Artist Celia Álvarez Muñoz honored in retrospective exhibit in San Diego

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The first career retrospective of longstanding El Paso artist Celia Álvarez Muñoz opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla.

At first glance, with the oversized illustrations and text, the bright colors and found objects suspended from the ceiling, it feels like stepping inside a children's book — on a massive scale.

"Why do I keep going? Because it keeps me going," Álvarez Muñoz said."That's what propels you to wake up in the morning and have a mission. I think for me, it has been more of a vocation." "El Límite" is the first thing you see, with sardine-can trains adorned with printed text from childhood stories about post-war immigration routes by train. The museum commissioned this piece in 1991 for a solo exhibition of the same name — and also acquired several other of Àlvarez Muñoz's pieces.

, a redrawing of borderlines, or even just a progression throughout the United States in terms of art exhibitions," Casso said."Petrocuatl" is another installation, representing a performance piece. It centers on an artifact she invented, made from a found gas mask and vivid feathers, with a full, wall-size mural of photos of Mexico City from old magazines. Set against bright fuchsia is text that's equal parts unsettling memory and absurd story.

 

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