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2005 - Sculpture (Sculpture)

Abraham Cruzvillegas

location: Mexico
year born: 1968
gender: male
nationality: Mexican
home town: Mexico City, Mexico

Abraham Cruzvillegas is known for his intricate and elaborate sculptures and installations made from found and scavenged materials. He often fashions useful objects out of repurposed parts and urban detritus. Cruzvillegas is inspired by the resourcefulness he has witnessed in impoverished rural and urban areas, where people build houses and necessary objects out of recycled materials such as cars and bottles.


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America
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Minerva Cuevas

2006

During her research on primitive currencies and cultural cannibalism, Cuevas came across the Donald Duck comic book issue “The Stone Money Mystery,” where Donald goes on a quest to find missing museum objects...

One Minute To Act A Title: Kim Jong Il Favorite Movies
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Mario Garcia Torres

2005

Mario Garcia Torres films a game of Charades among professional actors guessing the former North Korean dictator’s favorite Hollywood films...

Perro en Tlalpan (Dog in Tlalpan)
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Gabriel Orozco

1992

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Up All Night, Waiting for the Chelsea Hotel Magic to Spark my Creativity
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Mario Garcia Torres

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In Up All Night, Waiting for the Chelsea Hotel Magic to Spark My Creativity Mario García Torres constructs and documents a hypothetical scene, situating himself within a lineage of artists and creatives that used to congregate at the historic hotel...

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Avenida Corona del Rosal
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Pablo Rasgado

2011

Pablo Rasgado’s paintings and installations serve as a visual record of contemporary urban human behavior...

Canned Laughter
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Yoshua Okón

2009

Canned Laughter was Okón’s response to an invitation from Ciudad Juárez , Mexico, where artists were asked to create works based on their experience of the city...

Useless Wonder
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Carlos Amorales

2006

This work, a large oil painting on canvas, shows a moment from Amorales’s eight-minute two-channel video projection Useless Wonder (2006)...

Contrabando
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Julio Cesar Morales

2011

Contrabando is a work that references the larger sociological phenomenon in which immigrant economic strategies come to infiltrate urban landscapes...

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Wright Imperial Hotel
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Abraham Cruzvillegas

2004

Wright Imperial Hotel (2004) is a sort of bow and arrow made out of feathers, a São Paulo phone book, and other materials...

Avenida Corona del Rosal
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Pablo Rasgado

2011

Pablo Rasgado’s paintings and installations serve as a visual record of contemporary urban human behavior...

Canned Laughter
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Yoshua Okón

2009

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Restoration expert broke planning laws with work to his Cotswolds farmhouse
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Minerva Cuevas

2006

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One Minute To Act A Title: Kim Jong Il Favorite Movies
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Mario Garcia Torres

2005

Mario Garcia Torres films a game of Charades among professional actors guessing the former North Korean dictator’s favorite Hollywood films...

Untitled (series)
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Francis Alÿs

2006

This series of small drawings is executed with varying materials—pen, ink, colored pencil, charcoal, and masking tape—on architect’s tracing paper...

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Wright Imperial Hotel
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Abraham Cruzvillegas

2004

Wright Imperial Hotel (2004) is a sort of bow and arrow made out of feathers, a São Paulo phone book, and other materials...

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Foreigners Everywhere (Italian)
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Claire Fontaine

2006

Foreigners Everywhere is a series of neon signs in several different languages...

quadroquadro (círculo)
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Lucas’s quadroquadro (círculo) employs familiar materials for the artist: wood, paper, and glass...

This Exhibition
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Tino Sehgal

2004

Tino Sehgal’s This Exhibition requires an interpreter (in this particular piece, a gallery attendant) to faux faint each and every time a visitor enters into a given space...

Mapa Mundi BR (postal)
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2007

Mapa-Mundi BR (postal) is a set of wooden shelves holding postcards that depict locations in Brazil named for foreign countries and cities...