Resumen

DIEZ FISCHER, Agustín. The Museum through the artist: institutional strategies in Lima and Buenos Aires. Intervención (Méx. DF) [online]. 2012, vol.3, n.5, pp.5-13. ISSN 2007-249X.

This essay analyzes contemporary artistic practices that appropriate the notion of an art museum to reshape its meaning and propose alternative museological models. The focus of the critique is on artists' productions from two specific urban contexts: Lima and Buenos Aires. In the former, creative institutional practices called "museotopías" are examined, resulting from a lack of contemporary art museums in the city of Lima. In the latter, two strategies that reconfigure concrete objectives and strategies of existing museums in Buenos Aires are explored. The analysis poses two fundamental problems that are common to both strategies: on one hand, reflection on the process of dismantling the State and the exclusion of large sectors of society, and on the other hand, the way in which these works question the internal relation in the art world and the processes of legitimation and exclusion that are generated within it.

Palabras llave : Museum; institutional critique; contemporary art.

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