Exhibition
Mariana Castillo Deball: Finding Oneself Outside
01/22/19-05/05/19
Conversations · Exhibition-Related
Mariana Castillo Deball in Conversation with Barbara Mundy
Cover Image:
Mariana Castillo Deball, Nuremberg Map of Tenochtitlan, 2013. Installation view: “Preis der Nationalgalerie für Junge Kunst,” Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, 2013. Courtesy the artist and Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie. Photo: David von Becker
Join us for a special in-gallery conversation between artist Mariana Castillo Deball and Fordham University Professor Barbara Mundy on “Finding Oneself Outside,” Castillo Deball’s first solo exhibition in New York City. Dr Mundy is an art historian specializing in Latin American art and indigenous cartography of the sixteenth century, while Castillo Deball’s artistic practice regularly engages specific historical modes of the production and exchange of knowledge, including maps, iconography, and cosmological forms. Professor Mundy’s intricate understanding of the map of San Pedro Teozacoalco (c. 1580) will help to guide and contextualize the conversation about Castillo Deball’s large-scale inlaid wood floor installation, Teozacoalco Map (2019), which draws directly from the early European colonial and Mixtec visual traditions of the sixteenth century. Together, they will discuss the legacies of colonial cartography and codices in Central America and the ways in which Castillo Deball’s practice deliberately engages with academic and archaeological research to make visible the institutional structures and complicated temporal paths involved in constructing and disseminating knowledge about cultural histories.
Gallery talks are free with paid Museum admission, but attendance is limited. Gallery admission must be purchased in order to reserve a spot. Members can reserve here. Students and seniors can RSVP by email for discounted admission.
Sponsors
Generous ongoing support is provided by the Charlotte and Bill Ford Artist Talks Fund.
Support for Education and Public Engagement programs is provided, in part, by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
Endowment support is provided by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund; the Skadden, Arps Education Programs Fund; and the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs at the New Museum.
Full support for “Mariana Castillo Deball: Finding Oneself Outside” can be viewed here.
