Manchuria, Peripheral Vision: Felipe Ehrenberg Retrospective

May 23 – August 15, 2010

Curated by Fernando Llanos

Manchuria – Visión Periférica  – A Felipe Ehrenberg Retrospective, is a fifty-year survey of Mexico’s illustrious and controversial proponent of conceptual and performance art whose experimental forms were forefront in the manifestation of happenings, street art, installation and media art (film and video.)  This exhibition presents for the first time to the United States audiences the import of this artist’s production and contribution to the post-modern aesthetic.  Felipe Ehrenberg, whose recognition is long overdue, is one of the most provocative, prolific and significant Mexican artists of the late 20^th century. 

This exhibition contains very few “formal” works rather it offers a diversity of media– drawing, paintings, objects, printed works from  Xerox copies, memorgraphs, prints or press art, flyers, books, etc, as well as video projections, audio CD, and documentation of performance works– which chronicle the artist’s activity between Europe and Mexico from the late 1960s to the present. 

Manchuria, Peripheral Vision: Felipe Ehrenberg Retrospective

Felipe Ehrenberg at the 2010 MoLAA Gala during Manchuria, Peripheral Vision:  Felipe Ehrenberg Retrospective. MoLAA, 2010.

Photo Stefanie Keenan

Exhibition View: Manchuria, Peripheral Vision:  Felipe Ehrenberg Retrospective. MoLAA, 2010.

Photo Jon Endow