Latin Visions: Mexican Artists Look @ Erotica Exhibition In Los Angeles.

The satellite exhibition of “Latin Visions: Mexican Artists Look at Erotica” will open April 3 through April 31 at the XART Gallery at Entertianium L.L.C. Motion Picture Studio in Los Angeles. This installment will feature the work of Baja California artists: Vidal Pinto Estrada, Joly Lacarra, Julieta Bartolini, Hugo Crosthwaite, Jose Lobo, Martin Tellez, Francisco Calbello, Moises Guerrero and Labrada. All are exhibiting with over fifty artists from all parts of Mexico in May in Acapulco in the groundbreaking exhibition, “Latin Visions: Mexican Artists Look at Erotica.”

“Latin Visions: Mexican Artists Look at Erotica” is the most comprehensive survey of a remarkably dynamic and growing body of work. This survey demonstrates that a sense of identity and cohesion has been created by contemporary artists living and working in Mexico. In the past few decades, Mexican artists have emerged as powerful agents of change and a new social drive for freedom of expression.

“Erotic artwork is the clearest and most accurate mirror of a given period,” said XART Gallery Director Luis De La Cruz. “Critics will of course expend much energy and effort in arguing the erotic or artistic qualities of the work in question. What they are in fact asking is how we distinguish between pornography and art when there is a match of content: nothing but sex in both. Our argument is that it is due to the conjuncture of the pornographic with the erotic that the artwork enjoys such insistent acclaim, and that the arguments for its aesthetics, ‘in spite’ of its pornographic qualities, reveal
the fundamental investments of art.”

There seems no doubt that contemporary erotic art may be proof that the artist is integrating in society. Actually, such artists look for just one thing — to attract attention. “Latin Visions: Mexican Artists Look at Erotica” gives us in exchange the most profound ethical message.