Patricia Phelps de Cisneros donates 202 works to six museums to promote Latin American art

Venezuelan collector Patricia Phelps de Cisneros has donated 202 contemporary artworks from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) to six museums worldwide. The donation aims to promote Latin American artists and culture globally. The MoMA in New York received 90 pieces, mostly 21st-century works by artists including Jac Leirner, Luis Camnitzer, Amalia Pica, and Regina José Galindo, ahead of its 2019 expansion. The remaining works were distributed among the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid (39 works by 12 artists from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Paraguay, and Venezuela), the Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York, the Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (MAMBA), and the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas in Austin. Each museum selected pieces to complement its permanent collection. The Reina Sofía, under director Manuel Borja Villel, had previously collaborated with the Cisneros collection on a 2013 exhibition "La invención concreta" and an earlier donation. The collection, founded in the 1990s as part of the Cisneros Foundation, is chaired by Adriana Cisneros and directed by curator Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro. It includes geometric abstraction, colonial art, and ethnographic objects from the Orinoco Collection. Cisneros stated to ABC and The New York Times that her mission is to build bridges between South America, the US, and the world.