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As part of the work by Juan Luna, people can purchase a box-set. For only $100, the set includes a three volume Mexican punk compilation created by Luna, a poster, and the signed song list. This work is inspired by Tepito, the largest street market in Mexico City where you can find everything from exotic animals, drugs, firearms to pirated CDs. |
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Courtesy of Y Gallery.
For Those About To Rock: Y Gallery Presents Metal Coyote
Currently on view at Y Gallery is Metal Coyote, featuring rock´n roll imagery that combines American and Mexican culture in funny and revealing ways. In this exhibit, metal acts as a creaking sound, like a fork against a knife.
Aurie Ramirez, Untitled, 2006. Watercolor on paper, 18″ x 24
NY Arts recently caught up with curator Aldo Sánchez. Sanchez states “The coyote is a figure that has been very present in the rock imagery. It is also a very meaningful figure for the southern U.S. and Northern Mexico. I wanted to include the word “coyote” in the title because the exhibition features American, as well as a Mexican artists. I am very interested in the way American artists address musical culture and the way Mexican and non-American (in the case of Aurie Ramirez, who was born in the Phillipines) approach the notion of piracy, appropriations, and reinterpretation of rock music. As part of the work by Juan Luna, people can purchase a box-set. For only $100, the set includes a three volume Mexican punk compilation created by Luna, a poster, and the signed song list. This work is inspired by Tepito, the largest street market in Mexico City where you can find everything from exotic animals, drugs, firearms to pirated CDs.”
Metal Coyote is on view at Y Gallery from January 18 – February 17, 2013.
Featuring: Los Jaichackers, Brad Kahlhamer, Juan Luna Avín, Julio Morales, Moris, Eamon Ore Giron, Aurie Ramírez, Cal Schenkel, and Arturo Vega.
