Andre Mesquita on Tue, 31 May 2022 22:11:07 +0200 (CEST)


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Re: <nettime> "graphic turn" exhibition

Dear Brian

Thank you very much for your message! Sorry, I lost your message in my mailbox and I arrived a few days from Madrid after the exhibition was set up and opened. We are very happy with this project! It's nice that you mention Perder la forma humana, as I was one of the curators with Ana Longoni, Fernana Carvajal, Mabel Tapia and other researchers of our "Red". The catalog you mention can be downloaded here (a bilingual version in Spanish and English): https://redcsur.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Libro-PLFH-ing-esp_FINAL.pdf

After "Perder la forma" project, Ana and I started working together on Graphic Turn. This exhibition has a focus on actions of the present, although we have included several historical cases such as the graphics produced by students of Fine Arts in Montevideo between the 60s and 70s, a stupendous room in the exhibition set up as a timeline with the political graphic in Nicaragua after the Sandinista revolution in 1979 to the present time; and the embroidery that forms a set of testimonies made by Salvadoran women during the armed conflict (1980-1992) -  after decades of military dictatorships, operations in rural areas multiplied, causing the displacement of thousands of families who sought refuge in the camps in neighboring Honduras, protected by the United Nations.

And there are more recent and urgent cases that we included in the exhibition and after a long research, such as graphic actions, embroidery and interventions in memory of the 43 students of Ayotzinapa, a lot of material from collectives  and artists in Chile, Cuba, Peru, Argentina, Brazil after the 2016 coup against Dilma Rousselff , many episodes of graphic and social experiments of solidarity between different movements and migrant experiences, such as the Co-op La voz de la mujer in Buenos Aires (https://www.instagram.com/grafica_lavozdelamujer/) or the Zapantera Negra project, with Emory Douglas' encounters with Zapatista communities in San Cristobal de Las Casas ( there is a fabulous installation in the exhibition with many of these materials). There is a small part of the exhibition that will sound very familiar to you, because it is dedicated to counter-cartographies of groups such as Grupo de Arte Callejero, Bureau d'Etudes, Iconoclasistas, Redretro....

After Madrid, the exhibition will travel to MUAC, Mexico, in November and will stay until July of next year. Hope you can visit!

Here are some links to recent texts that came out about the exhibition, as well as a video that the museum recently published. If you want I can send you pictures later!

Madrid show explores graphic art’s role as tool of resistance in Latin America

‘Giro gráfico’: el museo ‘pa’ la calle’

Bordados, murales y pegatinas para cambiar el mundo: la creatividad colectiva más militante llega al Reina Sofía

A video of the exhibition

All the best
André

Em seg., 16 de mai. de 2022 às 03:26, Brian Holmes <bhcontinentaldrift@gmail.com> escreveu:
Andre, what great news!

An earlier exhibition by your network (which everyone just calls "the Red", ha ha, how perfect in English) came under the title Perder la forma humana (To Lose Human Form). It was an astonishing exhibition, which depended on recreating many works from archival traces, and which revealed how the formation of subcultures (sexual especially) took place in Latin America in the Eighties, often during the gradual decline of dictatorships. That was a great show, and anyone who's curious can find a catalog pdf out there somewhere I reckon. 

What is the undercurrent of this new exhibition? I mean, what did you discover? 

I managed to catch Perder la forma humana in Buenos Aires, what luck. Will this one travel? BA again maybe? Somewhere in US?

All the best, Brian 


On Sun, May 15, 2022, 15:48 Andre Mesquita <andrelmesquita@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Nettimers, 

I'm very happy to announce we are opening this week the exhibition "Graphic Turn: Like the Ivy on the Wall" at the Reina Sofia museum, a project by Red Conceptualismos del Sur.

I am sending here the link with more information about the exhibition and English, and I am sure that many of you will be interested in the project. 

And here is the folder in Spanish (it will be published in English soon): https://www.museoreinasofia.es/sites/default/files/exposiciones/folletos/folleto_giro_grafico.pdf

I hope you can visit If you are in Madrid!

Best
André


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