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6/10/2009

Four exhibitions

Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City

I Use Perfume to Occupy More Space
Collective Exhibition: Gabriel Acevedo Velarde,
Daniel Andujar & Rogelio López Cuenca, Julieta Aranda,
Carles Congost, Ximena Cuevas, John Bock,
Dustin Ericksen & Mike Rogers, Paul MacCarthy,
José Clemente Orozco y David Alfaro Siqueiros
From October 7 to January 3, 2010
Curated: Willy Kautz

This exhibition is conceived of as a platform for self-criticism. Intended to question the belief in the value of artistic creation, I Use Perfume to Occupy More Space presents three artistic projects, two artworks from the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil Collection, as well as a selection of videos by five artists. It is a montage that intermingles such works with commercial products from museum stores, books, movies, television cartoons, as well as press releases and advertisements. These projects and materials set in motion a self-critical mechanism that questions the artist's persona and the roles that are played in the art world, as it also elicits a reflection on themes such as clichés about romantic and bohemian artists, the power of creation and the status it obtains, the moral legitimacy of art, the critical evaluation of discourses, talent, and creativity, the responsibility of contemporary artists, the art market, and the institutionalization of art, among others.
Rather than solely representing a collection of works organized under a given theme or through the scope of current prevailing tendencies, this exhibition is conceived of as a space that invites examination, contemplation of the structures that exist beneath the art world. The artistic projects that are part of this exhibit are the result of sociological procedures that lead to document compilation and to the gathering of common and commercial objects, which addresses the media utilized to construct the artistic persona, to inspect the nature of the roles played in the art world, and the value of the work that such a world produces.

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Ventanilla Única (Single Window)
From October 7 to January 3, 2010
Curated: Roberto Barajas

The Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil presents Ventanilla Única (Single Window), the most recent exhibition by Mexican artist Yoshua Okón, which will be inaugurated this October 7. Ventanilla Única presents five artworks created during the past three years that have never been exhibited in Mexico. They articulate the aesthetic and conceptual principles that Okón, co-founder of La Panadería project (1994-2001), has accumulated throughout his 15-year artistic career.

The exhibit consists of video and photography installations that invite reflection on the ethical complexities that spectators have as they confront the artworks. Ventanilla Única reveals the implicit negotiations that occur between the pieces and the observer: spectators identify with the characters that appear in the images and videos and – through this evocative connection – the social being is obliged to confront self-criticism.

According to Okón, “There is where the work attains its mirror effect: as we create some distance, we learn something we had already known.” From their Greek origins, satire and sarcasms have been characterized with a high degree of critical irreverence. By resorting to these devices, Okón creates fictitious atmospheres that inhabit an everyday life that is disrupted by these interferences to create a sharp and suggestive portrait of modern societies. Thus, the idiosyncrasy that characterizes these societies is reformulated and revealed as the product of disruption.

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De la Tierra a la Luna (From the Earth to the Moon)
From October 7 to February 14, 2010
Investigación y curaduría: Miguel Ángel Fernández,
Angélica García, Alberto González Torres,
Alfonso Morales, Héctor Orozco y Gerardo Sifuentes

On July 16, 1969, Abel Quezada, Pedro Ferriz, and Miguel Alemán-Velasco and 38 North American Space Agency (NASA)-accredited Mexican journalists were in Cape Kennedy covering the launch of the Apollo 11 space shuttle from the press box. From the Houston Space Control Center Jacobo Zabludovsky carried out live feeds with Miguel Alemán-Velasco via Mexican national television channels 2 and 4, while in Mexico, Mario Moreno (Cantinflas) made an exclusive appearance on Mexican independent television.

De la Tierra a la Luna (From the Earth to the Moon) explores the development of the coverage and the reactions the news on the first man who stepped on the Moon caused. It also reveals the way in which reactions in the print media and radio became the reflection of the television coverage. The importance of this event – unprecedented in the history of communication – also exerted an influence on advertising and national and international cinema, as well as the thematic direction of visual work by the Mexican masters at the end of the 1960s.

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Bernardo Fernández (Bef)
Gabinete gráfico: Mexicanos en el espacio
From October 7 to February 14, 2010

En el Gabinete gráfico se presenta Mexicanos en el espacio, del artista Bernardo Fernández (Bef). Muestra en la cual se exhibe una selección de bocetos y trabajos recientes para diversos comics (El Soñador y BROOM!). Historias en donde los personajes reales e imaginarios comparten escena y guión, y cuya narrativa —en el caso de BROOM!— puede ser alterada para lograr diferentes finales. Además se presenta una animación sonora en la que el artista plantea un disparatado viaje de dos astronautas mexicanos a la Luna, pieza que toma como referencia parte de las investigaciones que fueron realizadas para la exposición De la Tierra a la Luna.


Image: Yoshua Okón, Hipnostasis, 2009. Installation

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Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil
Av. Revolución 1608
San Ángel 01000, Mexico City, D.F

Opening October 7, 2009

Museo De Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City
1608 Revolucion, Mexico City

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