Abraham

Abraham Cruzvillegas: The Autoconstrucción Suites

2013 · 411170 — Minneapolis: Walker Art Center 2013. First edition. Generally a clean copy. 13.5 x 9.75 inches. 240 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial wrappers. "Published on the occasion of the artist's first major survey this volume explores the rich terrain of Abraham Cruzvillegas' born 1968 work over the past ten years rooting his sculptural language within the volcanic landscape of his childhood home in Ajusco Mexico. The publication elaborates on Cruzvillegas' interest in autoconstrucción a construction method arising from the constraints of poverty in which parts are recycled and adapted for new purposes. Developed in collaboration with the artist the volume features five essays examining autoconstrucción through the lens of art history politics architecture and urban migration in Mexico in the 1960s. Along with these texts the publication includes sculptures by Cruzvillegas; snapshots of Ajusco Mexico taken by the artist; archival images of Ajusco from the Cruzvillegas Fuentes family album; titles that inform and inspire the artist's thinking about autoconstrucción; silkscreened posters of liberation movements in Latin America; and the artist's index of concepts and song lyrics written as allegories of his childhood" the publisher. Walker Art Center unknown