As a beautiful collector's item, like the ones it houses inside, the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano, better known as MALBA, attracts for its minimalist and avant-garde beauty.
MALBA owns the Costantini Foundation art collection, which includes nearly 400 works, including paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs, and objects by great 20th-century Latin American artists. You can find artistic expressions by Frida Kahlo, Roberto Matta, Diego Rivera, Joaquín Torres-García, Antonio Berni, Jorge de la Vega, Tarsila do Amaral, Pedro Figari, Lygia Clark and Guillermo Kuitca, among many others.
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In addition, the MALBA has an important cinema program where pieces of independent production are screened and it has a cinematheque that grows every month. There is also a literature area, where meetings with writers, courses, seminars, literary talks and book presentations are held.
The building is modern, clad in limestone and with large glass and steel surfaces on its façade. It was carried out in 1997 by the Cordovan studio Atelman-Fourcade-Tapia, winner of an international competition whose jury was made up of the famous architects Norman Foster, César Pelli and Mario Botta. Inside it shows the same deconstructivist style, inspired by a current of architecture that was fashionable in the 90s and is characterized by the superposition of volumes that form pieces. It has three floors that are accessed by elevator or the escalators found in the middle of the entrance lobby.
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MALBA also has an area of Education and Cultural Action that includes programs for children, guided tours and various activities carried out together with organizations that seek to bring people closer to the works of some of the main artists and art movements of the last century.
