SEMEFO 1990-1999 : de la morgue al museo = from the morgue to the museum / Mariana David, coordinación/coordination.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

David, Mariana.

SEMEFO (Group)

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

SEMEFO (Group).

Art, Mexican--20th century.

Art, Mexican.

Performance art--Mexico--20th century.

Performance art.

Death in art.

Torture in art.

Animals in art.

Mexico.

Physical Description:

399 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Edition:

1a edición.

Other Title:

De la morgue al museo

SEMEFO 1990-1999 : from the morgue to the museum

From the morgue to the museum

Place of Publication:

México, D.F. : El Palacio Negro : Universidad Autonóma Metrpolitana, [2011]

Language Note:

Parallel text in Spanish and English.

Summary:

"Semefo 1990-1999" is the first book to gather the entire body of work by the Mexican artist collective (...) In art, for Mexico the 1990's implied blockbuster-style exhibitions and the inauguration of mega-monuments. In parallel there was a boom in performance and in what is called "alternative" with the creation of conferences and festivals and the opening of spaces for artistic development in Mexico City. This context was the scene for the formation and development of the group Semefo, and writing the history of this collective also involves understanding what historical, political situation generated the conditions for this work to come true, eventually within an official framework."--P. 7,9. Semefo (Its name is inspired in the acronym of the Mexican Forensic Service " Servicio Médico Forense") was a collective of artists founded in the early 1990's by Teresa Margolles, Carlos López Orozco, Juan Luis García and Arturo Angulo Gallardo that worked with parts of corpses, bodily fluids and other organic materials during the 1990's seeking an aesthetic approach not to the subject of death, but to its socio-cultural implications and the concept of decomposition at its different stages (first in animals and later with humans) based on the myths of destruction, degradation, the paraphernalia of torture, disgust and the morbid, i.e. violence in relation to the concepts of life-death and eroticism.

Contents:

Prefacio = Preface / Mariana David y Brábara Perea

Introduccion = Introduction / Brábara Perea

Necropsia: historiando al colectivo Semefo = Necropsy: Writting the history of Semefo / Mariana David

Ensayos = Essays

Las sinfonías de la putrefacción = Symphonies of putrefaction / Luis Javier García Roiz

La música de Semefo: entrevista a Carlos López = The music of Semefo: Carlos López interviewed / Luuis Javier García Roiz

La recreación de lo verídico = The recreation of the veridical / Jorge Reynoso Pohlenz

El recuerdo de un cadáver que nunca estuvo ahí = The memory of a corpse that was never there / Pilar Villela Mascaró

Semefo: una lírica de la descomposición = Semefo: a lyric of decay / José Luis Barrios

Obras = Works

Cronologia = Timetable

Documentos = Documents.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 392-397) and index.

ISBN:

9786074776164

6074776164

OCLC:

816117168