La muerte y otras miserias

The present catalogue documents two exhibition held consecutively at MNBA in 2021. The first exhibition incorporates a selection of more than 30 works created throughout the 19th century and much of the 20th century from the MNBA Collection, selected by the curator Gloria Cortés Aliaga. Participating artists include: Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor, Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari (atribuido), James Bertrand, José Miguel Blanco, Pietro Bouvier, Jacques Callot, Julio Fossa Calderón, Ernesto Concha, Jerónimo Costa, Francisco Domingo y Marqués, Albrecht [Alberto] Durero, Leopold Franz Kowalski, Otto Georgi, Juan Antonio González, Simón González, Arturo Gordon, Juan Harris, Jean-Jacques Henner, Rebeca Matte, Magdalena Mira, Raymond Quinsac Monvoisin, Jef (Joseph) Leempoels, Pedro Lira, José Mercedes Ortega, and Guillermo Vergara. For the second exhibition, images of scientific and genetic experiments, artificial intelligence, bioethics and eugenics, are some of the themes that the artist Mariana Najmanovich addresses in her art work presented in the exhibition "La muerte y otras miserias. Reflexiones sobre lo poshumano" (Death and other miseries. Reflections on the posthuman).