The First U.S. Exhibition of the Visceral Realists
Federal Art Project – Downtown Los Angeles
10/3/09
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Independent curator York Chang investigates the relationship between catastrophe and creativity in the first U.S. exhibition of the Visceral Realists, a controversial Latin American artist collective active in Buenos Aires during the economic crisis between 1999-2002.  They felt it was a necessity to subvert mystification in art, memory and consciousness internationally.The exhibition includes paintings, collage, photography, video, installation, a selected archive which includes influential visceral realist documents/writings, and a 96 page limited edition publication, the Journal of Implied Violence.

LOCATION:
Federal Art Project
316 W. 2nd St.
Downtown Los Angeles, CA
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http://www.societyfortheproliferationofvisceralrealism.com/