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Etienne Chambaud “The Naked Parrot” at Labor, Mexico City

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Etienne Chambaud, The Naked Parrot, 2013. Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Labor, Mexico City

Etienne Chambaud
The Naked Parrot
9 April – 1 June 2013
at Labor, Mexico City

The Naked Parrot, the first addressee of the eponymous exhibition at Labor, is a modern chimera, a being fully constructed from the outside. Here this construction is not based on mythological grounds or scales, but on the very process of creation of figures that we inherited from modern machines such as the zoo and the museum. Domestication and conservation are indeed stitching techniques that endlessly attempt to heal the wound of the cuts their very existences are based on. The Naked Parrot is thus an assemblage of exogenous intentions collapsing on their sutured understandings and misunderstandings: the idea of a human talking animal in a falling pigeonhole.
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Carlos Amorales “Germinal” at Museo Tamayo, Mexico City

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Carlos Amorales, Amsterdam, 2013. Video still. Courtesy the artist and kurimanzutto, Mexico City

Carlos Amorales
Germinal
21 March – 21 June 2013
at Museo Tamayo, Mexico City

This exhibition presents a new stage in the work of Carlos Amorales, which departs from the creation of a new language. It is originated in the condensation and fragmentation of the images part of his Liquid Archive.
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Jose Luis Rojas “The Semblanze of Control” at Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City


Image courtesy the artist and Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City © Jose Luis Rojas

Jose Luis Rojas
The Semblanze of Control
28 November 2012 – 24 February 2013
at Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City

With an ironic approach towards the many moods that are consumed in the globalized world, The Semblanze of Control is an exhibition that gathers sculptures by Mexican artist Jose Luis Rojas. Composed of boxes of medicine, needles, syringes, cigarette butts and debris, the works show a fascination with miniature objects and a cynical attitude towards the industries of controlled substances and war. Meanwhile, some of the pieces are fragile compositions that point the frantic disposition drug consumption. Rojas playfully exploits the dynamics of terrorism, while approaching the levels of economic, political and cultural fragmentation that lead to the contemporary social tensions.
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Jill Magid “Faust 24” at Labor, Mexico City


Jill Magid, Security Measures: PAY ATTENTION TO WHO IS DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF YOU, 2012. Courtesy the artist and Labor

Jill Magid
Faust 24
17 November 2012 – 12 January 2013
at Labor, Mexico City

Faust 24 evokes an atmosphere of a distressed search, delimited by the dash-cam surveillance recordings of five patrol cars that responded to an emergency call of a school shooter at the University of Texas in late 2010. The perpetrator, a math major named Colton Tooley, wearing a ski mask and armed with an AK47, walked through campus firing shots into the air and ground. Harming no one other than himself, Tooley, ended his route by taking his own life in the Comparative Literature and Poetry section of the Perry-Castañeda Library.
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U.F.O. – NAUT JK (Július Koller) orchestrated by Rirkrit Tiravanija at kurimanzutto, Mexico City



Július Koller, UFO-NAUT J.K. (U.F.O), 1980. Courtesy the artist, kurimanzutto and Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna

U.F.O. – NAUT JK (Július Koller)
orchestrated by Rirkrit Tiravanija
13 November 13 – 15 December 2012
at kurimanzutto, Mexico City

Július Koller, a single figure, invented conceptual tools to make sense (and sometimes nonsense) of life under Communist Czechoslovakia. His Work aims to a consant questioning of the world and the cultural context, oening up possibilities doe a humanistic utopia at unexpected places.

For this exhibition Rirkrit Tiravanija has chosen to reactivate some of the most significant work of Július Koller, such as Universal Futurological Question Mark (UFO), which was oriiginally formed on a hill in 1978 by Koller and a group of kids. Recently, a question mark was formed bby a group of people at the Zócalo in downtown Mxico City to be documented and presented in kurimanzutto [read the full text here]

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