Exhibition catalogue. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. May 12 – September 6, 2010.

The project Principio Potosí centers on analyzing the notion of modernity and its universal expansion, which has taken place since the colonization of Latin America. The exhibition will display examples of Andean colonial painting and works by international artists, inviting viewers to reflect on relationships between sixteenth- to eighteenth-century colonial art and the contemporary world. Beginning with examples of viceregal painting from the Potosí School, the project’s line of investigation relates these isolated fragments of history to the conditions of artistic production today.

Authors: Alice Creischer, Max Jorge Hinderer, Andreas Siekmann (eds.), Sonia Abián, Luis Víctor Alemán Vargas, Edgar Arandia, John Barker, Matthijs de Bruijne, Christian von Borries, Roberto Choque Canqui, Anthony Davies, Chto delat, Elvira Espejo, Marcelo Expósito, Harun Farocki, León Ferrari, Tom Flynn, María Galindo, Iasías Griñolo, Gabriel Massuh, Eduardo Molinari, Fátima Olivarez, David Riff, Dmitry Vorobyev, Thomas Campbell