Artist’s talk with MAAE artist in residence Diego Perez March 25, 2009

Please join Mexican artist Diego Perez for a talk and discussion of his work and his current project done in collaboration with Flatbed Press.

The event is free and open to the public.

Diego Pérez (Mexico City, 1975) lives and works in Mexico City. Pérez’s photographs and artist books are idiosyncratic in character, both offer two mediums from which the artist is able to explore shared experiences and everyday life. His work investigates both formal and social aspects that connect individuals in urban contexts such as Mexico City. For Pérez the artist’s role in society is that of a vehicle for transformation that departs from ordinary objects of everyday life to ideological bridges of communication between individuals in any given society. Pérez has participated in the following solo exhibitions: “Mitología Chilanga”, Galería Arte Méxicano, México, D.F., August 2006, “Sólo para el viento existen las hojas de los árboles”, Celda Contemporánea, Universidad Claustro Sor Juana, México, D.F., June 2006. Pérez was also awarded the grant, Jóvenes Creadores, Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (National Fund for the Arts and Culture in Mexico). He has also been awarded the Gran Salón de Octubre prize by the Omnilife Foundation. At the present he is the recipient of the grant Programa de Arte Actual from the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil and the Bancomer Foundation.

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The Mexico-Austin Artist Exchange program 2009 is organized by the Blanton Museum of Art in collaboration with the Creative Research Lab at the Department of Art and Art History, the Mexican Center at the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies and the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico. Funding for the program is provided by the Barbara Duncan Centennial Endowed Lectureship, the Mexican Center, the Programa Arte Actual Bancomer-MACG, and the Creative Research Lab. Additional funding is provided by Katalena Hernandez Cowles, James Cowles and Antonio La Pastina and Dale Rice.

Official Website: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~crlab/mapping-exchange.html