Image: National Museum of Fine Arts, Argentina, Buenos Aires
The National Museum of Fine Arts in Argentina is inviting visitors to its first floor for a display of 24 paintings and sculptures from its collection, bringing together work made between 1945 and 1970. The presentation centers on artists identified in Argentina with the major currents of the period: Arte Concreto-Invención, Madi, Perceptismo and free abstraction.
According to the museum, the selection draws entirely from its own holdings and focuses on what it describes as the leading references in the country associated with those movements. The works are presented as a concentrated survey of a key span in postwar Argentine art, when geometric abstraction and related approaches developed in multiple directions.
Arte Concreto-Invención and Madi are among the best-known names in that history, and the museum’s grouping places them alongside Perceptismo and free abstraction rather than separating them into distinct historical compartments. That approach suggests a broad view of mid-20th-century experimentation in which painting and sculpture shared common formal concerns while also reflecting different artistic positions.
The display is installed on the museum’s first floor, where visitors can move through the room containing the 24 works. The museum’s notice does not list individual artists or separate the selection into thematic sections, but it does specify the date range covered by the works, from 1945 to 1970.
Because the presentation comes from the National Museum of Fine Arts’ own collection, it also offers a glimpse into how the institution preserves and interprets the history of modern art in Argentina. By focusing on a defined period and on movements that shaped local abstraction, the museum is foregrounding a chapter of its collection rather than a loan-based exhibition or a newly commissioned project.
The museum’s brief announcement describes the room as a visitable space holding paintings and sculptures created within that 25-year span, giving audiences a compact overview of a central part of the institution’s holdings in Buenos Aires.
