April Exhibition Tour with Jorge Rivas and Zesty Meyers

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Guest Curator Jorge Rivas and Zesty Meyers will lead a guided tour of the exhibition Moderno: Design for Living in Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela, 1940-1978.

Event Information: Nuria Mendoza | nmendoza@as-coa.org | 1-212-277-8367
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Jorge Rivas is an art historian and industrial designer. He has co-curated exhibitions on Spanish Colonial Art and twentieth-century Latin American design, including Cornelis Zitman: 1947-1957 la década del diseño, Sala TAC Caracas, Venezuela (2011) and Interior moderno, muebles diseñados por Miguel Arroyo (2005). He is the author of catalogs and articles on decorative arts and design, including Spanish Colonial Decorative Arts, 1500-1825, Modern Decorative Arts and Design, 1900–2000 for the Latin American Studies section on Oxford Bibliographies online (2011), and “Latin America 1900-2000” in History of the Decorative Arts and Design, 1400-2000 (Yale University Press, 2013). Rivas received his architecture degree from Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, his master’s degree in industrial design from Universitá degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy, and his M.Phil from the Bard Graduate Center, where he is pursuing his Ph.D.

Zesty Meyers formed in 1990 the radical installation and performance art group the B Team, which also later included R designer, Jeff Zimmerman and R co-founder, Evan Snyderman. When he moved to New York in 1995, Meyers expanded the B Team into one of the first non-profit arts organizations comprised of visual artists using installation and performance with molten glass as their primary medium. The B Team integrated craft, fine art and performance in groundbreaking ways and served as an inspiration for a deeper interaction and dialogue between art forms. In 1997, Meyers founded the gallery R 20th Century (now, R & Company) with fellow B team member Evan Snyderman. R & Company has since established itself as one of the most prominent and groundbreaking design galleries in the world and contributed to creating a renewed global interest in collectable design. Through their research, exhibitions and publications R & Company has help resurrect interest in now-iconic designers Verner Panton, Wendell Castle, Greta Magnusson Grossman, Joaquim Tenreiro and Sergio Rodrigues, to name a few. He is currently working on a major overview of 20th century design in Brazil.