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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
'ULTRAPUÑETA' AN EXHIBITION OF ARTISTS FROM PUERTO RICO AT PROYECTOS ULTRAVIOLETA IN GUATEMALA
wall painting made with stabbed spray cans by Radames Juni Figueroa
Radames Juni Figueroa, 'Paraiso' garden
Radames Juni Figueroa, Melon+Zarzamoras+Aguardiente Guatemalteco=Fountain
Carolina Caycedo, 'Trust Each Other', hanging banner
Alana Iturralde, porcelain hand knuckles
Jesus Bubu Negron, Autoportraits in Times of Crisis
Raina Mast, palm tree paintings, from the series 'To fold or to break'
Fernando Pintado, 'Good Things Happen to Those Who Wait', rainbow paintings
Chemi Rosado, 'History over wheels'
Michael Linares, 'Toast for the absence of the object'
opening view
old cinema where Ultravioleta has it's exhibition space
JC passing by
Proyectos Ultravioleta presents
Ultrapuñeta
an exhibition with works by
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
Tony Cruz
Carolina Caycedo
Michael Linares
Chemi Rosado
Jesús "Bubu" Negrón
Alana Iturralde
Fernando Pintado
Raina Mast
Javier Bosques
Marxz Rosado
Chaveli Sifre
Radamés "Juni" Figueroa
Joel "Yoyo" Rodriguez
Special Thanks To:
Beta-Local
Black and White Gallery, NY
The Estate of Mr. and Mrs. Wigmore
Pablo León de la Barra
Centro Cultural de España en Guatemala
El Corillo de Puerto Rico
ULTRAPUÑETA
March 19 - April 11 2010
Proyectos Ultravioleta
11 Calle 5-36 B, Zona 1
entre el Lux y la torre de parqueos
Guatemala 01001
info@proyectosultravioleta.com
http://www.proyectosultravioleta.com
Monday, March 29, 2010
'SPRING RAPE' AT THE OPENING OF PRETEEN MEXICO
entrance to Preteen's new headquarters in Alameda neighbourhood in Mexico City
work by Dylan Reece (acapulco marihuana gold)
mask by Abdul Vas
spring smile by Anne de Vries
newspapers covered by Chemi Rosado
'Marihuana Sculpture' by Radames Juni Figueroa
Mr. Preteen Gerardo Contreras (aka Brokeback Hermosillo) next to work by Anne de Vries
Paco Berna and Elias Redstone
Big Seb and Xavier Laboulbenne
Lady Gaga/Little Boots and PP
young artist pissing in the kitchen while waiting to be spring raped.
SPRING RAPE
PRETEEN GALLERY OPENS IN MEXICO CITY
MARCH 27, 2010. 9 PM - 1:00 AM
ERNESTO PUGIBET 47, CENTRO ALAMEDA, MEXICO CITY
CURATED BY REST IN PEACE FARRAH FAWCETT (RIPFF)
PRETEEN IS PLEASED TO PRESENT SPRING RAPE, A NEW GROUP EXHIBITION FEATURING THE
WORKS OF
KARI ALTMANN
ANIMAL CHARM
ABDUL VAS
BRAD TINMOUTH
RADAMÉS FIGUEROA "JUNI"
ANNE DE VRIES
PETER SUTHERLAND
DYLAN REECE
DANIEL HIPÓLITO
LUCAS SOI
"SPRING RAPE" IS BOTH A CELEBRATION AND AN EXPLORATION ON THE THEME OF SPRING, WITH ITS PARTICULAR POWER TO TRANSFORM NATURAL PHENOMENA SUCH AS THE COLOR PALETTE CHANGES IT FORCES UPON VISUAL REALITY AS WELL AS ITS FASCINATING POWER TO STIMULATE AND IMPROVE PENILE ACTIVITY.
http://preteengallery.net/
Sunday, March 28, 2010
MEETING NAUFUS RAMIREZ FIGUEROA AT 'CANTINA TIO PEPE' IN MEXICO CITY'S CENTRE
Naufus Ramirez Figueroa
cantina Tio Pepe
tattoo on Naufus' arm of his uncle, guerrilla combatant killed publicly during the civil war in Guatemala, and which prompted the exile of his family to Canada as political refugees when Naufus was seven.
