Strange New World
dal 20/5/2006 al 16/9/2006
Segnalato da
20/5/2006
Strange New World
The Museum of Contemporary Art Downtown - MCASD, San Diego
Art and Design from Tijuana. With 150 works of art made by 41 architects, artists, designers, and filmmakers, it is the largest exhibition in the Museum's history and is the first to be presented concurrently at both MCASD Downtown and MCASD La Jolla.
Art and Design from Tijuana
Tijuana is a new cultural hot spot. Influential publications in the United States, Europe, and Mexico have recognized the city as a vibrant site of innovation in the arts. Journalists, scholars, and critics alike celebrate Tijuana's diversity of artistic production from art made with traditional media, such as, painting and printmaking to installation and conceptual art; from photography to digitally derived images; from street-level video to ambitious feature films; from utopian architectural proposals to streamlined and economic housing design. As the city's newest art weekly recently announced, "Tijuana moves -and it's everywhere."
This exhibition will document the recent explosion of artistic experimentation in Tijuana, and will also explore the subtle shift in focus from art about the border experience to art that takes advantage of a new type of accelerated urbanism being pioneered in developing cities around the world.
With 150 works of art made by 41 architects, artists, designers, and filmmakers, Strange New World is the largest exhibition in the Museum's history and is the first to be presented concurrently at both MCASD Downtown and MCASD La Jolla. The exhibition will be complemented by a 250-page scholarly catalogue and a Web site featuring the artists in the exhibition, music from Tijuana, and a downloadable map of the city.
Strange New World: Art and Design from Tijuana/Extrano Nuevo Mundo: Arte y diseno desde Tijuana is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and is sponsored by Altria Group, Inc. The project has also received generous grant support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; the Rockefeller Foundation; anonymous donors; the Government of Baja California; Amelia and Kenneth Morris; UBS AG; Cultural Contact, the U.S.-Me'xico Foundation for Culture, Inc.; The James Irvine Foundation; The Nimoy Foundation; the Consulate General of Me'xico; the City of Tijuana; the Institute for Museum and Library Services, an independent Federal grant-making agency dedicated to creating and sustaining a nation of learners; the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture; the County of San Diego; and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
Image: JULIO CESAR MORALES: INFORMAL ECONOMY VENDORS, 2002, COURTESY OF THE ARTIST.
MAY 21 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 17, 2006
MCASD Downtown, 1001 Kettner Blvd., downtown San Diego: Every day (except Wednesday) 11am
to 5pm. Closed Wednesdays.
MAY 21 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 3, 2006
MCASD LA JOLLA, 700 Prospect Street, La Jolla: Weekdays 11am to 5pm; Thursdays until 7pm;
Weekends 11am to 5pm. Closed Wednesdays.
ADMISSION:
MCASD DOWNTOWN: free. MCASD LA JOLLA: $6 adults; $2 students/seniors/military; MCASD LA
JOLLA is free to children under 12. Admission is free the third Tuesday of each month.
24-HOUR MUSEUM INFORMATION:
858 454 3541