Felipe Ehrenberg | Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares | ArtNexus | June 2024

June 15, 2024

“I don't know how Felipe Ehrenberg would take it for his work, his figure, or his career in general terms to be talked about as an arrangement of moments of brilliancy in a template that described him as precursor, visionary, transgressor, transhumant, polestar, and vindicator of forms, causes, practices, terms, vehicles, resistances, and subjugations. He would probably raise an eyebrow at that last noun, only to in the end surrender to those terms' paradoxical evidence for the subversion implicit in any adaptation: to say and to continue saying, to make and to continue making, finding the niches from where to do it, linking practices and usages from a social, communitarian, and political standpoint, and carrying them towards a reality beyond all simulation, in the temptation of having art be such a thing, in the last instance, as the in-place-of that is lived and traversed, invoked as a sojourn in time.”

Excerpt from the review by Ricardo Pohlenz for the exhibition held on the occasion of what would have been Felipe Ehrenberg's 80th birthday at the Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares and published in ArtNexus No.122 June 2024.

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