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I AM NOT YOUR MEXICAN
SAN ANTONIO, JUNE 7 - SEPTEMBER 9, 2023 -
Ruiz-Healy Art is pleased to present I Am Not Your Mexican, two concurrent group exhibitions, at our San Antonio and New York City galleries.The exhibitions are curated by writer Eduardo Egea and feature artists Jesse Amado, Mathias Goeritz, Hersúa, Willy Kautz-Jippies Asquerosos, Fernando Polidura, and Teresa Serrano. The exhibitions will include historical works by Goeritz, Hersúa, and Serrano.
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INSTALLATION IMAGES BY ABRAHAM AGUILLON ORSAGH
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Eduardo Egea notes, “Western Art built an artistic canon that influenced the rest of the world. Minimalism is one of the Post-War movements whose influence continues; within this movement the artist Eva Hesse created a Post-Minimalism practice that laid the foundation for its expansion. But how have artists from other latitudes dealt with the overwhelming dominance of Western contemporary art? Assimilating and transforming these influences, México has been, for decades, a rich laboratory to subvert Minimalism through Post-Minimalist practices that seek to give meaning to the timeless but rigid Minimalist geometric forms of which this exhibition gives an account.”
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Jesse AmadoTake Out Chicken Fried Steak, 2023Virgin wool felt and acrylic on styrofoam24 x 24 x 4 in
61 x 61 x 10.2 cm -
Jesse AmadoI Am Not Your Mexican: Rhapsody in Blue, Gazing North Beyond the Broken Fence, 2021Le Corbusier acrylic, Chicharrón, felt, and Plexiglas on canvas39.8 x 39.8 x 3 in
101.1 x 101.1 x 7.62 cmThe exhibitions are titled after San Antonio based artist Jesse Amado’s series I Am Not Your Mexican, a title inspired by the writings of James Baldwin and the documentary film I Am Not Your Negro (2016). The film offers a history of the systematic marginalization of Black American historical figures and events through their misrepresentation (or under-representation) in mainstream historical narratives. The title’s reference serves as an entry point to understand art that may at first appear to be highly conceptual or purely abstract. Instead, the I Am Not Your Mexican series compels us to reconsider the art historical canon for the twenty-first century. The series is particularly important for its innovative use of chicharrón (pork rind) or Styrofoam fast food containers, products with both cultural and social-economic commentary.
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Mathias GoeritzMensaje, 1982Mixografía® print on handmade paper, gold leaf25 x 15 in
63.5 x 38.1 cmEdition of 50 plus 5 artist's proofs -
Mathias GoeritzMensaje, After 1959Gilded and pierced sheet metal on wood18.5 x 18.5 in
47 x 47 cm
23.6 x 23.6 x 4 in framedOther works in the exhibition feature the enduring influence of Post-Minimalism in Mexican and Mexican-American artists' works and show how these artists have expanded Post-Minimalism tenets. Using gilded metal Mathias Goeritz endows cryptic Minimalist geometric shapes with spiritual meaning in works like Mensaje forging geometry to a signification.
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HersúaTorii (maqueta), 1999Bronze and acrylic7.13 x 4 x 3.13 in each
18 x 10 x 8 cm -
HERSÚA'S WORK DEVELOPS THE INTERACTION BETWEEN VIEWER AND SCULPTURE WITH GREAT ORIGINALITY AND CREATES A PERSONAL VERSION OF POST-MINIMALISM BY DE-GEOMETRIZING HIS WORK.
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Willy Kautz - Jippies AsquerososQuid Pro Quo, 2018Relief and gold leaf on guarro paper, Museograbado Zacatecas, México15 x 15 x 1.5 in
38.1 x 38.1 x 3.8 cmEdition of 20, 2 A/P, 2 P/P, 2 H/C, 1 BAT (#4/20) Full Set (7 reliefs) -
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"Aletheia is a Greek term that, among its meanings, is translated as Unconceal. The reference to Goeritz’s messages has to do with the expectation that they reveal something to the spectator’s contemplation. In the case of Aletheia, if the viewer manages to decipher the anagram, he finds the word unconceal, that is, nothing more than the word itself is revealed without any message. In this sense, it is a critique of minimalist literalism and also a game with concrete visual poetry."
- WILLY KAUTZ
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Fernando PoliduraTwenty-sixth Adjustment, 2023Vinyl paint, paper, shrink wrap film11.8 x 11 x 1.4 in
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THE SERPENT’S CAUSEWAy
"Physical development is a kind of incremental quota that is initially met with joy until reaching the turning point towards middle adulthood and eventually senescence. First smooth, sumptuous, and moisturized, then folded, dry, and dehydrated, the pieces simulate the maturation of human flesh from birth to old age in a sort of acceleration of events. Suspended in this situation, acceptance becomes a means of the pleasant transition of the physical plane."
- Fernando polidura
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CONSTANZA AND FABRIANO
This series emerged as an imperative action in response to the daily life into which the artist was suddenly immersed during the confinement due to the SARS-COV-2 pandemic. In response to this situation, he developed an equally severe and rigorous exercise in which he embroiders human hair on cotton paper, raw materials provided by the immediacy of his environment. The resulting meticulous works arise from the need to generate a placebo that counters the anxiety and constant desire for control caused by obsessive-compulsive disorder, a particular condition that undermines the artist's integrity and, consequently, that of the work. -
Teresa SerranoInside the Being, 1994Mirror, stainless steel, and mesh21.5 x 14.5 x 21.8 in
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When asked why many of her sketches have dates after the execution of the sculptures they illustrate, Serrano responds that these drawings are often later versions that rethink her already made sculptures, in such a way that they can be seen as projects that "improve" or simply contemplate variations on Serrano's own work that is already materialized.
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I Am Not Your Mexican: San Antonio
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