BETSABEÉ ROMERO: BLACK TEARS (LÁGRIMAS NEGRAS)
APRIL 23-AUGUST 14, 2011
Black Tears is a ten-year survey of one of Mexico’s leading artists, Betsabeé Romero.
Self-described as a “mechanic artist,” Romero draws on Pre-Columbian iconography, colonial imagery, and popular culture to transform automobiles and their components into contemporary works of art.
The artist’s refashioned cars, carved tires, painted hoods, and incised mirrors explore tensions between local traditions and industrialized societies dominated by speed, mass production, and emigration.
The exhibition was curated by Julian Zugazagoita for the Amparo Museum in Puebla, Mexico and traveled to the Contemporary Museum of Monterrey and the San Ildefonso Museum in Mexico. Lágrimas Negras was sponsored at the Museo Amparo by The Fundación Amparo and the Credit Suisse.
Patrice Giasson, Curator of the Art of the Americas, will coordinate this exhibition at the Neuberger Museum of Art, the only United States venue.
