“The very need to organize a historical exhibition based on gender is evidence of a vacuum in the art system. Women have been systematically excluded or presented in stereotypical and biased ways for centuries.

“This has created a situation that is difficult to address, partly because the opportunities to do so are still few, and also because many of the same prejudiced and exclusionary frameworks still prevail today. The reality is that many more women artists participated in the shaping of twentieth-century art than have been accounted for.” — Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, “The Invisibility of Latin American Women Artists”*

“Starting in the 1960s and through the 1980s, Latin American and Latina artists classified by society as women… produced experimental artworks that introduced radical changes in how the body was represented…. I would even argue that feminist artists and artistic feminism… enacted the twentieth-century’s greatest iconographic transformation.” — Andrea Giunta, “The Iconographic Turn”*

This weekend, Cecilia Fajardo-Hill and Andrea Giunta, the curators of RADICAL WOMEN—LATIN AMERICAN ART, 1960–1985, will lead a tour through the exhibition.

 

RADICAL WOMEN CURATOR WALK-THROUGH, Sunday, September 24, from 2 pm to 3 pm.

RADICAL WOMEN—LATIN AMERICAN ART, 1960–1985, through December 31.

HAMMER MUSEUM, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Westwood, Los Angeles.

hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2017/09/radical-women-curator-walk-through/

hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2017/radical-women-latin-american-art-1960-1985/

*Quoted texts from chapters in Cecilia Fajardo-Hill and Andrea Giunta, Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985 (Los Angeles: Hammer Museum/Munich: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2017).

See:  loop-barcelona.com/profile/analivia-cordeiro/

From top: Ximena Cuevas, Las tres muertes de Lupe, video, 1984; Antonia Eiriz, Figuras, circa 1965; Analívia Cordeiro, M 3×3, video, 1973.

All images courtesy of the artists and the Hammer Museum.