Mexico: Expected/Unexpected brings together works by prominent personalities from Mexico’s Contemporary Art scene such as Francis Alÿs, Melanie Smith, Gabriel Orozco, Abraham Cruzvillegas and Damián Ortega.
The exhibition is articulated around two axes: the global dynamic that feeds Contemporary Art and Contemporary Art produced in Mexico. Some of the works establish plastic approaches by a set of typological analogies between paintings, sculptures, videos and installations that evoke the idea of ”Mexican-ness” through certain subjects: death, the relation between city and nature, poetics crafts and uncertainties of everyday life. Other iconographic correspondences suggest contradictory notions of nationalism and communal identity.
Broadly, Mexico: Expected / Unexpected shows an image of Contemporary Mexican Art away from stereotypes, showing it as dynamic and evolving, with a multiple, complex and unpredictable image in which tradition and innovation constantly cross.
Doug Aitken
Neon
35.43 x 54.33 in
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
Gelatin silver print
6.77 x 9.49 in
Carlos Amorales
Set of 30 collage paper drawing. Computer generated print
Dimensions 17.71 x 23.62 in each
Mark Bradford
Painting and collage. 3 parts
15.08 x 14.57 x 14.57 in
Maurizio Cattelan
Taxidermied donkey
41.73 x 28.98 x 52.99 in
José Damasceno
Rubbers and nails
141.73 x 157.48 in
Kendell Geers
60 red emergency lights and cables
Dimensions variable
Dan Graham
Color photographs.
35.04 x 25.59 in
Detail diptych
Enrique Guzmán
Oli on canvas.
78.74 x 47.24 in
Yishai Jusidman
Oil and egg-tempera on wood with gilded frame
28.50 x 30.50 in
Graciela Iturbide
Platinum paladium print
22.00 x 26.00 in
Helen Levitt
Gelatin silver print
9.49 x 6.38 in
Gordon Matta Clark
16mm film transfer with no sound
18:40 min
Jonathan Monk
Green vynil lettering
Dimensions variable
Rivane Neuenschwander
Garlic peels and vegetable fibre
Variable dimensions
Ricardo Rendón
Intervention with screws on a drywall wall
106.30 x 118.11 in
Ed Ruscha
Gelatin silver print mounted
20.20 x 23.62 in
Maruch Santíz Gómez
Color print and text
30.71 x 25.20 in
Melanie Smith
Silver gelatin print
49.88 x 59.84 in
Damián Ortega
Drum kit and steel wire
Dimensions variable