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7 Museo de Arte Latinamericano de
Buenos Aires (MALBA)

Opened in 2001 to house the art collection of Argentinian
connoisseur and philanthro pist Eduardo F. Costantini,
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA)
is probably the best privately adminis tered art museum
in Argentina. The building is a striking example of
contemporary archi tecture, which cleverly combines earth-
colored, stone-clad trapezoid shapes. It houses over 500
works of 20th-century Latin American art, including pieces
by Frida Kahlo and Fernando Botero, alongside Argentinian The strikingly contemporary cuboid form
masters Antonio Berni, Jorge de la Vega, and Leon Ferrari. of MALBA

. Manifestación (1934)
Argentinian painter Antonio Berni is best
known for his slightly grotesque portraits of
the urban working classes, as shown in
this painting of a protest march.

Temporary
exhibition space
is used to showcase
contemporary art.
First floor

Ticket
Office

Entrance

Atrium
One of the most distinctive features of the
museum, the glass walls of the MALBA
atrium are specially built to allow natural
light to flood the exhibition space.

Siete últimas canciones (1986)
The most successful of the younger generation of
Argentinian artists is Guillermo Kuitca, whose abstract
works are influenced by design forms in the mass
media, cartography, and the theater.
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