»If Only God had invented Coca Cola Sooner!
Or the death of my pet monkey “...”«
18.08. - 01.09.2006
Sox36 zeigt eine Auswahl von Plakaten der Reihe »If Only God had invented Coca Cola Sooner! Or the death of my pet monkey “...”« von Daniel Joseph Martínez, die 2004 für die »Poli/Graphic Triennal« (San Juan, Puerto Rico) geschaffen wurde.
Die Plakate werden von einem Unternehmen in L.A. hergestellt, der kostengünstige Kartelle für die Ankündigung von Events anbietet. Der Künstler benutzt die von der Produktion vorgegebenen Formate, Farben und Hintergründe. Er erkennt die Tradition dieser Technik als sozialen Protest – seine Plakate zeigen revolutionäre Texte auf, die Bekundungen, Manifeste, konkrete Poesie, Slogans und Geräusche beinhalten.
Daniel Joseph Martínez (1957, Los Angeles, USA) lebt und arbeitet in L.A. und Irving, wo er an der »University of California« unterrichtet.
Eingeladen von María Linares.
»If Only God had invented Coca Cola Sooner!
Or the death of my pet monkey “...”«
18.08. - 01.09.2006
Sox36 muestra una pequeña selección de la serie de serigrafías »If Only God had invented Coca Cola Sooner! Or the death of my pet monkey “...”« de Daniel Joseph Martínez, que fué creada en 2004 para la Trienal de Grabado en San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Las serigrafías son realizadas por una compañía en L.A. que imprime carteles a bajo costo para anunciar eventos. El artista se vale así de formatos, fondos y colores predeterminados por la producción. Martínez reconoce la tradición de esta técnica como protesta social. Sus carteles contienen textos revolucionarios, que incluyen declaraciones, manifiestos, poesía concreta, lemas y sonidos.
Daniel Joseph Martínez (1957, Los Angeles, USA) vive y trabaja en L.A. y en Irving, en donde forma parte del cuerpo docente de la »University of California«.
Invitado por María Linares.
Daniel Joseph Martinez is a Post-Tactical media practioner and internationally-renowned artist that lives and works in the Crenshaw District of South Los Angeles. His works range from the digital to the analogue, ephemeral to the solid. Using forms of strategic engagement Martinez employs mutation and schizophrenia as a form of confusion directed toward the precondition of a coexistence of politics as radical beauty. Ongoing themes in the work are contamination, history, nomadic power, cultural resistance, dissentience and systems of symbolic exchange.
He is a Professor of Theory, Practice, and Mediation of Contemporary Art at the University of California Irvine. Where he teaches in the Graduate Studies Program and New Genres Department. He has recently completed an Art Pace residency in San Antonio, Texas, produced the inaugural exhibition at LAXART gallery in Los Angeles, and participated in the group exhibition Indelible Images (trafficking between life and death) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. During the Summer of 2006 he will be realizing a project in Cali, Columbia with Lugar A Dudas and the drug cartels.
He is represented by The Project Gallery New York, MC Gallery Los Angeles.
He has just been selected to be the official representative for the United States for the 2006 Cairo Biennial.
During the past 6 months he has begun a project attempting to assume the identity of nobody and become nothing; concurrently he is building a doomsday machine, a transporter and a time machine to change the past in order to effect the future.
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