The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) join forces on the exhibition Permission To Be Global/Prácticas Globales: Latin American Art from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, featuring contemporary works by artists from across Latin America. Drawn from the holdings of Ella Fontanals-Cisneros, founder and president of CIFO, the exhibition premieres during Art Basel Miami Beach at the CIFO Art Space, December 4 through 8 and will continue on until February 23, 2014. The exhibition will travel to the Henry and Lois Foster Gallery at the MFA from March 19 through July 13, 2014.
Incorporating sculpture, painting, photography, video, installation and performance art from 1960 to the present, the exhibition features 61 artists from Central and South America and the Caribbean. Together their works explore what it means “to be global,” when free and equal cultural exchange is still limited by the power dynamics of globalization.
After years of underrepresentation at home and abroad, many of these artists are now leading the discourse about contemporary art’s reach across international borders, while still reflecting social and political issues at home. At CIFO, the exhibition will feature more than 80 works, while visitors to the MFA will experience 60 works in the Museum’s first-ever exhibition dedicated to contemporary Latin American art. The exhibition showcases many artists never before seen in New England, along with new installations and performances inspired by the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection. The exhibition is curated by the MFA’s Jen Mergel, Robert L. Beal, Enid L. Beal and Bruce A. Beal Senior Curator of Contemporary Art and Liz Munsell, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art & MFA Programs, in consultation with Jesús Fuenmayor, Director and Chief Curator of CIFO.
CIFO Art Space
1018 North Miami Avenue
Miami, FL 33136
March 19–July 13, 2014
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Avenue of the Arts
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
www.cifo.org
www.mfa.org