THE DAMS
Young Art from Puerto Rico
curated by Pedro Velez for the FGA
at
photo MIAMI
The international Contemporary Fair of
Photo-Based Art, Video, and New Media.
December 6-10, 2006
For Photo Miami FGA has invited a selected group of emerging artists from Puerto Rico to develop a series of images that investigate the role of photography in contemporary Caribbean society, propaganda and advertisement. Works will also comment on modern theory and construction by drawing sarcastic connections between Walter Benjamin’s analysis of the aura, the construction of collages by Kurt Schwitters, and the culmination of the advertisement banner as an artistic medium by Muntadas.
Others themes to be explored in the DAMS are surveillance, homogeneous architecture, concentration camps, rock 'n roll poster design, and tourism.
All works will be presented in large-scale photographic vinyl banners, placed in a "sort of " vertical column that will extend from the ground to the ceiling, creating a flagpole that should be visible from all the perimeters at the exhibition grounds. The artists will also invade diverse spaces and areas at the fair grounds.
LIST OF ARTIST
Los Rodríguez
Cristina Tufino
Michelle Miner
Rogelio Báez
Luis Agosto
Gardy Pérez
Marcial Feliciano
Nicole Rodriguez
W & N
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*FGA...(a.k.a. FUCKING GOOD ART)...sometimes we go by the names of PGA, DOG, The Dams and NO METAPHORS. Curated by Pedro Velez.
*about the FGA...
- pedro velez's FGA
- San Juan/ Chicago/ the WEB
- The FGA, (a.k.a. FUCKING GOOD ART), was founded Pedro Vélez and Michael Bulka in 1997 as an independent publication based in the city of Chicago. In 1999, and with the the collaboration of Lena Kuffner, the FGA evolved into a curatorial effort housed in diverse venues between Chicago and Puerto Rico, as well as other projects developed specifically for the web and non traditional spaces. Since 2003 FGA sprouts sporadically under diverse names, exhibitions, record covers, collaborators, and projects on the web. FGA exhibitions deal with thematic shows, conceptual practice, photography, sound art, and the use of the paranormal and the fake by claiming the essence of dead personalities, (e.g. Julia Child), in our exhibitions.