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LACMA presents first retrospective of revolutionary Chicano conceptual artists, Asco
A visitor looks at "The Truth about the Terror in Chile," a 1973 diptych by the artist Gronk. AP Photo/Reed Saxon.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art
(LACMA) presents Asco: Elite of the Obscure, A Retrospective,
1972–1987, the first retrospective to present the wide-ranging work of
the Chicano performance and conceptual art group Asco (1972–1987),
co-organized with Williams College Museum of Art and on view September 4
through December 4, 2011. Geographically and culturally segregated from
the still-nascent Los Angeles contemporary art scene and aesthetically
at odds with the emerging Chicano art movement, Asco members united to
explore and exploit the unlimited media of the conceptual. Creating art
by any means necessary—often using their bodies and guerilla
tactics—Asco merged activism and performance and, in doing so, pushed
the boundaries of what Chicano art might encompass. Asco: Elite of the
Obscure includes nearly 150 artworks, ...More
