Marcelo Brodsky (born 1954, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine photographer, visual artist and human rights activist.[1][2][3]
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Nationality | Argentine |
Occupation(s) | Photographer, visual artist and human rights activist |
Website | www |
Early life and career
editMarcelo Brodsky was born in 1954 in Buenos Aires. He was exiled to Barcelona after the military coup in Argentina in 1976. He studied economics at the University of Barcelona. During his stay in Spain, he took photographs that immortalized the psychological and emotional state generated by exile for political reasons. He returned to Argentina after the end of the military dictatorship in 1984. He began his project Buena Memoria, a visual essay that deals with the experiences and emotions of those who lived through dictatorship and with the consequences of the disappeared by state terror in his generation.[1] Brodsky had many solo and group shows and his work is part of major collections such as the Museum of Fine Arts Houston,[4] the Tate Gallery in London,[5] Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires), Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art, The center for creative Photography in Tucson, University of Arizona, Sprengel Museum in Germany, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo in Brazil, Lima Art Museum in Peru, Colección de Arte del Banco de la República in Colombia and Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.[6][7][8][9][10][11]
Brodsky has represented Argentina in several international biennials including the Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon (2017-2018), Rencontres d'Arles (2018), Dakar Biennale (2018), São Paulo Art Biennial (2010), Valencia (2007) and International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (2000).[12][13]
Brodsky is a member of the human rights organization Asociación Buena Memoria.[14] He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Remembrance park (Parque de la memoria),[15] a sculpture park and large monument with names and a gallery, built in Buenos Aires to the memory of victims of state terrorism.[7][16][17]
Selected exhibitions
editSolo
edit- 2021: Traces of Violence, ARTCO Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
- 2021: Vision and Justice, Frieze New York, Henrique Faria Fine Art NY, USA.[18]
- 2020: A call to vote, Henrique Faria Fine Art, New York, USA.
- 2020: 1968 & Black lives matter, Buenos Aires Photo, Rolf Art, Buenos Aires.
- 2019: 1968, The Fire of Ideas,Thorne Sagendorp Gallery, Keene College, NH, USA
- 2019: 1968, The Fire of Ideas, Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Artco Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
- 2019: Abran los puentes, Juntos Aparte, Bienalsur, Cúcuta, Colombia.
- 2018: 1968, The Fire of Ideas, ECCHR, Berlin, Germany.[19]
Group
edit- 2020: Pictures Revisited, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.[20]
- 2019: Remains of the Amia Jewish Institution, Rolf Art, Buenos Aires
- 2018: 1968, The Fire of Ideas Resist., Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Bruselas, Belgium
- 2017: 1968, El Fuego de las ideas, Sublevaciones. MUNTREF, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 2016: Upheaval (with Jorge Tacla), Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University, Massachusetts, USA.
Publications
edit- Poetics of Resistance (2019) [21]
- 1968, The Fire of Ideas (2018)
- Ayotzinapa , Acción Visual (2016)
- Buena Memoria (1996)
- Nexo (2001)
- Memory under construction (2005)
- Visual Correspondences (2009)
Awards
edit- 2009: Human Rights Award, awarded by B'nai B'rith.[22]
- 2014: Jean Mayer Award, awarded by Tufts University.[23]
References
edit- ^ a b "Marcelo Brodsky Artist & Human Rights Activist, Guest Speaker, London". Retrieved 12 July 2021.
- ^ "Nine Argentinian Photographers You Need to Follow". Time. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
- ^ "Mrcelo Brodsky-Né en 1954, vit et travaille à Buenos Aires (Argentine)". labiennaledelyon. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
- ^ "The Class | Works | Marcelo Brodsky | People | The MFAH Collections".
- ^ Tate. "Marcelo Brodsky born 1954". Tate. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
- ^ "Marcelo Brodsky and David Campany". David Campany. August 18, 2020. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
- ^ a b "MARCELO BRODSKY - Arts of the Americas". www.oas.org. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
- ^ "'from Buena Memoria, 1st year, 6th division, Class Photo 1967', Marcelo Brodsky, 1996". Tate. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
- ^ "Marcelo Brodsky". Art Basel. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
- ^ "THE PAST IS NOT A FOREIGN COUNTRY: AN INTERVIEW WITH MARCELO BRODSKY". GUP Magazine. June 11, 2018. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
- ^ "Visiting The Met?". metmuseum. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
- ^ Instituut, Nederlands Foto (2000). Foto Biënnale Rotterdam 2000. Rotterdam: Nederlands Foto Instituut. pp. 249–250. ISBN 978-90-76085-10-4.
- ^ "Marcelo Brodsky Bio & Statement". Retrieved 12 July 2021.
- ^ "Artist Spotlight: Marcelo Brodsky". Retrieved 12 July 2021.
- ^ "EL FUTURO DE LA MEMORIA". 10 April 2020. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
- ^ "5 Must-See Artists at the Rencontres d'Arles, the 'Venice Biennale of the Photography World'". Artnet News. July 6, 2018. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
- ^ Zacharías, María Paula (3 November 2020). "Marcelo Brodsky en Nueva York: viaja a inaugurar una muestra y encuentra una obra suya colgada en el MET - LA NACION". La Nación. Retrieved 12 July 2021 – via La Nacion (Argentina).
- ^ "Tribute to Vision & Justice Project and Founder Sarah Elizabeth Lewis". Frieze. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
- ^ "Marcelo Brodsky - 1968: The Fire of Ideas". Street Level Photoworks. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
- ^ "Marcelo Brodsky-La Clase (The Class)-The Metropolitan Museum of Art". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
- ^ "Marcelo Brodsky-publications". Artco-art. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
- ^ "Premios Derechos Humanos 2009 de B´Nai B´Rith Argentina". Retrieved 12 July 2021.
- ^ "Marcelo Brodsky Receives Jean Mayer Award". Tufts Global Leadership. Retrieved 12 July 2021.