Artist
Carlos RojasColombian, 1933–1997
CultureColombian
Titles
- Segunda avenida, de la serie Américas: Cruzados
- Second Avenue, from the series Americas: Crossed
- from the series, América Horizontes
- Segunda Avenida
Date1972
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions66 15/16 × 66 15/16 in. (170 × 170 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caribbean Art Fund and the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2016.36
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 205
On view
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Department
Latin American ArtObject Type
Using geometric abstraction, Rojas evokes the physical,
cultural, and historical experience of landscape in the Americas. Inspired by a
visit to Manhattan, Segunda avenida
depicts an aerial view of the city as a series of overlapping vertical and
horizontal lines. Paying homage to Piet Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie (1943), which portrays the city through a
dynamic grid-based configuration, Rojas captures the structural essence of the
urban landscape, compressing its topographic depth into a single flat plane.
ProvenanceThe artist, Bogotá; by inheritance to his sister, Rosse Mary Rojas, Bogotá, 1997; sold to MFAH, 2016.
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