Jorge Méndez Blake

Jorge Méndez Blake (born 1974) is a Mexican mixed-media conceptual artist. Trained as an architect,[1] the artist builds walls[2] and connects their history to literature. He lives and works in Guadalajara, Mexico.[3]

At the James Cohan Gallery in New York, he exhibited a wall entitled Amerika, based on a Franz Kafka novel, during the time of the government shutdown when president Donald Trump was advocating to build the wall between the U.S. Mexican border.[4] In this sense, his work could be seen as border art.

His work focuses on writing as "a kind of construction," using his brick sculptures to connect architecture to literature.[5] He has exhibited widely in international bienniales and museums.[6]

References
  1. "Seeing Poetry: Mexican Artist Jorge Méndez Blake Transforms Literature into Sculpture and Visual Art". Yatzer. 2016-03-10. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
  2. "A Single Book Disrupts the Foundation of a Brick Wall by Jorge Méndez Blake". Colossal. 2018-02-14. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
  3. "E-Flux - Jorge Méndez Blake". Archived from the original on 2010-02-11. Retrieved 2009-12-13.
  4. Selvin, Claire (2019-01-08). "At James Cohan Gallery, Jorge Méndez Blake Builds a Wall". ARTnews. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
  5. "Jorge Méndez Blake | Metal Magazine". metalmagazine.eu. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
  6. "Marfa Contemporary :: Jorge Mendez Blake". marfacontemporary.org. Retrieved 2017-06-11.
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