In Your Face: Chicano Art after CARA
“Chicano art is the modern, ongoing expression of the long-term cultural, economic and political struggles of the Mexican people within the United States. It is an affirmation of the complex identity and vitality of the Chicano people. Chicano art emerges from and is shaped by our experiences in the Americas.”
– Founding Declaration of the CARA National Advisory Committee, 1987
In 1990, a notable exhibition attempted to create a visual documentation and analysis of the Chicano Art Movement from 1965 to 1985. CARA (Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation) was organized by the Wight Art Gallery at the University of California, Los Angeles. More than 30 years later, the curatorial team of The AltaMed Art Collection chose to bring this historical exhibition to Rome, Berlin, Madrid, and Guanajuato.
We shared the same goal as with CARA: "to present this work in a way that allows it to be understood and appreciated outside the community of Chicanos, as well as inside of it." We selected artists from the CARA exhibition who are also represented in the collection and picked up where CARA left off in 1985.
The title of the exhibition, In Your Face, is not only a literal reference to the acronym CARA (face in Spanish) but also a recognition that Chicano art remains bold, provocative, and ambitious. Chicano(a) artists continue to be political, as well as concerned about civil liberties and social injustice, and they still depict strong feminist visions, urban images, and cultural icons. Today, we can say with absolute certainty that Chicano art has redefined American art and continues to do so.
Source: Exhibition catalogue for In Your Face: Chicano Art After CARA.
September 28, 2022 - January 21, 2023
Instituto Cervantes di Roma, Rome, Italy
March 2 - June 2, 2023
Instituto Cultural de México en Alemania, Berlin, Germany
July 6 - August 27, 2023
Espacio Cultural Serrería Belga, Veranos de la Villa, Madrid, Spain
October 14, 2023 - February 4, 2024
Museo Conde Rul, Festival Internacional Cervantino, Guanajuato, México
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