Credits
About the authors
Mercedes Casanegra - María José Herrera
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General design and Production: Norberto Estrin
Editing and editorial coordination: María Torres
Graphic Design: Alejandro Ros
Photo: Gustavo Lowry
Layout: Silvia Canosa
Translation: Jane Brodie
Corretion: Alicia Di Stasio - Mario Valledor
Printing: Latingráfica
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About the authors
Mercedes Casanegra
She has a degree in Art History from the Universidad de Buenos
Aires (UBA). She is a writer and a researcher specialized in contemporary
art from Argentina and abroad. She is a professor in the Art Aesthetics
program of the School of Philosophy and Literature (UBA). She
was the president of the Argentine chapter of the International
Association of Art Critics (AACA-AICA) from 2001 to 2006. Her
curatorial projects include: the Argentine delegation to the Venice
Biennial, 2003; De la Vega (Malba, 2003); Entre el silencio y
la violencia (Sotheby’s, New York, 2003; Fundación Telefónica,
Buenos Aires, 2004); anthological exhibitions of Roberto Elía,
Kazuya Sakai y Eduardo Stupía, and Matilde Marín (Centro Cultural
Recoleta, 2003-2009); Estados de la materia. Grippo, Battistelli,
Bairon, Harte, Pastorini (Fundación Klemm, 2009), and Carlos Gallardo
(Malba, 2010). Her publications include: Noé (1988), Jorge de
la Vega (1991), Josefina Robirosa (1997), Polesello-Imanes (2005),
and Teresa Pereda. Tierra (2008). She has sat on the jury of numerous
art competitions including the 1992 and 2002 editions of the Gran
Jurado Konex en Artes Visuales. Since 1985, she has studied the
work of Conceptual artist Victor Grippo, which is the topic of
her doctoral thesis (Art Theory Department, UBA).
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María José Herrera
She has a degree in Art from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA).
She is the head of the Research and Curatorial Department of the
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (MNBA). She is currently the president
of the Argentine chapter of the International Association of Art
Critics (AACA- AICA). In 2008, she was the acting artistic director
of MNBA. She is a professor and researcher at the Universidad
Di Tella and UNTREF . She has won grants from a number of cultural
and academic institutions from Argentina and abroad; her research
is centered on Argentine art and museums from a historical, cultural
and technical perspective, as well as from the perspective of
cultural policy. Since 2002, she has directed a study group that
analyzes the role of exhibitions in the writing of art history.
In conjunction with that group, she has organized workshops and
overseen publications. She is the curator of the permanent collections
in the galleries of MNBA. She has curated exhibitions in Brazil
and Chile. She has edited and written texts for many publications
put out by the Museum. She has published essays in academic and
journalistic media in Argentina and abroad. She published the
book Exposiciones de arte argentino, 1956-2006 (AAMNBA, 2009).
From the upcoming publication Las artes plásticas en la Argentina
del siglo XX ( Editorial Biblos and Fundación OSDE).
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