Exposición Pop Colonialismo

Pop – Colonialismo. Fundación TEOR/éTica. San José de Costa Rica.  2001

     Curaduría Virginia Perez Ratton

Entre los años 1999 y 2001 tuve el privilegio de realizar en Costa Rica, gracias a Virginia Pérez Ratton, fundadora y directora de la influyente Fundación TEOR/éTica, uno de los proyectos más interesantes, controversiales y redondos de la serie “El Gran Sueño Americano”, llamado: POP- Colonialismo

Sobre la exposición

View of the Pop- Colonialism exhibition. 2001. TEOR/éTica Foundation. San José, Costa Rica.
Close-up: "Esferas del Diquis" (Spheres of the Diquis). 2001. Volcanic Stone. Installation for a space of 2 meters in diameter. Executed in San José, Costa Rica.
Daniel Yankelewitz Collection. San José, Costa Rica.
Background: Gold pieces.
Esferas de piedra prehispánicas. Palmar Sur. Costa Rica
"Barriguda". 2000. Ceramic. 27 x 18 x 17 cm. Figure in reddish ceramic in the manner of a piece from the region of Gran Nicoya 500 BC - 500 AD. Daros Latinamerica Collection. Zürich. Zürich. Switzerland.
Photograph: Fernando Gallese.
Left: "Chamán en ascenso mágico" (Shaman in magical ascent). 2001. Gold plated silver. 12 x 7 x 4 cm
Right: Original goldsmith piece from the Diquís region of the Gold Museum of San José, Costa Rica.
Photograph: Fernando Gallese.
Tripod zoomorphic plat (Duck plate). 2001. Ceramic. 17 x 24 x 24 cm.
Piece executed in Costa Rica in the manner of pre-Columbian ceramics from the North Pacific region of Costa Rica.
Daros Latinamerica Zürich Collection. Zürich. Switzerland.
Photograph: Fernando Gallese.
Zoomorphic tripod vessel. 2001. Polychrome ceramic. 27,5 x 27 x 23 cm.
Figure executed in Costa Rica in the manner of a piece from the Greater Nicoya region. 500 BC - 500 AD.
Photograph: Fernando Gallese.
View of the Pop-Colonialism exhibition.
Above: "Emblemas" (Emblems). 2001. False Jadeite.11 x 6 x 4 cm average. Pieces made in San Jose, Costa Rica. in the manner of jade pendants from the Great Nicoya.
Below: Zoomorphic tripod plates. 2001. Ceramic. 17 x 24 x 24 cm. each. Pieces executed in San José, Costa Rica in the manner of ceramics from the Great Nicoya.
Daros Collection. Zürich. Zürich. Switzerland.
"Siameses aureolados" (Siamese twins with haloes). 2001. Gold plated silver. 12 x 10 x 3 cm.
Photograph Fernando Gallese.
"Vaso del Conejo" (Rabbit vase). 2000. Ceramic. 35 x 21 x 22 cm. Figure executed in San Jose, Costa Rica in the manner of a piece from the Grán Nicoya region 500 BC-500 AD.
Photograph Fernando Gallese.
Canibales. 2001. Piedra. 27 x 16 x 12 cm. y 28 x 18 x 12 cm. Ejecutadas en San José de Costa Rica a la manera de piezas de la Región Atlántica. 500 – 100 A.C.
Chamán de la barca. 2001. Plata con baño de oro. 12 x 10 x 4 cm. Pieza ejecutada en San José de Costa Rica como orfebrería precolombina de la región del Diquís.
View of the Pop-Colonialism exhibition. 2001. TEOR/éTica Foundation. San José, Costa Rica.
1- "Cacica Preñada" (Pregnant Cacica). 2000. Ceramic. 45 x 23 x 15 cm. Piece in the manner of a piece from the Great Nicoya.
2- "Hermafrodita" (Hermaphrodite). 2000. Ceramic. 46 x 22 x 13 cm. Piece made in the manner of Gran Nicoya ceramics. Costa Rica 500 - 800. A. C. Daros Collection. Zürich.
3- "China". 2000. Polychrome ceramic. 20 x 36 x 17 cm. Seated figure with decoration in the manner of a piece from northern Costa Rica.
Vaso trípode con efigie. 2000. Cerámica policromada. 35 x 21 x 22 cm. Pieza ejecutada en San José de Costa Rica a la manera de pieza de la región del Pacífico Norte de Costa Rica. 1350 – 1550 A.C.
Esferas del Diquis. 2001. Piedra. Instalación para un espacio de 2 metros de diámetro. Pieza ejecutada en San José de Isnos. Colombia.
"Esferas del Diquis" (Spheres of the Diquis). 2001 (Detail)
"Esferas del Diquis" (Spheres of the Diquis). 2001. Stone 70 x 50 x 50 cm.
Catálogo de la exposición
Exhibition catalog Catalog of the exhibition Pop Colonialism by Nadín Ospina. TEOR/éTica Foundation. San José, Costa Rica. 2001 DOWNLOAD
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