The Hours / Las Horas

Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America

Catalogue of the exhibition
"The Hours. Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America"
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
October 5, 2005 - January 15, 2006

Published by
Daros-Latinamerica, Zurich Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2005

ISBN 3-7757-1710-2

282 pages.,
118 illustrations, 93 in colour,
21 x 25 cm, hardcover
English/Spanish

The Hours / Las Horas

The Hours - the title alludes to a work by Argentine author and philosopher Jorge Luis Borges - offers a first representative selection of works from the Daros-Latinamerica Collection, the most extensive collection of contemporary Latin American art in Europe. The collection is weighted toward the art of the past twenty years and comprises works in a wide range of media, from installations and objects to videos, paintings, drawings, artists' books and performances.
Taken together, the positions presented in this volume, each of which is characterized by striking formal and substantive rigor, offer a complex picture of this vast cultural region composed of numerous individual faces, identities, and interests. Thus the book is a kind of mosaic that provides fascinating insights into the still largely unexplored Latin American art scene. Short, succinct texts on the work of the individual featured artists guide the reader on this journey of discovery.