Serie Lo que ves es lo que es
These pieces correspond to the study of declassified files of the US Intelligence Services during the period 1948-1994 related to North American Minimalism and propose a revision of the declassified CIA files on fourteen Latin American countries.
In relation to these archives, this group of works also problematizes the contents of American Minimalist art, contrasting the austerity and formal asceticism of that movement with the political violence of the period in which it developed, contrasting the appropriation of iconic works by Donald Judd, which are structurally transformed through the insertion of cut acrylic archives or printed strips that formally intervene them and modify their content. In fact, while the great political operations are taking place in Latin American territory, North American artistic and academic institutions are promoting and disseminating minimalist abstraction as their artistic avant-garde. Thus, several quotations from Donald Judd’s works appear in the exhibition, which are materially intervened by reproductions of intelligence documents
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CURATED BY: AGUSTÍN PÉREZ RUBIO
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- Serie Lo que ves es lo que es / Judd Vertical (What you see is what it is Series/ Judd Vertical)
10 folded stainless-steel modules and 54 laser-cut acrylic plates - Serie Lo que ves es lo que es / Judd Tubo (What you see is what it is Series/ Judd Tube)
Black lacquered wood volume with tubular stainless-steel profile and 13 strips printed on backlight film - Serie Lo que ves es lo que es / Judd Shaft (What you see is what it is Series/ Judd Shaft)
Stainless steel structure with transparent gray acrylic and 10 strips printed on backlight film - Serie lo que ves es lo que es / Judd Inverso (What you see is what it is Series/ Judd Inverse)
Rectangular stainless-steel profile, 11 pieces of red lacquered steel, 5 stainless steel folders with court files and printed paper strips with CIA files - Serie Lo que ves es lo que es / Judd Cubos (What you see is what it is Series/ Judd Cubes)
6 MDF cubes coated with stainless steel, engraved phrase, and 6 acrylic blocks containing 17 laser-cut files - Serie lo que ves es lo que es / Judd Fibonacci (What you see is what it is Series/ Judd Fibonacci)
Stainless steel rectangular profile, 7 stainless steel pieces, 5 stainless steel folders with printed documents and printed paper strips with CIA files