Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City
until September 2, 2007
Left: ©Dr. Lakra, Untitled (sillón rojo), 2004. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Photo courtesy of the artist kurimanzutto, Mexico City and MCA Chicago.If you are interested in the resurgence of Mexican contemporary art, and find yourself in Chicago, the excellent MCA has an exhibition focussed on Mexican 'Escultura Social' (Social Sculpture).
According to curator Julie Rodrigues Widholm: 'German performance artist Joseph Beuys's idea of social sculpture, translated into the Spanish escultura social, is used as a multivalent point of reference: the works are all socially engaged, they draw connections between people, animals, and nature, they revisit conceptual practices/actions from the 1960s, and promote a demystified and democratic idea of artmaking. In addition, the circulation and meaning of images, objects, and actions are at the crux of these artists' works and the exhibition provides an opportunity to showcase their recent developments. It includes site-specific, performative and ephemeral projects in addition to videos, photographs, and installations.
Featured artists are Maria Alós, Carlos Amorales, Julieta Aranda, Gustavo Artigas, Stefan Bruggemann, Miguel Calderon, Fernando Carabajal, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Mario Garcia-Torres, Daniel Guzman, Pablo Helguera, Gabriel Kuri, Dr. Lakra, Los Super Elegantes, Nuevos Ricos, Yoshua Okon, Damian Ortega, Fernando Ortega, Pedro Reyes, and dynamic young architect Fernando Romero.
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