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others, focusing on the concept of transformation: a
radical reinvention of the art object and a renewal of the
social environment through art and design. The exhibition
SUR MODERNO: JOURNEYS is also anchored by a selection of archival materials that
situate the works within their local contexts. Sur moderno
OF ABSTRACTION-THE is organized by Inés Katzenstein, Curator of Latin American
PATRICIA PHELPS DE Art and Director of the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research
Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America, The
CISNEROS GIFT Museum of Modern Art, and consulting curator María Amalia

The Museum of Modern Art García, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y
Técnicas (CONICET)–Universidad Nacional de San Martín,
with Karen Grimson, Curatorial Assistant, Department of
Drawings and Prints, The Museum of Modern Art.
The Museum of Modern Art announces Sur moderno:
Journeys of Abstraction‒The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Generous funding for the exhibition is provided by Agnes
Gift, a major exhibition drawn primarily from the paintings, Gund and the Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation.
sculptures, and works on paper donated to the Museum by Additional support is provided by Adriana Cisneros de Griffin
the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros between 1997 and Nicholas Griffin. Leadership contributions to the Annual
and 2016. On view from October 21, 2019, through March Exhibition Fund, in support of the Museum’s collection and
14, 2020, Sur moderno celebrates the arrival of the most collection exhibitions, are generously provided by the Kate
important collection of abstract and concrete art from W. Cassidy Foundation, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, Mimi
Latin America by dedicating an entire suite of galleries and Peter Haas Fund, Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine G. Farley,
on the Museum’s third floor to the display of artists from Eva and Glenn Dubin, The Sandra and Tony Tamer Exhibition
Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, and Uruguay. The exhibition Fund, Alice and Tom Tisch, The David Rockefeller Council,
highlights the work of Lygia Clark, Gego, Raúl Lozza, Hélio The Contemporary Arts Council, Anne Dias, Kathy and
Oiticica, Jesús Rafael Soto, and Rhod Rothfuss, among Richard S. Fuld, Jr., Kenneth C. Griffin.

Installation view of Sur moderno: Journeys of Abstraction″The Patricia
Phelps de Cisneros Gift, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 21,
2019 – March 14, 2020. © 2019 The Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Heidi
Bohnenkamp

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