New Tendencies in Mexican Art The 1990s

The decade of the 1990s was one of the most turbulent periods in recent Mexican history marked by political assassinations, the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, the signing of NAFTA, a catastrophic economic crisis, and the defeat of the PRI after seventy years of one-party rule. How did art respond to these events? To answer this question, Gallo examines some of the most radical artistic experiments produced in this period, from Daniela Rossell's photographs of Mexican millionaires to Teresa Margolles's manipulations of human remains, from Santiago Sierra's controversial work with human subjects to Vicente Razo's creation of a Salinas museum.

Ruben Gallo is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures at Princeton University, where he teaches courses on media, modernity, and the avant-garde in Mexico.

Part I: Setting the Stage: Latin American Art of the 1990s * Photography: Alfredo Jaar * Installation Art: Javier Tellez (I, II) * Part II: New Tendencies in Mexican Art * Tendencies * Orientalism (I, II) * Perversions * The City * Mexican Photography from Chiapas to Fifth Avenue * Part III: The Artists * Daniela Rossell * Eduardo Abaroa *Inaki Bonillas * Stefan Bruggemann * Jose Davila * Yishai Jusidman * Francis Alys