Home - signaling a dwelling, residence or place of origin -
embodies one of the most basic concepts for understanding an
individual or group within a larger physical and social
environment. Yet home has been a little noted, although prevalent,
feature in art since the 1950s, a period in which artists
challenged the traditional "object" of the visual arts through the
use of material and media culture, new forms, and performative
actions and processes. This volume explores works by diverse U.S.
Latino and Latin American artists whose engagement with the concept
of "home" provides the basis for an alternative narrative of
post-war art. Their work brings together an impressive array of
formal languages, conceptual strategies, and art historical
references with the varied social concerns characterizing both the
postwar period in the Americas and an emerging global economy
impacting day-to-day life. The artists featured in this volume
engage home as both concept and artifact. This can be seen in the
use of building fragments or excisions (Gordon Matta-Clark, Gabriel
de la Mora, and Leyla Cardenas), household furniture (Raphael
Montanez Ortiz, Beatriz Gonzalez, Doris Salcedo, Amalia Mesa-Bains,
Guillermo Kuitca), and personal possessions (Carmen Argote, Maria
Teresa Hincapie, Camilo Ontiveros), and also in the use of coca
leaves as a material base of the American Dream and its economic
exchange with Colombia (Miguel Angel Rojas). Within more
representational work, home is the re-creation of fraught domiciles
(Abraham Cruzvillegas, Pepon Osorio, Daniel J. Martinez), a collage
of spaces, styles, and materials (Antonio Berni, Andres Asturias,
Jorge Pedro Nunez, Miguel Angel Rios, Juan Sanchez), and a
juxtaposition of bodies and place (Laura Aguilar, Myrna Baez,
Johanna Calle, Perla de Leon, Ramiro Gomez, Jessica Kaire, Vincent
Valdez). In more conceptual work, home is all these things reduced
to form-a floor plan (Luis Camnitzer, Leon Ferrari, Maria Elena
Gonzalez, Guillermo Kuitca), a catalog of objects (Antonio
Martorell, Hincapie), or a housing development plan (Livia Corona
Benjamin, Martinez). In the end, home is a journey without arrival
(Allora y Calzadilla, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Christina Fernandez, Felix
Gonzalez-Torres, Julio Cesar Morales, Teresa Serrano). Home-So
Different, So Appealing reveals the departures and confluences that
continue to shape US Latino and Latin American art and expands our
appreciation of these artists and their work.
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