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July 11, 2013
Table 1: Encounters between Spain and Latin America
Moderated by: Jesús Carrillo
10:00 a.m.
Presentation
Paula Barreiro López, Jesús Carrillo, Fabiola Martínez Rodríguez and Gabriel Pérez Barreiro
10:30 – 11:10 a.m.
Keynote address
Olga Fernández López. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Notas sobre un relato migrante: vanguardias artísticas entre Latinoamérica y España
11:10 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Communications
Eamon McCarthy. Queens University, Belfast
Norah Borges: el arte de la negociación
Rodrigo Gutiérrez Viñuales. Universidad de Granada
La vanguardia oculta. Trayectos del diseño gráfico rioplatense (1920-1935)
12:00 – 12:30 p.m.
Break
12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
Communications
Irene Herner. Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City
Siqueiros contra el fascismo y la guerra (1932-1939)
Joan Robledo-Palop. Yale University, New Haven
Frente a Frente y Nueva Cultura: narraciones transatlánticas de la violencia y el fascismo
Idoia Murga Castro. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Encuentros en escena: danza mexicana y exilio republicano
Miguel Cabañas Bravo. History Institute CCHS-CSIC, Madrid
Legados y esperanzas en los creadores españoles del exilio de 1939 en Cuba
2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Lunch Break
3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Communications
Ana María León. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Antonio Bonet: el último indiano
Aitor Acilu and Juan Biain. Universidad de Navarra and Arantzazu Gaur Foundation
Jorge Oteiza. De San Agustín a Santiago. Miradas al origen: el pasado como amigo
Jennifer Josten. University of Pittsburgh
La migración de formas entre España y México: Mathias Goeritz y la difusión del arte abstracto en la posguerra
Imelda Ramírez. Universidad EAFIT, Medellín
Relatos de la escultura moderna en Colombia: Jorge Oteiza y Edgar Negret
5:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Break
5:30 – 6:40 p.m.
Communications
Ernesto Hernández Busto. Independent researcher
El sueño y la piedra: notas sobre João Cabral de Melo, Joan Miró, “Dau al Set” y la estética de la composición
María González Pendás. Columbia University, New York
Intercontinentes: ilusiones del exilio republicano en México a través de unas formas de hormigón
Fernando Herrero Matoses. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alberto Greco y Julio Cortázar: el 'juego' y la trayectoria nómada de la vanguardia
6:40 – 8:00 p.m.
Responses to the communications and colloquium
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July 12, 2013
Table 2: Modernity and Modernism(s): Displacement and Divergence
Moderated by: Paula Barreiro López.
9:00 – 9:40 a.m.
Keynote address
Michael Asbury. Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN), University of the Arts, London
Contesting Notions of Hybridity in Brazilian Modern Art
9:40 – 11:10 a.m.
Communications
Lori Cole. Brandeis University, Waltham
¿Qué es la vanguardia? Ultraism Between Madrid and Buenos Aires
Mara Sánchez Llorens. Universidad Nebrija, Madrid
Cuando los límites del arte son invisibles. Cartografías universitarias latinoamericana
Kaira Cabañas. PhD. Princeton University
Modern and Mad: Ethics of Reception, Rio de Janeiro
Catrin Seefranz. University of the Arts, Zurich
Modernismo Pobre. The Emancipatory Practices of the “Avant-Garde in Bahia” in the 1950s
11:10 – 11:30 a.m.
Break
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Communications
Fabiola Martínez Rodríguez. Saint Louis University, Madrid
The Paradoxes of Modernism, and the Divided Legacies of Surrealism and Abstraction in Mexico
Cecilia Fajardo Hill. Independent art historian and curator, Los Angeles
Las ‘otras’ modernidades
María Iñigo Clavo. Spanish University of Distance Education and Universidade de São Paulo
Las preposiciones de la modernidad
Edith Wolfe. Tulane University, New Orleans
Latin America’s Discrepant Cosmopolitanisms and the Limits of Center and Periphery Models for understanding the Avant-Garde
1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Responses to the communications and colloquium
2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Lunch Break
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July 12, 2013
Table 3: Museography, representation and curatorial narratives
Moderated by: María Dolores Jiménez-Blanco.
