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VALS Presents Abraham Cruz Villegas - Nov 3 '09, 6:30PM - VAF Performance Space
Submitted by yolietorres on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 8:32am.
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Visual Arts Department Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presents:
Abraham Cruz Villegas
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 @ 6:30pm
Visual Arts Facility Performance Space, UC San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, California 92093
VALS is pleased to present Abraham Cruz Villegas.
For the 2002 Sao Paulo Biennial, Cruz Villegas wrote “However art makes itself evident, it shall remain, above all, raw source material in all its natural, unstable, physical, chaotic and crystalline states: solid, liquid, colloidal and gaseous. It is the joy of energy.” This would explain the use of materials in his work. Feathers, banana leaves, balloons and seashells are just a few of the materials used to make his conceptual sculptures. Cruz Villegas has an interesting attitude towards subject and materials. The sculptures are “there”, in the space. By virtue of them being “there”, they become relevant, interesting and worth a second look.
Visit us on the web at http://lectures.visarts.ucsd.edu
For more information on the lecture please contact: Suzanne Wright, VALS Coordinator at stwright@ucsd.edu
About the Artist
Born in Mexico, Abraham Cruz Villegas is both an artist and a writer. He studied Philosophy and Art at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and also studied with Gabriel Orozco. He later became a professor and went on to teach Art History and Theory at UNAM.