abraham cruzvillegas at Dia Art Foundation
Artists on Artists Lecture: Artists Lecture: Abraham cruzvillegas on Robert Smithson
Dia Art Foundation


image courtesy abraham cruzvillegas

Monday, February 14, 2011, 6:30pm
Dia: Chelsea

Established in 2011, this series highlights the work of contemporary artists from the
perspective of their colleagues and peers, and focuses on artists in Dia´s collection and
exhibition programs. Lectures take place at Dia´s 535 West 22nd Street location in New York City


Film Screening: Autoconstrucción (2009) by Abraham Cruzvillegas
New Museum


abraham cruzvillegas, autoconstrucción, 2009

Sunday, February 20, 3:00pm
Co - presented by Dia Art Foundation

Through his interest in autoconstrucción  ("self-construction"), Abraham Cruzvillegas
explores economies of the makeshift, the handmade and the recycled. In this film,
commissioned by REDCAT in Los Angeles, Cruzvillegas examines his childhood home and
 the neighborhood of Ajusto, a district in the south of Mexico City founded by migrants who,
like his parents, settled in what was deemed uninhabitable land in the 1960s
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