"Terence Gower is Canadian, but he lives and works between New York and Mexico City. "Ciudad Moderna, " which includes photography, painting and video stills from his eponymous short film, is his homage to Mexican modernist architecture, and to the alluring aesthetics of mid-century Latin America: in keeping with those aesthetics, it is designed after the glossy magazines of the era."
"From November 2006 to January 2007, Plataforma Puebla took over the oldest factory in Mexico, La Constancia in Puebla, for a large-scale exhibition showcasing more than 60 Latin American artists. The curators charted an artistic cartography of the city around the site, and made interventions that spilled over into the streets--altering traffic, inviting viewers to reevaluate the roles of landmarks, and highlighting connections between t ..."
"This first major monograph on the electronic artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer was produced on the occasion of the 2007 Venice Biennale, where Lozano-Hemmer presented six interactive installations--becoming the first artist to officially represent Mexico at the Biennale. Born in Mexico City in 1967, Lozano-Hemmer studied Physical Chemistry at Concordia University in Montreal, and now uses his background in the sciences to create the large-sca ..."
"Published to accompany Willie Doherty's recent exhibition at the Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City, this volume investigates seven key videos and one brand new work that comment on Ireland's longstanding religious conflict, its portrayal in mass media, and the resulting connection between diffusion and location."