Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Poetics Of The Handmade

The MOCA Grand presents a retrospective of Richard Tuttle. Big deal. The real deal IMHO is the nearby exhibit Poetics of the Handmade, a group show of eight Latin American artists "finding poetry in ordinary objects -- painstakingly handcrafting work from a wide range of common household materials."
Unfortunately, the MOCA doesn't allow cameras, and their website, and the web, fall short of good pix, but noteworthy arre Livia Marin's sculpted lipstick installation and Darío Escobar's sportgear derivatives [above], and Máximo González's extraordinary murals of devaluated currency. Review in OCRegistry.
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