Tres Anteproyectos Serie I-B

1974

Not on view

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.

Artwork Details

Title: Tres Anteproyectos Serie I-B
Artist: Horacio Zabala (Argentinian, born Buenos Aires, 1943)
Date: 1974
Medium: Graphite on tracing paper
Dimensions: 13 3/4 × 43 in. (34.9 × 109.2 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Purchase, Latin American Art Initiative Gift and Bequest of Gioconda King, by exchange, 2019
Object Number: 2019.92
Rights and Reproduction: © Horacio Zabala
Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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