Episode No. 645 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curator María Elena Ortiz and artist Kenny Rivero.
Ortiz is the curator of “Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists since 1940” at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. The exhibition investigates the history of surrealism in the Caribbean and posits that Caribbean intellectuals were key to the development of surrealism in other sites, such as Europe. The exhibition also examines the relationship between Caribbean surrealism and the Afrosurreal in the United States. The exhibition is at MAMFW through July 28. An excellent exhibition catalogue was published by DelMonico Books. Amazon and Bookshop offer it for about $50.
Rivero is among the artists whose work is included in “Surrealism and Us.” Rivero’s work deconstructs histories and explores the construction of identity through paintings, collage, drawings, and sculpture. His work is in the collections of museums such as the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Ark., the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, El Museo del Barrio, New York, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Instagram: María Elena Ortiz, Kenny Rivero, Tyler Green.
Air date: March 14, 2014.
Wilfredo Lam, Le Sombre Malembo, Dieu du carrefour, 1943.
Cosette Zeno, Ni hablar del peluquín, 1952.
Kenny Rivero, Olafs and Chanclas, 2021.
Kerry James Marshall, De Style, 1993.
Kerry James Marshall, Untitled (Club Couple), 2014.
Kenny Rivero, 8 Diagrams Today’s Math (Liro Falla), 2020.
Kenny Rivero, Flowers on a Night Swim, 2022.
Kenny Rivero, Lamps and Socks, 2020.
Kenny Rivero, Limpieza, 2022.
Kenny Rivero, Loip (Lunar Map), 2022.
Kenny Rivero, Steward (Porter Doll), 2022.
Kenny Rivero, The Passion, 2020.
Kenny Rivero, Two Pompas, 2023.
Kenny Rivero, Vision of Church Flowers, 2022.
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