Kassel: Frontier, an exhibition by Mexican artist Teresa Margolles (Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico, 1963), will remain open thru Feb. 20, 2011 at the city’s Kunsthalle Fridericianum.
El Museion, Bolzano, Italy, a collaborator with the exhibition project (curated by Rein Wolfs), will host the exposition from May 27 thru Aug. 21, 2011.
In Frontier, Margolles retakes the key topics of her work and the use of unconventional materials to delve into the environment of her country of both origin and residence: violence, death and drugs.
During the 53rd edition of the Venice Biennial, for instance, her exhibition entitled What Else Could We Talk About? was a major success. In it she used murder wastes: pieces of blood-drenched cloth embroidered with drug-related messages and jewelry made with shattered windshields that had been riddled with bullets. (See more in Art by Excelencias, Tues. July 7, 2009, issue 27).
Margolles studies forensic medicine and communication sciences in Mexico D.F. and cut her artistic teeth at the Regional Culture Development Division in the state of Sinaloa. Some of her most controversial works are Portable Grave, consisting of a concrete block with a human fetus trapped inside, or Vaporization (at New York’s MOMA) in which the artist vaporized a hall with water used for rinsing dead bodies in forensic quarters.
The connotation and trappings of this artist’s work have had ripple effects in the pages of our Art by Excelencias magazine (“Teresa Margolles: Death is Beautiful”, Year II, No. 6, 2010, pages 76-84), penned by Cuban critic Elvia Rosa Castro who, among many other influences, highlighted that “Teresa Margolles’ work is beautifully lodged halfway between symbolism and allegory. Her work does not convey meanings, but it rather speaks: the evoker and the evoked are nearly the same.” (page 82)
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Universes in Universe - Mundos del Arte: http://universes-in-universe.org
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