Bumpy and uneven blind self portrait chewing a blue corn taco at Elena Álvarez-Buylla Roces's house,...and against State's terrorism as much as possible

_{Bumpy and uneven blind self portrait chewing a blue corn taco at Elena Álvarez-Buylla Roces's house, discussing how to involve young peers in a more elaborate participation in art and science projects at C3 in the university, listening to "Love Ain't Nothing (but a monkey on your back)", with the soft velvety voice of Johnny Nash, still pretending to understand what happened -and why- to the 43 missing students in Guerrero after watching 'Ayotzinapa: el paso de la tortuga', an event that feels like a blank page to be written urgently, so to uncover vices and obstacles for justice and against State's terrorism as much as possible}

Abraham Cruzvillegas

2018
Acrylic paint on paper, 140 elements
Variable dimensions
Winsing Arts Collection

Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris. Photo : Sebastiano Pellion di Persano

Bumpy and uneven blind self portrait chewing a blue corn taco at Elena Álvarez-Buylla Roces's house,...and against State's terrorism as much as possible

Abraham Cruzvillegas

2018
Acrylic paint on paper, 140 elements
Variable dimensions
Winsing Arts Collection

Often arranged in grid-like squares, the works in this series represent chaotic patterns of growth, similar to an overhead view of a city or a patchwork of industrialized farmland. They are made up of paper objects collected by Cruzvillegas in specific locations: napkins, envelopes, images, newspaper and magazine articles, receipts, and so on. The word "portrait" in the title of this series signifies the artist's own experience, depicting his life at a certain time. The artist once said, "The most important thing for me is to make work independent of my biography; even when the prime matter of it is my own experience, thoughts, and practice. It must be autonomous and free." which is representative of the notion of "masking." His works are often painted in a single color or alternately in two colors.

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Artist Biography

Abraham Cruzvillegas

Cruzvillegas has recently held solo exhibitions at the Les Tanneries Contemporary Art Center, France; the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach; the Aspen Art Museum; and the Kunsthaus Zürich; and in 2015, commissioned by Tate Modern, London, he showcased "Empty Lot" at the inaugural Hyundai Commission. His artworks have been on display at many major art establishments, including the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, the National Museum of 21st Century Art in Rome, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Jewish Museum in New York; he has participated in the Venice Biennale, the São Paulo Biennale, the Kassel Documenta, the Biennale of Sydney, the Sharjah Biennial, the Gwangju Biennale and the Havana Biennial. Cruzvillegas' pieces have been housed by many prestigious art institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; M+, Hong Kong; Tate Modern, London; the Walker Art Center, etc. He was awarded the 5th South Korean Yanghyun Prize in 2012. He currently lives and works in Paris, France.

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