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THE AITI VORLD The show's title borrows from'Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?" (tg56),a collage by the English artist Richard Hamilton, deemed by some historians to be the first iconic instance ofPop art.The workpic- tures a bodybuilder wielding a giantToot- sie Pop in a living room packed with flashy consumer goods. It is sarcastic, in a 1vord, about postwar U.S. culture-unlike U.S. Pop art, which tilts toward the celebra- tory. The LACMA curators have picked up on Hamiltoris pique by startingwith a piece by the Colombian Miguel Angel Rojas which speltrs out Hamiltorls title on awallwith litde &sls punched out of coca leaves. This is pretty heavy-handed cocaine and its depredations being major U.S. imports from south of our borders, see. Beating up on "the American Dream," which is now ebbing everywhere, lacks the friqson that it once had. But the sally proves to be only one bass note in the show's concerto. Another artist, Miguel Angel Rios,who was born in Argentina, attains a pitch even more dire, but less aloo{, in his video "The Ghost of Mo- dernity (Lixiviados)" (zorz). Shacls made of wood and rusty corrugated metal fall from the sky,banging down onto barren landfill soil.Vultures flap loudly overhead. A large, pristine plexiglass cube appears to drift, a few feet offthe ground, among the shacks: the titular ghost, plainly,which haunts the worldt innumerable shanty- towns with utopian longings but can do nothing to relieve their squalor.The vid- eo's elegance graces without softening its adamant despair. HOME AND AN/-V Latin-American artists ex?lore themes of belongihg and displacement. BY PETER SCHJELDAHL Even uPbeat works in the show maY ((f__fome-So Different, So Appeal- putting multifarious works-paintings, scald a bit. "Polyptych of Buenos Aires" Eing"is a big, keen show, at the Los scdptL., photographs, videoi, irrrtalla - (zot4/t6), by a pair of artists (Juliana Angeles County Museurn of Art, of tions-in orbit arotmd a primordial idea: Laffitte and Miguel Mendanha) who go woiks made since t957 by forty-two home, where you hang your hat, if you by the name Mondongo, re-creates at firll mostly topnotch Latino and Latin- have one, and where the heart is or, for size the stupendous "Ghent Altarpiece" A-erica, artists, spanning styles from some grirn reason, fails to be.The theme (r+:z) of Hubert and Jan van Eyck but Pop to Conceptual. It tells"rnany stories befits ilrpressions ofplace-h alf a doz*n substitutes viqorgusly painted scenes of und ir u story in itself The Getty Foun- Latin-American countries and, in the an impoverished neighborhood in the dation condibuted funds for it, as part United States,various sites of diaspora, Argentine capital for the sacred figures of a push, called "Pacific StandardTime: chiefly from, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and _ofthe Northern Renaissance touchstone. l,A,/[,A,"to higtrlight Latino and I.atin- Cuba-and facts of displacement: the You are invited to walk or an outdoor American art in and for Southern Cal- immigrant kind, so ffou6lous today, and piece, set in a lawn, by the Cu,ban-Amer- ifornia. The worthiness of the aim- the oplional kirid that we term "cosmo- ican Maria ElenaGo.rlzilez_,"Yrg.-C".- politic, if not political-is one thing, politan."Willfirl modernity has always pet/Home" (zo-c811il_.ablach undulat- todi.rg-or"rectitudethanrapture.But amounted to finding, or inventing, a ingrubbersurfacethatresemblesasphalt anothir is the tour de force that the home in npmadic rootlessness. Museums and has the floor plan of a public-hous- showls curators have brought off by symbolize that vaporous destination. i.g apartment painted on it. The super- r imposition bf,those cramped quarters on "Maria Waitingfor Her Check" (zotS), by Raruiro Gornez,: a structure that's fun, amid a setting of 72 THE NEV YORKER, JUNE 26,2OI7 o U = I (-) U F E l o O N U o (, o v :

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Page 1: HOME AND AN/-V - UCLA Chicano Studies Research …Away...THE AITI VORLD The show's title borrows from'Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?" (tg56),a

THE AITI VORLDThe show's title borrows from'Just

what is it that makes today's homes so

different, so appealing?" (tg56),a collage

by the English artist Richard Hamilton,deemed by some historians to be the firsticonic instance ofPop art.The workpic-tures a bodybuilder wielding a giantToot-sie Pop in a living room packed with flashy

consumer goods. It is sarcastic, in a 1vord,about postwar U.S. culture-unlike U.S.

