 © Erick Beltrán To Be Political It Has To Look Nice A curatorial project by Pablo León de la Barra* with Armando Andrade, B-Lo, Erick Beltrán, Stefan Brüggemann, Fernando Bryce, Miguel Calderón, Capacete, Carolina Caycedo, El Chino Ediciones, Eduardo Consuegra, Galería Chilena, M777, Mauricio Guillén, Helena Producciones, Larregui-Laguerre, Olho SP, Sebastián Ramírez, Pedro Reyes, Los Super Elegantes, Javier Téllez, El Vicio. The exhibition will present a few intersections and distinctions in recent contemporary cultural production from Latin America while questioning the stereotypes and clichés of what is normally understood as art from this region. Some of the participating artists live in their country of origin, some are based abroad. Without pretending to represent any total overview, the works presented in the exhibition exist in the intersection between the political and the aesthetical, the cheap and the informal, the serious and the ironic. The works are informed more by their relation with their urban-socio-economical-political-cultural-linguistic context than with art historical production. The works in the exhibition will be presented within a space which will resemble something like a tropical-anarchist social club, a momentary space of convergence for a constellation of practices. *Pablo León de la Barra (lives and works in London, born in Mexico City 1972) is an artist and curator. He is also co-director of 24/7 Projects in London with Beatriz López and Sebastián Ramírez. He was selected by Carlos Basualdo, one of apexart's International Directors. This exhibition was supported in part by the Experimental Television Center, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y les Artes (CONACULTA), Association of Hispanic Arts, Art in General, M&M Projects, and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency. A full color brochure containing an essay by Pablo León de la Barra will be available free of charge. October 11 - November 8, 2003 Hours: Tue-Sat 11 am - 6 pm apexart c.p. 291 Church Street USA-New York, NY 10003 Telephone +1 212 431 5270 Fax +1 212 431 4447 E-Mail info@apexart.org www.apexart.org |
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