3:30 – 4:10 p.m.
Keynote address
Gabriel Pérez Barreiro. Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection Foundation
Algunos apuntes sobre exposiciones de arte 'latinoamericano': constelaciones, estrellas, temas y variaciones
4:10 – 5:40 p.m.
Communications
Dafne Cruz Porchini. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City
La Exposición Internacional del Surrealismo en México (1940). Símbolo de un cambio de paradigmas
Aleca Le Blanc. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
Under Construction: Calder at Rio de Janeiro’s Museu de Art Moderna in 1959
Carmen Juliá. Tate, London
Julio Plaza y el arte postal: redes de intercambio transnacional
Gina Tarver. Texas State University, San Marcos
Espacios ambientales en el Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá: fomentando una neo-vanguardia internacional en Colombia
5:40 – 6:10 p.m.
Break
6:10 – 7:40 p.m.
Communications
Miriam Basilio. New York University
El canon latinamericano en desarrollo: exponiendo la colección en el Museo de Arte Moderno, 1945-1954
Blanca Serrano Ortiz de Solórzano. Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
La abstracción geométrica cubana: intercambios artísticos internacionales y políticas museológicas locales
Lucas Baden. Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG), Karlsruhe
'Vochito' contra 'Murales'- de 'Motor' a 'Promotor': Fernando Gamboa, la vanguardia del arte méxicano y la Bienal de Venecia
Francisco Godoy Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
El modelo constelar: Mari Carmen Ramírez y su estela
7:40 – 8:00 p.m.
Break
8:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Responses to the communications and colloquium -
July 13, 2013
Table 4: Genealogies and Discourses of the Avant-garde
Moderated by: Fabiola Martínez Rodríguez.
10:30 – 11:10 a.m.
Keynote address
Andrea Giunta. University of Texas, Austin
Transatlánticos / Transcontinentales. Una discusión sobre diálogos y genealogías
11:10 – 12:20 p.m.
Communications
Harper Montgomery. Hunter College, New York
The Critic and the Visionary Avant-garde, a Transnational Network
Manuel Gutiérrez Silva. Rice University, Houston
Vision and Distinction: Avant-garde Artwriting and the Deconstruction of Visual Culture in Post-revolutionary Mexico
Cecilia Braschi. University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne
La ‘síntesis de las artes’ en las revistas brasileñas de posguerra: herencias vanguardistas y postulados locales
12:20 – 12:40 p.m.
Break
12:40 – 2:00 p.m.
Communications
Daniela Lucena. Universidad de Buenos Aires, CONICET
Tensiones entre arte/política en la asociación arte concreto-invención
Paula Barreiro López. History Institute CCHS-CSIC, Madrid
Hacia la izquierda: el acomodo de una vanguardia “sans rivages” en el discurso estético marxista de los años sesenta
Jaime Vindel. Universidad de León
Conciencia ética y conciencia estética en la vanguardia argentina de los años sesenta. Una crítica del esteticismo de la teoría de la vanguardia posmarxista
2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Lunch Break
4:00 – 5:10 p.m.
Communications
Mariola V. Alvarez. Rice University, Houston
Neoconcrete Books and the Politics of Participation
Ornela S. Barisone. Universidad Nacional de Rosario, National Board of Scientific and Technical Research, Institute of Latin American Literature, Universidad Autónoma de Entre Ríos
Discursos de la vanguardia e intercambios transnacionales ‘fuera de foco’: sobre el invencionismo y la propuesta integrativa de E. A. Vigo
Fernanda Nogueira. Universidade de São Paulo
La vanguardia más allá de la vanguardia. El caso del Poema/Processo en Brasil
5:10 – 5:30 p.m.
