Helmet
Ink/Ready-made object
Collection: M RGMN
Serie: War
2011
"Showcase for trophies XXXXL" presents a series of works from two projects that the artist Juan de Dios Mendoza developed for the last four years; My regime and Kamarada Napoleon conquered territories. In these exhibitions culinary images and an aesthetic that refers closely to socialism theatrical, bombastic and megalomaniacal way mixture.
The show proves to be a particularly autobiographical project in which the artist uses two-way word regime, finding a magnificent medium where you can talk about classic novels like "Animal Farm" by George Orwell and food systems based in authoritarian impositions, diets, large banquets, ceremonial music and memorabilia in many cases a number of methods for weight control, and the use of military paraphernalia, cordon blue and socialist aesthetics.
"I am tensing these institutional representations made as best suits the operating system. In this case, I'm creating the idea based on the exaltation of the aesthetic values of excess and greed and myself such as the supreme leader pointing the way forward government. . . "
The choice of materials makes the pieces form an essential part of the speech, for example-leader-dictator artist; the fabrics that are made banners are not vaporous or light, they are closer to a tapestry or a rug made from an adopted and developed technique during the Great American Depression, patchwork, as a way to perform with used clothing quilts warm for the time of deep cold.
The dynamics of comfort, elegance, civility and sophistication of each of the pieces makes us to note in the set and even the entire design of the exhibition, we have entered a space that could function as a small center for receiving guests special where state policies are enacted and functioning as an efficient place for the dissemination of propaganda with beautiful culinary and decorative elements.
Leonardo Ramirez
Curator
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