Lecture 012

ganpy paper

Eamon Ore Giron: mixed heritage

• cultural paintings
  • surreal mix-culture abstract
  • "Uptown Rocker", 2016
  • "Taking Shit with Quetzalcoatl", 2017 (serpant)

Pepon Osori: remaking latino masculinity

Artist:

• Puerto Rican

• immigrant experience: displacement

• form: performance, installation

Limit Policy: public links of private and closed off spaces

Artwork:

"La Cama"

• introduce Merian (fiance)

• memorialize Juana (dark skin maid)

• racial identity + family bound

• life to death, childhood to adulthood

• Detournement: turning around. Cultural context is important to understand

"El Chandelier"

• Objects: vernacular religious symbols

• Placement: hierarchical structure of race and class

• Premice: meaning of home

Many misinterpretation of works:

• transform manufactured objects to political act

"In the Scene of Crime" // TODO: this is a good art

"Machismo": latino masculinity

1. patriarchal hegemony
2. gender normality
3. ...

overbearing, aggressive vs. responsible, tough outsider vs. inside latino community

"Badge of Honor"

• fantacy of son vs. reality of father

• economic reality

"Face to Face"

"Trials and Turbulence"

• court displacement to foster

• critic of law system

Summary: realism

"En La Bareria No..."