Exhibition dates: February 25 – May 27, 2012

Esteban Lisa: Playing With Lines and Colors, curated by Barbara Bloemink and Jorge Virgili, is a retrospective exhibition covering the work of Esteban Lisa from the 1930s to 1970s. It is also the first solo museum exhibition of the artist’s work in the United States. Together with Juan Del Prete and Joaquín Torres-García, Esteban Lisa (Toledo, Spain, b. 1895) is one of the pioneers of abstraction in Latin America. However, this fact is mostly unknown, because until very recently he was an unrecognized figure. This is primarily the result of two things: first, even though Lisa was a very prolific artist, he never exhibited during his lifetime, and second, the forms of abstraction he developed do not easily fit into the recognized modern abstract traditions that arose in Argentina and Latin America between the 1940s and 1970s.