A visual and comprehensive survey of the various aspects
of contemporary design and its interactions with craft and
art in Latin America.
· New Territories explores collaborations between
small manufacturing operations and artists, designers
and craftspersons, demonstrating how the resulting
work addresses issues of commodification, production,
urbanization, displacement and sustainability.
· It is organized around various cities in Latin America, and
the dominant themes and issues being pursued by more
than 100 artists, designers/design studios and artisans in
regions including Brazil, Cuba, Panama, Colombia, Mexico,
El Salvador, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and Chile.
· Richly illustrated scholarly essays by critics, curators,
and art historians Regine Basha, Adela Borges, Marcella
Echevarría, Antonio Sánchez Gómez, Magdalena
Gruneisen, Adriana Kertzer, Ana Elena Mallet, Nessi Pope
and Fabiana Lopes, Jorge Rivas Pérez, Gabriela Rangel,
Mari Carmen Ramírez, Blanca Serrano, and Lowery Stokes
Sims are presented here in this comprehensive volume.
· The publication accompanies an exhibition at the
Museum of Art and Design, New York, from November,
2014 to March 2015.
