La Menesunda según Marta Minujín

The Museo Reina Sofía presents a reconstruction of La Menesunda, an immersive installation that Marta Minujín created with Rubén Santantonín in 1965. The exhibition recovers one of the key pieces of happening and participatory art of the 1960s.

La Menesunda was conceived in 1965 for the Centro de Artes Visuales of the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires as an ephemeral environment that shifted passive viewing towards an experience involving all the senses. Its proposal reflected the concerns of the time: mass culture, the entry of the media into artistic language, and the idea that art can be built in common with those who walk through it.

The version on view at the museum is a reconstruction made from photographs, films and other archival materials. The recovery work was carried out in 2015 by the Museo Moderno de Buenos Aires, in close collaboration with the artist herself, Marta Minujín, born in Buenos Aires in 1943.

The exhibition occupies the Nouvel Building of the Reina Sofía and will interest anyone who wants to learn how the art of the sixties anticipated practices that remain current in contemporary creation. It is a proposal designed for the visitor who wants to move through the work at a leisurely pace and observe up close its logic of participation.