Hugo Garcia-Urrutia discusses his current exhibition, Making a Killing.
Wednesday, June 8 6:00-7:00pm
Curated by Charissa Terranova
Reflecting on the violent changes to Mexican society and its relentless struggle to cope and contain, Hugo Garcia-Urrutia presents a vision far from reaching any fast and lasting solution. His site-specific installation, Making A Killing, overtly draws the viewer to the harrowing number of people that have literally been coerced into or harmed by this deadly business of drugs, kidnapping, extortion, theft, and murder.
Garcia-Urrutia will engage the viewer in seeing the installation as an abstract sculptural object with a unique texture and size, sharing equal parts fear, tragedy and beauty. The surface is bullet-perforated to remind the viewer how close we are to this violence. As we walk outside this cube which contains the violence, we see the walls are too thin and at some points the bullets have flown out.
Originally from Ciudad Juarez, Hugo Garcia-Urrutia has regularly created work which reflects his architectural training. Receiving a Bachelor of Architecture and Design from Texas Tech University, Garcia Urrutia worked as an architect for five years before founding the Decorazon Gallery in Dallas’ Bishop Arts District in 2004. He has participated in national and international art-architecture competitions and public projects including the 2000 National Urban Poetry I Competition sponsored by AIA Cincinnati and International Architecture Competition sponsored by the magazine ARQUINE in 2005. Currently he is the artists in residence for The Fairmont Hotel in Dallas.
With Special Thanks to Exhibition Sponsors Anne and John Mullen.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
