As part of the exhibition Joseph Beuys. Works 1955-1985 , Proa Foundation invited the american curator and researcher Mark Rosenthal , author of Staging of sculpture , the central essay for the exhibition catalog. On Wednesday, April 16 , at 18 pm , will be presented in a public interview with Dr. Elena Oliveras to delve into the life and work of Joseph Beuys. With simultaneous translation.

Elena Oliveras y Mark Rosenthal

CV Elena Oliveras
Es Doctora en Estética y catedrática de Estética en las Universidades de Buenos Aires y del Salvador. Académica de número de la Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes, Miembro de la Asociación Argentina de Críticos de Arte y de la Asociación Internacional de Críticos de Arte. Colabora como asesora editorial de la revista ArtNexus de Bogotá y en 2006 fue distinguida con el Diploma al Mérito de los Premios Konex en el área de Estética, Teoría e Historia del arte. Entre sus libros y publicaciones se destacan los títulos: Estéticas de lo extremo, Arte cinético y neocinetismo, La metáfora en el arte, Cuestiones de arte contemporáneo y Estética. La cuestión del arte -que recibió el Premio al Libro del Año de la  Asociación Argentina de Críticos de Arte.

Rosenthal activities in Buenos Aires are:

Tuesday, April 15 – 17 hours:
Studio Tuesday. Meeting with the public in exhibition halls.

Wednesday 16 to 18 hours:
Public interview by Dr. Elena Oliveras. Simultaneous translation.

Mark Rosenthal worked in some of the most prestigious art institutions in the United States, as the MET and Guggenheim in New York and Menil Collection in Houston. In addition, a PhD in Art History from the University of Iowa (1979 ) and has published several texts and curated exhibitions on important artists of the twentieth century, like Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Anselm Kiefer and Damien Hirst.

Analyzing the different dialogues, implicit and explicit , that Beuys had with other artists such as Paul Klee , Jackson Pollock and James Joyce, the author contextualizes the work and the method of the German artist in the twentieth century aesthetic horizon . For Rosenthal , ” rather than the contents symbolize the work of Beuys ‘s manifest , which implies an important and significant development in the art.”

Studious analyst Beuys, a key to understanding the development of contemporary art figure, Mark Rosenthal published several texts referring : Joseph Beuys Sculptures and Drawings ( New York, Zwirner Wirth, 2007 ), Joseph Beuys ‘s Resonant Art , (New York, Michael Werner Gallery , 1999 ), Joseph Beuys ‘s Blitzschlag Lichtschein mit auf Hirsch (Museum fur Moderne Kunst , Frankfurt, 1990) , Beuys will be Beuys ( Contemporanea, June 1989). In 2004 , for Menil Collection and Tate Modern, curated the exhibition Rosenthal Joseph Beuys : Actions, Vitrines , Environments .

BIOGRAPHY

Mark Rosenthal, independent curator , and extensive and recognized work in museums and institutions. He was Director of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Gallery in Washington, DC, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Philadelphia.

He also has served as a partner at the Guggenheim Museum in New York; Deputy Curator at the Menil Collection in Houston, and is currently Curator of Arts Detroit Institute- DIA- space that preserves the cycle of fresco murals of Diego Rivera, dedicated to the local industry.

Rosenthal cured and organized numerous exhibitions that have received awards and roamed by cities worldwide . In 2010 presented the exhibition on South African filmmaker William Kentridge in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and in 2013 he made the exhibition “About Andy Warhol ” at the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

During his long career, Rosenthal has been dedicated to writing essays on modern and contemporary art, abstract art in the twentieth century, and case studies on artists like Alexander Calder and Joseph Beuys, both analyzed in depth in his tenure on the Menil Collection or cases like Anselm Kiefer and Jasper Johns, both in depth in his years at the Museum of Fine Arts in Philadelphia.

Currently , Rosenthal lives and works in the United States of America, and is organizing the exhibition ” Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit ” for the DIA.

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