This publication accompanies the exhibition 'Nicolás de Jesús: a Mexican artist for global justice' curated by Patrice Giasson at the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY, February 23-May 15, 2022.--t.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Director's foreword / Tracy Fitzpatrick -- Co-organizers' foreword / Matthew Schlein -- Acknowledgments / Patrice Giasson -- Essays -- Introduction: A Mexican artist for global justice / Patrice Giasson -- Quick and exact in sensing and responding / Felipe Ehrenberg Enriquez -- A "Glocal" artist: from the Comunidad to the community / Aline Hémond -- Contextualizing Nicolás de Jesús: decentralizing the gaze of contempoary art / Julian Kreimer -- The tragi-political humor of Nicolás de Jesús: Images in action / Caroline Perrée -- Telling stories of violence / Pablo Piccato -- Plates -- The artist's reception / Patrice Giasson -- Selected exhibiton history --Selected bibliography -- Checklist of the exhibition.
Summary:
This timely edition collects three decades of contemporary art by Nicolás de Jesús. In this stunning selection, poetically subversive artist Nicolas De Jesús celebrates life and condemns injustice. De Jesús became known for his dazzling skeleton characters, depicted working, celebrating, walking the streets, or crossing borders etched on amate --a bark paper used in Pre-Columbian times to paint manuscripts. He also expressed his political commitments in powerful large-scale paintings and banners that tackle a wide range of urgent themes including immigration, human rights, and environmental instability. His artistic influences range from Mexican artistic traditions to international experience in cities like Chicago, Paris, and Jakarta. De Jesús's work also addresses crises as recent as the storming of the US Capitol, as well as the repression faced by migrants and Black Americans, and the disasters of COVID-19. Covering three decades of artwork, this book offers a challenge to the conventional definition of contemporary art and features essays by Felipe Ehrenberg, Patrice Giasson, Aline Hémond, Julian Kreimer, Caroline Perrée, and Pablo Piccato. -- editor.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.