Imaginación Moderna III y IV
[Modern Imagination III and IV]
2015, oil on canvas, 62.5 × 80.7 cm, CA2M
CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (Madrid) 2015. Donated two works from the Imaginación Moderna [Modern Imagination] series by Magdalena Jitrik: Imaginación moderna IV [Modern Imagination IV], 2015; Imaginación moderna III [Modern Imagination III], 2015.
Magdalena Jitrik (Argentina, 1966)
Due to the political crisis in Argentina, she lived in Mexico, where she studied at Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, UNAM. She addresses twentieth century leftist political history and artistic avant-garde; she revisits socialism, the Russian Revolution, and workers' struggles. She combines geometry, Formalist painting, and writing. She was a member of Taller Popular de Serigrafía and had shows in diverse spaces.