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Marcelo Brodsky

Marcelo Brodsky - born 1954, Buenos Aires. 

Lives and Works in Buenos Aires, Argentina.  


Economist and MA Degree, University of Barcelona, 1983 

Marcelo Brodsky is an international visual artist  with work focused in visual language, Memory and Human Rights.  His work combines text and images to convey meaning and to build up alternative narratives.  


In 1996-1997 he edited and exhibited the photographic essay Buena Memoria (Good Memory) based on the effects of state terrorism in Argentina. The iconic class picture is now shown permanently in the school´s main hall as part of its history.  


Founder of the Parque de la Memoria and a member of its Board. This Park is a large monument and art exhibition space to honour and remember the victims of Argentina´s military dictatorship. www.parquedelamemoria.org.ar 


Founder of Visual Action, an NGO dedicated to transferring visual expertise to NGO´s. www.visualaction.org 


Major Works/photobooks include “Buena Memoria”, “Nexo”, “Memory under construction”, “Once@9:53”, “Visual Corrrespondences”, “Tree time”, “1968 The Fire of Ideas”, published in Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Italy, Spain, Mexico  and the USA. Books in 2019 include ”Poetics of Resistance” and “The soul of a Giant”. 


“1968 the Fire of Ideas”  was shown extensively in Europe and Latin America in 2017 and 2018. The Lyon Biennale, France , the UNAM University Museum of Tlatelolco (Mexico), the Itau Foundation Photography Forum, Sao Paulo, Brazil, “Hiatus” Pinacoteca do Estado ,Sao Paulo, “Resist” Bozar (Bruxelles, Belgium), PhotoEspaña in Centro de Historias, Zaragoza,  Spain, Kaunas ArtFestival Lithuania, European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights Berlin, Germany, Academia de España in Rome, Museu Coleçao Berardo in Lisbon, 1968 Quelle Histoire in Rencontres d´Arles. His latest work on 1968 is an Opera in colaboration with a musician and a drama director, comissioned by Teatro Colon of Buenos Aires and premiered in December 2018. 


HIs work is in  the collections of the  Tate, London, The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York,  the Pinacoteca del Estado, Sao Paulo,Brazil,  the National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,  the Jewish Museum, New York, the Museum of Modern Art Buenos Aires,  The ESCALA Collection,  Essex, UK,  the Sprengel Museum,  Hannover, the MALI,  Lima Peru, the Museum of Memory and Human Rights,  Santiago de Chile, Princeton University Museum and Tufts University Museum, USA, Banco de la República Collection, Bogotá, Colombia,  etc. 


Awards: In 2008 Marcelo Brodsky received the B’nai Brith award for Human Rights, in Argentina. In 2014 he was awarded the Dr. Jean Mayer award for his human rights and artistic work by Tufts University, Boston, USA. 


More info in the webpage: www.marcelobrodsky.com 


IN CONVERSATION WITH

Marcelo Brodsky, Gaëlle Morel Ryerson, Eliot Wright, Dot Tuer 1/2

Such interesting conversation about the important role of archives in  contemporary photography. Please watch  Gaëlle Morel from  @ryersonimagecentre , Dot Tuer @ocad , Eliot Wright @prefixinstituteof  contemporaryart , Marcelo Brodsky @marcelobrodsky , Gabriela Jureviciuis  @julacreationcuration and Claudia Lala @lalacontemporaryto , sharing their views and expertise. 

Thank you all.

Marcelo Brodsky, Gaëlle Morel Ryerson, Eliot Wright, Dot Tuer 2/2

ARTIST TALK

Artist Talk | Marcelo Brodsky, 29 January 2020

During  this artist talk, in the Latin American Canadian Art Projects’s Latin  American Speaker Series — copresented by The Power Plant and LALA  Contemporary — artist Marcelo Brodsky (b. 1954) discussed his work in  art and human rights.

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