The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA) is pleased to announce the release of the catalogue Body Language, featuring the work of Israeli-Venezuelan artist Nurit Birnbaum.
The exhibition Body Language was presented from September 8 to 22, 2023. One of its most notable works, La ventana, has since become part of MoCAA’s bronze collection.
This publication forms part of the museum’s ongoing initiative to revisit past exhibitions, ensuring that most are preserved through a physical documentary record. While all exhibitions are permanently documented in the Exhibitions section of our website, the museum is currently working on five catalogues and two books, soon to be available in the Publications section.
The show brought together approximately twenty bronze sculptures, in small and medium formats, created over the past two decades. In these works, Birnbaum captures the malleability, movement, and curvature of the human figure, conceived as a perfect machine of flesh and bone. Beyond form, it is the precise, revealing gesture that imbues each piece with character, allowing viewers to perceive emotions, moods, and the very essence of the individuals portrayed.
Inspired by real people who have navigated life’s ups and downs, these figures never posed for the artist. Instead, Birnbaum conveys their inner strength, their natural ability to express emotion, and their eloquence through body language—ultimately celebrating life itself.
Born in Israel and raised from a young age in Venezuela, Birnbaum began her drawing studies with Pedro Centeno Vallenilla. She earned a degree in architecture from the Central University of Venezuela, yet her passion for the visual arts led her to train with renowned masters and explore diverse techniques, from modeling and engraving to wood carving. Her career includes exhibitions at institutions and galleries in Venezuela, the United States, and beyond, as well as awards and participation in international art fairs.
The new catalogue is now available online through the [Publications section] of our website.
