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Introduction

Raid the Icebox Now with Pablo Helguera

Inventarios / Inventories
February 7, 2020 - August 21, 2021

Inventarios/Inventories explores the personal and domestic contexts of artworks, particularly as they exist in artists’ personal lives and working environments and the homes of their close family and collaborators. Drawing upon the RISD Museum’s Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Latin American art, Pablo Helguera has collaborated with living Latin American artists and the families, close friends, and collaborators of those no longer alive to provide a view of the domestic lives of artworks. The project is also a tribute to the exhibition history of the RISD Museum and the legacy of former director Alexander Dorner, who created immersive environments to enhance the visitor’s experience. The exhibition is accompanied by public programs and performances developed in collaboration with the participating artists.

Pablo Helguera is a Mexican artist who lives and works in New York. His projects span installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, socially engaged art, and performance, drawing inspiration from topics ranging from history, pedagogy, and sociology. His work often takes on unusual forms of presentation, which have included road trips, phonographic recordings, musical performances, and books.

Raid the Icebox Now is made possible by a lead grant from the National Endowment for the Arts with additional support from the RISD Museum Associates, Judy and Robert Mann, Taylor Box Company, and a generous in-kind gift from Meyer Sound Laboratories.

RISD Museum is supported by a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, through an appropriation by the Rhode Island General Assembly and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and with the generous partnership of the Rhode Island School of Design, its Board of Trustees, and Museum Governors.

Events

Performances and Screenings

Assembly/Encuentro: Inventarios / Inventories

February 20, 2020 / 7-8 pm
Workshops and studios Third Thursday

Art+Feminism Wikipedia Editathon

Join us online over Zoom
March 19, 2020 / 6-8:30 pm
Talks and Conversations

Center for Experimental Lectures: Pablo Helguera

3-part series
May 7, 2020 / 5-6 pm

More Events

Selected Objects

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Fernando de Szyszlo

La Ejecución de Tupac-Amaru XII (The Execution of Tupac-Amaru XII), 1965
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Luis González Palma

The Silence (El Silencio), 1998
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Luis González Palma

Untitled, 1998
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Luis González Palma

Untitled, 1998
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Luis González Palma

Untitled, ca. 1995
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Luis González Palma

Self-portrait (Autorretrato), ca. 1995
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Milagros de la Torre

Untitled (Hanger) / Sin Titulo (Colgador), 1992
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Milagros de la Torre

Untitled (Dress) / Sin Titulo (Vestido), 1992
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Milagros de la Torre

Untitled (Stockings) / Sin Titulo (Medias), 1992
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Milagros de la Torre

Untitled (Stretched tights) / Sin Titulo (Medias alargadas), 1992
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Milagros de la Torre

Untitled (Shoes) / Sin Titulo (Zapatos), 1992
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Santiago Cardenas

Blackboard, 1982
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Eduardo Vilches, designer

The Lock, November 30, 1965
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Eduardo Vilches, designer

Noah's Ark, November 30, 1965
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Eduardo Vilches, designer

The Little Train, November 30, 1965
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Eduardo Vilches, designer

Game of Chess, November 30, 1965
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Eduardo Vilches, designer

The Little City, November 30, 1965
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Eduardo Vilches, designer

The King and Queen, November 30, 1965
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Eduardo Vilches, designer

Deserted or Solitary, November 30, 1965
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Eduardo Vilches, designer

The Survival, November 30, 1965
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Eduardo Vilches, designer

Canon, November 30, 1965
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Eduardo Vilches, designer

Castle or Fort, November 30, 1965
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Carlos Mérida

Kavec, Nihau y Alam, 1966
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Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Portrait of Juan Rulfo, ca. late 1940s
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Juan O'Gorman

Pulque Drinkers, 1929
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José Clemente Orozco, designer

Parade, 1935
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Agustín Victor Casasola

A Village Evacuation During the Ten Tragic Days, February, 1913, 1913
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Elsa Gramcko

Arriba No. 27, 1959
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Elsa Gramcko

Untitled, 1957
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Delia Del Carril

Equinoccio I (Epoca del año en que el dia es iqual a la noche) (Equinox I [Time of the Year that Day is Equal to Night], 1965
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Delia Del Carril

Equinoccio II (Equinox II), 1965
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Delia Del Carril

La señora yegua (The Madam Mare), 1965
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Delia Del Carril

Del Apocalipsis (Of the Apocalypse), 1965
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Delia Del Carril

El Caballo y la Caballita (The Male Horse and the Little Female Horse), 1965
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Delia Del Carril

La Nodre (The Night), 1965
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Carlos Norberto Filevich

Sin Título (Untitled), 1963
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Daniel Zelaya

Requiem para E.A. Poe (Requiem for E.A. Poe), 1964
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Manuel Espinosa

Untitled, 1968
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Roberto Aizenberg

Monumento, 1966
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Fernando La Rosa

Lima, 1974
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Fernando La Rosa

Lima, 1978
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Arnaldo Roche-Rabell

Spirit of the Colony, 1993
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Rodolfo Machado

Monument - City, 1975
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Rodolfo Machado

Plan, 1975
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Rodolfo Machado

Axonometric, 1975
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Enrique Chagoya

The Pastoral or Arcadian State, Illegal Alien's Guide to Greater America, 2006
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Enrique Chagoya

The Men in Sacks (Los ensacados), 2003
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Miguel Angel Rios

Cono Sur (Southern Cone), 1993
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Alfredo Castañeda

Antiguo Recuerdo, 1972
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Liliana Porter, printmaker

For You, 2001
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Liliana Porter

The Conversation, 2001
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Liliana Porter

10:08 A.M., 2001
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Liliana Porter, printmaker

The Offering, 2001
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Roberto Matta, designer

Cosmicstrip I, 1959, published 1960
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Roberto Matta, designer

La Rue, ca. 1950s
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Roberto Matta

Abstraction, ca. 1948
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Roberto Matta

Skiers, ca. 1950s
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Roberto Matta

Composition, 1961-62
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Roberto Matta

No. 7, mid 1900s
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Wifredo Lam

Near the Virgin Islands (Près des Îles Vierges), 1959
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Frank Bowling

Two Blues, The Terminal Illness, 1973

More objects +

Exhibition Checklist

Raid the Icebox Now with Pablo Helguera : Inventarios / Inventories

February 7, 2020 - August 21, 2021
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