Abracadabra

'Losing the Human Form: A Seismic Image of the 1980s in Latin America' evokes an image of the 1980s in Latin America that establishes a counterpoint between the effects of violence on bodies and the radical experiments in freedom and transformation which impugned the repressive order. Stricken bodies / mutant bodies. Between horror and festivity, the materials gathered show not only the consequences of mass disappearances and massacres under dictatorial régimes, states of siege and internal wars, but also various collective urges to devise modes of existing in a permanent state of...

Exhibition on an often repeated theme in art and religion: love. The exhibition includes over 200 paintings and sculptures that portray erotic and mystic love. Some of the artists included are: Auguste Rodin, Juan Soriano, Pierre- Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Marc Chagall, El Greco, Cristobal de Villalpando, Jesús de la Helguera, Rufino Tamayo, Camille Claudel, Diego de Borgraf. 18 essays by various art historians and critics including: Alberto Ruy Sánchez, Karen Cordero Reiman, Guadalupe Loaeza, José de Jesús Aguilar and Vicente Quirate.

This publication, edited by Renata Cervetto (MALBA) and Miguel Á. López (TEOR/éTica), comprises twenty-one critical contributions from various artists, educators, curators, historians and activists, who reflect on their experiences and artistic, educational and curatorial projects in the last two decades in Latin America. "From a critical look at the strategies of mediation to self-organized and collaborative learning practices, the texts gathered here explore the social function of education and its possibilities of redefining the reach of public art as well as activate renewed forms of...

The purpose of these volumes is to recognize and disseminate the essay production of one of the most important figures of the literary history of the country and Latin America.