Estadio Azteca: Proeza maleable
Rafael Ortega, Melanie Smith
Estadio Azteca: Malleable Deed Three thousand Mexican public school students were assembled in Mexico City’s Estadio Azteca in Mexico City to make mosaics depicting a range of images from international art history and Mexican culture. Together, they encompassed both official narrative and popular mythology.
While Smith had already incorporated the human body into live actions exploring the intersections of different media, this piece marks a change in scale. The intrinsic inefficiency of the system she chose to produce the work, along with the symbolic and historical weight of its spatial and visual elements, revisits the tension between chaos and modernity that characterizes Smith’s aesthetic interests.
MELANIE SMITH (1965)
RAFAEL ORTEGA (1962)
Estadio Azteca: Proeza maleable, 2010
Estadio Azteca: Malleable Deed
Video
10’ 30”
Gift of the artists, 2012
