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‘Since they can’t put Venezuela in their suitcase, they take mosaic tiles from the Maiquetía airport’ : Carlos Cruz-Diez’s kineticism in the time of migration
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dc.contributor.author | Sassu Suarez Ferri, Natalia Elena | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-01-11T13:30:09Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-01-11T13:30:09Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024-01-10 | |
dc.identifier | 297441759 | |
dc.identifier | 3aef31a0-ecc6-4e5a-8cae-e46ba2f8f274 | |
dc.identifier | 85181969801 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Sassu Suarez Ferri , N E 2024 , ' ‘Since they can’t put Venezuela in their suitcase, they take mosaic tiles from the Maiquetía airport’ : Carlos Cruz-Diez’s kineticism in the time of migration ' , Third Text , vol. Latest Articles . https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2023.2296207 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0952-8822 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/28993 | |
dc.description.abstract | In the process of displacement caused by the current political and economic crises in Venezuela, the Caracas airport has become a place of powerful significance. The floor of the Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía features Additive Colour (1974–1978), a mosaic by Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez (1923−2019). This public work has acquired exceptional symbolic meanings of political migration due to traveller rituals, documented in newspapers and on social media. Migrants are taking tiles of the airport floor as personal memory triggers of the democratic Venezuela that commissioned Kinetic art. This article analyses how these airport tiles, and Kineticism more generally, have come to acquire meanings of collective memory and national identity for Venezuelans and explains how and why Cruz-Diez’s work has become an intrinsic part of Venezuelan culture. | |
dc.format.extent | 2898932 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Third Text | en |
dc.subject | Natalia Sassu Suarez Ferri | en |
dc.subject | Carlos Cruz-Diez | en |
dc.subject | Kineticism | en |
dc.subject | Venezuela | en |
dc.subject | Political migration | en |
dc.subject | Degradation | en |
dc.subject | Defacement | en |
dc.subject | Participation | en |
dc.subject | Airport | en |
dc.subject | Collective memory | en |
dc.subject | NK Decorative arts Applied arts Decoration and ornament | en |
dc.subject | GN Anthropology | en |
dc.subject | T-NDAS | en |
dc.subject.lcc | NK | en |
dc.subject.lcc | GN | en |
dc.title | ‘Since they can’t put Venezuela in their suitcase, they take mosaic tiles from the Maiquetía airport’ : Carlos Cruz-Diez’s kineticism in the time of migration | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Art History | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Centre for Contemporary Art | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2023.2296207 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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