Materia en Reposo II (Brasil)

2004 - Photography (Photography)

27,9 x 35,6 cm

Damián Ortega

location: Mexico City
location: Berlin
year born: 1967
gender: male
nationality: Mexican
home town: Mexico City, Mexico

Damián Ortega’s work explores specific economic, aesthetic and cultural situations and in particular how regional culture affects commodity consumption. He began his career as a political cartoonist and his art has the intellectual rigour and sense of playfulness often associated with his previous occupation. He first came to wider attention with Cosmic Thing at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003, consisting of a Volkswagen beetle dismantled and suspended from the ceiling, an ironic deconstruction of a cult object of Mexico’s consumer society.


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Sign series, #1, #2, #3
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Bjorn Copeland

2009

Sign #1 , Sign #2 , Sign #3 were included in “Found Object Assembly”, Copeland’s 2009 solo show at Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco...

Untitled (Ticket Roll)
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Gabriel Kuri

2010

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Execution Changes #22
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Julian Hoeber

2011

Every work in Hoeber’s 2011 series Execution Changes is titled in alphanumeric code...

Eraser
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Will Rogan

2014

Will Rogan’s video Eraser (2014) shows a hearse parked in a clearing amidst leaf barren trees...

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Sign series, #1, #2, #3
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Bjorn Copeland

2009

Sign #1 , Sign #2 , Sign #3 were included in “Found Object Assembly”, Copeland’s 2009 solo show at Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco...

Untitled (Ticket Roll)
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Gabriel Kuri

2010

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Portrait: Cover and Clean
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Qiu Anxiong

2011

A Portrait: Covering and Cleaning is an installation of six black-and-white video projections...

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“8888 Uprising”: Thirty Years Later
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"8888 Uprising": Thirty Years Later | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles November 1, 2018 By Sharaad Kuttan (650 words, four-minute read) Despite the flash of contemporary retail – some garish, some tasteful – Yangon’s old-world charms prevail...

Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: The relevance of “Soi Cowboy”; Malaysia’s Zen Cho wins Hugo Award
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Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: The relevance of "Soi Cowboy"; Malaysia's Zen Cho wins Hugo Award | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar Illustration by Jared Downing | Frontier August 20, 2019 ArtsEquator’s Southeast Asia Radar features articles and posts about arts and culture in Southeast Asia, drawn from local and regional websites and publications – aggregated content from outside sources, so we are exposed to a multitude of voices in the region...

Where to Start When Thinking of Building an Art Collection - via Forbes
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Sometime after graduating from college-era dorm posters and Ikea art, many young professionals decide it’s time to invest in art that’s worth something, elevating their home decor while possibly making some money....

Untitled (History painting)
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Korakrit Arunanondchai

2017

His untitled paintings express his concern regarding perception in abstract form...

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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...

Until It Makes Sense
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Mario Garcia Torres

2004

Mario Garcia Torres imagines cinematic devices to replay stories occasionally forgotten by Conceptual art...

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...

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Pipe Opening
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Jeff Wall

2002

As suggested by its title, Pipe Opening (2002) depicts a hole in a wood wall exposed by the removal of a pipe...

Why fear the future?
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Carlos Amorales

2005

Produced on the occasion of an exhibition at ARTIUM of Alava, Basque Centre-Museum of Contemporary Art, this deck of cards is a selection of images from Carlos Amorales’s Liquid Archive...

Anonymous, Studio Sherhazade
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Akram Zaatari

1950

“In the 1980s I started using coloured paper backdrops, one of which was yellow...