Break
5:30 p.m. – 6:40 p.m.
Communications
José Luis de la Nuez Universidad Carlos III, Madrid
La difusión de las neovanguardias en América Latina y su repercusión en la crítica
Eve Kalyva. Universidad de Buenos Aires
Unas reflexiones sobre la vanguardia después el arte conceptualMara Polgovsky Ezcurra. University of Cambridge
Materia política: Marcos Kurtycz, León Ferrari y el retorno de lo (sur)real
6:40 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Responses to the communications and colloquium
8:00 – 8:15 p.m.
Closing act
Transatlantic Encounters: Avant-garde Discourses in Spain and Latin America
Held on 11, 12, 13 Jul 2013
This international event, which brings together researchers, artists and curators from both sides of the Atlantic, seeks to stimulate reflection about the notion of avant-garde in relation to the experience and discourse of modernity between 1920 and 1970.
The main object of this reflection is the political and aesthetic avant-garde that formed in the context of the first and second Avant-gardes (or Neo-avantgardes), and also the role that the exchanges between Spain and Latin America played in the construction of this notion. Through keynote addresses and communications, the various sessions will present the latest research, thus contributing to a better understanding of the relationships and exchanges between Spain and Latin America (which have been little studied to date), and to a reconsideration of historiography and the dominant discourses of modernism and modernity.
Organised by
CSIC History Institute (1), Saint Louis University Madrid, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection and Museo Reina Sofía
(1) Supported by the National Plan for Research, Development and Innovation Project After the Republic: networks and two-way paths in Spanish art since 1931
Participants
Scientific committee
Paula Barreiro López. History Institute at the Human and Social Sciences Centre, CSIC (Spanish National Research Council)
Fabiola Martínez Rodríguez. Saint Louis University, Madrid
Jesús María Carrillo Castillo. Museo Reina Sofía
Gabriel Pérez Barreiro. Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection Foundation
Más actividades
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Mike Nichols. The Graduate
Friday, 31 July 2026
Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) is a young graduate from a wealthy California family. After returning home he meets Mrs Robinson (Anne Bancroft), who seduces him in successive encounters and shows him things that can’t be read in books. Mrs Robinson’s daughter, Elaine (Katharine Ross), enters his life to turn his feelings upside down.
Anne Bancroft’s remarkable performance shows the need to feel alive in a world gone stale, and the weapons sex possesses opposite romantic love. This is the learning curve young Ben experiences, and it is the time he spends drifting in the swimming pool that takes him from bewilderment to lucidity. He goes from a fool in a wetsuit lost at the bottom of the pool, to letting himself sway on the waters of pleasure or to see the mantle of the pool covered in fallen leaves with the arrival of love. The swimming pool is the place that initiates a change of state: an awakening of life forces.
Sol Iglesias. The Swimmers
Saturday, 1 August 2026
The end of the world, caused by climate change, is here and a group of friends wander from swimming pool to swimming pool at the height of a long, hot summer in Buenos Aires. From pool to pool, they cross the city, drifting leisurely and agreeably. In this transit they encounter different survivors searching desperately for water until their journey ends.
In echoing Frank Perry and Sydney Pollack’s film The Swimmer, Sol Iglesias’s The Swimmers is, equally, a path towards first light. The swimming pools symbolise, on this sunburnt stage, a metaphor at once for shelter and death by asphyxiation. It is the extreme heat that turns it into a fresh and pleasurable ending. The swimming pool, moreover, represents the lethargy of a youth tired of fighting against something they see as “inevitable”. As the young people trespass on a neighbourhood’s private property — rather than in public space — the pool is a stronghold of intimacy that must be seized: the false paradise of a collapsed society. The film brings the viewer closer to another film to feature in this series, La ciénaga (The Swamp, 2001) by Lucrecia Martel, in which bodies search for recesses of stagnant water.
