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Jorge Méndez Blake (born 1974) is a Mexican mixed-media conceptual artist. Trained as an architect, the artist builds walls and connects their history to literature. He lives and works in Guadalajara, Mexico.
At the James Cohan Gallery in New York, he exhibited a wall entitled Amerika, based on a Franz Kafka novel, during the time of the government shutdown when president Donald Trump was advocating to build the wall between the U.S. Mexican border. In this sense, his work could be seen as border art.
His work focuses on writing as "a kind of construction," using his brick sculptures to connect architecture to literature. He has exhibited widely in international bienniales and museums.
References
- "Seeing Poetry: Mexican Artist Jorge Méndez Blake Transforms Literature into Sculpture and Visual Art". Yatzer. 2016-03-10. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
- "A Single Book Disrupts the Foundation of a Brick Wall by Jorge Méndez Blake". Colossal. 2018-02-14. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
- "E-Flux - Jorge Méndez Blake". Archived from the original on 2010-02-11. Retrieved 2009-12-13.
- Selvin, Claire (2019-01-08). "At James Cohan Gallery, Jorge Méndez Blake Builds a Wall". ARTnews. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
- "Jorge Méndez Blake | Metal Magazine". metalmagazine.eu. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
- "Marfa Contemporary :: Jorge Mendez Blake". marfacontemporary.org. Retrieved 2017-06-11.
External links
- Official website
- Jorge Mendez Blake's works Meessen De Clercq, Brussels Archived 2016-08-14 at the Wayback Machine