Marta Minujín is having an exhibition at the Pinacoteca in São Paulo.

Marta Minujín became a significant phenomenon in the early years of her career in the 1960s. Throughout her career, the artist became the ambassador of the pop movement in Argentina, which involved interpreting these international trends with porteño references. Born in Buenos Aires in 1943, she achieved great recognition in the country and also internationally. Although she identified with the label of pop art, her work has a multidisciplinary character, combining aspects of pop art with happening and conceptual art.

Minujín tirelessly produces art to this day, transitioning between various languages, scales, artistic, and social circuits. She navigates between new realism, pop art, conceptualisms, public art, and multimedia.

The exhibition includes video installations and photo performances, such as El pago de la deuda externa argentina con maíz (1985). A 17-meter inflatable piece, Escultura de los deseos (2022), was set up in the parking lot of the Pinacoteca to announce the artist's works.

The exhibition is open to the public until January 28 of next year, curated by Ana Maria Maia, and occupies the seven rooms on the first floor of the Pinacoteca Luz, with the guiding thread being the artist's contribution to a vanguard that thinks about Latin America in micro and macro political terms.

There are more than a hundred works on display, from 1963 to the present, including the iconic El batacazo, created in 1965. In addition to works such as Galeria Blanda (1973) and La caída de los mitos universales (1978-), among others.

Born in Buenos Aires, Minujín is one of the leading conceptual and performance artists in Latin America. One of her most well-known works, Parthenon de Livros (1983), is a replica of the Parthenon of Athens made with books.

In the political context of the 1970s, the proliferation of military dictatorships throughout Latin America led Minujín to artistic practices aimed at raising awareness of a socio-political reality and a project for integration among the countries in the region. The artist's most emblematic work in this regard was Comunicando con tierra (1976), re-mounted for this exhibition, which features the Nido de hornero, an installation in the shape of a giant clay oven's nest.

The work El Batacazo, from 1965, has been recreated especially for the Pinacoteca. In it, media icons guide the visitor, who passes through football players from Brazil and Argentina, climbs stairs to encounter playboys and cosmonauts, and slides down a slide to land in an inflatable doll shaped like the face of Italian actress Virna Lisi.

The exhibition at the Pinacoteca in São Paulo is open to the public until January 28, 2024.