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A Study on La Menesunda by Marta Minujín

  • Journal of History of Modern Art
  • 2023, (53), pp.207-236
  • Publisher : 현대미술사학회
  • Research Area : Arts and Kinesiology > Art > Arts in general > Art History
  • Received : May 2, 2023
  • Accepted : June 5, 2023
  • Published : June 30, 2023

SHIN HYESUNG 1

1서울여자대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This study examines the art installation La Menesunda by Argentine artist Marta Minujín, which was originally exhibited during her stay in Buenos Aires in the mid-1960s and has been re-produced and re-presented recently. La Menesunda, co-created with Rubén Santantonin in 1965, was a monumental work that shows a sensuous representation of Buenos Aires changing into a consumer capitalistic metropolis. The work, which enabled eight people to enter at the same time, achieved success due to its playful and popular aspects. This work can be seen an achievement based on the support of the Di Tella Institute, which aimed at international simultaneity of Argentine art through radical and experimental young artists and the influential art critic Jorge Romero Brest. In 2015, Minujín held a solo exhibition at MAMBA (Museo Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires), reproduced the installation with the help of experts, and later exhibited it abroad. Returning La Menesunda to the new generation who are familiar with participatory blockbusters or media art exhibitions over the past 50 years, was seen as a kind of entertainment with a historical source. The important motivation of returning La Menesunda to the present is the charisma and self-directing ability of the veteran artist, who continues to have an active career.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.