{"id":4633,"date":"2022-08-04T22:44:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T20:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/?p=4633"},"modified":"2022-08-06T05:37:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T03:37:22","slug":"museum-of-contemporary-art-six-decades-promoting-panamanian-and-latin-american-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/2022\/08\/04\/museum-of-contemporary-art-six-decades-promoting-panamanian-and-latin-american-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum of Contemporary Art, Six Decades Promoting Panamanian and Latin American Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As a historical preamble, in 1962 the Panamanian\nInstitute of Art (PANARTE) was created by a group of artists led by the painter\nAlberto Dutary (1928 – 1997), as a non-profit institution dedicated to\npromoting the acquisition, conservation, research and dissemination of Latin\nAmerican works of art with an emphasis on Panamanian, particularly contemporary\nart. An institution that has helped in the growth of public interest in art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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House of Panamanian and Latin American Art<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Museum of Contemporary Art, also known as MAC, has\nbeen of great importance for sixty years both in the country and in the rest of\nLatin America. It is the only museum where Panamanian artists have the\nopportunity to produce, show, research and develop their artistic work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Chief Curator Juan Canela, MAC is a space where\nreflection, imagination and knowledge come together. A place that has promoted\nimportant conversations for the social advancement of Panamanian society and\nthat continues to be a training center for artists and cultural producers, with\nspaces that generate visibility for all, especially women artists women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Juan Canela, MAC Chiet Curator<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A Collection that Delves into the Regional\nReality<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Museum of Contemporary Art has been an institution\nwith enormous resilience, as expressed by the Chief Curator of MAC, since it is\nnot a government institution, or a private museum of a collector. It is an\norganization that has been building a collection of the best Panamanian and\nLatin American contemporary art for six decades. The donation of more than 400\npieces of art by the renowned Panamanian painter Julio Zachrisson stands out,\nworks that join the general collection that adds up to more than a thousand\npieces of art that delve into Panamanian, Central American and Latin American\nart. Pictorial expressions of great importance to understand the history and\nsocial complexity of the entire region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They also have works by a large number of plastic artists\nof national and international stature who have made a difference with their\nstyles such as Olga Botero, Beatriz Brice\u00f1o, Ricardo Raul Ceville, Manuel Chong\nNeto, Roosevelt Diaz,\nJuan Manuel Justiniani, Antonio Madrid, Hector Navarro, Carlos Paez Vilaro, Eduardo Perez, Olga Sinclair, as\nwell as the great Alfredo Sinclair, among many more painters of great\ninternational relevance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Great\nPotential for Cultural Tourism<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the pandemic, the Museum\nof Contemporary Art has been receiving more visits from travelers seeking to\nlearn more about our identity as a nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Juan Canela asserts that the growth margin in visits\nby tourists is still very large, which allows the possibility of contributing\nmuch more to Panamanian tourism in terms of quality and culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The potential is found in the opinion of the Visitors\naccording to the Chief Curator, since they are surprised by the high quality of\nthe activities and exhibitions, but especially the narrative talent of the\nPanamanian and regional artists that exhibit their works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Celebrating Six Decades<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, the Museum is experiencing a key moment in its\nhistory, as expressed by Juan Canela, and there are different reasons, the\nfirst is the donation of Julio Zachrisson’s art works, an event that will lead\nto a retrospective exhibition of this renowned master of the arts in Panama on\nAugust 18. The second reason is that today this institution is stronger both\nprofessionally and financially, with the opportunity to grow exponentially in\nthe short and medium term. And the third reason for Juan Canela is the great\nwork that is being done in the positioning of the Museum internationally to lead collaborations\nbetween the different institutions in Central America and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For this institution, it is important to continue\nresponding in a very organic way to everything that happens at the local and\nregional level, to keep an eye on what contemporary artists are doing, without\nforgetting the history and where they come from, always proposing a dialogue on\nthe most complex and important subject matters with people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fotos cortes\u00eda: MAC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a historical preamble, in 1962 the Panamanian Institute of Art (PANARTE) was created by a group of artists led by the painter Alberto Dutary (1928 – 1997), as a non-profit institution dedicated to promoting the acquisition, conservation, research and dissemination of Latin American works of art with an emphasis on Panamanian, particularly contemporary art. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4639,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4633\/revisions\/4639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}