Liliana Porter

LILIANA PORTER (Buenos Aires, 1941).
"To see red IV", 2007.
Acrylic on canvas with attached objects.
Work referenced in the artist's website.
Provenance: Espacio Minino Gallery (Madrid).
Measurements: 153 x 163 cm.
In 2007, the artist Liliana Porter, was in a moment of creative maturity and international recognition. Her work, which ranged from engraving to installation, video and photography, continued to develop the themes that had been constant throughout her career: the relationship between reality and representation, the interplay between time and memory, and the poetics of the everyday object.
His work had moved towards an increasingly refined visual synthesis, characterized by minimal scenes on white backgrounds, where small objects, dolls, porcelain figurines, tools, miniatures, became the protagonists of absurd or poetic situations.
In 2007, one of the most significant exhibitions was his show "Situations", presented in different spaces (such as the Hosfelt Gallery in San Francisco and the Sicardi Gallery in Houston). In these works, Porter explored the theatricality of the object and the notion of the suspended scene, where the characters, often toys or figures of popular consumption, seemed to act in micro-dramas that alluded to major themes: work, violence, faith, the ruin of time.
A multidisciplinary artist, Liliana Porter trained at the Manuel Belgrano National School in Buenos Aires and at the Prilidiano Pueyrredón National School of Fine Arts in the same city. She also attended the engraving workshop at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de la Nación Ernesto de la Cárcova, directed at that time by the engraver Fernando López Anaya. From 1958 to 1961 he lived in Mexico City. In 1964, he traveled to New York where he has lived ever since. Together with artists Luis Camnitzer and José Guillermo Castillo, he co-founded The New York Graphic Workshop. He has exhibited his work in over 35 countries and in more than 450 group exhibitions including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum, the Museo Tamayo, the Blanton Museum of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, CentroCentro (Madrid), among others. His work is part of private and public collections at the TATE Modern, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museo de Bellas Artes in Santiago, Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Museo de Arte Moderno in Bogotá, Museo del Barrio, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, and the Daros Collection.