Critical Landscapes:
Ana Mendieta, Volcán, 1997. Suite Of Six Chromogenic Color Prints. Courtesy Of The Ella Fontanals-cisneros Collection. Photo: Viero Tomaselli.
Critical Landscapes:
Nora Burnett Abrams, MCA Denver’s Mark G. Falcone Director and Sergio Fontanella, Director of Operations & Collections at the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation
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.
Support for Critical Landscapes: Selected Works from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection is provided by Liberty Latin America.
Installation Images

Anna Maria Maiolino, 84 Dibujos (Novas Marcas de Gota), 2003. Courtesy of The Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection.

Adán Vallecillo, Filograma Mural I (Filogram Mural I), 2020. Courtesy of CIFO.

Adrián Balseca, El Cóndor pasa (The Condor Passes), 2015. Courtesy of CIFO.
Installation views, Critical Landscapes: Selected Works from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, June 7, 2024–September 1, 2024. Photos by Wes Magyar.