Visual Resistance

The opening of Resistencia Visual is this Thursday at ABC No Rio. The exhibit features street art by the collective ASAR-O from the Popular Movement in Oaxaca, Mexico.

This exhibit is made up of woodblock prints and stencils made by
ASAR-O (Oaxacan Assembly of Revolutionary Artists), a collective
involved in the popular movement APPO in Oaxaca, Mexico. ASAR-O
formed in October of 2006, respinding to the call of the APPO
(Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca) a diverse movement of
civil society in Southern Mexico. With the goal that “all sectors
will organize themselves to resist and unite in the struggle
against the tyranny of a government that represents the interests
of the wealthy…”

Come out to see an exciting glimpse of the work that has been
produced for “mega-marches” and painting on the walls of Oaxaca
City. Its an inspiring body of work that makes the demands of the
movement visually.

For some background info read k. see’s previous post about ASARO and Oaxaca.

The exhibit will run April 26th-May 24th
Sundays 1-3pm
Wednesday & Thursdays 5-7pm

Thursday May 3rd 7pm
Proyecto Autogestion will screen “el machete: la lucha por el poder popular”
a documnentary filmed and edited by indigenous people of
CODEP(Committee Organized in Defense of the People’s Rights) in
Oaxaca.
http://elenemigocomun.net/878

Thursday May 10th 7pm
Discussion with James Wechsler on Mexican Art and Politics of
1920’s & 30’s. Possibility of other speakers. James is an
independant scholar based in NYC who worked with the Philadelphia
Museum of Art on the exhibit Mexico & Modern Printmaking.
http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/special/103.html
The exhibit can be seen in the near future at The Phoenix Art
Museum, Phoenix, Arizona. From June 29–September 16, 2007

For more info about ASAR-O and their work check out
http://web.mac.com/dfteitel/iWeb/ASAR-O/Home%20-%20Inicio.html

This exhibit has been brought to you by:
Visual Resistance
www.visualresistance.org
CASA
http://www.chiapaspeacehouse.org/

Exhibition Funded in part by the NYS Council on the Arts
and Dedalus Foundation

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