Texts

The texts about Colección Pampa

Colección Pampa is structured in chronological order by Argentinian artistic movements. We decided to upload it to the website so that students, researchers, and a wider audience can have access to it without restrictions and free of charge. Our goal is to contribute to the knowledge and circulation of Argentinian art. We offer a space to host curatorial suggestions and cultural outreach activities for the entire community on the Texts pages on our website.

Variations on Colección Pampa

The pandemic challenged us to expand creativity into new possibilities. When we uploaded the Pampa Collection online, we realized that we could go back to cultural activities in a virtual mode. This approach allows us to gather together curators from all over the world and to design interactive exhibitions. This is how we imagined conceiving a series of exhibitions, inviting different curators to dialogue with the collection, exchanging ideas and suggestions. It seemed to be an impediment, but it turned out to be beneficial, because being online allowed us to summon diverse researchers.

We introduced Pop Up by hosting on our website the exhibitions in the series Variaciones curatoriales sobre la Colección Pampa [Curatorial Variations about Colección Pampa]. It is a sequence of online shows with guest curators, where they choose a work – or several – by an artist from the collection through their own conceptual framework. It includes a catalog, the selected works, and a round of conversations with Laura Batkis, Pampa’s chief curator.

This cycle opens with Art historian Karen Grimson, with an exhibition around the work Azules y violetas [Blues and Violets] (1961) by Sarah Grilo. All the material will be shown in the Pop Up openly, without restrictions and free of charge on the page, as reference material. Our aim is that the series will start off an inclusive dialogue with researchers, curators, students, artists, and a wider audience. Our wish is to give exposure to Argentinian art, encouraging other private collections to open up for the knowledge of our country’s art.

Laura Batkis

CURATOR