Gabriel Acevedo Velarde
Extermination (Exterminio)2006

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Gabriel Acevedo Velarde
Peru, active Mexico, born 1976
Title: Extermination (Exterminio)
Date Made: 2006
Medium: DVD
Dimensions: Duration: 00:03:00 Case: 7 1/2 × 5 1/4 in. Box: 11 × 8 1/2 × 1 3/4 in.
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art Deaccession Fund
Accession Number: M.2007.11.1.1-.3
Classification: Time Based Media
Collecting Area: Latin American Art
Curatorial Notes: Born in Lima, Peru, Gabriel Acevedo trained in the visual arts and in film production in Puebla and Mexico City. He invents fantastic worlds where real-life referents and animated characters coexist. In Exterminio, a copulating couple flies over carefully selected aerial backdrops taken from magazines such as National Geographic. Their delirious flight is echoed by the changing tempo of the music -- a symbolic and humorous reenactment of the various stages of the sexual act.
Ilona Katzew, 2008

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Gabriel Acevedo Velarde
Peru, active Mexico, born 1976
Title: Extermination (Exterminio)
Date Made: 2006
Medium: DVD
Dimensions: Duration: 00:03:00 Case: 7 1/2 × 5 1/4 in. Box: 11 × 8 1/2 × 1 3/4 in.
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art Deaccession Fund
Accession Number: M.2007.11.1.1-.3
Classification: Time Based Media
Collecting Area: Latin American Art
Curatorial Notes: Born in Lima, Peru, Gabriel Acevedo trained in the visual arts and in film production in Puebla and Mexico City. He invents fantastic worlds where real-life referents and animated characters coexist. In Exterminio, a copulating couple flies over carefully selected aerial backdrops taken from magazines such as National Geographic. Their delirious flight is echoed by the changing tempo of the music -- a symbolic and humorous reenactment of the various stages of the sexual act.
Ilona Katzew, 2008