Cities in perspective: a socio-spatial study of Manaus and Montevideo. Photographs by Federika Odriazola. An international cooperation project between the Universidade Federal do Amazonas and the Universidad de la República, developed over four years. Approved in 2010...
This exhibition presents 600 works of art made by the most important Mexican folk artists of today. The objects on display come from various localities in the Mexican states. They reflect the full range of the most important crafts that make up the folk art of that...
MAPI and the CdF present the exhibition “Places I’ve never been”, by photographer Alejandro Almaraz, as part of Fotograma:13. Alejandro Almaraz was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His work relates photography to the phenomena of new technologies and...
MAPI, Coo-ee Art Gallery and the Embassy of Australia present the exhibition “Dreamtime: Indigenous art from Australia”, which brings together paintings, textiles, bark paintings (painting on eucalyptus bark), sculptures and lithographs by contemporary...
This exhibition deals with hidepainting -or painted animal skins-, an artistic practice widespread among the so-called “Plains Indians” of North America (Sioux, Blackfoot, Crow, Apache, Lakota, Arapaho, Kiowa and Cheyenne). Among the various objects on...
Visibles is a work that, from the visual arts, proposes an individual and collective tracing of identity, giving visibility to a fabric that was hidden by official history. The events of the past dwell in us; they are part of the body and of the territory. They are...
MAPI and the Embassy of Peru in Uruguay present the exhibition “El sol bajo los cascos” by Walter Tournier, composed of four sections in which the artist recreates episodes from the history of Peru, inspired by his reading of chroniclers of the period....
Eager to share and disseminate the visual work of Violeta Parra, which remains insufficiently known, we succumbed to the ambition of offering elements that would broaden the view of this area of her creativity and contribute to the understanding of one of her most...
The Centro Cultural de la Memoria Haroldo Conti, MAPI and the CdF present the exhibition “Two Views” as part of Fotograma ’13. AN AFFIRMATION OF IDENTITY After the extermination campaigns of the late 19th century, photographs of the Indigenous...
