Marta Minujin
“Everything is art.”
Marta Minujin is one of those people who make you happy by just knowing they exist. She’s an Argentine pop artist, well-known for her work with Andy Warhol. She was explicitly avant garde in the truest sense – if something was big and jarring, she did it, if only to amuse you. There is surely symbolism throughout her work; many times she linked The America’s to it’s colonial roots, as if writing a final treatise on history. She recreated the Obelisk in Buenos Aires out of panettone, which was then consumed by hoards of Argentines. She also created the “Parthenon of Banned Books” in which she assembled 30,000 banned books from the era of the dictatorship into a massive monument. That was also later dismantled and given to the public. Oh yea, she also dropped 500 chickens into a soccer stadium from a helicopter. (Don’t tell PETA…)
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