Cattelán, Maurizio (1960, Padova, Italy) Dynamo Secession, 1997Bicycles, dynamos, steel supports, cables and electric lights

WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

Selections from La Colección Jumex

“I believe that art is a cultural index that can at any moment tell us who we are and where we are going. In

this way, the question remains: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?” –Eugenio Lopez

Jeff Koons (1955, York, PA) Ball Total Equilibrium Tank, 1986(Two Spalding Shaq Attaq, One Spalding NBA Tip-Off) Glass tank, steel stand, sodium chloride reagent, distilled water, three basketballs152 X 129 X 39.5 cm

Introduction to the La Colección Jumex

• The La Colección Jumex is located within the facilities of Jumex’s Juice Company’s plant near Mexico City, Mexico. The collection consists of art from the 1960s through the present. The artwork was made by international artists but also by contemporary artists in Mexico.

• There are about 2,000 pieces of art in the collection!• This is the first time this collection has been shown in the U.S.• The Jumex collection is considered one of the best

Contemporary Art collections in Latin America• One focus of the collection is fostering the public’s

relationship with contemporary art, as well as promoting new interpretations of artistic material.

The title WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? is a question that has been and continues to be asked by a number of leading thinkers, artists, and social figures in our society. So what do you think?

Where do we go from here_______?With artistic materials? With the artistic styles?

With ideas and topics for artworks?Concerning Globalization?

Introduction to the La Colección Jumex

Four Subjects in this Exhibition• Art about Art• Urban Anthropology• Text in Art• Artists’ Profiles

• As you look at each artwork think about how it could fit into these categories.

Gabriel Orozco (1962, Jalapa, Mexico)Oval Billiard Table, 1996

Wood, slate, mixed media89 X 310 X 205 cm

Art about Art• Historically, to learn painting or

other art techniques, art students would imitate master artists.

• Imitating established artists is a tradition still followed by contemporary artists such as Sherrie Levine. Levine created Fountain (Buddha) (1996) by imitating Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain (1917).

• Why might contemporary artists mimic artworks by other artists?

Sherrie Levine (1947, Hazleton, PA)Buddha, 1996

Cast Bronze32 X 40 X 46 cm

Marcel Duchamp (1887 –1968, France) Fountain, 1917 Porcelain urinal*

* This image is for comparison only and is not part of La Colección

• Levine’s Buddha could also be described as Appropriation.

• Appropriation is the use of borrowed elements in the creation of a new artwork.

Why do you think Levine appropriated the look of

Duchamp's sculpture?

Art about Art

Marcel Duchamp (1887 –1968, France) Fountain, 1917 Porcelain urinal*

Sherrie Levine (1947, Hazleton, PA)Buddha, 1996

Cast Bronze32 X 40 X 46 cm

* This image is for comparison only and is not part of La Colección

• There are artists who incorporate multiple inspirations into one work.

How did Fontaine appropriate both Wool and Warhol?

Art about Art

Claire Fontaine (Founded 2004, Paris, France)Untitled (One is no one / Blanco Mate), 2007Screen print and spray paint on canvas48 3/8 x 36 5/8 x 1 5/8 inches

Andy Warhol (1928 –1987, Pittsburgh, PA) Marilyn Monroe, (1926-1962)*

Christopher Wool (1955, New York City, NY)Untitled, 1997Enamel on aluminum*

* These images are for comparison only and are not part of La Colección

Urban Anthropology • Urban Anthropology

describes the study of the origin, development, and evolution of cities as well as the description and comparison of urban life and culture. It also reflects the identity of Mexico City as a magnet for artists and a vital international art center.

• Does Kawara’s work echo the urban environment? Why? On Kawara (1933, Japan)

5 JUN.68, E.U. El senador Robert F. Kennedy…, 1968, Liquitex on canvas

20 x 25 x 4 cm

• Another artist who creates art related to the urban environment is Carlos Amorales. He has an extensive collection of images that he mixes together to make his art.

• What images are recognizable in Amorales’s artwork?

• How do these images relate to a city environment?

Urban Anthropology

Carlos Amorales (1970, Mexico)The Nightlife of a Shadow III, 2005

Vinyl on canvas70 7/8 X 70 7/8 X 1 inches

Text in Art

• Text-as-art rebels against standard expectations of strictly visual/aesthetic art because it engages the mind. When viewing art that is text or has text, you automatically read it and that, in some way, effects your experience of the art.

• There are various methods of using text in artworks such as letter decoration, the placement of letters and words, context, and through semiotics or the study of symbols as a way to communicate.

Which have a greater impact on the viewer: words or images? Why?

Text in Art• Joseph Kosuth explores

the relationship between language and visual art through his juxtaposition of words with light and color.

• Juxtaposition means the act or an instance of placing two or more things side by side with the intention of bringing out a specific quality or creating an effect.

Joseph Kosuth (1945, Toledo, OH)No Number #001, 1989

Cobalt blue neon11 X 67.3 cm

Text in Art• Ed Ruscha combines

painting, drawing, photography, and text to communicate the experience of urban life. His work often looks like advertisements.

• How do the colors and composition of the artwork relate to the word “Siesta” (i.e. rest/nap)?

Ed Ruscha (1937, Omaha, NE)Siesta En Casa, 1998

Acrylic on canvas152.5 X 152 X 4 cm

 

• This section includes multiple works by individual artists.• These artists where chosen because they have made significant

contributions to art in their themes, concepts, and formal endeavors.

Artists’ Profiles

Printmaker, painter and filmmaker, Andy Warhol is perhaps the most recognizable figure of Pop Art. Through the repetition of imagery, he explored and manipulated the way society’s perceptions and memories attach to images.

Pop Art imitates the methods, styles, and themes of popular culture and mass media.

Andy Warhol (1928, Pittsburgh, PA. 1994, Manhattan, NY) Jackie (Smiling), 1964

Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas69.8 X 59.7 X 6.3 cm

Artists’ Profiles• Jenny Holzer uses language

in her work with the purpose of generating awareness and a response from the audience. Her texts inundate the viewer with statements that target consumerism and the injustices of humankind.

• Where else can you see streaming words made of LED lights?

• What other theme from this exhibition does this work relate to?

Jenny Holzer (1950, Gallipolis, OH)Looming, 2004

Stainless Steel, red and white LED lights13.6 X 11.1 cm, Length: Variable

• This collection demonstrates the connections between artists, art works, and their global audience. Art remains alive because it is viewed by each member of the audience through a different set of eyes and experiences.

• Contemporary art is the art of today. How do the artworks in this collection relate to our present times and where to we go from here?

Conclusion

Ugo Rondinone (1963, Brunnen, Switzerland)The Twelfth Hour of the Poem, 2006

Cast wax and pigments