{"product_id":"born-of-informalismo","title":"Born of Informalismo: Marta Minujín and the Nascent Body of Performance","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" title=\"Page 9\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eInformalist painting emerged in the late 1940s as a form of expressive abstraction characterized by the gestural application of paint. By 1956, it had firmly taken hold in Buenos Aires, where the move­ment’s proponents produced relief­-like paintings that incorporated a somber color palette and the extra-­artistic ma­terials of everyday life, from rags to rusted cans. Published on the occasion of the exhibition \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/islaa.org\/exhibitions\/exhibition-2022-mar-born-of-informalismo\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBorn of Informalismo: Marta Minujín and the Nascent Body of Performance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, this booklet reconsiders the movement’s heterogeneity, transnational context, and sociopolitical framework through the Argentine artist Marta Minujín’s early Informalist paintings \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eand sculptures. In an in­-depth essay, art historian Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann examines how this movement set the stage for Minujín’s trailblazing practice and served as a key conduit for Argentine experimental art in the 1960s.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA)","offers":[{"title":"Digital","offer_id":41543033061435,"sku":"PU.EX.MM.DIG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0590\/4406\/9435\/files\/5_1_f2a1daa5-b5dd-43d2-bec1-387ca36ea96e.jpg?v=1694707229","url":"https:\/\/institute-for-studies-on-latin-american-art-islaa.myshopify.com\/products\/born-of-informalismo","provider":"Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}