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The Figurative Impulse: Works from The UBS Art Collection

The Figurative Impulse: Works from The UBS Art Collection was organized by Marysol Nieves, Curator of Contemporary Art, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico and Matthias Winzen, Curator of The UBS Art Collection and Director of The Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden.

The exhibition presents fifty-three works from the collection that focus on one of the most enduring themes in the history of art - the human figure. In addition to the emphasis on representations of the figure, the exhibition also includes numerous portraits that explore and reinvigorate this traditional genre. The selection highlights drawings, paintings, photographs, mixed media works, and sculpture by thirty-two prominent international artists. Collectively these artists reflect the diverse aesthetic, stylistic, and conceptual approaches to this rich subject and illustrate the range of artistic practices that have developed over the course of the mid-twentieth century through the present. 

Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico   Founded in 2000, the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico is one of the Island’s leading artistic and cultural institutions devoted to exhibiting and collecting Puerto Rican art from the 17th century to the present.   www.mapr.org

© Jonny Betancourt. Courtesy MAPR, San Juan

Curatorial Essays to The Figurative Impulse: Works from The UBS Art Collection

A Persistent Impulse

written by Matthias Winzen

Switching Codes: Representations of the Body in The UBS Art Collection

written by Marysol Nieves  

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