Marta Minujín: obras 1959-1989 | Marta Minujin
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Marta Minujín (b. Argentina 1941) is an artist strongly influenced with the events experienced in her own country and in the rest of the world. Her provocative artistic production of continuous transformations throughout 3 decades (1960, 1970, and 1980) places her as pioneer in Argentina in new realism, pop, conceptual art, performance and happening, video and media art, psychedelic and action art created in response to different national and international historic episodes. Her creations include massive participation art, edible art (made with bread, fruits, etc.), sensorial and interactive works, metal fragmented sculptures, etc. This edition includes a descriptive catalogue of her most paradigmatic pieces, including: La Destrucción (1963), Revuélquense y viva! (1964), La Menesunda (1965), El Batacazo (1965), Simultaneidad en Simultaneidad (1966), Eróticos en technicolor (1965), Minuphone (1967), Importación-Exportación (1968), Nicappening (1973), Kidnappening (1973), The Soft Gallery (1973), Imago Flowing (1974), La academia del fracaso (1975), Comunicando con tierra (1976), Espi Art (1977), Arte agrícola en acción (1977-1979), El Obelisco acostado (1978), El Obelisco de pan dulce (1979), Carlos Gardel de Fuego (1981), El Partenón de libros (1983) -created using books banned during the military dictatorship in Argentina, El pago de la deuda externa con choclos (1985) done in collaboration with Andy Warhol; Operación Perfume (1987), and Rayuela Arte (2009).