Artes Visuales no. 17, marzo-mayo/march-may 1978
JSP Art Photography

November 12, 7pm
205 Hudson Gallery
205 Hudson Street (at Canal St.)
New York, NY 10013

This screening features Latin American artists working in video during the run of Artes Visuales, from 1973 to 1981, highlighting the avant garde tendencies the magazine sought to foreground.

From its first issue, Artes Visuales championed the popular arts in its pages, making space for vernacular photography and film to be appreciated alongside the traditional fine artforms of painting and sculpture. As video art rose to prominence in the 1970s with the accessibility of the Super 8 camera, the magazine documented the emergence of this experimental new media. Issue 17, from the spring of 1978, is devoted entirely to video art and places artists from Latin America, the United States, and Europe in conversation about the conceptual and practical capabilities of the moving image as medium.

This film screening is organized in conjunction with the curatorial practica seminar related to Artes Visuales. Curated by Harper Montgomery, Susan and David Bershad Associate Professor of Art History and Director of the Hunter College Art Galleries, with MA and MFA students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorial Certificate Seminar and curatorial student fellows: Reuben Gordon, Lisa Mason, and Grace Sanabria. This exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA).   

This exhibition is made possible by The Leonard A. Lauder Exhibition and Catalogue Fund and the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA). The exhibition's catalogue has been supported by a grant from the Wolf Kahn Foundation and the Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn.