Transmissions: Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America, 1960–1980 At MoMA , by Vivien Xenia Tinca

Transmissions: Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America, 1960–1980  is about connections between active artists in Latin America and Eastern Europe in the `60s `70s.

The exhibition brings together Eastern Europeans like Geta Brặtescu, Tomislav Gotovac, Ion Grigorescu, Sanja Iveković, Dóra Maurer,Gorgona, OHO, Aktual, Fluxus East,artists and anti-art people.And of course we have Latin Americans like Beatriz González, Antonio Dias, Lea Lublin,Ana Mendieta.

There are different types of art works and installations, including art that we can see on public view for the first time.Transmissions brings together a great number of artists and works from different places of the world.

I consider this exhibition a really good one,because you can be inspired by these unique pieces of art and at the same time you can see different points of view. At every corner in this world you can discover something new,and this exhibition allows us to see multiple visions in a single place.

"New York Times" is talking about a truly interesting experience of this exhibition. It is said that "When you walk in is like walking into a party of extremely personl strangers conversing on subjects you can’t make out.” There are so many artists from so different parts of our world brought together. It is not a surprise that we cannot understand every "petit" conversation. Czech, Romanian, Slovak, Spanish, Portuguese,English — different languages, different cultures, different ways of thinking.There are discussions about everything : art , poetry , theater , politics. MoMA has impressed us with this show.

“Transmissions” , like the earlier show,  is a product of an in-house initiative called Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives, or C-MAP.

“Transmissions” has about 300 pieces: large installations, photographs and films and the list can go on.Artists from Romania are also part of the exhibition,  Bucharest during the regime of Nicolae Ceausescu, Geta Bratescu and Ion Grigorescu, made each  of them a film where the only participants were the creators. In Grigorescu’s “Dialogue With President Ceausescu” the artist plays both the  interviewer and interviewee and gets to say exactly what he wants to a man he despises, fears and will never meet.

It`s a bit funny because there are so many artists in different domains, music included, that holds a work based on this subject.The artists have the chance to speak freely about what he/she thinks of the President, politics, corruption.etc. This topic is never a boring one, because people can  relate with the artist; they can feel exactly what the artist is feeling. The artist however is the oneIt who can say a lot about the times we live in.

There is much more about "TRANSMISSION" but  you just have to pay it  a visit. I assure you, you will not regret it. As "New York Times " so inspiredly said  "We need MoMA to give us true history. We need role models,...”  That’s what history’s for."

 references

http://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1532?locale=en

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/04/arts/design/review-transmissions-at-moma-explores-an-era-when-art-upended-tradition.html?_r=0

Photography rigths

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