Yesterday, I finally met for the first time, Guatemalan/Canadian performance artist Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa, who has recently relocated to Mexico City from Vancouver. I knew of his practice from 2004, when i was introduced to it by Costa Rican artist Federico Herrero (who told me about a performance Naufus had made where he played sexually with a carrot while listening to his father sing Mariachi music), and in 2007 I recommended him to AA Bronson for his exhibition 'School for Young Shamans' in NY.
Yesterday we met to discuss his participation in the exhibition I'm curating next month in Guatemala 'Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, Yucatan and elsewhere', which is loosely based on the travels in the area of Stephens and Catherwood in 1841 and of Robert Smithson in 1969.
We had some Victoria beers at cantina Tio Pepe in the corner of Dolores and Independencia (Pain and Independence!) in Mexico City's Alameda neighbourhood in the city's centre. Tio Pepe remains one of my favourite cantina's in the centre, and which happily hasn't disappeared or been renovated, like many other traditional cantina's which are not there anymore.
You can see more of Naufus work in his website http://www.naufus.com/
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
A VISIT TO MUAC (MUSEO UNIVERSITARIO DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEO) IN MEXICO CITY
A Felix Gonzalez Torres retrospective (very poetical, not very political or very sexual)
A Dan Graham mini pavilion/sculpture
a Gabriel Orozco hanging broom and hanging stuff from 2003
a sculpture from around 2002 by Thomas Glassford (an interesting artist quite unrecognized outside of Mexico)
Pablo Vargas Lugo's marble dust and pigments mandala, 2007 (another interesting artist unrecognized outside of Mexico and Peru, where he now lives)
Erick Beltran's printworks, from 2004
Mario Garcia Torres, 'Notes on the beginning of the end of video art', 2008, on artists apparitions on TV
Miguel Calderon's, 'Resistol 5000', 2003, self sustained can of sniffing glue
an early Stefan Bruggemann (Thoughts are Products and No Programme), 2002
and my favourite piece in the exhibition, Melanie Smith's 'Green Lush (Subtropicana Jungle Mix I)', from 1999
artist Melanie Smith, MUAC curator Patricia Sloane and film director Agnes Varda
I finally made it to the MUAC, the new museum of contemporary art in the National University of Mexico City which opened a bit more than a year ago. I won't comment much on the architecture, but it's quite disappointing that the building had to be designed by Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon and not by an architect of a younger generation. Born in 1926, Mr de Leon, who worked for Le Corbusier in 1947, has been the grand, official, monumental, and national architect of Mexico for at least the last four decades. He also designed the fantastic and brutalist Rufino Tamayo Museum in an abstract aztec modernist style in 1981.
With an eclectic collection of national and international art, many of it in loan from private collections (including the amazing Charpenel collection), what is interesting of MUAC is that there's finally in Mexico City a place which is not a private collection or a commercial gallery where it's possible to see contemporary art produced in Mexico since 1957 on a permanent basis. It has also hosted important exhibitions including Cildo Mireles retrospective (which was also seen at MACBA and Tate). The 'independence' of the museum, because of it being part of the University, might also become an alternative to Mexico City's other museums which are financed directly by the government's Ministry of Culture. It also has a great curatorial team, which includes Guillermo Santamarina and Patricia Sloane (pioneers of contemporary art curating in Mexico). Olivier Debroise was also part of the team, but he sadly died almost two years ago. Beyond any criticism, what might be interesting of MUAC, as french curator Corinne Diserens told me of her visit to the museum last November, is that the Museum feels alive, and this thanks to the big number of curious visitors wanting to experience the experience of contemporary art.
visit Muac's complicated to navigate website:
http://www.muac.unam.mx
McNulty's Bier Markt
Bier Markt's To-Die-For Pomme Frites
So, this months restaurant is McNulty's Bier Markt located on
1948 West 25th Street Cleveland, Ohio, 44113
right across from the West Side Market
They are open 365 days out of the year, have an AMAZING beer and wine list and the food is absolutely divine! This is truely one of my all time favorite restaurants. Whether I'm in the mood to get in and get out or stay and chat with friends, the service is always phenomenal... and nice to look at ;) They also have a great happy hour, usually $3 beers and $5 food items, but if you are going to eat, you must try the Pomme Frites. These Belgian fries are cooked with Rosemary and Galic, served up with 3 different kinds of mayo and ketchup and are just sensational!
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