Hersúa, Ambiente rectangular (maqueta), 1973

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Acrylic on cardboard

13.1 x 17.4 x 16.5 in
33.3 x 44 x 42 cm

The artist's process also entails the consideration of the audience, environment, and culture in which audience members will experience the work. The artist states, 'I work for others, as I...

The artist's process also entails the consideration of the audience, environment, and culture in which audience members will experience the work. The artist states, "I work for others, as I work for myself, but my idea is that the work gets a reaction from the viewer because every work has something about us, but also something that modifies us, something new."
Hersúa implemented a very original interaction between the spectator, geometry, perception of space and color in monumental sculptures such as "Ambiente circular" and "Ambiente rectangular" both from 1973, and of which Ruiz-Healy Art exhibits the original models, works that echo the “theatricality” of minimalism, whose literalness broke the line between reality and art, a criticism raised by Michael Fried in his seminal essay, "Art and objecthood," 1967

Exhibitions

Maquete for Hersua's “Ambientes urbanos,” an exhibition at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, 1974

The Age of Discrepancies. Art and Visual Culture in Mexico 1968-1997 / La era de la discrepancia. Arte and cultura visual en México 1968-1997.

Literature

Juan Acha, “El geometrismo mexicano,” Vuelta, vol. 1, no. 3 (February 1977), pp. 55-6.

Juan Acha, Hersúa. Obras/Escultura/Persona/Sociedad, Mexico City, UNAM, 1983, p. 50, 61-72

Raquel Tibol, “Urbanismo encajonado: Proposiciones de Hersua en Bellas Artes,” Magazine de Excélsior (February 24, 1974), p. 13 and 14, illustrated

Mathias Goeritz, presentation in Hersúa, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, 1977.

Publications

Debroise Olivier, Medina Cuauhtémoc, et al. La Era De La Discrepancia : Arte Y Cultura Visual En México 1968-1997 = the Age of Discrepancies : Art and Visual Culture in Mexico 1968-1997, Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México : Turner, 2007.

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