Image: Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art
The Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art has been invited by Parque de la Memoria to present ‘La Memoria de la colección. El Moderno en el Parque’, an exhibition of works by major Argentine artists that examines how the artistic community responded to one of the most traumatic episodes in the country’s history. The show opened as part of commemorations marking 50 years since the coup d’état, according to Página|12.
The project brings together a selection of works from the museum’s collection and frames them within a public memorial context. Its title points to memory as both subject and method: rather than presenting a single retrospective narrative, the exhibition focuses on how artists registered, processed and articulated the social and political rupture created by the coup. The article describes the exhibition as making visible the artistic responses to a defining moment in Argentine history.
The initiative is being presented through a collaboration between two significant cultural institutions in Buenos Aires. Parque de la Memoria, a site closely associated with remembrance and human rights, invited the Museo de Arte Moderno to participate in the anniversary programme. The museum’s involvement places its collection in direct dialogue with that commemorative setting, extending the reach of works that are normally encountered in a different institutional frame.
According to the report, the exhibition was curated by Nico Cuello, Esther Díaz and Cecilia Nisembaum. The article also notes that the three were seen together in front of Ana Eckell’s ‘Paseo campestre’ (1984), one of the works referenced in the installation. That image underscores the curators’ role in shaping a selection intended to address the legacy of state violence through art.
The article does not give a full checklist of artists or a detailed gallery-by-gallery description, but it makes clear that the exhibition gathers prominent Argentine artists and is centered on the museum’s holdings. Its emphasis is on collective memory and on the way artistic production can preserve and activate responses to historical trauma.
‘La Memoria de la colección. El Moderno en el Parque’ was inaugurated in connection with the 50-year commemorative acts for the coup d’état. No closing date is given in the source material.
