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3/8/2003

Nuevo

Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros, Mexico City

New Public Work by Anton Vidokle

A public work by Anton Vidokle At Salto del Agua Metro Station México D.F

Mexico City To See New Public Work by Anton Vidokle This Summer

The first phase of an ambitious new public work by Anton Vidokle entitled
Nuevo, sponsored by Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros, Mexico City, begins on
August 4 with the painting of the modular facade of the Salto del Agua
metro station building in downtown Mexico City.

Module by module, the drab and anonymous late-modernist facade situated at
a busy transportation junction will be painted bright red with the help of
the Metro Workers Syndicate, in a step-by-modular-step performance that
will be among the highlights of Reversible, a Sala Siqueiros forum on
public art organized by Victor Palacios and opening in Mexico City on
August 14.

The building’s transformation will also be the subject of a short film
made in cooperation with Julieta Aranda and Cristian Manzutto and
scheduled to be screened at the ICA Boston’s Made in Mexico exhibition
opening in January 2004.

Collaborative in nature, Vidokle’s Nuevo revisits familiar terrain for the
artist, who last year made an 8mm film Salto del Agua (with Cristian
Manzutto) about the same building. But whereas the earlier work abstracted
and manipulated a detail of the structure, denaturing it in much the same
way that commercial co-optation has denatured the sense of social and
political mission that once lighted early modernism’s way, the current
work seems intent on returning to the fray. Like the new lease on life it
hopes to extend to the Salto del Agua building and its surrounding
neighborhood, Nuevo seems to stake a claim to a reanimated sense of
purpose, to a renewed engagement with admittedly utopian forces that once
gave teeth to the belief that art could serve larger and more urgent ends.

Anton Vidokle was born in Moscow and is currently based in New York. His
work has been recently featured at Utopia Station at the 2003 Venice
Biennale; in Form Specific, Moderna Galerija/Museum of Modern Art,
Ljubljana; and at the Prague Biennale.

Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros
Tres Picos 29, Colonia Polanco, 11560 México D.F.

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