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12-04-08
the practice of everyday life curated by Frédéric Bonnet november 27, 2008 - march 15, 2009 group show presenting: Dr. Lakra, Fernando Ortega, Gabriel Kuri, Gabriel Orozco, Jonathan Hernández and Sofía Táboas. *Press release by the National Museum of Art In this occasion, Museo Nacional de Arte and Fundación/Colección Jumex join forces to present the exhibition The Practice of Everyday Life, curated by Frédéric Bonnet, an art critic and independent curator who, following a careful study of both collections put together a selection of works dating from between the seventeenth century and the present day. The show is made up of eighty-one pieces from the permanent collection of Museo Nacional de Arte, by artists such as Baltasar de Echave Ibía, Miguel Cabrera, Eugenio Landesio, José María Velasco, José María Estrada, Rufino Tamayo, Gerardo Murillo (Dr. Atl) and José Clemente Orozco. These works are placed in dialogue with seventy-six pieces from La Colección Jumex, by artists such as Gabriel Orozco, Gabriel Kuri, Andres Serrano, Doug Aitken, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rudolf Stingel and Sofía Táboas. The exhibition takes its name from the title of a study by French philosopher and historian Michel de Certeau (1925-1986), whose two volumes The Practice of Everyday Life and The Practice of Everyday Life Volume 2: Living and Cooking were published in Paris in 1980. In it, Michel de Certeau explores the ways ordinary individuals invent resistance strategies as a way of escaping from a dominant social order conceived mindfully around them; i.e., the places they have been assigned within it, the role they play, their consumer patterns, etc. The author fixes his attention on “ways of doing [that] constitute the thousand practices through which acting individuals re-appropriate spaces ordered by sociocultural production techniques.” In the words of the curator, “This exhibition does not claim to illustrate the book in question, nor its theme, though it does make occasional reference to them. We have used the title primarily because of the notion of ‘invention,’ both in practices and in ways of seeing. Questions related to reality and everyday life, to the ways they are thought about, viewed, documented by translating them into images and to how forms and contours are invented for them, are the common thread in the MUNAL collection, which also resurfaces in many of the works in La Colección Jumex.” More information: www.munal.com.mx |
 Gabriel Kuri | Untitled (Doy Fe), 1998 The Practice of Everyday Life is an initiative of Fundación/Colección Jumex, which proposed this project to Museo Nacional de Arte an institution that welcomed the
project, as it saw great possibilities in terms of its originality and its curatorial approach. In this sense, Eugenio López Alonso, president of Fundación/Colección Jumex, commented that, “It was important to us that works from La Colección Jumex be presented in a space that is emblematic of our national culture, in order to establish a creative dialogue between different moments in history, connected by human nature. In this sense, Museo Nacional de Arte was the most suitable space in which to present this project.” The exhibition will allow the viewer to discover different ways of perceiving and reinventing the everyday: “The Energy of the Everyday,” “Nature of the Landscape,” “Identitarian Strategies” and “Resistance and Anti-discipline.” The public will be able to explore these topics in depth through talks by guest lecturers, and will also have the opportunity for a sound experience before viewing the exhibition. |
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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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kurimanzutto in artforum Linda Yablonsky's article about the gallery's inauguration at scene & herd 12-03-08 |
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Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo | Mexico City Recursos incontrolables y otros desplazamientos naturales Curated by Olivier Debroise (1952-2008) group show 11-26-08 |
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