Last week our Chief Curator, Cecilia Fajardo-Hill traveled to Colombia for the opening of Sociales: Debora Arango Arrives Today at the National Museum of Colombia. The same exhibition will open later this year here at MOLAA on September 23.
Arango was a contemporary of Frida Kahlo, and like Kahlo, she pushed boundaries ; in a career that began nearly 80 years ago and lasted until late in life, she produced a body of work that often depicted the hurdles and indignities she found in being a woman in a strict Roman Catholic country.In 2003, two years before her death at 98 years of age, she received the Cruz de Boyaca, the highest official acknowledgement of the Colombian government.