Today I bring you a publication dedicated to an artist from Argentina, her mastery of Pop Art the catapult not only in her country but worldwide, recognized for her creations titled habitable structures that began in Paris in 1961, I'm talking about Marta Minujín. Come with me to learn a little about her life and work.
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she is a pop and performance artist. She studied at the Prilidiano Pueyrredón National School of Fine Arts, she was granted a scholarship to study in Paris, in 1961, a year of much rebellion and of happening, where she poured out her youthful and unbridled creativity, she already began to generate artistic concepts where she proposed that the same events as the happening was the work of art.
By 1965 the artist was going around the world with her productions such as la menesunda, a kind of happening where the spectator had to go through 16 rooms to experiment in different stages, a mixture of theatricality with a lot of painting and mysticism. In 1966 she continued experimenting on how the influence of the media was creating new happenings. At that time he would be presenting his works at Bianchini 1966, the Howard Wise Gallery 1967 and the Museum of Modern Art in New York 1970.
Other impressive characteristics in terms of creativity are the creation of edible pieces on a large scale, as is the case of his famous Obelisk of sweet bread in 1978 in the Argentine capital and the Tower of James Joyce made with bread in Ireland in 1980.
Perhaps one of his most emblematic works is the famous Parthenon of books, built in 1983, an exact replica of the Greek temple, made with thousands of books that were censored during the most important military dictatorship in the world. A sample of the prohibition of a certain type of reading in an epoch dominated by the massive disappearance of thousands of sympathizers of ideas of the political and religious type.
In 1985, he made one of his most famous happenings in which he staged the Argentine foreign debt that was paid to Andy Warhol with corn cobs that represented American gold.
. In 1988 the Museum of Contemporary Art of Los Angeles included her in its historic exhibition Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, as one of the first international performance artists, along with Yves Klein, Allan Kaprow, Piero Manzoni, and the Gutai group.
His protest and denunciation through his works, call for reflection in a world censored by the powerful, some cataloged his work as political, but regardless of the doctrine is part of life itself, without criticism, there is no evolution.
Only his work The Parthenon was built with 100,000 books banned in brutal repression of the Nazi state, is located in the exact place where the Nazis burned about 2000 books in the so-called Campaign against the non-German spirit in the Friedrichsplatz.
The work is 70 meters long by 30 meters wide and 20 meters high, an exact replica of the Acropolis temple in Athens.
Some dichotomies about forbidden books fall into ridicule when Mao's Chinese book Alice in Wonderland was forbidden during the cultural revolution because of the ingenious aspect of the animals, or in the case of frank Spain where the Little Red Riding Hood was forbidden with the red dress because it resembled the color of the communists and even dyed the dress blue.
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