‘1968: The fire of ideas’
Marcelo Brodsky (Argentina, 1954) recovers photographs of social mobilizations from the 1960s, which he later intervenes through painting and writing. With the exhibition El fuego de las ideas, Brodsky aims to bring the great social storm of that decade closer to a wider public, making it more tangible and closer. The aura of the archive and the recovery of memory are two constants that run through Brodsky's work from the beginning, when he presented the ESMA archive at the Palau de la Virreina in Barcelona. The strategy of intervening with archive photographs, used by the artist, has its origin in the work he made in 1996, entitled La Clase, which has become an iconic work in his career, and has recently been exhibited at the MET in New York. This work is based on a 1967 photograph of the artist's class at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, which he intervened by resizing it and writing some texts, thus pointing out those classmates who disappeared due to the Argentine dictatorship.