Miguel Urrutia Art Museum
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Former name | Museo de Arte del Banco de la República (Bank of the Republic Art Museum) |
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| Established | 2004[1] |
| Location | Bogotá, Colombia |
| Coordinates | 4°35′46″N 74°04′23″W / 4.59623°N 74.07314°W |
| Type | Art museum |
| Public transit access | Museo del Oro station |
| Website | official website |
The Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia (MAMU) (English: Miguel Urrutia Art Museum) is an art museum located in La Candelaria neighborhood of Bogotá, Colombia. It is managed by the Bank of the Republic of Colombia and used to display its art collection which numbered 6,222 works in 2018.[2]
The MAMU is part of the Banrepcultural Network along with the Museo Botero, the Gold Museum, the Luis Ángel Arango Library, and the Museo Casa de Moneda.[3]
History
[edit]Established in 2004, the MAMU is the main art museum within the Bank of the Republic's cultural network and it's used to display the bank's art collection.
The Bank of the Republic's art collection dates back to 1957
Since 2013, the permanent exhibit has been divided in 5 different curatorial expositions: The first modern times ,
In 2016, the museum changed its name from the Bank of the Republic Art Museum (Spanish: Museo de Arte del Banco de la República) to the Miguel Urrutia Art Museum as an homage to Colombian economist and academic Miguel Urrutia Montoya.[4]
Collection
[edit]The MAMU, alongside the Botero Museum, houses the Bank of the Republic Art Collection. Since 2013, the museum displays over 800 works of art in five curatorial departments.[5]
First modern times (XVI–XVIII century)
[edit]Artists within this colonial-era include works by Antonio Acero de la Cruz, Angelino Medoro, Jan van Kessel the Elder, Jan Brueghel the Younger, Giovanni Francesco Maineri, Pieter Brueghel the Younger, modern artist Marina Abramović, and anonymous artists from the Quito School and the Cusco School amongst others.[6]
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Giovanni Francesco Maineri, Madonna y niño, 1497 -
Jan van Kessel the Elder, Summer, 1640 -
Jan Brueghel the Younger, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, 17th century -
Jose Miguel Figueroa, Retrato del niño Cuervo, 1800
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Ruptures and Continuities (XIX century)
[edit]Colombian artists within this curatorial era include works by Ramón Torres Méndez, Andrés de Santa María, Francisco Antonio Cano Cardona, Ricardo Acevedo Bernal, and Pedro José Figueroa amongst others.[7]
International artists within this curatorial era include works by Chuck Close, Henry Price, Vik Muniz, François Désiré Roulin, Paul Gauguin, Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gros, and Felipe Santiago Gutiérrez amongst others.[7]
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Pedro José Figueroa, the Death of Sucre, 1835 -
Paul Gauguin, the Eglise de Campagne, 1875 -
Felipe Santiago Gutiérrez, Indias de Oaxaca, 1877 -
Francisco Antonio Cano Cardona, Retrato de niño, 1916 -
Andrés de Santa María, Retrato de Jaime, 1929
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La Renovación Vanguardista (1910–1950)
[edit]Colombian artists within this curatorial era include works by Josefina Albarracín, Rómulo Rozo, Ignacio Gómez Jaramillo, Francisco Antonio Cano Cardona, Sergio Trujillo Magnenat, Marco Tobón Mejía, Andrés de Santa Maria, Hena Rodríguez, Marco Tobón Mejía, Eladio Vélez, and Pedro Nel Gómez amongst others.[8]
International artists within this curatorial era include works by Rafael Barradas, Pedro Figari, Joaquín Torres-García, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Armando Reverón amongst others.[8]
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Rafael Barradas, Camarero, 1918 -
Pedro Figari, Figuras bailando, 1921 -
Eladio Vélez, Marina de Viareggio, 1928 -
Joaquín Torres-García, Composición II, 1935
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Classics, Experimentals, and Radicals (1950–1980)
[edit]Colombian artists within this curatorial era include Fernando Botero, Alejandro Obregón, Feliza Bursztyn, Miguel Ángel Rojas, Antonio Caro, Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar, Álvaro Barrios, Omar Rayo, Beatriz Gonzalez, Édgar Negret, Fanny Sanín, Enrique Grau, Miguel Ángel Rojas, Olga de Amaral, Lucy Tejada, Oscar Muñoz, and Ana Mercedes Hoyos amongst others.[9]
International artists within this curatorial era include René Portocarrero, Francisco Toledo, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Rufino Tamayo, Jesús Rafael Soto, Rogelio Polesello, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Julio Le Parc, José Luis Cuevas, Fernando de Szyszlo, Vicente Rojo Almazán, Julio Alpuy, and Louise Nevelson amongst others.[9]
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Louise Nevelson, Rain Garden Zag II, 1977
Three decades of art in expansion (1980 to today)
[edit]Colombian artists within this curatorial era include works by Doris Salcedo, Oscar Muñoz, Danilo Dueñas, Feliza Bursztyn, Juan Pablo Echeverri, Miguel Ángel Rojas, Beatriz Gonzalez, Olga de Amaral, María Fernanda Cardoso, Antonio Caro, and Álvaro Barrios amongst others.[10]
International artists within this curatorial era include works by Ana Mendieta, Marta Minujín, Los Carpinteros, Cildo Meireles, Marco Maggi, Carlos Garaicoa, Alfredo Jaar, León Ferrari, Vik Muniz, and Gabriel Orozco amongst others.[10]
Selected objects
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La Lechuga from 1700s -
Lugares en Fuga (A) (2012) by Fredy Alzate -
Incrustaciones (2017) by Alejandro Sánchez Suárez
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "History Banco de la República´s Cultural Labor". www.banrepcultural.org. Bogotá,Colombia: Banco de la República. 17 September 2020. Retrieved 10 October 2024.
- ^ "Colección de Arte del Banco de la República". enciclopedia.banrepcultural.org (in Spanish). Bogotá,Colombia: Banco de la República. 2018. Retrieved 10 October 2024.
- ^ "About Banrepcultural". Red Cultural del Banco de la República en Colombia. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
The cultural activity of Banco de la República extends as a network through 29 cities in the Colombian territory, and is carried out in the Gold Museum in Bogota, five Gold Museums in Armenia, Cali, Cartagena, Pasto and Santa Marta, the Ethnographic Museum in Leticia, the Luis Ángel Arango Library and the Casa Gómez Campuzano in Bogotá, the Library Network that extends through 28 Colombian cities, the Luis Ángel Arango Library Concert Hall, and Bogotá museums: Casa de Moneda, Botero Museum and, Miguel Urrutia Museum of Art (MAMU).
- ^ "Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia (MAMU) Colombia". Artnexus. 2019. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
- ^ https://www.banrepcultural.org/coleccion-de-arte/acerca-de
- ^ https://www.banrepcultural.org/coleccion-de-arte/curaduria/los-primeros-tiempos-modernos
- ^ a b https://www.banrepcultural.org/coleccion-de-arte/curaduria/rupturas-y-continuidades
- ^ a b https://www.banrepcultural.org/coleccion-de-arte/curaduria/la-renovacion-vanguardista
- ^ a b https://www.banrepcultural.org/coleccion-de-arte/curaduria/clasicos-experimentales-y-radicales
- ^ a b https://www.banrepcultural.org/coleccion-de-arte/curaduria/tres-decadas-de-arte-en-expansion
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