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Melanie Smith : farsa y artificio = farce and artifice

Title
Melanie Smith : farsa y artificio = farce and artifice / curaduría, Tanya Barson, Alejandra Labastida ; textos, José Luis Barrios, Alejandra Labastida, Cuauhtémoc Medina.
Publication
Ciudad de México : MUAC, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, UNAM ; Puebla, Pue. México : Museo Amparo, 2019.

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Additional Authors
  • Barson, Tanya
  • Labastida, Alejandra
  • Labastida, Alejandra
  • Barrios, José Luis
  • Medina, Cuauhtémoc
  • Smith, Melanie, 1965-
  • Museu d'Art Contemporani (Barcelona, Spain), host institution
  • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, host institution, issuing body
  • Museo Amparo (Puebla, Mexico), host institution, issuing body
Description
143 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 22 cm.
Summary
Since the 1980s, Melanie Smith (United Kingdom, 1965) has addressed a number of interrelated themes encompassing the effects and the detritus of industrialization, the economy and the aesthetics of abstraction, urbanization, colonialism and, more recently, nature and entropy, through a blurring and blending of the logics of the worlds of the image, cinema, and performance. The exhibition was developed by the Museu dœArt Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) and takes in all the media used by the artist, from her first sculptures, assemblages, relief works and paintings up to her works in video, photography and installation. The version shown at the MUAC and Museo Amparo focuses on the driving forces behind her more recent works, which have seen her experimenting with her own gaze as an artist or producer of images in terms of time-space. In her most recent creations, Smith works with distance rooted in a physical perspective, taking journeys to the Amazon jungle or the Atacama desert in Fordlandia and María Elena, as well as the anti-voyage of Skype. She also addresses this theme from a formal, technological perspective using security cameras or other mechanisms to distance her from the position of authorial control. The works shown in this exhibition appear in two cities simultaneously: Puebla and Mexico City. The project is not conceived as two parallel shows, but one single one. To achieve this sense of simultaneity, a system of crossed gazes and references between the works is employed, with peepholes that enable viewers to see live what is happening in the other venue. In this way, a dialogue is established between the two museums and between different moments in the artistic career of Melanie Smith.
Series Statement
MUAC ; 078
Uniform Title
  • Melanie Smith.
  • Melanie Smith. English.
  • Folio MUAC ; 078.
Alternative Title
  • Farsa y artificio
  • Farce and artifice
Subject
  • Smith, Melanie, 1965- > Exhibitions
  • Smith, Melanie, 1965-
  • Installations (Art) > Mexico > Exhibitions
  • Installations (Art)
  • Mexico
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • "Published on occasion of the exhibition Melanie Smith: Farse and Artifice, first exhibited in the MACBA, Museu d'Art Contemporani (May 18 to October 7, 2018), and in the MUAC, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México (May 25 to October 6, 2019), and the Museo Amparo, Puebla (May 25 to October 7, 2019)."--Facing Title Page.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  • Texts in Spanish and English.
Contents
Los síntomas de la turbulencia, o si te asomas por el vórtice veras la ciudad espiral = The symptoms of turbulence, or if you peer into the vortex you'll see the spiral city / Alejandra Labastida -- Melanie Smith: farsa y artificio. Cuando el humor perfora lo imaginario = Melanie Smith: farce and artifice. When humor pierces the imaginary / José Luis Barrios -- Producir la falla. Una conversación con Melanie Smith = Producing the flaw. A conversation with Melanie Smith / Cuauhtémoc Medina -- Semblanza = Biographical Sketch -- Catálogo = Catalogue.
Call Number
ReCAP 21-99857
ISBN
  • 9786073019538
  • 607301953X
  • 9788417975081
  • 841797508X
LCCN
2019447681
OCLC
1121105884
Title
Melanie Smith : farsa y artificio = farce and artifice / curaduría, Tanya Barson, Alejandra Labastida ; textos, José Luis Barrios, Alejandra Labastida, Cuauhtémoc Medina.
Publisher
Ciudad de México : MUAC, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, UNAM ; Puebla, Pue. México : Museo Amparo, 2019.
Edition
Primera edición.
Type of Content
still image
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
MUAC ; 078
Folio MUAC ; 078.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Language
Texts in Spanish and English.
Added Author
Barson, Tanya, organizer.
Labastida, Alejandra, organizer.
Labastida, Alejandra. Síntomas de la turbulencia.
Barrios, José Luis. Melanie Smith.
Medina, Cuauhtémoc. Producir la falla.
Smith, Melanie, 1965- Works. Selections (2019)
Museu d'Art Contemporani (Barcelona, Spain), host institution.
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, host institution, issuing body.
Museo Amparo (Puebla, Mexico), host institution, issuing body.
Added Title
Melanie Smith.
Melanie Smith. English.
Research Call Number
ReCAP 21-99857
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