Flavio Garciandía - Autorretrato no autorizado at Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey

Flavio Garciandía - Autorretrato no autorizado at Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey

Flavio Garciandía - Autorretrato no autorizado. Curated by Tobias Ostrander

Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey
25 Sept - 18 April 2027

Flavio Garciandía‘s presence in Monterrey, Mexico, for more than a decade had a profound impact on the local community, not only through his artistic practice but also through his intellectual work. His oeuvre continues a key line of reflection that emerged at the beginning of the “Cuban avant-garde of the 1980s,” which challenged the strict cultural policies associated with socialist realism on the island in order to generate critical responses to Western culture. Therefore, the work developed over the last three decades can be understood as an ironic, utopian, and unattainable construction of the confrontation between major Western creators and Latin American art.

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Exhibition view: Flavio Garciandía: Unauthorized Self-Portrait. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO), 2026. Photo: Arthur Mora.