“For the Love of Art”

An Appropriated Intentions Exhibition

Date

November 29 – December 29, 2020

Artists

Alex “Fdez” Fernández, Alexis Mendoza, Carlos Jesús Martínez, Darwin Erazo, Diego Anaya, Domínguez-FEEGZ, Ed Andrade, Franck de las Mercedes, José Luis Tejada, Julia Justo, Luis Stephenberg, Moses Ros, Naivy Pérez, Nelson Álvarez, Pablo Caviedes, Paola Martínez, Rafaela Luna, Ricardo Llano, Wildriana de Jesús Paulino, Yani Monzón, and Yumarlis Rodríguez.

Curated by

Alexis Mendoza & Franck de las Mercedes

Gallery

Fort George Hill Avenue 

Location

New York, United States

Curatorial Statement

The exhibition is focusing on the appropriation of a public space, horizontally created artworks on a vacant fence freely expressing their ideas. The exhibition includes artworks made out repurposed advertising banners with a temporary/permanent conception that they are going to be taken by nature or consume by the passage of time. The exhibition also expressed the idea that each artist is contributing to collective discourse instead of an individual point of view.

The fences present themselves as empty oversized gallery space. Admittedly, it would have been easy – and somewhat unscientific – to present an exhibition on the appropriation of space as a hodgepodge of squatting and hippie camp sites. Instead, the organizers of the project invited the creative minds of local artists and adopted the work-with-what-you-can-find attitude of squatters but applied it in a slightly different way to the area.