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Leandro Erlich to Inaugurate New Series of Exhibitions at Museum of Latin American Art

LONG BEACH, CA.- MOLAA’s new series of exhibitions in the Project Room are devoted to projects by the most cutting edge, experimental and contemporary artists in Latin America today. The first exhibition in the series, The Lost Garden, is by Argentinean artist Leandro Erlich (b.1973). Erlich is one of today’s most inventive artists in the international art scene. He creates unique installations which are mostly architectonic and which recreate familiar spaces and structures that transform our perception of the real world. With the combination of constructions that range from rooms, buildings, windows or doors, and the use of mirrors, the artist constructs multiple, impossible perspectives which result in disconcerting, unexpected and playful games of visual illusion. Erlich suggests other ways of “seeing” and experiencing the known beyond the limitations of the triteness of the repetition of daily existence, w