Notes the process of construction of the installation “The Wall” display “affective Abecedario: Jose Morales – Facilities” #ABCAfectivo. Presented at the Puerto Rico Art Museum
Museo de Arte de Ponce (MAP), is an art museum located on Las Americas Avenue in Ponce, Puerto Rico. It is considered one of the finest art museums in Puerto Rico It houses a collection of European art, as well as work by Puerto Rican artists. The largest art museum in the Caribbean, it has also been called one of the best in the Americas. The museum contains one of the most important Pre-Raphaelite collections in the Western Hemisphere, holding some 4,500 pieces of art distributed among fourteen galleries. It was the first of three museums in Puerto Rico accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. It was founded by industrialist and philanthropist Luis A. Ferré, and its current building was officially inaugurated on December 28, 1965. It was significantly enlarged in 2010 after a $30M expansion. The museum has been called “world class”.
Brooklyn artist Miguel Luciano brings his shaved ice cart to Philadelphia for the exhibit Global Warming at the Icebox. Here he is talking with Pepon Osorio and making a grape ice for a kid (he charges $2 although waived the price for the child). He got the block of ice in North Philly. He built the cart himself, fiberglas over MDF board. He had it painted at an auto detailing place and had it outfitted with stereo equipment and a DVD player, which shows a flyover of arctic ice with music.
Pimp My Piragua is a mobile public art project that commemorates the innovations of Latino street vendors, transforming a traditional pushcart for selling shaved ice (Piraguas) into a hyper-modified pushcart-tricycle with a hi-fi sound and video system. This project was commissioned by the Queens Museum of Art in 2008.
“Sociedad 13” “mas me crece”, is a collective sample of a group of thirteen (13) artists whose works navigate and converge between related means of expression ranging from painting, sculpture, photography and other contemporary trends. The works present here address topics related to social status, processes of identity of contemporary subject, the excessive consumerism, to mass culture, and postcolonial establishing correlations between the current landscape of Puerto Rico today policies.
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