Asesinos
Artemio, Ruben Gutierrez, Ximena Labra, Mark Powell, Joaquin Segura, Marion Sosa
Curated by Yautepec Gallery
Live With Animals Gallery
210 Kent Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11211
11 Dec 2009 - 15 Jan 2010
Opening Reception
11 Dec 2009 - 7pm - 10pm
Mexico City's Yautepec Gallery is excited to announce the concluding half of its cross-border gallery swap with Brooklyn's Live With Animals Gallery, building on the success of their initial Mexico City collaboration in August with artists from Live With Animals and Secret Project Robot.
On Friday, December 11th, Yautepec and Live With Animals will inaugurate a show entitled Asesinos — a provocative (and often disturbing) exploration of violence from several uniquely Mexican perspectives. Featuring the artists Artemio, Ruben Gutierrez, Ximena Labra, Mark Powell, Joaquin Segura, and Marion Sosa, Asesinos is an attempt to frame the complex and pervasive nature of violence within a contemporary Mexican society that appears to be increasingly defined by it.
From the systemic to the intimate, Asesinos presents violence in Mexico in a manner that is equally magnifying glass and mirror, a combination meant to compel a US audience to rethink its own distance and insulation from the trouble brewing down South.
La galería Yautepec (México, DF) se enorgullece en presentar la segunda mitad del intercambio de espacios con la galería Live With Animals (Brooklyn, NY), basándose en el éxito de su colaboración inicial llevada a cabo en el mes de agosto en la Ciudad de México con los artistas de artistas Live With Animals y Secret Project Robot.
El viernes 11 de diciembre, Yautepec y Live With Animals inauguran la exposición titulada Asesinos — una provocadora (y a menudo terrorífica) exploración sobre la violencia proveniente de varias perspectivas característicamente mexicanas. Con la participación de los artistas Artemio, Rubén Gutiérrez, Ximena Labra, Mark Powell, Joaquín Segura, y Marion Sosa, Asesinos intenta enmarcar la compleja y penetrante naturaleza de la violencia dentro de la sociedad mexicana contemporánea misma que parece definirla cada vez más.
Desde lo sistemático hasta lo íntimo, Asesinos presenta la violencia en México de la misma forma con la que se ve a través de una lupa y un espejo, una combinación que obliga al público estadounidense a replantear su propia distancia y aislamiento de los problemas que acontecen en el Sur del continente.
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