El arte de la desobediencia

About this book

A look at the emergence of contemporary art in Colombia through a selection of more than a hundred art works made between 1965 and 1984. This period was marked by the rupture with modernism through major changes in the local artistic practices. Two moments in the history of the Museum open and close the period covered by the exhibition: its installation at the National University (1965) and the celebration of the last "Athens Room" (1984). In the period that the exhibition addresses, on the one hand, the increasingly punitive character of a restricted democracy contrasts with the strength of a youth that, influenced with the world cultural movements of those years, did not ask permission to demolish idols and create a new order of things. In the field of local art, disobedience or disrespect to authority was assumed as an ironic or provocative game that challenged power in different spheres: state, political, family, educational, sexual, religious and others. Graphics, photography and video became prolific matrices to repeal the hegemony of modernism and allowed a solid and critical connection with other areas of visual production, such as design, advertising, popular graphics and the mass media. , especially television.