February 23, 2007
Art Exhibit: THE DISAPPEARED (LOS DESAPARECIDOS)
(The)...artists whose work is represented in the exhibition are Marcelo Brodsky , Luis Camnitzer , Arturo Duclos , Juan Manuel Echavarría , Antonio Frasconi , Nicolás Guagnini , Nelson Leirner, Sara Maneiro , Cildo Meireles , Oscar Muñoz , Ivan Navarro , Luis González Palma , Ana Tiscornia and Fernando Traverso . Also included is a collaborative installation Identity/Identidad by a collective of 13 Argentinean artists.
The range of visual languages -- drawings, prints, photographs, installations and mixed media -- incorporated in The Disappeared (Los Desaparecidos) frequently employs similar forms to evoke the presence of the missing person or persons. Bodies, faces, personal possessions and names, often methodically compiled and arranged, appear both boldly and subtly throughout the work in the exhibition. “Through their intense visual and emotional impact, these works communicate the unspeakable and reveal the artist’s assumed role of social responsibility towards ending the silence surrounding these extreme cases of human rights violations,” says Julián Zugazagoitia, Director of El Museo del Barrio.
photos and links to exhibiting artists: http://www.ndmoa.com/PastEx/Disappeared/index.html
El El Museo del Barrio: http://www.elmuseo.org/exhib.html
~How many years will pass before America's detainees in our War on Terror get their North Dakota and NY art exhibit? Which American artists might be asked to submit work? With (Muslim) artists from the detainees' countries?
>Amnesty USA reports http://www.amnestyusa.org/regions/americas/reports.do
Posted by Stubbornson at February 23, 2007 06:35 AM