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TITLE OF EXHIBITION
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ARTISTS
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PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MAYA HAYUK
MURAL at “LA QUIÑONERA”
Santa Cruz 111, Barrio de la Candelaria, Coyoacán, México D.F.
Production : APRIL 16 – 18, 2012
La Quiñonera has been an emblematic space for the Mexican art scene since the 80´s, located in the area Coyoacan, in Mexico City. It´s gardens and walls have witnessed many experimental forms of art from artist such as Francis Alys, Teresa Margolles, Grupo Semefo, Monica Castillo, Boris Viskin, Gabriel Macotela, Gabriel Orozco, Santa Sabina y Caifanes. To this day, it maintains as an independent and experimental space where artists manifest their political, social, and visual ideas.
La Quiñonera has become a platform for cultural exchange, encouraging dialogue through art interventions. During her visit to Mexico this April, Maya Hayuk was invited to be part of this project and created a large-scale mural on the walls that surround the property.
May __, 8-10pm, Anonymous Gallery will be hosting a private dinner at La Quiñonera to celebrate this latest installment of creation on the grounds of this historic property.
Maya Hayuk obsesses with symmetry and nourishing color played out in what might be views from the Hubble Telescope, airbrushed nail art, Ukrainian Easter eggs, chandeliers, mandalas, Rorschach tests and/or holograms. Embracing sexuality and spirituality via symbolism evocative of radiantly woven geometries and beckoning parted orifices of the body, her work tries to decode a process towards continuity and wholeness while striking chords of an almost pathological optimism.
Muralist, painter and photographer based in Brooklyn. Her work has been exhibited and published extensively internationally in galleries, museums, on the streets and in various printed and electronic media. Hayuk has been a member of the artist collective BARNSTORMERS since 2002 alongside artists including Swoon, David Ellis, Doze Green and Ryan McGinness. She’s made all kinds of art to support music, from album covers to videos to stage sets for Rye Rye/M.I.A, The Akron Family, TV on the Radio, The Flaming Lips, Devendra Banhardt, Seun Kuti, Prefuse 73, Awesome Color, Oakley Hall, Home, Animal Collective, Dan Deacon and The Beastie Boys, amongst others.
In April of this year, Hayuk opened her first solo show, 2012 APOCABLISS with Anonymous Gallery in Mexico City. For more information about the exhibition or project at La Quiñonera, please contact, info@anonymousgallery.com
This project was made possible with support from Comex, and artists Paola Beck, Nestor and Hector Quiñones.
© 2010 Anonymous Gallery.