National Museum of Fine Arts, Argentina

The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes was inaugurated in December 1896 in the Bon Marché store building, now the Galerías Pacífico. Ever since its inception, the Museum has been thought of as a space in which to house international art of all periods, and to promote and strengthen Argentine art, still in its beginnings at the time of the Museum's founding.
In 1911, the second home for Bellas Artes was inaugurated: the Argentine Pavilion, a monumental structure the country had used in the Paris World's Fair of 1889. The museum already had in its collection pieces by masters such as Francisco de Goya, Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, Edgar Degas and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Édouard Manet and Claude Monet.
The institution was moved again in 1933, to its current location in Recoleta. This period saw the addition of outstanding paintings by artists such as Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh and El Greco.
The last decades of the 20th century took in major figures in international modern art such as Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Marc Chagall, Vassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lucio Fontana, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Henry Moore.
The history of local production as well is related with works by its leading representatives, such as Cándido López, Prilidiano Pueyrredón, Emilio Pettoruti, Xul Solar, Raquel Forner, Grete Stern, Antonio Berni, Alicia Penalba, Gyula Kosice, Marta Minujín, Antonio Seguí and León Ferrari. In addition, the Museum has outstanding holdings of other Latin American art, with an assemblage of pieces by Pedro Figari, Joaquín Torres García, Tarsila do Amaral, Diego Rivera and Jesús Rafael Soto, among others.
In its over 120 years, the Museum has built up an important collection of 13,000 pieces from different periods, both national and international, housed in one of South America's most noteworthy cultural institutions.

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Mr. Andrés Duprat

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Mr. Andrés DupratDirector

Andrés Duprat (Argentina) is an architect, art curator and scriptwriter. He is an architect graduated at Universidad Nacional de La Plata (La Plata National University).
He is currently Director of the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, Argentina (since 2015).
He was formerly Director of Visual Arts of the Ministry of Culture of Argentina, and prior to that, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Bahia Blanca, Argentina.
He has curated over one hundred exhibitions in museums and art centers in Argentina and abroad as in the CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China; Centro Wifredo Lam, La Habana, Cuba; Les Rencontres de la Photographie de Arles, France; Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), Lima, Peru; Casa de América, Madrid, Spain; Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales de Montevideo, Uruguay; Art Museum of the Americas (AMA) and International Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA; Winzavod Cultural Center Moscow, Russia; Egyptian Center for International Cultural Cooperation, Cairo, Egypt; Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico; Instituto Cervantes de Tokyo, Japan; Galería Gabriela Mistral, Matucana 100 and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santiago de Chile; el Museo de Arte Latinoamericano (MALBA), el museo de Arte Moderno (MAMBA), el Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires, Argentina, among others.
He was Curator of the Argentine Pavilion at the 57th International Art Exhibition (2017), the Biennale di Venezia, in Italy.
He has written the screenplays for the feature films “My Masterpiece” (2018), “The distinguished citizen" (2016), “Darling, I’m going out for cigarettes and I'll be right back" (2011), “The man next door" (2010) and “The artist” (2008), all directed by Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat, for which he has received international recognition (Venice International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Goya prize, New Directors/New Films New York, etc)