SEMEFO 1990-1999
Subtitle: de la morgue al museo = from the morgue to the museum
By: Mariana David, coordinación/coordination
Contributors: SEMEFO (Group)
Edition: 1a ed.
Publisher: El Palacio Negro; Universidad Autonóma Metrpolitana
Published: 2011
Place of publication: México, D.F
Language: spa; eng
Number of pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9786074776164
Subjects: Mexican Art; Performance art; Death in art; Torture in art; Animals in art; SEMEFO (Group)
Other titles: De la morgue al museo; SEMEFO 1990-1999 :; From the morgue to the museum
Description: "Semefo 1990-1999" is the first book to gather the entire body of work by the Mexican artist collective (...) In art, for Mexico the 1990's implied blockbuster-style exhibitions and the inauguration of mega-monuments. In parallel there was a boom in performance and in what is called "alternative" with the creation of conferences and festivals and the opening of spaces for artistic development in Mexico City. This context was the scene for the formation and development of the group Semefo, and writing the history of this collective also involves understanding what historical, political situation generated the conditions for this work to come true, eventually within an official framework."--P. 7,9. Semefo (Its name is inspired in the acronym of the Mexican Forensic Service " Servicio Médico Forense") was a collective of artists founded in the early 1990's by Teresa Margolles, Carlos López Orozco, Juan Luis García and Arturo Angulo Gallardo that worked with parts of corpses, bodily fluids and other organic materials during the 1990's seeking an aesthetic approach not to the subject of death, but to its socio-cultural implications and the concept of decomposition at its different stages (first in animals and later with humans) based on the myths of destruction, degradation, the paraphernalia of torture, disgust and the morbid, i.e. violence in relation to the concepts of life-death and eroticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 392-397) and index.

Parallel text in Spanish and English.
Table of contents: title: Prefacio =; title: Preface  -- Mariana David y Brábara Perea; title: Introduccion =; title: Introduction  -- Brábara Perea; title: Necropsia: historiando al colectivo Semefo =; title: Necropsy: Writting the history of Semefo  -- Mariana David -- Ensayos = -- Essays; title: Las sinfonías de la putrefacción =; title: Symphonies of putrefaction  -- Luis Javier García Roiz; title: La música de Semefo: entrevista a Carlos López =; title: The music of Semefo: Carlos López interviewed  -- Luuis Javier García Roiz; title: La recreación de lo verídico =; title: The recreation of the veridical  -- Jorge Reynoso Pohlenz; title: El recuerdo de un cadáver que nunca estuvo ahí =; title: The memory of a corpse that was never there  -- Pilar Villela Mascaró; title: Semefo: una lírica de la descomposición =; title: Semefo: a lyric of decay -- José Luis Barrios-- Obras =-- Works-- Cronologia =-- Timetable-- Documentos =-- Documents.