Eugenio Espinoza: Unruly Supports (1970 – 1980)

Mar 19 - Aug 23, 2015

Eugenio Espinoza’s current show features over 50 exceptional works including paintings, photographs, sculptures, postcards and documentation of performances and interventions by the Venezuelan artist.

The exhibition focuses on his practice during the decade of the 1970s, highlighting his significance within the Latin American avant-garde of that period. Currently living in Florida, Espinoza is known for his nonfigurative, humorous and irreverent manipulations of grid forms, that he began developing in the late-1960s. These works were produced as a reaction to the dominant tendencies of geometric abstraction and Kinetic art in Venezuela during these decades. Unruly Supports (1970 – 1980) traces these seminal works, which include his large Impenetrable (1972)—an installation that subverted the modernist cannon. The title of the exhibition refers to the countless experiments Espinoza made to produce his emblematic black grid supports, contaminating this iconic symbol of modern art.

Pérez Art Museum Miami
1103 Biscayne Blvd.
Miami FL 33132
305.375.3000
www.pamm.org

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