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FUTURE EXHIBITION ::::
Teddy Cruz and Pedro Reyes (title tbc)
Opening Reception: October 16, 2008 5:30 - 7:30pm
Exhibition Dates: October 17—December 13, 2008
Curated by Hou Hanru
Teddy Cruz and Pedro Reyes are working collaboratively/in conversation on a site-specific project which responds to today’s geopolitical conflict using urban design (design strategies) from the perspective of two voices from the Latin American artist community. The exhibition is very site specific in relation to the Americas, responding to the West Coast and current North American politics, the negotiation of borders between North America and South America. Additionally the exhibition responds very closely to the global politics of war, borders and negotiating peace and sustainability.
Teddy Cruz and Pedro Reyes are two remarkable multidisciplinary artists working on the borders between art, architecture and design. These two Mexican artists will trace the traditional relationship between SFAI, SF, California and Mexico in the art traditions of Diego Rivera to the present.
This exhibition will also be a satellite of the California Biennial curated by Lauri Firstenberg.
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Para Por Pistolas, 2007,
still from a documentary video
For this project Pedro Reyes worked with a local Mexican agency to encourage people to hand in their weapons in exchange for food stamps. 1,700 traded guns were made into spades and each spade is to be used to plant a tree. The project was initially conceived for The Botanical Garden in Culiacán, a city in western Mexico with the highest rate of deaths by gun in the country.
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