Cuauhtémoc Medina, ed., Era de la descrepancia: Arte y cultura visual en México/The Age of Discrepancies: Art and Visual Culture in Mexico (1968-1997), (Mexico City: UNAM, 2007).
The "Age of Discrepancies" art and visual culture in Mexico 1968-1997 takes us through a period of time that has not properly been researched and documented until the unveiling of this show. This particular exhibition unleashed almost three decades of various types of art that directly related to events happening in Mexico. The curatorial staff divided this exhibition into nine sections which helped the viewer get a better glimpse to the significance of each work. Additionally, the Age of Discrepancies exhibits how artists began to steer away from the traditional aspects of practicing and exhibitng their art.It seemed that the re-evaluation of the information previously available about this time period was inadequate or non existent.It was difficult to understand why this time period seemed to be so poorly documented. The excitement and nervousness that came while putting this show together was an important factor for the team that was trying to rectify years improper research. Many participants were uncertain as to what the response would be to dredging up works that were at one time treated as unimportant. The answers to why curators and researchers were uninterested in this time period is laid out in The Age of Discrepancies: Art and Visual Culture in Mexico,
The "Age of Discrepancies" documents the key shift of artistic, social, political, and theoretical practice in Mexico from the late 1960's to the later half of the 20th century. Making a key point of the shift of attention and representation of the individual artist to the "Grupos" or collectives that formed in response to the massacre of Tlatelolco. Most of the members who would later make up the groups were already taking action first as childre, then teenagers, and then adults. What I find very interesting and inspiring is how very urgently, ferociously, and determined these groups came together all through out Mexico city and threw all the "art rules" out the window! All the groups had their own techniques theories and ideas about what they were doing. Varying from intensely political, to concerns with the current state of city life these groups were touching on as many subjects as there were groups of which there were tons of them! I have seriously been inspired by this reading due to the fact that by doing what these groups did they changed the way one thinks of as making art, and created new audiences and responses while they did it. What also sticks in my mind is the fact that they did this mostly outside of what the normal art scene consisted of in terms of audience, exhibit spaces and content. This read really reinvigerated my ambitions to really go farther and do something that really matters within my current university, city, state, world and mind....
The "Age of Discrepancies" art and visual culture in Mexico 1968-1997 takes us through a period of time that has not properly been researched and documented until the unveiling of this show. This particular exhibition unleashed almost three decades of various types of art that directly related to events happening in Mexico. The curatorial staff divided this exhibition into nine sections which helped the viewer get a better glimpse to the significance of each work. Additionally, the Age of Discrepancies exhibits how artists began to steer away from the traditional aspects of practicing and exhibitng their art.It seemed that the re-evaluation of the information previously available about this time period was inadequate or non existent.It was difficult to understand why this time period seemed to be so poorly documented. The excitement and nervousness that came while putting this show together was an important factor for the team that was trying to rectify years improper research. Many participants were uncertain as to what the response would be to dredging up works that were at one time treated as unimportant. The answers to why curators and researchers were uninterested in this time period is laid out in The Age of Discrepancies: Art and Visual Culture in Mexico,
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ReplyDeleteThe "Age of Discrepancies" documents the key shift of artistic, social, political, and theoretical practice in Mexico from the late 1960's to the later half of the 20th century. Making a key point of the shift of attention and representation of the individual artist to the "Grupos" or collectives that formed in response to the massacre of Tlatelolco. Most of the members who would later make up the groups were already taking action first as childre, then teenagers, and then adults. What I find very interesting and inspiring is how very urgently, ferociously, and determined these groups came together all through out Mexico city and threw all the "art rules" out the window! All the groups had their own techniques theories and ideas about what they were doing. Varying from intensely political, to concerns with the current state of city life these groups were touching on as many subjects as there were groups of which there were tons of them! I have seriously been inspired by this reading due to the fact that by doing what these groups did they changed the way one thinks of as making art, and created new audiences and responses while they did it. What also sticks in my mind is the fact that they did this mostly outside of what the normal art scene consisted of in terms of audience, exhibit spaces and content. This read really reinvigerated my ambitions to really go farther and do something that really matters within my current university, city, state, world and mind....
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