Monday, July 18, 2016

B'TOWN MUSEUM OF FINE ART EXHIBIT ELICITS REACTIONS

(Ed.'s Note: The Brownsville Museum of Fine Art has brought you flying men, overturned Greek [or Roman?] heads, a fake King Tut, and some stuff that is, frankly, undecipherable to the average layman without the benefit of art appreciation training. But their new exhibit, the "Soul of Urban Man" has struck a chord on local motorists passing by the frontage road near the intersection with East Price Road. Where some may see a tangle of rebar and concrete, the artist, Rosendo Perika, of the art commune outside San Miguel Allende, sees the deterioration of modern culture and man's reach for redemption. The BMFA is paying Perike untold bundles of cash to exhibit his works of art in the open air around town. "Mr. Perika likes to exhibit his works where the people can see them, where they travel, where it can have an impact on their daily lives," said a curator at the museum. Perika uses mixed media such as rebar and concrete chunks to impress the futility of modern man to survive in an urban setting, according to a pamphlet on the exhibit. While the average observer may think that the chunks of concrerte are just that, to someone who appreciates fine art and expression they actually symbolize the uprooting of modern man from his connection with Mother Earth and the strands of rebar his aspiration for freedom for the everyday bonds that keep the soul entangled in the material world. The exhibit will continue indefinitely or until the owner of the property can afford to construct a new building on the lot.)    

12 comments:

Diego lee rot said...

I like it! And if a drunk driver hits it no one will know. Smart Art!

Anonymous said...

Juan, everything is Art in a town like Brownsville. A stray dog is Art, as is a walking Pachuco, as is a former mayor, as is a falling neighborhood, as is a 14th Street cantina, as is a cheap RV park, as is a well-hipped movida, as is a plate of tacos de lengua, as is a deadbeat, food stamps-fueled blogger, as is a bad real estate deal on a downtown building, as is a dying wife on the trailer home's couch. De tu arte y mi arte, prefiero miarte. ja ja ja

Anonymous said...

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave!"

"The Suppression of Concrete Thoughts"

"One Museum's Trash Is Another Museum's Treasure"

"Please Tell Me Again How the Driver Talked You into Letting Him Dump That Shit on Our Property"

Anonymous said...

Unfortunately this "work of art" blends with the other deterioration of downtown Brownsville and will surely be taken for granted; or cause some to wonder why the city dump is located in the Mitte Cultural District. If this "work of art" had been in place for the recent Mitte Foundation visit....we might not get anymore funding from them.

Anonymous said...

I think this art is an interpretation of our city government.

Anonymous said...

On certain occasions, art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.

Anonymous said...

Right. Pura "perica" ese Perika dood!

Anonymous said...

We need Erasmo to clean up BISD!

Anonymous said...

Fuck you Diego ! If only you and Duardo would hit the ugly "art" piece ! Stupid ,dumb-ass idiot !

Anonymous said...

The scrap materials posted on this picture is not considered fine art, maybe gross art but not fine. It only shows the lack of talent of the artist(s).

Anonymous said...

Stupid people have been paying for P.O.S. art for a long time, nothing new.

Ie. Tiny Tim, Christo, list goes on and on. These guys spend more time thinking up names for thier so called Art than they do on the actual development of the work.

Anonymous said...

Well, someone made a small fortune by recycling the freeway leftover construction debris.

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