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Caption: Ferdinand Deppe, San Gabriel Mission, Oil on canvas, c. 1832, 27 x 37 inches, Laguna Art Museum Collection, gift of Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, 1994.083. LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) Jose Dávila LAND is organizing a mid-career survey of Guadalajara-based artist Jose Dávila (b. 1974). Trained as an architect, Dávila creates sculptural installations and photographic works that use reproduction, homage, and imitation to explore and dismantle the legacies of 20th century avant-garde art and architecture. Referencing artists and architects from Luis Barragán to Donald Judd, Dávila explores how the modernist movement has been translated, appropriated, and reinvented in Mexican art. The exhibition will include the artist's sculptural installations, photographs, drawings, and models, as well as a new interactive public sculpture that reveals Dávila’s interest in ideas of play, urbanism, and social interaction. The sculpture will begin as a 20-square-foot grid made out of modular components, installed at West Hollywood Park, but will be dismantled and reconfigured at other sites across Los Angeles during the span of the exhibition, taking on different functional shapes. 
Exhibition research support: $70,000 (2014); Implementation and publication support: $90,000 (2015) Caption: Jose Dávila, Untitled, 2015, cardboard boxes and bottle caps, 168.5 x 24 x 18.9 in (428 x 61 x 48 cm. Courtesy of Jose Dávila. Library Foundation of Los Angeles Visualizing Language: A Zapotec Worldview The Library Foundation of Los Angeles (LFLA) will present Visualizing Language: A Zapotec Worldview, an exhibition and associated public programs celebrating the Zapotec language as a key lifeline sustaining shared cultural experience in Mexico, Los Angeles, and beyond. Zapotec is the most widely spoken indigenous language in Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca, and Los Angeles is home to the largest population of indigenous Oaxacans outside of Mexico. Visualizing Language: A Zapotec Worldview will recognize the importance of the Oaxacan presence in Southern California and explore contemporary realities of indigenous culture. The project will include an installation in the Los Angeles Central Library’s Rotunda by Oaxacan artist collective Tlacolulokos, a short documentary by Oaxacan filmmaker Yolanda Cruz, and a series of 60 public programs across Los Angeles with visual artists, scholars, poets and writers. Programs, many of which will be multi-lingual, will be presented as part of LFLA’s acclaimed ALOUD literary and performance series and as community workshops in select locations of the Los Angeles Public Library. 
Exhibition research support: $42,000 (2015); Implementation and publication support: $275,000 (2016) Caption: Tlacolulokos mural, Tehuana 13/Woman from Tehuantepec 13, 2013. Fotografía/Photography: Oliver Santana. Cortesía de/Courtesy of MUAC. Los Angeles Filmforum Ism, Ism, Ism: Experimental Film in Latin America Download 1.91 Mb. Share with your friends:
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