- Editorial:
- CANTOR FITZGERALD GALLERY
- Año de edición:
- 2015
- ISBN:
- 978-0-9906110-2-8
- Páginas:
- 143
ARQUEOLOGIAS DE DESTRUCCION 1958-2014
VARIOS
"Economic turmoil, technologies of violence, and militaristic regimes dominated Latin American politics and society during the 1950s and '60s. In this context, a constellation of artists sought to neutralize the potential horror of such change by displacing destruction into the symbolic realm of art, seeking ritualistic experiences of mediated transformation. "Destruction is, for the artist, the supreme order of freedom," wrote Argentine poet and art critic Aldo Pellegrini in his 1961 manifesto. This exhibition traces the archaeological remnants and histories of this movement as they continue to reverberate in our present"--Exhibition website.