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ARTE: LIFE, DEATH AND TRANSFORMATION IN THE AMERICAS AT THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM

Posted by LATINO EVENTS Y TESPIS MAGAZINE on Thursday, August 8, 2013 , under , , , , , , , | comments (0)





Coclé artist. Plaque with Crocodile Deity, circa 700–900. Sitio Conte, Coclé Province, Panama. Gold, 9 x 8 1/2 in. (22.9 x 21.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1931, Museum Collection Fund, 33.448.12
Life, Death, and Transformation in the Americas presents over one hundred masterpieces from the Museum’s permanent Arts of the Americas collection, exemplifying the concept of transformation as part of the spiritual beliefs and practice of the region's indigenous peoples, past and present. Themes of life, death, fertility, and regeneration are explored through pre-Columbian and historical artworks, including many pieces that are rarely on display. Highlights include the Huastec Life-Death Figure, the Kwakwaka’wakw Thunderbird Transformation Mask, and two eight-foot-tall, nineteenth-century Heiltsuk House Postsmade to support the huge beams of a great Northwest Coast plank house. Other featured objects include Hopi and Zuni kachinas, masks from throughout the Americas, Mexica (Aztec) and Maya sculptures, and ancient Andean textiles including the two-thousand-year-old Paracas Textile, which illustrates the way in which early cultures of Peru’s South Coast envisioned their relationship with nature and the supernatural realm.
* Life, Death, and Transformation in the Americas > Long Term Installation > Brooklyn Museum > Americas.


Raw/Cooked: Marela Zacarias en el Brooklyn Museum

Posted by LATINO EVENTS Y TESPIS MAGAZINE on Tuesday, April 23, 2013 , under , , , , , , , , , | comments (0)




El Museo de Brooklyn presenta a la artista Marela Zacarias en la segunda temporada de Raw/Cooked. La artista, de origen mexicano y residenciada en Brooklyn, ha creado 4 esculturas inspiradas en los murales de Williamsburg uniendo así su interés en las formas abstractas, la historia de los objetos y la renovación urbana. La muestra cierra este 28 de Abril.


The second season of Raw/Cooked presents a series of four exhibitions by under-the-radar Brooklyn artists who have been invited by the Brooklyn Museum with support from Bloomberg to show their first major museum exhibitions. The artists are given the opportunity to work with the Museum’s collection and to display in spaces of their choosing, however unconventional.
The four artists in the series were recommended by an advisory board of well-known Brooklyn artists, including Michael Joo, Paul Ramírez Jonas, Amy Sillman, and Mickalene Thomas, each of whom proposed several promising artists. Brooklyn Museum curator Eugenie Tsai made the final selections.
The seventh exhibition in the Raw/Cooked series, titledSupple Beat, presents the work of Gowanus-based artist Marela Zacarias. Recommended by Ramírez Jonas, Zacarias has created four site-specific sculptural works inspired by the Williamsburg Murals, uniting her interests in abstract forms, the history of objects, and urban renewal. Her large-scale pieces appear to be climbing the walls of the Museum’s first-floor lobby and Great Hall, interacting with the architecture as if they were murals come to life. Zacarias draws on the concept of resilience implied by the Williamsburg Murals and explores the idea of bouncing back from adversity, relating to the history of the public housing project for which the murals were commissioned and the history of the works themselves. She constructs her unique sculptural forms from window screens and joint compound, which she then paints with original patterns. In Supple Beat, Zacarias’s patterns are inspired by the related murals’ unique color palettes and geometric forms. Born and raised in Mexico City, Zacarias has painted more than thirty large-scale public murals. She holds an MFA from Hunter College.
Foto: Marela Zacarias at work on 163–213 Manhattan. Photo courtesy of Pierce Jackson, 2013

* Raw/Cooked: Marela Zacarias > Brooklyn Museum > Hasta Abril 28 > Zacarias.