These photographs document one of the first public actions performed by the artistic collective Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis (The Mares of the Apocalypse). Here, a nude Pedro Lemebel and Francisco Casas ride a mare into the University of Chile alongside three poet friends. Lemebel recalls that certain fields of study in the university were denied […]
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Libro internacional
Libro internacional is a collection of works by various international artists, including Guillermo Deisler and Graciela Gutierrez Marx, sent to Edgardo Antonio Vigo via the postal system. Vigo began the three-volume mail art project in 1976, a year of political and personal significance in which the Argentine military coup d’etat occured and the artist’s son, […]
Arte Correio (Mail Art)
Paulo Bruscky was part of an international network of artists working performance, painting, sculpture, poetry, experimental music, and correspondance art, or mail art. Mail art uses stamps, seals, telegrams, and envelops as mediums to make artworks, which one then sends through the mail to friends and colleagues, potentially all over the world. Under oppressive regimes, […]
XXII History of the Human Face (Trueque): Airmail Painting No.123
Eugenio Dittborn began producing airmail paintings — collaged works that he folded and mailed through the postal system — in 1983 amid the “cultural blackout” brought about by Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship in Chile. The works simultaneously resisted censorship by circumventing regular forms of art production and circulation, and practiced a form of self-exile at […]
Para um tempo de guerra (For a Time of War)
Regina Vater created Para um tempo de guerra while living in the United Stated during Ronald Reagan’s presidency. The installation is comporised of the mosaic-like stones that pave pedestrian streets in Portugal and its former colonies such as Brazil, and Brazilian-style French rolls, an inexpensive and popular food staple. The mandala shape, a widely recognized […]
Walk through Walls (Triple Pane)
Much of Oscar Tuazon’s work is informed by systems theory, a field of knowledge trained on understanding the inner workings of complex systems through analysis of their parts and their operation over time. His interest in water is certainly one example. But on a smaller scale, he also looks to the systems that organize human […]
Beadwall
Many of Oscar Tuazon’s sculptures are prototypes– iterations in an ongoing process of research, development, and refinement. This work precedes Curtain Wall (2013), also on view in this gallery, and gives insight into this particular series of material and mechanical investigations. Many of the artist’s experiments remain hidden from view, privately conducted in the studio, […]
Curtain Wall
Oscar Tuazon has long been interested in and inspired by the many inventions of Steve Baer. JHe has even attempted to model some of Baer’s invetions, the results of which often become new sculptural works. Curtain Wall is a case in point, and part of a larger series of works that attempted to develop window […]
Winona LaDuke (Honor the Earth)
In 2018 Oscar Tuazon transported part of his Zome Allow (2016) to Minnesota and began erecting a new Water School on the homestead of Winona LaDuke, a prominent social, political, and environmental activist who heads the Native environmental advocacy organization Honor the Earth. The organization has been deeply involved in protests against the controversial Dakota […]
Drumwall Water Window
This major new work was produced in collaboration with the MSU Broad, Guardian Glass LLC, Lansing Glass Company, and MSU’s Infrastructure, Planning and facilities unit. it began with Oscar Tuazon’s interest in reconsidering the passive solar architectural system devised by Steve Baer as part of his Zome Home. In the original design from 1972, drums […]