28 May 2011 to 23 July 2011
Tues - Fri 10 - 15; 16 - 19 hs. Sat: 10 - 14 hs
Galeria OMR
Plaza Rio de Janeiro 54
Colonia Roma
D.F. 06700
Mexico City
Mexico
Central America
p: +52 52071080
m: +52 (1) 7283903
f: +52 55334244
w: www.galeriaomr.com
Garcia-Alix’s work has always been intimately linked to his personal life experience, crudely rendering a marginalized society through a magnificent photographic eye for portraits and composition. The play on light, shadow and texture denounces a social contrast, in which he defies himself as a photographer by playing both the narrator and protagonist, thus turning the spectator into a witness, even a Voyeur, of scenes that question social taboos of the body, sexuality, and drug consumption. The artist then acts as a collector of subjects, lifes and situations, that allow him to establish a discourse that transcends time and defined a generation. Garcia-Alix is one of the biggest names in contemporary European photography. With countless exhibitions since 1981, among them an important retrospective titled De donde no se vuelve in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid in 2008. A film that carries the same title will be projected on Thursday the 2nd of June at the Centro Cultural de España, Mexico City, at 7 pm. We thank the support of the Spanish Embassy in Mexico and the Centro Cultural de España.
Lie Cheat Steal Arturo Vega
May 28 - July 23 / 2011
El52 presents for the first time after 30 years of production, the artistic work of the legendary music promoter, Arturo Vega. Born in Chihuahua, Mexico, from before the time of color TV, and resident of New York City since the 70’s, his work is influenced by his own life, Rock and Punk.Arturo Vega was, for 22 years, the manager, artistic director, guardian and very close friend to the Ramones, creating not only their logo which later came to be the flag for the punk movement, but also many of their album covers and stage designs. Parallel to this historical music genre that transformed from the fashion to the attitude of its followers, Vega produced a solid body of work that includes paintings using a series of images taken from various media publications as well as fragments of the band lyrics, resulting in pieces that are both mystical and insulting.
Regardless of his strong belief in the revolutionary force of music that is able to provoke changes in society, in his visual works he is also influenced by the North American pop art. He makes a critique of the human necessity to form a part of capitalist systems, without really considering its consequences. There is something rebellious and seductive in Arturo Vega’s work that defies the social norms, causing people to question ideals and conformities through music, life and art.
Galería OMR Plaza Río de Janeiro 54, Colonia Roma. México 06700 D.F. T: 5525 3095 / [email protected]
