Press Release - Alfredo De Stefano: |
Daniel Azoulay Gallery is pleased to present Alfredo De Stefano: NEW WORK
“BRIEF CHRONICLE OF LIGH “
Exhibition: March, 25th to April 27th 2005 Tuesday to Friday 11Am to 4Pm
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Fisher Island Fl 33109
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The Heirs of Frida and Diego
Modern Mexican Art Assumes a Worldly Air By Jessica Dawson
Special to The Washington Post
They're calling the exhibition "Mexican Report: Contemporary Art From Mexico." But if you expect that title to explain this show, think again.
See, the expansive show of Mexican painting, video, sculpture and photography that opened last weekend in three District venues -- Curator's Office Micro Gallery, the Cultural Institute of Mexico and Meridian International Center -- offers none of that Day of the Dead bleeding-heart schmaltz the tourists pick up. (Okay, there's one robed skeleton canvas here, a single instance out of over 100 works, so I'm letting it slide.) Instead, the show tunes in to the amorphous, borderless international art world, terrain marked by far-flung fairs and biennials where artists from just about everywhere present work indebted to a host of isms -- most often conceptualism and minimalism. Their art has more to do with the art that came before it than with politics or statehood.