Tres Anteproyectos Serie I-B

Horacio Zabala Argentinian

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Initially trained as an architect, the Argentinian conceptual artist Horacio Zabala is interested in the inverted uses by which modern architecture has been deployed by different regimes to exert control and surveillance over people. For his series "Anteproyectos" started in 1973, he designed imaginary prisons for artists. Placed on top of a column, buried underground or floating over water, his proposed constructions for isolation grew out of a response to the increasing number of cases of censorship and repression occurring in Latin American countries since the 1960s. Tres Anteproyectos Serie I-B highlights the dark humor of these hypothetical constructions, questioning the role of artists in society and their response to the oppressive political contexts in which they may work.

Tres Anteproyectos Serie I-B, Horacio Zabala (Argentinian, born Buenos Aires, 1943), Graphite on tracing paper

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Courtesy of the artist and Henrique Faria, New York. Photography by Arturo Sánchez.