Marta Minujín
I am thrilled to be starting the new year off with a brand new Art Class series! I plan to continue offering my art classes throughout 2022 and look forward to planning classes that will provide students an opportunity to learn about a variety of artists, and through them, new approaches and techniques. I also thought it would be wonderful to share featured artists on my blog with all of you.
This week, art class students explored Marta Minujín, a contemporary Argentine artist best known for producing conceptual and participatory events, or 'Happenings'. Minujín began her career in Paris and later moved to New York, where she befriended Andy Warhol, whose influence is seen in her work.
One of her best-known works from those years, Minuphone (1967), invited viewers to enter a telephone booth, dial a number, and watch as sounds and colors projected from the glass panels while a television screen on the floor displayed the caller’s face.
In 1983, following the return of democracy to Argentina, Minujín created a monument to freedom of expression called, The Parthenon of Books (1983). It was made using newly unbanned books and was erected in the middle of a Buenos Aires thoroughfare. After The Parthenon of Books was dismantled, the books were distributed to the public.
Minujín's artwork and 'happenings' have been exhibited in the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art, the National Fine Arts Museum, the ArteBA contemporary art festival Buenos Aires, the Barbican Center, and a vast number of other international galleries and art shows. She is well known for her belief that "everything is art."
Want to learn more about Marta Minujín? Check out these video links!
https://mif.co.uk/whats-on/mif-the-guardian-marta-minuj%C3%ADn-in-conversation/
