Arte Latino

“Reciprocity” Exhibition

Modern art in Spain has had some interesting exhibitions. One of these was an exhibition lasting for three months, from November until January 2010. the exhibition was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina at the Cultural Center of Spain (CCEBA). The exhibition was a joint effort with many artists contributing to this modern exhibition from different countries.

Artists included Claire Fontaine of Pairs, France, Leon Ferrari, Leo Ramos, and Dego Haboba, native Argentinians. Also contributions were present from Oliver Ressler of Austria and Zanny Begg of Australia to name but a few.

This particular exhibition was based on Mirrors and named “Reciprocity”. The aim was to break any barriers to creativity and to broaden the scope of Art to include many artists from different backgrounds. This openness meant including fellow creative professionals from across the full spectrum of the art circuit.

New ways of looking at art in all its formats were sought out. Artist representative of thesis focus were found from around the world in order to create a truly multinational modern art exhibition. The Artists were of different age groups and outlooks and brought new perspectives within modern art to the forefront with this collective exhibition, by utilizing media, painting, and even in some cases wooden boxes.

“Reciprocity” the exhibition not only was an equal opportunity type exhibition in which lots of artist from across the modern art world were invited to join. The very issues it sought to highlight were based on the idea of how this was not always society way.“Reciprocity” seems to aim to make a point of how those that were poor or ignorant of true value of goods and exchange were taken advantage of.

In particular the exhibition sought to tell the tale of how colonizers of America attempted to take advantage of the natives. The native Americans having no understanding of the value of new objects the colonizers brought with them were deeply impressed with mirrors an item they were unfamiliar with. They apparently thought they were extremely valuable and bartered gold and local goods for fragments of false mirrors.

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