Poule!
dal 19/4/2012 al 13/9/2012
Segnalato da
19/4/2012
Poule!
Fundacion Coleccion Jumex, Ecatepec
A kind of cut-up, slices at random into the collection
The project highlights no particular theme: rather it convenes a profusion of provocative, cross-fertilizing ones. Lots of black and white here, but lots of color too: smoke; iconic figures from art, music, movies, and fashion; lots of unknowns; works based on archival material; a mass of photographs and a few paintings; silkscreening; moving images; immobile and animated artifacts; drawings done in pencil, water, ink, and gouache; human ashes mixed with water; people talking while others are cutting wood; memories, true and fantasized stories, and the shadow of William Burroughs. A "cut-up" is the application to literature of techniques borrowed from other artistic disciplines. And if we give the concept of an exhibition the same treatment Gysin administered to writing, Poule! is a most definitely a kind of cut-up. Slicing at random into the Coleccion Jumex corpus has been the guideline for the choice of works "stuck" side by side here. The Jumex Collection is the largest Latin American private contemporary art exhibition space open to the public. The gallery has more than 600 works of art by artists from all over the world.