Accumulate, Classify, Preserve, Display: Roberto Obregón Archive from the Carolina and Fernando Eseverri Collection

Exhibition Dates: November 12, 2019 – February 14, 2020
Opening Reception: November 15, 2020 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Closing Reception: February 14, 2020 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

The exhibition, which is curated by Jesús Fuenmayor and Kaira M. Cabañas, is Roberto Obregón’s (1946–2003) first solo exhibition at an arts institution in the United States. This late Venezuelan artist is a key figure of global conceptualism. The exhibition features over three hundred works from the artist’s extensive archive that is now part of the Carolina and Fernando Eseverri Collection in Caracas. Included are multiple drawings, paintings, sketches, collages, photographs, manipulated photocopies and other objects. Complementing the UG exhibition, an additional selection of Obregón’s innovative work will be on view at UF’s Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art.

The UG exhibition travels to the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University in Miami, June 13–September 6, 2020.

Curators: Jesús Fuenmayor, Kaira M. Cabañas
Curatorial Assistant: María Paula Varela

PUBLIC PROGRAMS

“Achroma vanitas, Animal image: Roberto Obregón and the Return of Nature in Venezuelan Art”
HESCAH Lecture by Luis Pérez-Oramas
November 14, 6:00 p.m. at The Harn Museum of Art

“Artist as Researcher: Visualizing Knowledge in the Americas”
Panel discussion with art historians Esther Gabara, Jennifer Josten, and Sérgio B. Martins.
January 23, 6:00 p.m. at The Harn Museum of Art

Public program sponsors include the Harn Eminent Scholar Chair in Art History (HESCAH), and UF’s International Center, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, and the Florida-Brazil Linkage Institute.

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Thursday: 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Saturday: 12 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Sunday/Monday/Academic Holidays: CLOSED

PARKING
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