Melanie Smith: Farce and ArtificeMARCO Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
The exhibition takes its title from Smith's work Farsa y artificio (2006), an installation that incorporates multiple paintings placed opposite each other.
This work raises recurring themes and interests in his work, especially the relationships between modernity and its reclassification. In his work, Smith displays a continuous game between farce (in the sense of absurdity, mockery or parody) and artifice (understood as artificiality and deception and, ultimately, as the "artifice of reason") and applies these concepts to contemporary society and what has been called "baroque modernity."
Melanie Smith. Farce and Artifice juxtaposes works from different moments that show the continuities of recurring motifs throughout his production. It is structured in seven thematic nuclei: Abstraction, Urban, Color, Body, Archeology, Nature and Scale.
