Luis Camnitzer

MAMM - Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín
, Medellín, Colombia 

03.08.2012 - 14.10.2012

Curated by Hans-Michael Herzog and Katrin Steffen

Luis Camnitzer may be considered one of the art world’s key figures in the second half of the 20th century. This solo exhibition, with some 70 pieces created by the Uruguayan artist between 1966 and the present day, offers visitors a close look at his work.

Luis Camnitzer was born in Germany in 1937, grew up in Montevideo, and has lived and worked in New York since 1964. He has made his mark internationally not only as an artist but as a critic, educator and art theorist as well. Formally allied with the American Conceptualists of the 1960s and 1970s, over the past 50 years Camnitzer has developed an essentially autonomous œuvre, unmistakably distinguished from that of his colleagues in the US by its acutely observed detail, its acerbic wit, its ludic-lyrical qualities and its ironically metaphorical polyvalence, as well as by its solid socio-political commitment. 

The Daros Latinamerica Collection enjoys the world’s largest institutional collection of Camnitzer's work, and it is from that store that this comprehensive exhibition has been assembled.

Past venues:

- Daros Museum, Zürich, Switzerland (10.03.2010 - 04.07.2010)
- El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY, USA (02.02.2011 - 29.05.2011)
- Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan, Mexico (27.06.2011 - 28.08.2011)
- Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (30.09.2011 - 04.12.2011)
- Museo de Arte de la
 Universidad Nacional de Colombia
, Bogotá, Colombia (23.03.2012 - 30.06.2012)

Next venue:

- Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay (08.11.2012 -10.02.2013)

Luis Camnitzer

Works in the exhibition

Catalogue