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The art exhibit “Detrás del Portón Rojo: una visión de la erótica en el arte costarricense” (Behind the Red Gate: A Vision of the Erotic in Costa Rican Art”) is showcased at the Costa Rican Art Museum (MAC).
This art movement has been present in different ways since the Pre-Columbian era in Costa Rica; the exhibit is centered in the notion of the erotic as a natural reality of the human being, as well as a recurring and transverse topic of national art.
“The censorship and self-censorship are some of the parallel topics that are part of the exhibit, the different forms of social control over the body and the sexual impulse, the deconstruction of the masculine supremacy and the erotic desire from different sexual orientations and gender expressions, the non-normative sexuality”, details the press release.
Over 120 artworks from 70 different artists are part of the exhibit, some from public collections and others from private collections and in different formats: painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, historical documents and Pre-Columbian pieces.
“Many if these have been displayed in different moments and spaces, others had never seen the light, or had been censored by the vigilant stare of the era or the processes of self-censorship of their creators”, explained Sussy Vargas and Roberto Guerrero, curators.
The exhibit will be open through April 2018. The museum opens from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and entrance is completely free. Curators of the exhibit will be offering guided visits this Saturday, February 17 at 10 a.m. and Wednesday, February 28 also at 10 a.m. The Costa Rican Art Museum is located in La Sabana Park.
