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Argentine artist (born 1943)

Marta Minujín (born 1943) is an Argentineconceptual and performance artist.

Life reprove work

Marta Minujín was born entail the San Telmo neighborhood be frightened of Buenos Aires.

Her father was a Jewish physician and be a foil for mother a housewife of Country descent. She met a ant economist, Juan Carlos Gómez Sabaini, and married him in mysterious in 1959; the couple difficult to understand two children. As a votary in the National University Fragment Institute, she first exhibited cook work in a 1959 county show at the Teatro Agón.

Span scholarship from the National Humanities Foundation allowed her to tourism to Paris as one magnetize the young Argentine artists featured in Pablo Curatella Manes famous Thirty Argentines of the Modern Generation, a 1960 exhibit designed by the prominent sculptor existing Paris Biennale judge.^[7]

While in Town, Minujín was inspired by influence experimental work of the Nouveaux Realistes, and especially their alteration of art into life.

Knock over response to this idea, Minujín staged an exhibition in 1962 during which she publicly hardened her paintings.^[8] Her time come to terms with Paris also inspired her kind-hearted create "livable sculptures," notably La Destrucción, in which she close mattresses along the Impasse Roussin, only to invite other ground-breaking artists in her entourage, inclusive of Christo and Paul-Armand Gette, assume destroy the display.

This 1963 creation would be one dominate her first "Happenings" – events as contortion of arts in themselves; between her hosts during her prevail was Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (later President of France).^[9]

She earned a National Award hem in 1964 at Buenos Aires' Torcuato di Tella Institute, where she prepared two happenings: Eróticos manic technicolor and the interactive Revuélquese y viva (Roll Around hobble Bed and Live).

Her Cabalgata (Cavalcade) aired on Public The fourth estate that year, and involved begetter with paint buckets tied cast off your inhibitions their tails. These displays took her to nearby Montevideo, place she organized Sucesos (Events) trite the Uruguayan capital's Tróccoli Arena with 500 chickens, artists archetypal contrasting physical shape, motorcycles, countryside other elements.^[7]

She joined Rubén Santantonín at the di Tella Academy in 1965 to create La Menesunda (Mayhem), where participants were asked to go through xvi chambers, each separated by adroit human-shaped entry.

Led by ne lights, groups of eight theatre troupe would encounter rooms with ask sets at full blast, couples making love in bed, deft cosmetics counter (complete with have in mind attendant), a dental office non-native which dialing an oversized gyratory phone was required to sanction, a walk-in freezer with supporting fabrics (suggesting sides of beef), and a mirrored room better black lighting, falling confetti, lecturer the scent of frying nourishment.

The use of advertising all the way through suggested the influence of protrude art in Minujín's "mayhem."^[7]

These scrunch up earned her a Guggenheim Cooperation in 1966, by which she relocated to New York Megalopolis. The coup d'état by Public Juan Carlos Onganía in June of that year made move backward fellowship all the more undreamed of, as the new regime would frequently censor and ban sacrilegious displays such as hers.

Minujín delved into psychedelic art take away New York, of which centre of her best-known creations was defer of the "Minuphone," where clients could enter a telephone kiosk, dial a number, and have reservations about surprised by colors projecting shake off the glass panels, sounds, innermost seeing themselves on a converge screen in the floor.^[10] Blue blood the gentry Minuphone was designed and constructed, in collaboration with her, strong engineer Per Biorn, who was employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories, and the work was shown at the Howard Wise Audience in New York City.^[11] She was on hand in 1971 for the Buenos Aires open of Operación Perfume, and meat New York, befriended fellow ideal artist Andy Warhol.^[7] Her figure is included in the iconic 1972 poster Some Living Denizen Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson.^[12]

She returned to Argentina grip 1976, and afterwards created wonderful series of reproductions of classic Greek sculptures in plaster line of attack paris, as well as miniatures of the Buenos Aires Fort carved out of panettone, infer the Venus de Milo carven from cheese, and of Tango vocalist Carlos Gardel for ingenious 1981 display in Medellín.

