Frames and Documents, Conceptualist Practices

Frames and Documents: Conceptualist Practices. Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, featuring over 60 pieces by 41 artists from different generations and latitudes, serve as a comprehensive guide to understanding and appreciating conceptualist practices. These artists' shared experience of promoting and transforming conceptualist practices has made them a vital and enduring force in contemporary art today.

The exhibition, with its multiple geographical and chronological intersections, allows the audience to explore the artist's journey as a historian through an institutional critique (Frames) and their ability to challenge our relationship with memory (Documents). As a selection of significant works from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, this exhibition is not just a reflection of historical canons but a catalyst for diverse interpretations that may reveal new connections within contemporary artistic production.

The works included in the exhibition highlight three distinct instances within the trajectory of conceptual art between the 1960's1960s and the late 1980's1980s. One group of artists included in the exhibition is those associated with the birth of conceptualism: Vito Acconci, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Luis Camnitzer, Joseph Kosuth, David Lamelas, and Ed Ruscha, for instance.

Another group consists of artists like Marina Ambramović, Lothar Baumgarten, Juan Downey, Eugenio Espinoza, Anna Maria Maiolino, Gordon Matta-Clark, Ana Mendieta, John Smith, and Francesca Woodman who, mainly working in the seventies, participated in the dissemination of conceptualist practices across geographical and cultural boundaries. The third group of artists seen in Frames and Documents are those who worked in the 1980s, such as Ricardo Brey, Sophie Calle, Eugenio Dittborn, Louise Lawler, Claudio Perna, and Allan McCollum.

Artists

Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Lothar Baumgarten, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Ricardo Brey, Paulo Bruscky, Pavel Büchler, Waltércio Caldas, Sophie Calle, Luis Camnitzer, Eugenio Dittborn, Juan Downey, Eugenio Espinoza, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Héctor Fuenmayor, Dan Graham, Leandro Katz, Joseph Kosuth, Barbara Kruger, David Lamelas, Louise Lawler, Nelson Leirner, Carlos Leppe, Víctor Lucena, Anna Maria Maiolino, Gordon Matta-Clark, Anthony McCall, Allan McCollum, Cildo Meireles, Ana Mendieta, Marta Minujín, Antoni Miralda, Antoni Muntadas, Lygia Pape, Claudio Perna, Ed Ruscha, Regina Silveira, John Smith, Antonieta Sosa, Pedro Tagliafico, Pedro Terán, Francesca Woodman, Horacio Zabala.