Jorge Méndez Blake Explained
Jorge Méndez Blake (born 1974) is a Mexican mixed-media conceptual artist. Trained as an architect,[1] the artist builds walls[2] and connects their history to literature. He lives and works in Guadalajara, Mexico.[3]
At the James Cohan Gallery in New York, he exhibited a wall entitled Amerika, based on a Franz Kafka novel, during the time of the government shutdown when president Donald Trump was advocating to build the wall between the U.S. Mexican border.[4] In this sense, his work could be seen as border art.
His work focuses on writing as "a kind of construction," using his brick sculptures to connect architecture to literature.[5] He has exhibited widely in international bienniales and museums.[6]
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Notes and References
- Web site: Seeing Poetry: Mexican Artist Jorge Méndez Blake Transforms Literature into Sculpture and Visual Art. 2016-03-10. Yatzer. en. 2019-01-13.
- Web site: A Single Book Disrupts the Foundation of a Brick Wall by Jorge Méndez Blake. 2018-02-14. Colossal. en. 2019-01-13.
- Web site: E-Flux - Jorge Méndez Blake . 2009-12-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100211140640/http://e-flux.com/shows/view/2109 . 2010-02-11 . dead .
- Web site: At James Cohan Gallery, Jorge Méndez Blake Builds a Wall. Selvin. Claire. 2019-01-08. ARTnews. en-US. 2019-01-13.
- Web site: Jorge Méndez Blake Metal Magazine. metalmagazine.eu. 2019-01-13.
- Web site: Marfa Contemporary :: Jorge Mendez Blake. marfacontemporary.org. en. 2017-06-11.
