Arte desde America Latina: Moderno y Contmeporaneo

For the first time Katoen Natie, a global logistics service provider, shows its collection of unique modern and contemporary art from Latin America, the biggest collection in Europe. Renowned experts such as Laura Malosetti Costa and Christina Rossi discuss the art history of the continent and the 44 artists from the collection with toppers such as Joaquín Torres García and Diego Rivera. This lavishly illustrated catalogue is a kaleidoscope showing the artistic diversity of a fascinating continent that has been ignored for too long.

Contents:
1. Welcome; 2. Flamencos in Latin America by John Everaert; 3. Introduction by Laurens Dhaenens; 4. An overall picture of 19th century painting in Latin America by Laura Malosetti Costa; 5.The Latin American avant-garde: political and aesthetic projects by Maria Lucia Bastos Kern; 6. Constructive universalism: Torres García and the School of the South by Cristina Rossi; 7. Constructive abstraction from Latin America by Cristina Rossi; 8. Art in Latin America from 1960s onwards by Sebastián Vidal Mackinson; 9. Art from Latin America in the Katoen Natie Collection; 10.Concise author's biographies.

Text in Spanish.