Rita Eder is a distinguished researcher and professor at the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas UNAM and has been visiting professor at EHESS (L’École des Hautes Études in Paris), San Martin University in Buenos Aires, and has also taught at the Art History Department in British Columbia, Canada. She has received grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Getty Grant Program and more recently has been awarded the Edmundo O’Gorman Scholars program at Columbia University. She has published extensively in the fields of Modern and Contemporary Mexican and Latin American Art and has received several distinctions and awards.
In this essay, art historian Rita Eder reviews, from a personal and first-hand point of view, the breadth and impact of Juan Acha’s critical contribution to Latin American art from the 1970s to the 1990s. She locates Acha’s theory of no-objetualismo (non-objectualism) within his wider production and considers his preoccupations with materiality, artistic hierarchies and the circulation…
En este ensayo, Rita Eder revisa, desde su experiencia de primera mano, el profundo impacto del legado de Juan Acha. Su contribución al arte latinoamericano de los 70s, 80s y 90s es presentada por Eder en este texto que sitúa el desarrollo de la teoría del no-objetualismo en el amplio corpus de la producción de Acha que…
