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CROSS CURRENTS

7/10/2019

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CROSS CURRENTS / INTERCAMBIO CULTURAL

OPENIG RECEPTION:
JULY 11 – 5PM-8PM
ON VIEW: JULY 11 – AUGUST 18, 2019

SMART MUSEUM OF ART, CHICAGO
​More info HERE
This exhibition explores how issues of Latin American and Latino/a identity and place are manifest in the practices of artists working in Chicago and Havana at a moment of social change and strained political relations between the United States and Cuba.
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Above: Visiting Celia González’s home/studio in the Playa neighborhood, May 2017. Left to right are: Rodrigo Lara Zendejas, Carlos Barberena, Harold Mendez, Dianna Frid, Alberto Aguilar, and Celia González.
Cross Currents is the result of an artist exchange organized by the National Museum of Mexican Art. Six Chicago-based artists visited Havana in spring 2017 and six Cuban artists visited Chicago in fall 2017 and summer 2018. The work on view reflects the artists’ experiences and observations as they interacted with each other, curators, cultural spaces, and neighborhoods during their trips. The project aims to open pathways of communication and understanding between the two cities and peer artists while also reflecting on their own artistic practices at this moment in time. 
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Carlos Barberena visiting with a fellow printmaker Julio César Peña at the Taller Experimental de Gráfica de la Habana, May 2017.
ARTISTS:
Based in Chicago:
  • Alberto Aguilar (b. 1974, Chicago)
  • Carlos Barberena (b. 1972, Nicaragua)
  • Dianna Frid (Mexican, Canadian, and American)
  • Rodrigo Lara Zendejas (b. 1981, Toluca, Mexico)
  • Harold Mendez (b. 1977, Chicago)
  • Edra Soto (b. 1971, San Juan, Puerto Rico)
Based in Havana:
  • Humberto Diaz (b. 1975, Cuba)
  • Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo (b. 1984, Cuba)
  • Douglas Pérez (b. 1972, Cuba)
  • Alejandro González (b. 1974, Cuba)
  • Celia-Yunior (Celia Gonzalez [b. 1985, Cuba] & Yunior Aguiar [b. 1984, Cuba])
  • Requer (Renier Quer Figueredo, b. 1983, Cuba)
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Artists and curators on a tour of the Smart Museum in fall of 2017.
TOUR:
A version of the exhibition will travel to El Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba in January 2020.
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Visiting Requer’s studio in Old Havana, May 2017. Left to right are: Requer, Alberto Aguilar, Carlos Barberena, Alison Fraunhar, Dianna Frid, and Rodrigo Lara.
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The Chicago artists explore el Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales where the exhibition will be displayed in January 2020. The 18th century home in Old Havana is now one of the best-known Cuban spaces for contemporary and experimental art.
ABOUT
Cross Currents is organized by the National Museum of Mexican Art. The exhibition is co-curated by Alison Fraunhar, independent curator and Associate Professor of Art and Design at St. Xavier University, Cesáreo Moreno, Director of Visual Arts & Chief Curator at the National Museum of Mexican Art, and Raquel Carrera, an art historian and curator based in Havana, Cuba, in consultation with Michael Christiano, Deputy Director and Curator of Public Practice at the Smart Museum.
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Behind-the-scenes, installation of Cross Currents at the Smart Museum of Art in Chicago.
Behind-the-scenes
Here’s a behind-the-scenes look of artists installing their work for "Cross Currents/Intercambio Cultural" at the Smart Museum of Art.
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Alberto Aguilar (b. 1974, Chicago)
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Edra Soto (b. 1971, San Juan, Puerto Rico)
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Dianna Frid (Mexican, Canadian, and American)
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Rodrigo Lara Zendejas (b. 1981, Toluca, Mexico)
SUPPORT
Support for the artist exchange and exhibition has been provided by The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Southwest Airlines, and Maria Bechily and Scott Hodes.
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Humberto Diaz (b. 1975, Cuba)
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Requer (Renier Quer Figueredo, b. 1983, Cuba)
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Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo (b. 1984, Cuba)
Presented in the Richard and Mary L. Gray Gallery and the Elisabeth and William M. Landes Gallery.
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Carlos Barberena (b. 1972, Nicaragua)
"CROSS CURRENTS / INTERCAMBIO CULTURAL"
OPENIG RECEPTION:

JULY 11 – 5PM-8PM
ON VIEW: JULY 11 – AUGUST 18, 2019

SMART MUSEUM OF ART
The University of Chicago 5550 S. Greenwood Ave. Chicago, Illinois 60637
​More info HERE
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Dua F link
1/23/2021 04:40:52 pm

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