“Recovering Beauty: The 1990s in Buenos Aires”
Blanton Museum of Art
Frankly, there is little beauty to be found in “Recovering Beauty: The 1990s in Buenos Aires,” a survey of seventy works by thirteen representatives of one of the first post-dictatorship artistic formations in Argentina. Loosely known as the “Grupo Rojas” for their close association with Galería Rojas at the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas in Buenos Aires, these artists were represented in Austin by a selection of sickly sweet colors, glistening surfaces, grotesque dioramas, and garish found objects. With this in mind, the exhibition’s lamentable title can only be read as a provocation. What could