Presented by Gregorio Luke
In collaboration with Tasende Gallery
Thursday, March 10, 2022
6:00 PM | Tasende Gallery Walk-through*
7:30 PM | Lecture at the Athenaeum
Free admission with RSVP | Donation suggested
* José Luis Cuevas’ exhibition is on view from January 28 through March 26 at Tasende Gallery | 820 Prospect Street, La Jolla, California 92037
https://www.tasendegallery.com/
José Luis Cuevas was a Mexican artist affiliated with the post-World War II movement the Generación de la Ruptura (Breakaway Generation). Cuevas and the other members of the Generación opposed Mexican muralists, such as Diego Rivera, José Clement Orozco, and David Alfaro Sisquieros, who were seen as inhibiting artistic development and being overly deferential to the Mexican government.
Born in a paper factory in Mexico City on February 26, 1934, Cuevas began studies at the School of Painting and Sculpture in La Esmeralda at age 10. He continued there until 1947 and studied engraving with Lolo Cueto at Mexico City College in 1948. In 1954 he was invited to exhibit in the Pan-American Union, Washington, D.C. Cuevas was a professor of drawing at Latin American University, Mexico City and worked briefly at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art, San Jose State College, and Fullerton College. Over time, he developed a unique aesthetic in his work, depicting disfigured or disproportionate figures and portraits. Cuevas represented Mexico in the 1982 Venice Biennale and created a museum to himself that opened in 1992. The museum and Cuevas himself are both controversial, with the glorification of Cuevas’s life and sexual prowess as the museum’s main topic. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. Cuevas died on July 3, 2017, in Mexico City.
[source: http://www.artnet.com/artists/jos%C3%A9-luis-cuevas/]
This is a free lecture (donation suggested). Registration is required.
About Gregorio Luke:
Gregorio Luke is an internationally recognized expert on the art and culture of Mexico and Latin America. Luke has lectured widely in Mexico, the United States, Europe, China, Australia, and South America at institutions, such as the Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution, San Francisco Museum of Art, National Museum for Women in the Arts, and Detroit Institute of Art, and universities, such as Harvard, Columbia, Georgetown, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), among others. He is the former director of the Museum of Latin American Art, Consul of Cultural Affairs of Mexico in Los Angeles, and First Secretary of the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C. He is the founder of ARCOS (Art in Communities and School), a nonprofit whose mission is to bring arts to people living in low-income communities. Luke is a published author, and in 2004 he created the television program Dentro del Arte, which aired in Mexico and the United States for three years. He currently hosts the radio program Encuentros for KPFK in Los Angeles.
Image: El Monte de Zugarramurdi #3, 1983, Ink and watercolor on paper, 31¾ x 47½ inches
The lecture will be in person at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library. There are no physical tickets for this event. Your name will be on an attendee list at the front door. Doors open at 7 p.m. Seating is first-come; first-served. This event will be presented in compliance with State of California and County of San Diego health regulations as applicable at the time of the lecture. Face coverings are required for attendees, regardless of vaccination status. Proof of vaccination or negative test within 48 hours of the event is required. Event capacity is limited to 70% for now.