Jack Hazan. A Bigger Splash
Friday, 7 August 2026
Painting endows a fleeting and unique moment with permanence and stability. This was the vision of the late David Hockney when, brushstroke by brushstroke, he returned to the swimming pool in A Bigger Splash: the great dive into a Californian pool which freezes a sense of happiness. A splash made by Peter Schlesinger, the painter’s partner from whom he has just separated.
In the film A Bigger Splash, Jack Hazan portrays the world of a successful artist, art-market and art-dealer pressure, the tension between the ego and personal frailty, and the obligation to continue with a style and iconography which, despite its instantly recognisable artistic imprint, creates doubts for the painter. In a grey, rainy London, a glum Hockney, the victim of soured love, keeps returning to the Californian swimming pool that holds the promise of happiness, in the form of a homosexual Arcadia in which the painter lives with his young partner and a group of equally glowing and attractive friends. Ultimately, the pool, as Jack Hazan recalls in this pioneering artist’s documentary, is a simile for the same painting in its original intention: hang onto fleetingness to lend it a permanence for the beholder, despite it not existing. Hockney, as one of the last great painters, knew his medium remained largely unchanged across hundreds of years of history.
Six Swimming Pools. A Dive into Experimental Film
Saturday, 8 August 2026
For the first time, the Museo’s summer cinema programme includes an experimental film section, centred on the experience and feeling of bodies under water. This session glides between the ostentatious aquatic architecture of Barbara Hammer and Barbara Klutinis and Jakobois’s fantasies, fleeting contact and wet, sexualised bodies. Six completely different swimming pools — private, public, transparent, bottomless, indoor, outdoor — all designed for leisure, competition and desire, nonetheless. A journey ranging from the monumentality of architecture to the intimacy of wet bodies.
Pools, by Barbara Hammer and Barbara Klutinis, turns swimming pools designed by pioneering architect Julia Morgan for the castle of tycoon William Randolph Hearst — the inspiration for Citizen Kane — into a space of play, bodily exploration and queer appropriation, an excuse to dive into a scene reserved for privilege. In An Algorithm, Bette Gordon fragments a series of headfirst dives and turns the sporting gesture into a visual score of repetitions, variations and rhythms. Tony Hill’s Water Work seduces with perspective, reflections and depth — the swimming pool as optical illusion, as an unstable surface which distorts and multiplies the gaze. Cheap Imitation “They Walk and I Walk”, by Rickard Eklund, submerges the camera to capture a choreography of synchronized bodies, a dance suspended under water. Naked bodies that dodge, twist and embrace in a space seemingly with no gravity combine in Gunilla Leander’s All Under. Passage du désir, by Jakobois, closes the programme with a montage in which water is no longer an environment, becoming instead a territory of desire.
Dominga Sotomayor. Debajo and Thais Fujinaga. A Felicidade das Coisas
Friday 14 August 2026
Two gems, from two new voices in Latin American cinema, which swing between families, swimming pools, reencounters and status. In Debajo, a short film on youth by Chilean director Dominga Sotomayor, an abstract yet powerful bird’s-eye view of a swimming pool co-exists with the relationships of a crisis-stricken family, gathered to see an eclipse. Sotomayor’s distinctive film-making of care and affects shares a similar space to the daily naturalism of Thais Fujinaga’s A Felicidade das Coisas. In the director’s first feature film, the swimming pool is not a horizontal basin for swimmers’ immersion; rather it is a huge vertical monolith, a kind of an anti-monument, anchored in the garden of a middle-class family. The film conveys the efforts and challenges of a mother of two children to build a swimming pool in their modest summer house, a mother who, alone, comes up against a hypermasculine world. Equally, the film speaks of family love, and the search for status, with the swimming pool a languishing totem of the Brazilian middle class during the years of Bolsonarism.