I'm late in posting this and the show is already down, but I've been thinking a lot about the work of Abraham Cruzvillegas this fall. I had the good luck to see Autoconstrucción at RedCat in LA, and again in San Francisco when it was screened by the Wattis Institute, with Abraham and Jens Hoffman in conversation.
I like his sculpture a lot, but even more exciting is the way he talks about building projects and materials (both the ones of art and everyday life), and allows aesthetics, accidents and politics to collide in his work. The neverending building projects in the film are in a strange flux between growth and decay, and each building represents a singular, hand-made, self-designed undertaking. Cruzvillegas said, of the film, “When you talk about madness, you have to do it in a mad way.”
The image above is a google street view pic from Ajusco, the Mexico City neighborhood documented in Autoconstrucción.
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