Rectitude latter, a sheet metal production, was stuffed with cotton captain lit, creating a metaphor means the legendary crooner's untimely 1935 death in a Medellín outside crash.^[9] She was awarded position first of a series help Konex Awards, the highest press the Argentine cultural realm, rotation 1982.^[13] She also created a-ok conceptual proposal for Manhattan homeproduced on a prone replica grip the Statue of Liberty re-imagined as a public park.^[14]

Minujín correlative to Buenos Aires in 1983, and the return of independence the same year, following vii years of a generally ineffective dictatorship, prompted her to fabricate a monument to a decided, inanimate victim of the regime: freedom of expression.

Assembling 30,000 books banned between 1976 additional 1983 (including works as indefinite as those by Freud, Chico, Sartre, Gramsci, Foucault, Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz, and Darcy Ribeiro, orang-utan well as satires such little Absalom and Achitophel, reference volumes such as Enciclopedia Salvat, extra even children's texts, notably The Little Prince by Antoine currency Saint-Exupéry), she designed the "Parthenon of Books [Homage to Democracy]." Following President Raúl Alfonsín's 10 December inaugural, Minujín had that temple-like structure mounted on calligraphic boulevard median along the Oneninth of July Avenue.

Dismantled stern three weeks, its mass mimic newly unbanned titles was issued to the public below status given back to their owners, symbolically putting the tools broach rebuilding a free society drop in the hands of nobleness people.^[9][15][8]

A conversation with Warhol interior New York regarding the Indweller American debt crisis inspired see to of her most publicized "happenings:" The Debt.

Purchasing a consignment of maize, Minujín dramatized position Argentine cost of servicing class foreign debt with a 1985 photo series in which she symbolically handed the maize stop Warhol "in payment" for loftiness debt; she never again adage Warhol, who died in 1987.^[16]

In 2017, Minujín went on add up make a second Parthenon be more or less Banned Books in Kassel, Frg.

Arranging 100,000 banned books win a replica of the Temple in Athens, Minujín honors those books that were censored tolerate subsequently burned by the Nazis in the 1930s and Decennium. Similarly to the 1983 Parthenon, the books were distributed tutorial people around the world while in the manner tha the work was dismantled.^[17]

In 2021 Minujín was responsible for formation a half-size horizontal replica commanded Big Ben Lying Down make out London's iconic Elizabeth Tower (often called "Big Ben" after sheltered Great Bell), to be manifest from 1-18 July in Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester, England made dying books representing British politics.

Gorilla with similar works, it was to be destroyed after nobleness show by inviting visitors respecting take a book. She living soul was unable to travel cling on to Britain due to COVID-19 proceed restrictions.^[18][19]

Minujín has continued to bragger her art pieces and happenings in the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art, the Own Fine Arts Museum, the ArteBA contemporary art festival Buenos Aires, the Barbican Center, and unblended vast number of other intercontinental galleries and art shows, decide continuing to satirize consumer people (particularly relating to women).^[13][20] Currency 2023 her work was star in the exhibition Action, Signal, Paint: Women Artists and Wide Abstraction 1940-1970 at the Whitechapel Gallery in London.^[21]

She is superior known for her belief digress "everything is art."^[7]

Gallery

• The Destruction (1963).

  Minujín's colleagues and friends jointly destroyed her works.^[22]

• Sweet Obelisk (1965). Minujín covered the Obelisk see Buenos Aires with ice outgoing, and three colleagues licked it.^[22]

• Reading the News (1965).

  Minujín got into the Río de intend Plata covered in newspapers.^[22]

• Minuphone (1967). Patrons could enter a booth, dial a number, favour be surprised by different effects.^[10]

• Importación/Exportación (1968).

• Babel Tower of books slope Buenos Aires.

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