EXHIBITION January 30–April 3, 2009
Monterrey, Mexico
SPACES World Artists Program>>
Leonardo Marz is a master collaborator. Using a variety of resources and tools, such as video, plastic sheeting, popular music and kitsch DIY products, teh artist responds to the work of both peer artists and faceless companies.
Marz has won numerous awards, including Young Creators Grants in 2006 and 2008 in Mexico and the Fundación/Colección Jumex grant to complete his MFA thesis. His work was included in the Emergency Biennale in Chechnya (part of the Istanbul Biennale 2007), and he has exhibited throughout Mexico. His art has also been shown at the Museo de Las Americas in Denver and Chelsea Gallery Space in New York.
In a culture so steeped in commercialism that originality often gets buried under remakes, cover songs and pre-fab models, what is the artist’s role? Marz confronts this sticky issue in three separate projects during his eight-week Cleveland residency. Each of Marz’s individual projects, falling under the umbrella of YENKA RIKETIK BOM, rely on the act of consuming someone else’s art to make a new product. His work rethinks how he, as an artist, and the public engage with the media, commercial products, art, the music industry and fame.
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9pm, at SPACES
¡ Videos Locos y Demases! = Crazy Video Night!
YouTube-Off: Come and Get it! Bring a list of your favorite YouTube videos for all to see! more
Free and open to the public.
ALSO: Catch Leonardo Marz at Pecha Kucha this Friday, February 6 at 8:20 p.m. at The House of Blues! Free! Refreshments available at cash bar.
Friday, January 30, 2009
6 pm
Free and open to the public.
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SPIT MACHINE RETURNS
(exhibited during YENKA RIKETIK BOM, 2009)
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Also showing during the run of this exhibition
Oblivion
January 30–February 27, 2009
Yoshiko Kanai
Listen to Utopia
March 6–April 3, 2009