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The Spring 2019 Duke House Exhibition
Grilo/Fernández-Muro: 1962-1984
Since 1932 the Institute of Fine Arts has been dedicated to graduate teaching and advanced research in the history of art, archaeology, and conservation. The Duke House Exhibition Series brings contemporary art to the walls of the Institute's landmarked James B. Duke House. The work is displayed in the beaux-arts interior of the former residence of the Duke Family, juxtaposing the historic with the contemporary and inviting viewers to engage with both the past and future of the Institute. Since 2019, the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) is proud to support the Duke House Exhibition Series to showcase the work of Latin American artists.
Grilo/Fernández-Muro: 1962-1984
February 12 - May 24, 2019
As part of The Duke House Exhibition Series, the Institute presented the work of Argentinian artists Sarah Grilo (1919-2007) and José Antonio Fernández-Muro (1920-2014). The exhibition presented a comprehensive overview of two prominent Latin American artists of the postwar era.
Grilo/Fernández-Muro: 1962-1984 traced the artists’ mid-to-late careers and explored their involvement in the influential Grupo de Artistas Modernos de la Argentina [Group of Modern Artists of Argentina] (1952-1955) and Grupo de los Cinco [Group of Five] (1960-1964). Seeking to map influences and movements that inspired their artistic practices from the 1960s through the 1980s, the exhibition featured a selection of abstract paintings creating an intimate dialogue between Fernández-Muro’s engagement with urban, industrial patterns and Grilo’s lyrical abstractions. In addition to these paintings, the exhibition also included an array of rare archival materials including exhibition catalogues, publications, and documentary photographs.
This exhibition was accompanied by a panel discussion that included a conversation between the artists’ grandson, Mateo Fernández-Muro and photographer Lisl Steiner, moderated by Dr. Edward Sullivan.
Grilo/Fernández-Muro: 1962-1984 was generously funded by the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA). Special thanks to the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., and Mateo Fernández-Muro, Co-executor of the Estate of Sarah Grilo and Jose Antonio Fernández-Muro. The exhibition was curated by Andrea Carolina Zambrano, Damasia Lacroze, Emireth Herrera, and Juan Gabriel Ramírez Bolívar.
