Migración
By: Santiago Robles ; textos, Christian Barragán, Javier Raya, Karina Ruiz y Santiago Robles ; curaduría, Christian Barragán
Contributors: La Trampa Gráfica Contemporánea (Mexico City, Mexico); Galería Antonio Ramírez (Mexico City, Mexico); Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico City, Mexico)
Edition: Primera edición.
Publisher: ESPAC, Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Ciudad de México
Language: spa
Number of pages: 38
ISBN-13: 9786079851408
Subjects: Exhibitions; Art and globalization; Modern Art; Themes, motives; Mexican Art
Description: Migración (Migration), the exhibition and social reflection project by Santiago Robles (Mexico City, 1984), is a historical review of the founding of Mexico: from Tenochtitlan to the end of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), about this "mythical / idealized time and that other factual and painfully real time in which we live that merge without dissolving, to maintain a contradiction that aesthetically appeals to the viewer: the axolotl and Tony the Tiger, Ronald McDonald holding Quetzalcoatl, Super Mario Bros eating the plant of power that will return him to Mictlan while spiting fire from his mouthʺ (HKB Translation)--Page 8. Constituted in two sections, Migration is itself a transfer from the south to the north, from the present to the past. One part presentd in La Trampa Gráfica Contemporánea (located in the Historic Center) and the other in the Faculty of Arts and Design of the UNAM (located on a southern sector, both spaces in Mexico City).

Migración (Migration), the exhibition and social reflection project by Santiago Robles (Mexico City, 1984), is a historical review of the founding of Mexico: from Tenochtitlan to the end of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), about this "mythical / idealized time and that other factual and painfully real time in which we live that merge without dissolving, to maintain a contradiction that aesthetically appeals to the viewer: the axolotl and Tony the Tiger, Ronald McDonald holding Quetzalcoatl, Super Mario Bros eating the plant of power that will return him to Mictlan while spiting fire from his mouthʺ (HKB Translation)--Page 8. Constituted in two sections, Migration is itself a transfer from the south to the north, from the present to the past. One part presentd in La Trampa Gráfica Contemporánea (located in the Historic Center) and the other in the Faculty of Arts and Design of the UNAM (located on a southern sector, both spaces in Mexico City)
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at La Trampa Gráfica Contemporánea, June 6-27, 2019; Galería Antonio Ramírez, June 16-30, 2019.

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"Los textos de Karina Ruiz y Javier Raya en la presente edición son fragmentos de las versiones completas. Para consultarlas véase: santiagorobles.info/migración/ or santiagorobles.info/dibujos-migración/"--Verso Title Page.
Table of contents: title: Mi(g)rar con ojos ajenos / Javier Raya; title: Migración de Santiago Robles: un mito de la fundación del México globalizado / Karina Ruiz Ojeda; title: Migración / Christian Barragán, Santiago Robles.