Critical Landscapes:

Selected Works from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection

About the exhibition

Since its founding, the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) has been instrumental in collecting, exhibiting, commissioning, and championing art from across Latin America. MCA Denver’s presentation Critical Landscapes: Selected Works from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection will feature a range of artists, including more established (Ana Mendieta) to more emerging voices (Oscar Abraham Pabón), and, across two floors, will highlight the many ways in which artists from this region are engaging with the particular histories, materials, and events directly and indirectly inspired by their environment. 

The selection of works also intends to engage with MCA’s concurrent exhibition, Gala Porras-Kim: A Hand in Nature, both directly and indirectly, offering additional and wide-ranging examples of how artists are working with the natural world, using it as material, inspiration and subject matter.

Artists in the exhibition: 

Adrián Balseca (b. 1989, Quito; lives and works in Buenos Aires)

Johanna Calle (b. 1965, Bogotá; lives and works in Bogotá)

Dario Escobar (b. 1971, Guatemala City, Guatemala; lives and works between Guatemala City and Mexico City)

Jac Leirner (b. 1961, São Paulo; lives and works in São Paulo)

Anna Maria Maiolino (b. 1942, Scalea, Italy; lives and works in São Paulo)

Ana Mendieta (1948, Havana – 1985, Greenwich Village, NY)

Oscar Abraham Pabón (b. 1984, San Juan de Colón, Estado Táchira, Venezuela; lives and works in Barcelona)

Adán Vallecillo (b. 1977, Danlí, Honduras; lives and works in Tegucigalpa, Honduras)