Title: La era de la discrepancia : arte y cultura visual en México, 1968-1997 /
Authors: Debroise, Olivier; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Publisher: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México : Turner,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Art, Mexican Exhibitions.; Art Mexico Themes, motives Exhibitions.; Art, Modern Exhibitions; Photography Mexico History Exhibitions.; Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Mexico History Exhibitions.
Abstract: "The first exhibition to offer a critical assessment of the artistic experimentation that took place in Mexico during the last three decades of the twentieth century. The exhibition carefully analyzes the origins and emergence of techniques, strategies, and modes of operation at a particularly significant moment of Mexican history, beginning with the 1968 Student Movement, until the Zapatista uprising in the State of Chiapas. The show includes work by a wide range of artists, including Francis Alys, Vicente Rojo, Jimmie Durham, Helen Escobedo, Julio Galán, Felipe Ehrenberg, José Bedia, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Francisco Toledo, Carlos Amorales, Melanie Smith, and Alejandro Jodorowsky, among many others. The edition is illustrated with 612 full-color plates of the art produced during these last three decades of the twentieth century reflect the social, political and technical developments in Mexico and range from painting and photography to poster design, installation, performance, experimental theatre, super-8 cinema, video, music, poetry and popular culture like the films and ephemeral actions of 'Panic' by Alejandro Jodorowsky, Pedro Friedeberg's pop art, the conceptual art, infrarrealists and urban independent photography, artists books, the development of contemporary political photography, the participation of Mexican artists in Fluxus in the seventies and the contribution of Ulises Carrión to the international artist book movement and popular rock music, the pictorial battles of the eighties and the emergence of a variant of neo-conceptual art in 1990. The exhibition is curated by Olivier Debroise, Pilar García de Germenos, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Álvaro Vázquez Mantecón"--Provided by vendor.