The Logic of Disorder

The Sculptural Materialism of Abraham Cruzvillegas

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4299989
AutoresRobin Adèle Greeley (0000-0002-7523-9679, ROBIN ADÈLE GREELEY teaches at the University of Connecticut and has published widely on art and politics. Her books, as author and editor, include Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War (Yale, 2006), Mexican Muralism: A Critical History (California, 2012), and Between Campesino and State: Photography, Rurality and Modernity in 20th–21st Century Mexico (Yale, forthcoming)., autor de correspondencia)
Año2015
Volumen151
Páginas78-107
Fecha de publicación2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaOctober (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0162-2870 • E-ISSN: 1536-013X
EditorialMIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1162/octo_a_00209
OpenAlexW2069088589
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas10

Two models of object experience dominate definitions of sculpture today. One argues that commodification is a universally uniform experience of relentless violence that frames all materialities everywhere within the demands of the globalized market. The second argues that the "unruliness of things" can still disrupt the "rule of the commodity." The autoconstrucción sculptural practice of Abraham Cruzvillegas, argues Greeley, marks a third position. Derived from the "self-building" architecture of the squatter settlement on the edge of Mexico City where he grew up, Cruzvillegas's work is located in the dialectic between object experience in developing countries and object experience in the hegemonic 'centers' of developed countries and the market-driven international art circuit. Under the rubric of autoconstrucción, Cruzvillegas exploits this dialectic, not to claim any utopian redemptive space outside the world market system, nor to insist on a universally uniform experience of commodification within it, but rather to assert the asymmetries of object experience induced by global economic integration

Aesthetics · Art · Commodification · Commodity · Dialectic · Economics · Economy · Epistemology · Hegemony · Market economy · Materialism · Object (grammar · Political science · Sociology · Visual arts · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Law · Philosophy · Architecture