Fachada con personaje en ventana (Building facade with figure in window), 1967-68
Teresa Burgaexpand_more
Felt tip pen and colored ink on paperexpand_more
Gift of funds from Mary and Bob Merskyexpand_more 2021.65.1
Not on Viewexpand_more
Peruvian artist Teresa Burga is internationally acclaimed for her pioneering role in the development of a Latin American, feminist-based conceptualism. As a young artist working in the 1960s, Burga developed experimental methodologies that challenged the prevailing conventions and traditions of Western art and academicism. Her "Pop art-minimalism" was informed by the colors and bold designs of commercial graphic design and advertising, and characterized by flat, semi-abstract compositions composed of simple geometric elements.
Fachada con personage en ventana exemplifies Burga’s stylistic and conceptual approach from the 1960s, in which representation is achieved through geometric abstraction rather than visual perspective and pictorial space. Here, Burga uses simple geometric shapes of various colors and tones to describe a street scene and building façade. In the upper half of the scene, colored squares and rectangles represent the exterior of a simplified building with a door, windows, and a standing figure. In the lower half of the scene, a rectangular black-and-white "checkerboard" pattern suggests the pavement of a plaza or courtyard. Burga’s non-gestural, semi-abstract composition was considered radical in its day, and a direct challenge to Western traditions of realism and academicism.
Details
- Title
- Fachada con personaje en ventana (Building facade with figure in window)
- Artist Life
- 1935 - 2021
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2021.65.1
- Provenance
- Teresa Burga, Lima, Peru (d. 2021); Estate of the artist, Berlin, Germany; [Alexander Gray Associates, New York]; sold to MIA, 2021.
- Curator Approved
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