artprice.com, french leading auction data and pricing company in the art market, has just released a report on Latin American Art.
The report mentions Pablo Leon de La Barra, Guggenheims curator and gallery personal friend who has seen works made by Jason Duval, Karen Paulina Biswell, and Felipe Castelblanco.
“Work initiated approximately ten years ago by the New York’s Guggenheim Museum is a perfect example: in 2013, its Mexican-born curator, Pablo León de la Barra, was hired by the Guggenheim as an expert on Latin American art. One of his missions has been to identify LatAm artists whose works are apt to be included in the museum’s permanent collections. Other prestigious museums have taken similar paths: the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Tate Modern in London and the MoMA in New York have all made considerable efforts to research and collect Latin American art, sometimes via specialized acquisition funds like the MoMA’s Latin American and Caribbean Fund.co. “Work initiated approximately ten years ago by the New York’s Guggenheim Museum is a perfect example: in 2013, its Mexican-born curator, Pablo León de la Barra, was hired by the Guggenheim as an expert on Latin American art. One of his missions has been to identify LatAm artists whose works are apt to be included in the museum’s permanent collections. Other prestigious museums have taken similar paths: the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Tate Modern in London and the MoMA in New York have all made considerable efforts to research and collect Latin American art, sometimes via specialized acquisition funds like the MoMA’s Latin American and Caribbean Fund.co. “
The report on Latin American Art emphasizes two very interesting aspects. The representation of female artists in the Latin American top 100 is 3 times higher than in the world top 100. And figures not known by the majority of the public have a high turnover.
