La destruccion marta minujin biography
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About
Argentinian artist Marta Minujín is a pioneer and legendary art icon. She is celebrated for her monumental sculptures, participatory artworks and performances. These include “La caída de los mitos universales” or “The Fall of Universal Myths her series begun in 1978 of large-scale ‘tilting’ and ‘fallen’ recreations of popular monuments or cultural myths.to enlarge
Biography
Marta Minujín was born in 1943 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she lives and works. Over sixty years, she has pioneered happenings, performances, installations, and film works that have greatly influenced generations of contemporary artists in Latin amerika and beyond. Her simultaneously monumental and ephemeral works continue to inspire awe and surprise. She studied at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes Manuel Belgrano and the Escuela Nacional dem Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredón Buenos Aires. In 1961, she receive•
Marta Minujín is born the 30th of January 1943 in San Telmo, neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She comes from a middle-class family, and her parents were really strict. She described herself her childhood as “horrible”. She studied at the national schools of fine arts of Buenos Aires (Escuelas Nacionales de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires).
At the age of sixteen, in 1959, she married an economist, Juan Gómez Sabaini. She will have two children with him. And at the same age, she presented her first exhibition at the Teatro Agón and had a scholarship from the National Arts Foundation, which allowed her to travel to France. She featured in Pablo Curatella Manes y treinta argentinos de la Nueva Generación.
She stayed there two years and was one of the youngest famous Argentinian artists. She went back in Paris in 1962 thanks to an other scholarship and she started to create “happenings” there. La Destrucción was her first one (1963), where she invited various artists to d
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Marta Minujín
Argentine artist (born 1943)
Marta Minujín (born 1943) is an Argentineconceptual and performance artist.
Life and work
[edit]Marta Minujín was born in the San Telmo neighborhood of Buenos Aires. Her father was a Jewish physician and her mother a housewife of Spanish descent. She met a young economist, Juan Carlos Gómez Sabaini, and married him in secret in 1959; the couple had two children. As a student in the National University Art Institute, she first exhibited her work in a 1959 show at the Teatro Agón. A scholarship from the National Arts Foundation allowed her to travel to Paris as one of the young Argentine artists featured in Pablo Curatella Manes and Thirty Argentines of the New Generation, a 1960 exhibit organized by the prominent sculptor and Paris Biennale judge.[7]
While in Paris, Minujín was inspired by the experimental work of the Nouveaux Realistes, and especially their transformation of art into life. In response to this i