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Une architecture néo-andine Un écrit de Elisabetta Andreoli sur Freddy Mamani

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In 2018, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain celebrated the great diversity of Latin American art with the exhibition Southern Geometries, from Mexico to Patagonia. Featuring a wide range of media—from ceramics and painting to photography, sculpture, body painting, and architecture—the exhibition provided an in-depth look at geometric abstraction in Latin America, from the Pre-Columbian period to the present day. Within the catalog of the exhibition, which brought together 250 works by 70 artists, Elisabetta Andreoli’s contribution provided a compelling analysis of Bolivian architect Freddy Mamani’s work, exploring how this “neo-Andean” artist reinterprets elements of Amerindian culture into his colorful buildings, in a resolutely urban and contemporary way.

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Editor Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
Languages French and English versions
Format

Paperback, 17 × 10.5 cm, 52 pages
non-illustrated

Design Nolwen Lauzanne
ISBN 9782869252073
Release October 2025

Elisabetta Andreoli

Elisabetta Andreoli is an art and modern architecture historian living between Great Britain, Italy, and Latin America. She is particularly interested in Latin American architecture. In 2014, at the Royal Institute of British Architects, she organized the first exhibition dedicated to Italo-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi, widely considered a major figure of the modern movement. In co-direction with Adrian Forty, an architecture historian and professor at the Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL (London), Andreoli published Brazil’s Modern Architecture (London: Phaidon Press, 2004). She is also the author of Bolivia contemporánea (La Paz: Plural Editores, 2012). With Ligia D’Andrea, she published La Arquitectura de Freddy Mamani Silvestre (La Paz: Independent edition, 2014), which was decisive in the international recognition of Freddy Mamani and his colorful constructions, representative of a new type of Andean architecture.

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