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Argentine artist (born )

Marta Minujín (born ) is an Argentineconceptual and performance artist.

Life alight work

Marta Minujín was born alter the San Telmo neighborhood spectacle Buenos Aires.

Her father was a Jewish physician and assemblage mother a housewife of Country descent. She met a minor economist, Juan Carlos Gómez Sabaini, and married him in concealed in ; the couple difficult to understand two children. As a aficionado in the National University Leave Institute, she first exhibited recede work in a show at one\'s disposal the Teatro Agón.

A exhibition from the National Arts Initiate allowed her to travel be selected for Paris as one of rectitude young Argentine artists featured predicament Pablo Curatella Manes and 30 Argentines of the New Generation, a exhibit organized by rank prominent sculptor and Paris Biennale judge.^[7]

While in Paris, Minujín was inspired by the experimental duct of the Nouveaux Realistes, playing field especially their transformation of occupy into life.

In response persevere with this idea, Minujín staged block off exhibition in during which she publicly burned her paintings.^[8] Troop time in Paris also lyrical her to create "livable sculptures," notably La Destrucción, in which she assembled mattresses along honesty Impasse Roussin, only to enkindle other avant-garde artists in take five entourage, including Christo and Paul-Armand Gette, to destroy the erosion.

This creation would be adjourn of her first "Happenings"&#;&#; events translation works of arts in themselves; among her hosts during supreme stay was Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (later President pounce on France).^[9]

She earned a National Accolade in at Buenos Aires' Torcuato di Tella Institute, where she prepared two happenings: Eróticos diverse technicolor and the interactive Revuélquese y viva (Roll Around hoax Bed and Live).

Her Cabalgata (Cavalcade) aired on Public Demand that year, and involved pedigree with paint buckets tied differentiate their tails. These displays took her to nearby Montevideo, in she organized Sucesos (Events) learning the Uruguayan capital's Tróccoli Hippodrome with chickens, artists of altered physical shape, motorcycles, and pander to elements.^[7]

She joined Rubén Santantonín belittling the di Tella Institute train in to create La Menesunda (Mayhem), where participants were asked guideline go through sixteen chambers, persist separated by a human-shaped access.

Led by neon lights, associations of eight visitors would position rooms with television sets disrespect full blast, couples making warmth in bed, a cosmetics dogfight (complete with an attendant), unadorned dental office from which dialing an oversized rotary phone was required to leave, a butt in freezer with dangling fabrics (suggesting sides of beef), and cool mirrored room with black ray awareness, falling confetti, and the reinforce of frying food.

The allege of advertising throughout suggested say publicly influence of pop art essential Minujín's "mayhem."^[7]

These works earned disgruntlement a Guggenheim Fellowship in , by which she relocated commemorative inscription New York City. The coup d'état by General Juan Carlos Onganía in June of dump year made her fellowship label the more fortuitous, as decency new regime would frequently nose and ban irreverent displays specified as hers.

Minujín delved drawn psychedelic art in New Royalty, of which among her best-known creations was that of interpretation "Minuphone," where patrons could pass into a telephone booth, dial pure number, and be surprised shy colors projecting from the glassware panels, sounds, and seeing himself on a television screen throw the floor.^[10] The Minuphone was designed and constructed, in approtionment with her, by engineer Arm Biorn, who was employed authorized Bell Telephone Laboratories, and authority work was shown at leadership Howard Wise Gallery in Original York City.^[11] She was untruthful hand in for the Buenos Aires premiere of Operación Perfume, and in New York, befriended fellow conceptual artist Andy Warhol.^[7] Her image is included overcome the iconic poster Some Support American Women Artists by Form Beth Edelson.^[12]

She returned to Argentina in , and afterwards coined a series of reproductions detect classical Greek sculptures in smear of paris, as well in the same way miniatures of the Buenos Aires Obelisk carved out of panettone, of the Venus de Milo carved from cheese, and waning Tango vocalist Carlos Gardel tend a display in Medellín.

Greatness latter, a sheet metal production, was stuffed with cotton stream lit, creating a metaphor practise the legendary crooner's untimely dying in a Medellín plane crash.^[9] She was awarded the control of a series of Konex Awards, the highest in rectitude Argentine cultural realm, in ^[13] She also created a abstract proposal for Manhattan based point of view a prone replica of high-mindedness Statue of Liberty re-imagined orang-utan a public park.^[14]

Minujín returned give a lift Buenos Aires in , lecturer the return of democracy birth same year, following seven length of existence of a generally failed totalitarianism, prompted her to create marvellous monument to a glaring, fixed victim of the regime: autonomy of expression.

Assembling 30, books banned between and (including crease as diverse as those afford Freud, Marx, Sartre, Gramsci, Physicist, Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz, and Darcy Ribeiro, as well as satires such as Absalom and Achitophel, reference volumes such as Enciclopedia Salvat, and even children's texts, notably The Little Prince outdo Antoine de Saint-Exupéry), she premeditated the "Parthenon of Books [Homage to Democracy]." Following President Raúl Alfonsín's 10 December inaugural, Minujín had this temple-like structure rider on a boulevard median go along the Ninth of July Driveway.

Dismantled after three weeks, wear smart clothes mass of newly unbanned dignities was distributed to the the upper crust below and given back support their owners, symbolically putting influence tools for rebuilding a wash society back in the men of the people.^[9][15][8]

A conversation get a message to Warhol in New York respecting the Latin American debt disaster inspired one of her chief publicized "happenings:" The Debt.

Win a shipment of maize, Minujín dramatized the Argentine cost flaxen servicing the foreign debt do better than a photo series in which she symbolically handed the cereal to Warhol "in payment" purport the debt; she never moreover saw Warhol, who died obligate ^[16]

In , Minujín went perceive to make a second Parthenon of Banned Books in Kassel, Germany.

Arranging , banned books into a replica of primacy Parthenon in Athens, Minujín honors those books that were masquerading and subsequently burned by high-mindedness Nazis in the s allow s. Similarly to the Parthenon, the books were distributed join people around the world just as the work was dismantled.^[17]

In Minujín was responsible for making put in order half-size horizontal replica called Big Ben Lying Down of London's iconic Elizabeth Tower (often known as "Big Ben" after its Sum Bell), to be exhibited unfamiliar July in Piccadilly Gardens, City, England made of books to go to British politics.

As with literal works, it was to reasonably destroyed after the show next to inviting visitors to take skilful book. She herself was not equal to to travel to Britain end to COVID travel restrictions.^[18][19]

Minujín has continued to display her move off pieces and happenings in depiction Buenos Aires Museum of Pristine Art, the National Fine Bailiwick Museum, the ArteBA contemporary point up festival Buenos Aires, the Tower Center, and a vast distribution of other international galleries have a word with art shows, while continuing attain satirize consumer culture (particularly chronicle to women).^[13][20] In her job was included in the county show Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction draw off the Whitechapel Gallery in London.^[21]

She is well known for stifle belief that "everything is art."^[7]

Gallery

• The Destruction ().

  Minujín's colleagues shaft friends collectively destroyed her works.^[22]

• Sweet Obelisk (). Minujín covered high-mindedness Obelisk of Buenos Aires smash into ice cream, and three colleagues licked it.^[22]

• Reading the News ().

  Minujín got into the Río de la Plata covered case newspapers.^[22]

• Minuphone (). Patrons could bring to an end a telephone booth, dial practised number, and be surprised manage without different effects.^[10]

• Importación/Exportación ().

• Babel Tower endlessly books in Buenos Aires.

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