Pop art, which tilts toward the celebra-

tory. The LACMA curators have pickedup on Hamiltoris pique by startingwitha piece by the Colombian Miguel AngelRojas which speltrs out Hamiltorls titleon awallwith litde &sls punched out ofcoca leaves. This is pretty heavy-handed

cocaine and its depredations being majorU.S. imports from south of our borders,

see. Beating up on "the American Dream,"

which is now ebbing everywhere, lacks

the friqson that it once had. But the sally

proves to be only one bass note in theshow's concerto. Another artist, MiguelAngel Rios,who was born in Argentina,attains a pitch even more dire, but less

aloo{, in his video "The Ghost of Mo-dernity (Lixiviados)" (zorz). Shacls made

of wood and rusty corrugated metal fallfrom the sky,banging down onto barren

landfill soil.Vultures flap loudly overhead.

A large, pristine plexiglass cube appears

to drift, a few feet offthe ground, among

the shacks: the titular ghost, plainly,whichhaunts the worldt innumerable shanty-

towns with utopian longings but can do

nothing to relieve their squalor.The vid-eo's elegance graces without softening its

adamant despair.

HOME AND AN/-VLatin-American artists ex?lore themes of belongihg and displacement.

BY PETER SCHJELDAHL

Even uPbeat works in the show maY((f__fome-So Different, So Appeal- putting multifarious works-paintings, scald a bit. "Polyptych of Buenos Aires"

Eing"is a big, keen show, at the Los scdptL., photographs, videoi, irrrtalla - (zot4/t6), by a pair of artists (Juliana

Angeles County Museurn of Art, of tions-in orbit arotmd a primordial idea: Laffitte and Miguel Mendanha) who go

woiks made since t957 by forty-two home, where you hang your hat, if you by the name Mondongo, re-creates at firllmostly topnotch Latino and Latin- have one, and where the heart is or, for size the stupendous "Ghent Altarpiece"

A-erica, artists, spanning styles from some grirn reason, fails to be.The theme (r+:z) of Hubert and Jan van Eyck but

Pop to Conceptual. It tells"rnany stories befits ilrpressions ofplace-h alf a doz*n substitutes viqorgusly painted scenes ofund ir u story in itself The Getty Foun- Latin-American countries and, in the an impoverished neighborhood in the

dation condibuted funds for it, as part United States,various sites of diaspora, Argentine capital for the sacred figures

of a push, called "Pacific StandardTime: chiefly from, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and _ofthe Northern Renaissance touchstone.

l,A,/[,A,"to higtrlight Latino and I.atin- Cuba-and facts of displacement: the You are invited to walk or an outdoor

American art in and for Southern Cal- immigrant kind, so ffou6lous today, and piece, set in a lawn, by the Cu,ban-Amer-

ifornia. The worthiness of the aim- the oplional kirid that we term "cosmo- ican Maria ElenaGo.rlzilez_,"Yrg.-C".-politic, if not political-is one thing, politan."Willfirl modernity has always pet/Home" (zo-c811il_.ablach undulat-

todi.rg-or"rectitudethanrapture.But amounted to finding, or inventing, a ingrubbersurfacethatresemblesasphalt

anothir is the tour de force that the home in npmadic rootlessness. Museums and has the floor plan of a public-hous-

showls curators have brought off by symbolize that vaporous destination. i.g apartment painted on it. The super-

r imposition bf,those cramped quarters on"Maria Waitingfor Her Check" (zotS), by Raruiro Gornez,: a structure that's fun, amid a setting of

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