In the Studio: This Must Be the Place – Eduardo Costa

Eduardo Costa, an Argentinian artist, will be in conversation with Carla Stellweg, art historian.

Join us live on Instagram from your phone, or watch on YouTube after, for a series of conversations with some of the artists of This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York, 1965–1975 to bring Americas Society's Visual Arts public programs to your home. Every other Wednesday this month, artists will dialogue with our guest host, Carla Stellweg, to talk about their work and practice.

About the artist

Eduardo Costa (b. Buenos Aires, 1940) first traveled to New York in 1968 when his Fashion Fiction 1, a twenty-four-karat-gold wearable sculpture, was photographed by Richard Avedon for Vogue. Costa stayed in New York until 2003, becoming a regular of the local neo-avant-garde scene. In 1969, he joined John Perreault and Hannah Weiner in co-organizing the Fashion Show Poetry Event at the Center for Inter-American Relations (Americas Society), with the participation of artists such as Marisol, Claes Oldenburg, and Andy Warhol. His work borrows from Pop and Conceptual art to comment on the social codifications of mass media and high society. Costa's work has been exhibited at the New Museum, New York; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid; Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York; List Art Center, Boston; Miami Art Museum, Miami; Walker Art Center, Minnesota; MOMA, Buenos Aires; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; among others. 

About the guest speaker

Carla Stellweg is an independent consultant specializing in Latin American and Latinx art and artists. Throughout her career, she has worked as a museum and non-profit director, writer, editor, curator, and professor. Carla is considered a pioneer promoter and facilitator in Latin American international contemporary art. She was and continues to be instrumental in introducing many young and mid-career artists from Latin America, Latinx-U.S., Cuba and the Caribbean producing conceptual, socially-engaged art in both new and traditional media, either working in New York or from around the world.Along with the collectives Museo Latinoamericano and MICLA, many of which are exhibited in This Must Be the Place she created the artist book Contrabienal in 1971 in response to an international call to boycott the XI São Paulo Biennial in protest of the censorship and torture in dictatorial Brazil.

Visit the Americas Society Visual Arts YouTube Channel for recordings of In the Studio Series and other previous events.

Follow the conversation on Instagram: #IntheStudioAS | @americassociety.visualarts

Image is copyrighted by Anna Maria Maiolino. Its use is courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth

More digital content from Visual Arts at Americas Society:

• Check out the current exhibition This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York, 1965–1975 and read the exhibition catalogue.
• Check out the current iteration of our Flag Series: Felipe Mujica — Estrella Distante.
• Read about the previous exhibition Terence Gower: The Good Neighbour.
• Read the exhibition catalogue for Joaquín Orellana: The Spine of Music.
• Watch videos of recent events:
  • Terence Gower: The Good Neighbor
  • Terence Gower and Mexican Modernism
  • Reflections on Joaquín Orellana's Marimba Imaginaria
  • In Discussion: Presenting Biennial FEMSA XIV
  • Art at a Distance: Promoting Visual Arts during the Health Crisis