The Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
The Consulate General of Mexico in El Paso, and
The El Paso Museum of Art announce EMILIO SAID: UNREAL CITIES
November 8, 2009 -January 10, 2010
Please join us on Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 2:00 pm for the public opening of Emilio Said: Unreal Cities. This exhibition is free to the public.
Emilio Said: Unreal Cities consists of twenty-two formal abstractions. The works are created in different media, including painting, photography, blueprints, and charts. These generate visual fields that create a different meaning of the surrounding space, matching the preconceived notions of the pictorial space, and transforming them into a metropolis which in turn becomes its own abstraction.
EMILIO SAID:
Born in Mexico City in 1970, Mr. Said presently lives and works there. He is a member of the National System of Creators and has previously been an artist in residence in Vienna, Austria. Mr. Said’s work is exhibited in private collections and museums internationally.
Emilio Said
CONTEXTUAL/ZONE/ZONA CONTEXTUAL, 2007
Oil, photo and polyester on wood
Courtesy of the artis and the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs
For more information please call (915) 532-1707
This exhibition is made possible by the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Consulate General of Mexico in El Paso, the El Paso Museum of Art, Museums and Cultural Affairs Department, and the City of El Paso.
Microscopias October 18, 2009 – January 10, 2010
David Alfaro Siqueiros Explosion en la ciudad (Explosion in the City), 1945
Piroxilina on pressed board
1628 x 1922 Museo de Arte Carrillo Gill CONACULTA-INBA collection
Admission to the exhibition is $5 per non member. EPMA members are free.
Microscopias investigates the relationships of abstract languages with specific forms found in microbiology and human anatomy as developed by Dr. Alvar Carillo-Gil at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City in 1963. All artworks are from the Museo de Arte Carrillo-Gil CONACULTA - INBA collection and include David Alfaro Siqueiros, Franz Kupka, Pierre Soulages, Sophie Tauber Arp, Nelly and Theo Van Doesburg, Jean Arp, Sonia Delaunay, Wolfgang Paalen, Zhao Wouki, Stanley Hayter and Gunther Gerzso.
The exhibition is curated by Alberto Gonzalez Torres, Museo de Arte Carrillo-Gil CONACULTA-INBA.
This exhibition is supported with funds from the El Paso Museum of Art members, Museums and Cultural Affairs Department, the City of El Paso and the County of El Paso.
The El Paso Museum of Art announces La Virgen De Guadalupe September 13, 2009 – March 7, 2010
Anonymous (Mexico, 19th C)
Our Lady of Guadalupe (19th C)
Oil on tin
Gift of Dr. Steven McKnight in honor of Frank and Sara McKnight
La Virgen De Guadalupe
This exhibition features 14 retablos from EPMA’s permanent collection and explores the popularity of the Virgin of Guadalupe as a major religious and cultural icon in Mexican and Mexican American culture. The retablos are the gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Dorrance D. Roderick, Dr. Steven McKnight in honor of Frank and Sara McKnight, and Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Miller.
Our Lady of Guadalupe – Background
The Virgin of Guadalupe is the most popular and well known of all Mexican images. Since the 19th century, she has become a symbol of national identity for the Mexican people. The patron saint of curing illness, the Virgin of Guadalupe is a hybrid of both indigenous and Spanish iconography. Elements such as a dark complexion, the blue mantle dotted with golden stars and the mandorla (golden sun rays) are appropriated from indigenous iconography. The subject matter however, is from the Catholic Church. The image of the Virgin of Guadalupe was used by the Church for the conversion of the indigenous folk to Catholicism.
According to legend, in a vision, the Virgin visited an Indian, Juan Diego, on the hill of Tepeyac, near Mexico City. In her honor, the Virgin requested that a be church built on the site where she visited Diego, however the bishop was in disbelief. Only when the Virgin gave Diego a cloak with out of season roses and the Virgin’s image miraculously imprinted, did the bishop believe.
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The El Paso Museum of Art announces Liz Cohen: The Builder and the Bikini September 17 – December 6, 2009
Liz Cohen
Model
Hood, 2005
Archival pigment print
Compliments of the artist
The exhibition includes color photographs of Cohen posing as a bikini model with her low-rider, Trabant-a-mino that the artist built from an East German Trabant and a Chevrolet El Camino.
LIZ COHEN
American, born 1973
Lives and works in Detroit, Michigan and Phoenix, Arizona
The El Paso Museum of Art announces James Drake August 23, 2009 – August 23, 2011
James Drake
An internationally acclaimed artist whose work has been honored with inclusion in both the Venice Biennale and the Whitney Biennial, James Drake has explored political, social and universal themes through the media of sculpture, video, installation, photography and drawing. A prominent subject in Drake’s work is the relationship of people and animals – in particular, the animality that lurks in human behavior.
James Drake’s work is in the permanent collection of over thirty museums, including the El Paso Museum of Art. He has had over sixty one-person shows and has been invited to participate in more than one hundred group exhibitions. Drake is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and two National Endowments for the Arts grants.
