Malba acquires collection of more than 1,200 Latin American works

"The Argentine real-estate developer and collector Eduardo F. Costantini has acquired the entire Daros Latinamerica Collection in an unprecedented move. Costantini will add the 1,233 works by 117 artists (previously housed in Zurich) to the collection of his Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (Malba), a leading South American museum. Plans for an expansion of the museum building to make room for the works are already underway."

"The Daros collection, curated by Hans-Michael Herzog, is particularly rich in art produced after 1950. It contains key works by the Cuban American artist Ana Mendieta; the Brazilians Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Clark and Cildo Meireles; the Argentine Julio Le Parc; the Chilean Alfredo Jaar; and the Venezuelan Gego. With this acquisition, 75 artists are entering the Malba collection for the first time, including the Colombian Doris Salcedo, the Venezuelan Jesús Rafael Soto and the Mexican Betsabeé Romero."

Eduardo F. Costantini acquired the entire Daros Latinamerica Collection, adding 1,233 works by 117 artists to Malba. The collection includes significant post-1950 pieces by Ana Mendieta, Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Clark, Cildo Meireles, Julio Le Parc, Alfredo Jaar and Gego. Seventy-five artists enter Malba for the first time, including Doris Salcedo, Jesús Rafael Soto and Betsabeé Romero. The acquisition brings 104 works by Guillermo Kuitca, 50 by León Ferrari, 26 by Los Carpinteros and nine by Carlos Cruz-Diez. Plans are underway to expand the museum building to house the new works. Malba's holdings now approach nearly 3,000 Latin American works.

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