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09-26-08
Autoconstrucción solo show september 26 - november 8, 2008 The Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow The result of a six month joint residency at the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) and Cove Park, Autoconstrucción opens at the CCA in Glasgow on 26 September. In the exhibition, Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas, charts the evolution of his family’s house and finds, in its making, the roots of his current sculptural practice. Cruzvillegas’ roots provide a metaphor for the self-conscious process of creating an identity and methodology for the construction of his artistic practice. Drawing together a diverse series of elements including an exhibition, a series of musical performances, a procession across a city and a book, the key element in all off Cruzvillegas’ work is the concept of sharing, framed by a makeshift DIY aesthetic. Cruzvillegas comments, “Very important parts of this project are collaboration and creation in a ‘contaminated’ cultural environment, which means shifting something very personal and subjective, from my own experience, to a very local platform and circumstance… “Improvising with materials from the context: wool, sheep shit, chicken wire, discarded furniture, cardboard, stones, grass or my own hair…” All elements of Cruzvillegas’ work typify his practical and metaphorical uses of the labyrinthine building process of his family’s house in Ajusco, Mexico. To support the exhibition, Cruzvillegas has written a text drawn from his own memories that records the social life of Ajusco and how the area’s unique, organic architecture evolved. |
 He has also written a series of 18 lyrics that transform his childhood memories into something more surreal. The lyrics were offered to a wide variety of musicians in Scotland for their own interpretation. The songs are currently being recorded and will be published on CD and broadcast by Cruzvillegas throughout the streets and squares of Glasgow, using a sound system constructed as a mobile sculpture. In the exhibition spaces of Autoconstrucción, the sound system and the documentation of its life in the streets will be on display. Besides this large scale work, Cruzvillegas presents the sculptural improvisations made in his rural studio at Cove Park. Finally, one room will be dedicated to situating Cruzvillegas’ personal and artistic experience of Ajusco within the broader social and historical context of Mexico since the 1960s. más información: www.cca-glasgow.com |
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Museo de Arte Moderno | Mexico City Animal Roto group show december 12, 2008 to march 8, 2009 12-11-08 |
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Fundación/Colección Jumex | National Museum of Art | Mexico City the practice of everyday life curated by Frédéric Bonnet november 27, 2008 - march 15, 2009 12-04-08 |
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kurimanzutto in artforum Linda Yablonsky's article about the gallery's inauguration at scene & herd 12-03-08 |
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gob. rafael rebollar 94, col. san miguel chapultepec 11850, mexico city, tel/fax (5255) 5273-3177 |