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Texas Biennial: Now with even more Texas!
We recently reported that 2011 Texas Biennial, in a smartly collaborative move, has designated dozens of arts institutions as participators to artist-run celebration of contemporary art.
Spreading the celebration further, biennial curator Virginia Rutledge has also managed to gain the participation of five internationally-recognized Texas artists — Margarita Cabrera, Mary Ellen Carroll, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Annette Lawrence and James Magee — and their innovative site-specific projects around the states.
From surprising contemporary art in the massive Cowboys Stadium to a smart subversion of US-Mexico trade to a singular vision of one artist in remote West Texas, the five projects are astutely chosen representatives of Texas’ current state of art-making.
Some of the projects, like Cabrera’s which will be in Austin April 16, have special biennial-related events. Others, like Magee’s in West Texas, take special arrangement to visit. Follow the links below.
- Margarita Cabrera
Mexico Abre la Boca. On display 5 to 8 p.m., April 16, in Austin
This installation/performance work uses a taco cart and trained vendors to dispense information about FLOREZCA, a for-profit multinational corporation formed by the artist to produce and sell traditional crafts in a context that addresses issues impacting immigrant and migrant communities.
- Mary Ellen Carroll
prototype 180, Houston. Special tour 11 a.m. April 30.
Prototype 180 is a conceptual work of art and an urban alteration that entails a radical form of renovation through the physical rotation and reoccupation of a single family house in the aging Houston subdivision of Sharpstown.
- Trenton Doyle Hancock
“From a Legend to a Choir,” Cowboys Stadium, Arlington
This expansive 41-foot-by-108-foot mural depicts an epic scene from the artist’s ongoing self-invented mythology, commissioned for Cowboys Stadium.
- Annette Lawrence
“Coin Toss,” Cowboys Stadium, Arlington
This delicate sculpture activates an architectural interior by engaging viewers awareness of the passage of time and the movement of bodies through space.
- James Magee
The Hill, Cornudas
A monumental work on 2,000 acres of desert in West Texas, the work consists of four identical buildings, each 40 feet long, 20 feet wide and 17 feet high, all connected by causeways.
Image: “From a Legend to a Choir,” Trenton Doyle Hancock.
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