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Devon Van Houten Maldonado

Devon Van Houten Maldonado lives and works in Mexico City, by way of Portland, Oregon and the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. He has contributed to Paste Magazine, OZY, Terremoto and Aesthetica Magazine. He was formerly staff reporter for The News Mexico.

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Imagining a Reconciliatory Relationship with the Earth

by Devon Van Houten Maldonado July 20, 2018

In Otobong Nkanga’s art, figures appear dismembered and limbless, indicating that they have been industrialized as tools of production and exploitation.

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How Jef Geys’s Conceptual Enigmas Speak to Life

by Devon Van Houten Maldonado June 7, 2018June 6, 2018

One gets the impression that Geys, as much as any artist ever managed to, achieved an integration of art and life.

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“We’re Fed Up”: Artists Break into Mexico City Museum, Demanding It Get with the Times

by Devon Van Houten Maldonado February 1, 2018

The group, called “Los Hemocionales,” protested El Eco’s programming, claiming it hasn’t lived up to its promise as an experimental institution.

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An Alternative Art Space in Mexico Challenges the Capital’s Dominance

by Devon Van Houten Maldonado January 11, 2018

With its first show, Puebla’s Decentered Gallery seeks to create unique local and international connections rather than responding to the biggest art markets.

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After Earthquake, Mexico City’s Art Community Takes Stock of the Damage

by Devon Van Houten Maldonado September 28, 2017

Some galleries suffered severe damage, others turned their spaces into relief centers, and the city’s biggest art fair came under fire for going ahead with its scheduled VIP opening the night of the quake.

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What We Lose and Gain in Recreating Antiquities

by Devon Van Houten Maldonado September 8, 2017September 7, 2017

In his exhibition at at Galeria Mascota, Miguel Angel Salazar revives a cenotaph, showing that it’s both easier than ever to rewrite history, and more difficult to erase it. 

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A Mexican Metalworker’s Colossal Jewelry for the Statue of Liberty

by Devon Van Houten Maldonado September 6, 2017

Ana Pellicer used traditional copper jewelry techniques from the Mexican state of Michoacan, then makes her pieces contemporary by playing with scale.

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Unmasking a Female Luchador Serial Killer and Studying “Pigmentocracy” in Mexico

by Devon Van Houten Maldonado September 4, 2017September 6, 2017

Feminist academic Susana Vargas discusses the visualization of machismo, sexism, race, and class in Mexico.

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US Artist Trolls Trump with Billboard in Mexico City

by Devon Van Houten Maldonado August 11, 2017

After being denied by US ad companies, Mitch O’Connell took his billboard depicting President Donald Trump as a sinewy alien to Mexico City, where it now prominently hangs.

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The Continuing Saga of the Architect Made into a Diamond

by Devon Van Houten Maldonado August 9, 2017August 9, 2017

The power games of Jill Magid’s project concerning the archives of Luis Barragán continue in an extensive exhibition that completes the circle without any conclusive resolution.

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A Blind Artist Looks Back at Growing Up in the ’90s

by Devon Van Houten Maldonado August 8, 2017

In 2014, Manuel Solano lost his eyesight from an HIV-related infection. His new works treat that experience as the generative event for his art.

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A Museum Built Among Ancient Ruins Impels an Inward Gaze

by Devon Van Houten Maldonado July 19, 2017July 18, 2017

In other museums, fragments of the past are isolated into forgotten history, but at Kolumba, they are part of a dynamic whole.

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