Exhibitions
The Juan Carlos Maldonado Collection in Time The Rigor of Geometric Shapes
The Juan Carlos Maldonado Collection is changing spaces, thus beginning a new period. The occasion seemed propitious to mark a pause and to ask its founder/author, Juan Carlos Maldonado, to reflect on what his processes were; what his initial premises were; which works were those that began his journey; and how, progressively, the collection went… Read more »
The Ye’kwana Universe/Living in the middle of the jungle
The Juan Carlos Maldonado Art Collection now presents one of the most important nuclei of its heritage: the Ye’kwana collection. Comprised of a considerable number of works of art and utilitarian objects from this Amazonian ethnic group, this nucleus – let us call it anthropological – fulfills a central function within any modern collection: that… Read more »
Poetics of Exactness
Poetics of Exactness is not an exhibition exclusively, or not only, dedicated to works of geometric abstraction and to the sober and precise beauty that characterizes them. Rather, it is an attempt to explore that precise moment in which a gesture – however discrete it is, but exactly because it is so – begins to… Read more »
Signs, Abstractions and Metaphors: Latin American art at the JCMAC
Since 2005, the Juan Carlos Maldonado Art Collection (JCMAC) has revolved around one central theme: one that is configured by a sizable group of abstract-geometric artists from across the entire region, in addition to many artists who, while not abstract in nature, construct their works based on geometrically organized structures. Since 2016, in addition, with… Read more »
Ernesto Briel: Iridescent Geometries
With the title Ernesto Briel, Iridescent Geometries, the Juan Carlos Maldonado Art Collection gives continuity to the exhibition project that began six years ago. Since then, its objective has been to promote the study of modern and contemporary art at an international level, emphasizing abstract-geometric practices. On this occasion, and after having exhibited part of… Read more »
Hybridizations / Contemporary Strategies
Using Hybridizations / Contemporary Strategies as the title, The Juan Carlos Maldonado Art Collection (JCMAC) gives continuity to the exhibition project which it initiated four years ago. Since then, its objective has been to promote the study of modern and contemporary art on an international level, emphasizing the practices of Latin American artists. On this occasion… Read more »
Convergences / Divergences
The Juan Carlos Maldonado Art Collection (JCMAC) initiates a new cycle in its exhibition program at its Miami Design District space with Convergences / Divergences, Primitive Sources Of The Modern, curated by Ariel Jimenez. The Juan Carlos Maldonado Art Collection of modern and contemporary art acquired the most comprehensive to date set of indigenous Ye’Kwana… Read more »
Constructing Constructivism
Since its beginnings in 2005, the driving force behind the Juan Carlos Maldonado Art Collection (JCMAC), has been a recognition of the contribution that Geometric Abstraction has made to art history in the twentieth century. In 2016 JCMAC began an exciting new chapter, opening an exhibition space in Miami’s Design District in order to bring… Read more »
The Unbounded Line
The Unbounded Line, A Selection from the Juan Carlos Maldonado Art Collection explores how artists across different geographical and periodical contexts evaluated the nature of art and its place in the world through the pictorial language of geometric abstraction. Although united in the choice of the line as a point of departure, this exhibition invites… Read more »