ARTMargins

Contemporary art across the evolving global peripheries

Monthly Archive: April 2018

Mexico 68 written center, with the shapes of those letters and numbers radiating outward in alternating black and white lines.

ARTMargins Online: Interviews

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 by Svitlana Biedarieva (London) ·

Mexico 1968—Beginning of the Age of Discrepancies: An Interview with Cuauhtémoc Medina

This interview was conducted as part of the author’s research for a doctoral dissertation entitled “Challenging the Legacies of the Olympics: Cultural Afterlives of Mexico 1968 and the USSR 1980.” One of its reference sources was the exhibition The Age of Discrepancies: Art and Visual Culture in Mexico 1968-1997, co-curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina, Olivier Debroise, Pilar García de Germenos, and Álvaro Vázquez Mantecón, and presented at the Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte (MUCA) in Mexico City in 2008. Age of Discrepancies was one of the first shows to present a panorama of all the art movements and tendencies that … Read more

Poaster of woman holding flags. Russian writing around.

ARTMargins Online: Exhibition Reviews

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 by Susan Snodgrass ·

Revolution Redo

Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test, Art Institute of Chicago, October 29, 2017–January 14, 2018
Revolution Every Day, at the Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, September 14, 2017–January 28, 2018

At a time when our own political moment has given rise to dangerous neoliberalism and right-wing nationalism across Europe and the United States, Revolutionary Russia of a century ago with its promise of social equality and transformation continues to seduce our imagination (at least in the former West), despite the ultimate failure of the Soviet project. This seduction fueled two recent shows in Chicago that marked the centennial … Read more