ExhibitionAugust 16, 2024
Jorge Méndez Blake: " Proscenios Literarios". Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey
The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey presents "Proscenios Literarios,” a solo exhibition by Jorge Méndez Blake, curated by Víctor Palacios. The exhibition for the Museo Cabañas in Guadalajara included 59 works and was financed by EFIARTES in 2023 through resources granted by the company Tracsa. The exhibition at the MARCO Museum will be on display until October 2024.
As part of MARCO's institutional collaboration strategies, the exhibition shows an expanded version, with 103 works on display, distributed mostly in galleries 1 to 4 on the Ground Floor; part of the production will also be exhibited outside the galleries. The complete neon series Biblioteca completa (2021-2023), with 17 works added to a total of 30 pieces of the project, will be on view on the walls of the Patio Central.
Méndez Blake has explored literature and architecture in his 30 years of career, in both cases from a historical perspective, either reviewing the classic authors of literature or taking up aspects of ancient or modern architecture. In the literary aspect, he addresses what is found around reading and writing, sometimes assuming the exercise of a writer without the final product being a book; on the contrary, he presents images, portraits of the artist as he writes, video narratives, annotations in the margins of the pages that are the trace of his reading, or framed poems that the public can read.
The review of his mid-career proposes a journey through the artist's creative process and the interests he has recurrently addressed in his discourse under chronological logic. To address these two interests, Palacios proposes to view his production from the term "proscenium,” which in the structure of an amphitheater is the backstage area between the audience and the stage. It functions as a threshold where one can either walk into the audience space or onto the stage and become part of the play.
As part of MARCO's institutional collaboration strategies, the exhibition shows an expanded version, with 103 works on display, distributed mostly in galleries 1 to 4 on the Ground Floor; part of the production will also be exhibited outside the galleries. The complete neon series Biblioteca completa (2021-2023), with 17 works added to a total of 30 pieces of the project, will be on view on the walls of the Patio Central.
Méndez Blake has explored literature and architecture in his 30 years of career, in both cases from a historical perspective, either reviewing the classic authors of literature or taking up aspects of ancient or modern architecture. In the literary aspect, he addresses what is found around reading and writing, sometimes assuming the exercise of a writer without the final product being a book; on the contrary, he presents images, portraits of the artist as he writes, video narratives, annotations in the margins of the pages that are the trace of his reading, or framed poems that the public can read.
The review of his mid-career proposes a journey through the artist's creative process and the interests he has recurrently addressed in his discourse under chronological logic. To address these two interests, Palacios proposes to view his production from the term "proscenium,” which in the structure of an amphitheater is the backstage area between the audience and the stage. It functions as a threshold where one can either walk into the audience space or onto the stage and become part of the play.
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