International Pop
In 1960s Pop Art was booming, ideas were being shared through transnational movements generating unprecedented exchange of ideas and processes that would use mass media and circulation to produce what we now know as today images of commodities, popular culture, political imagery, the space races and even fashion. Media was evolving and so was the artistic practices in many artists especially those in Argentina.
While this exhibition is set in 2016 and is a culmination of pieces found during the 1960s, International Pop reflects the zeitgeist and surveys the transcontinental connections by introducing multiple perspectives and exchanges between artists and different countries to broaden the conversation beyond the historical …show more content…
La Menesunda is a 16mm film documentation of what I would call a curatorial/artistic project that was not only performative but audience engaging and interactive that expanded the limits of art. Put together by Marta Minujin and Ruben Santantonin as a collaborative effort. The project consisted of eight site specific installations, in rooms that were each made of different materials, heights, colors and shapes. The work included objects from everyday life and sensorial experiences that related to sight, sound and smell. Part of the piece invited viewers to be explores and then other times they were observers. In the last room La Menesunda, ha a couple to sleeping in bed, actors that were instructed to do as they please even encouraged to have sex. They wanted an element of surprise, and sought to blend art and life together through indistinguishably actions that people weren't sure if they were performance pieces or reality. The title Menesunda, is described to mean—mess, disorder, mayhem. In the piece each room represented characteristics that the artists observed in the city and in contemporary urban culture, described as the “Mayhem of life.” (Alexander …show more content…
The video in International Pop, is only 5 minutes and 20 seconds long, hung high to project in a crowded space and replays on loops in the gallery. It's a piece that many often overlook but for me it was a fragment of a larger event, a time where things were happening, shifting and new ideas such as performance art were just starting to exist. The work is experimental and spoke to larger issues relating to the location, often around subjects about communication. It also so happened to be first installation in the world to include closed circuit televisions and was broadcasted live via camera’s embedded in the walls (Alexander 89.)
La Menesunda, was a project that thought about the use of space and people. It address topics related to the political climate and cultural environment. These artists not only inspired me but had fun with what they were doing and took risk. It was the gestures of these project that on some level infiltrated the basic exhibition experience that we have today but is so much more in their time
In 1960s Pop Art was booming, ideas were being shared through transnational movements generating unprecedented exchange of ideas and processes that would use mass media and circulation to produce what we now know as today images of commodities, popular culture, political imagery, the space races and even fashion. Media was evolving and so was the artistic practices in many artists especially those in Argentina.
While this exhibition is set in 2016 and is a culmination of pieces found during the 1960s, International Pop reflects the zeitgeist and surveys the transcontinental connections by introducing multiple perspectives and exchanges between artists and different countries to broaden the conversation beyond the historical …show more content…
La Menesunda is a 16mm film documentation of what I would call a curatorial/artistic project that was not only performative but audience engaging and interactive that expanded the limits of art. Put together by Marta Minujin and Ruben Santantonin as a collaborative effort. The project consisted of eight site specific installations, in rooms that were each made of different materials, heights, colors and shapes. The work included objects from everyday life and sensorial experiences that related to sight, sound and smell. Part of the piece invited viewers to be explores and then other times they were observers. In the last room La Menesunda, ha a couple to sleeping in bed, actors that were instructed to do as they please even encouraged to have sex. They wanted an element of surprise, and sought to blend art and life together through indistinguishably actions that people weren't sure if they were performance pieces or reality. The title Menesunda, is described to mean—mess, disorder, mayhem. In the piece each room represented characteristics that the artists observed in the city and in contemporary urban culture, described as the “Mayhem of life.” (Alexander …show more content…
The video in International Pop, is only 5 minutes and 20 seconds long, hung high to project in a crowded space and replays on loops in the gallery. It's a piece that many often overlook but for me it was a fragment of a larger event, a time where things were happening, shifting and new ideas such as performance art were just starting to exist. The work is experimental and spoke to larger issues relating to the location, often around subjects about communication. It also so happened to be first installation in the world to include closed circuit televisions and was broadcasted live via camera’s embedded in the walls (Alexander 89.)
La Menesunda, was a project that thought about the use of space and people. It address topics related to the political climate and cultural environment. These artists not only inspired me but had fun with what they were doing and took risk. It was the gestures of these project that on some level infiltrated the basic exhibition experience that we have today but is so much more in their time