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Exhibition "The Question is Known: (W)here is Latin American/Latino Art" at Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (San Francisco), April 18 - May 24, 2008


Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (MCCLA) presents "The Question is Known: (W)here is Latin American/Latino Art" in the MCCLA gallery, 2868 Mission St, San Francisco, April 18-May 24, 2008. Opening reception Friday, April 18, 7-10pm ($5). "The Question is Known" includes works by 30 Latino/Latin American artists as well as non-Latinos. Curator Anthony Torres writes that the exhibition "is concerned with making what should be a simple and obvious statement -- that Latino artists and art practices are diverse." A related symposium takes place Saturday, April 19, 10am-3:30pm at San Francisco Art Institute (800 Chestnut St., San Francisco).


San Francisco, CA , April 7, 2008 -- Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (MCCLA) presents "The Question is Known: (W)here is Latin American/Latino Art" The exhibition, curated by Anthony Torres, features thirty artists whose works reflect a vast range of aesthetic and conceptual frameworks and material approaches. "The Question is Known: (W)here is Latin American/Latino Art" is on view at Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, 2868 Mission Street (near 24th), San Francisco, April 18-May 24, 2008. The gallery is open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (daily admission $2). For more information, call (415) 821-1155, or visit www.MissionCulturalCenter.org.



The exhibition premieres with an opening reception on Friday, April 18, 7-10 p.m. ($5). To augment the exhibition, MCCLA has teamed with the Graduate Program of San Francisco Art Institute to present a free symposium on Saturday, April 19, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at SFAI (800 Chestnut St., San Francisco, www.sfai.edu/questionisknown), exploring various aspects of current approaches to Latin American/Latino art practice.



"The Question is Known" (the title was inspired by lyrics from a Jimi Hendrix song) includes works from private and public collections by artists from the U.S., Latin America and the Caribbean, and includes Latino/Latin American artists as well as non-Latinos for whom Latino/Caribbean art and culture have been sources of inspiration in their work. In an accompanying brochure, curator Anthony Torres writes that "The Question is Known"is concerned with making what should be a simple and obvious statement -- that Latino artists and art practices are diverse."



On view are works by Vicente Antonorsi, Adrin Arias, Jos Bedia, Claudia Bernardi, Luis Camnitzer, Victor Cartagena, Rolando Castelln, Enrique Chagoya, Ana de la Cueva, Lewis deSoto, Miguel Farias, Juan Fuentes, Rupert Garcia, Manuel A. Gomez, Matt Gonzalez, Luis Gutierrez, Sylvia Ji, Rob Keller, Geraldine Lozano, Manuel Lucero, James Luna, Manuel Neri, Bernardo Roman Palau, Liliana Porter, Gustavo Ramos Rivera, Clare Rojas, Claudio Roncoli, Raymond Saunders, Robin Savinar, and Nahum Zenil.



MCCLA Executive Director Jennie E. Rodrguez says, "For thirty years, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts has presented exhibitions and programs that highlight the richness and diversity of Latino visual arts and cultural expression, and this exhibition is a wonderful opportunity for us to expand on this tradition."



MCCLA Gallery Coordinator Patricia Rodrguez says, "In my seven years at MCCLA, I have coordinated and curated exhibitions that primarily focus on Latino artists from the Bay Area and throughout California, and have seen audience participation grow. This is a historic exhibition in the 30-year history of MCCLA, with the participation of national and international artists and important galleries and museums, and we hope it will add further audience support for our gallery, classes and programs."



Through the works selected for "The Question is Known," explains Torres, the exhibition "aims to interrogate the significance of 'Latin American/Latino Art' by problematizing, reformulating, and re-presenting 'Latin American/Latino Art' as an intellectual fabrication that is often 'essentialized' as a unitary subject or category."



The exhibition explores Latin American/Latino art as "a historically contingent ideological construct that is not 'natural' or given," Torres continues, "but rather a hybrid of cultural creations that are fluid and mobile, established by contact, conflict, experience, sympathetic issue identification, and fantasy constructions, often constituted as living sources of inspiration, articulated through iconography, formal vocabularies, and personal associations." The exhibition is thus "concerned with positing 'Latino art' as an ambiguous area of inquiry that raises issues, poses questions, and interrogates curatorial perspectives and institutional politics."



Symposium: Saturday April 19, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m., San Francisco Art Institute -- Free



A related symposium, co-presented by MCCLA and the SFAI Graduate Program, takes place on Saturday, April 19, 10am-3:30pm, at San Francisco Art Institute (800 Chestnut St., San Francisco), with presentations by art historian Gerardo Mosquera, Adjunct Curator, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Alma Ruiz, Curator, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Judith Bettelheim, Professor of Art History, San Francisco State University; artist and human rights activist Claudia Bernardi; Hou Hanru, Director, Museum Studies Program, San Francisco Art Institute; and is moderated by exhibition curator and art critic Anthony Torres.



Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (MCCLA) was established in 1977 by artists and community activists with a shared vision to promote, preserve and develop the Latino cultural arts that reflect the living tradition and experiences of the Chicano, South American, and Caribbean people.



MCCLA is convenient to the 24th Street BART station and Muni bus lines, and is wheelchair accessible.



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