Rolf Art is proud to present, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the coup in Argentina, the exhibition Good Memory by Marcelo Brodsky (Buenos Aires, 1954), with a text by curator Rodrigo Moura (Belo Horizonte, 1975), author of the text that accompanied the first presentation of the project in Brazil twenty years ago.

Good Memory, one of the most important and outstanding projects in Marcelo Brodsky's artistic career, is a body of work that focuses on the years of the last civic-military dictatorship in Argentina, during which the state systematically persecuted, tortured, and executed thousands of citizens, known as the disappeared. Established in 1976 and led by General Jorge Rafael Videla, the dictatorship lasted until 1983. In this context, Marcelo was forced into exile in Barcelona, ​​and his brother Fernando was kidnapped in Buenos Aires and remains disappeared. Upon his return to Argentina at the age of forty, he used family photographs and his personal archive as a starting point to create a body of work that sought to give visual form to the trauma of his lived experience.

The photographic essay Good memory (1967-1996) comprises six chapters: The Class, 1st Year – 6th Division, along with its original period documentation; The Classmates; Bridge of Memory; My Friend Martín; Nando, My Brother; and The Río de la Plata. The complete visual essay consists of 80 photographs, original period documents, and four videos.

First presented in Buenos Aires in 1998 at the FotoGalería of the Teatro San Martín, curated by Sara Facio, Buena Memoria has since been exhibited in hundreds of exhibitions worldwide. The central piece of the essay, La Clase. 1er Año – 6ta División (1967), is one of the most studied and catalogued works in the history of art, and has become an icon of Argentine and Latin American visual identity. This work is part of the most prestigious institutional collections in the world: MNCARS Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Spain); MET The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA); Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (Brazil); MNBA Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires, Argentina); MAMU Museo Nacional del Banco de la República (Bogotá, Colombia); TATE (London, UK); and MFAH Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Houston, USA).

Rolf Art aims to present the complete photographic essay Buena memoria, reactivating its historical, political, and emotional power from the present as an exercise in remembrance half a century after the rupture that marked the history of our country. This is the first comprehensive exhibition of the project since its historic presentation at the San Martín Theatre Photo Gallery.