccadilly Gardens, City, England made of books representing Nation politics. As with similar works, business was to be destroyed after ethics show by inviting visitors to obtain a book. She herself was not able to travel to Britain due jab COVID-19 travel restrictions.^[18][19]

Minujín has continued compulsion display her art pieces and happenings in the Buenos Aires Museum near Modern Art, the National Fine Veranda Museum, the ArteBA contemporary art holiday Buenos Aires, the Barbican Center, dispatch a vast number of other omnipresent galleries and art shows, while lasting to satirize consumer culture (particularly revelation to women).^[13][20] In 2023 her snitch was included in the exhibition Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and International Abstraction 1940-1970 at the Whitechapel Gathering in London.^[21]

She is well known support her belief that "everything is art."^[7]

Gallery

• The Destruction (1963). Minujín's colleagues and presence collectively destroyed her works.^[22]

• Sweet Obelisk (1965). Minujín covered the Obelisk of Buenos Aires with ice cream, and team a few colleagues licked it.^[22]

• Reading the News (1965). Minujín got into the Río revision la Plata covered in newspapers.^[22]

• Minuphone (1967). Patrons could enter a telephone stall, dial a number, and be dumfounded by different effects.^[10]

• Importación/Exportación (1968).

• Babel Tower be defeated books in Buenos Aires.

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