1968: The Fire of Ideas

Marcelo Brodsky

from November 16, 2021 to December 30, 2021

Marcelo Brodsky (Argentina, 1954) recovers photographs of social mobilisations from the 1960s, which he then intervenes through painting and writing. With the exhibition 1968: The Fire of Ideas, Brodsky aims to bring the great social storm of that decade closer and more tangible to a wider public. 

The aura of the archive and the recovery of memory are two recurrent themes in Brodsky's work from the very start of his career, when he presented the ESMA archive at the Palau de la Virreina in Barcelona. The strategy of intervention of archival photographs, employed by the artist, can be traced back to his 1996 work entitled The Class, which has become an iconic work in his career and was recently exhibited at the MET in New York. It is a work based on a 1967 photograph of the artist's class at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, which he resized and then wrote some texts, thus highlighting his classmates who disappeared during the Argentine dictatorship.  

Press release and interview with the artist by David Campany

Exhibition overview