This is the resource page for the summer 2023 exhibition ReVisión: Art in the Americas. “Ancient and contemporary artworks help us connect to land, people, and place in this exhibition from the Denver Art Museum’s Ancient and Latin American collections.”
July 1, 2023 – September 17, 2023 (Touring July 11 to September 10)
Panels:
ReV_Panels_Subpanels_AllSections
Labels:
(These are final as they will appear on the wall and cases. Note that the Mia objects in the exhibition are separated in the labels and are at the end of this PDF.)
These are labels inserted into the checklists:
FINAL ReVision Labels_Mia objects
Exhibition fact sheet:
Curator Lecture:
PowerPoint lecture slides:
Here are the checklists from DAM and from Mia additions:
Here is the layout:
To come
PDFs of the photo props:
Photos for ReVision tours_ Map of Latin America
Photos for ReVision tours_ Cochineal
Photos for ReVision tours_ Tossin
Photos for ReVision tours_ Ceiba and Quetzal
Photos for ReVision tours_ Potosi
Photos for ReVision tours_ Templo Mayor model (1)
Photos for ReVision tours_ Contemporary artists
For family-friendly or youth tours, a resource list. This link takes you to a Google Doc, and you can download a PDF of it. Please feel free to add any ideas or experiences to the document:
Family-friendly artworks in ReVisión
Various support articles from staff and guides:
Additional resources from Rafael on Latin American history
StarTribune article: Governments are gathering to talk about the Amazon rainforest
For an overview of ancient and colonial Americas, check out the SmartHistory unit: The Americas to 1900 . This includes various articles on ancient Mesoamerican cultures, ancient Andean cultures, South American (1500-1800), and Latin American art (1800-1900).
Article about Clarissa Tossin. Encontro das Águas [Meeting of Waters/Encuentro de las aguas], 2016. From JOAN Gallery (link here)
Cochineal dye, Video: Cochineal Bugs Create Red Dye: A Moment in Science
Smarthistory: Cochineal
(Short video) Nature by Design: Cochineal | Gloria Cortina
Smarthistory: Featherwork (from Mesoamerica)
From the Library of Congress: For Love, War, and Tribute: Featherwork in the Early Americas
From Hyperallergic: Plumage of the Saints: Aztec Feather Art in the Age of Colonialism
A video on Carlos Cruz-Diez, What is a Physichromie? | Carlos Cruz-Diez
From ArtNews: How I Made This: Sandy Rodriguez’s Pigments from Indigenous History
Inscription of Rafael Ochoa: Painters of African Descent in Colonial Spanish America
From the Met Museum: Gold in the Ancient Americas
Information on the painting of the Cerro Rico, Potosi.
BOLIVAR’S PLATTER: LA BANDEJA DE BOLÍVAR (video)
Artist profile: Sandy Rodriguez, LA Times, How artist Sandy Rodriguez tells today’s fraught immigration story with pre-Columbian painting tools
Video showing Chiachio and Gianonne embroidering and discussing their work.
An article from the Getty on Sandy Rodriguez: Unearthing the Secrets of Color
Video about Clarissa Tossin and her artwork, 7 minute mark, Meeting of the Waters: Encontro das Águas (Meeting of Waters) | Clarissa Tossin || Radcliffe Institute
Sandy Rodriguez, podcast: “From Invasive Others Toward Embracing Each Other” (discusses her codex, 9 minute mark)
CAA review of ReVision in Denver
From The Cornell Lab: What Is The Essence Of Iridescence? Ask A Hummingbird
Online article on corn paste sculptures: God figures made of corn stalk paste
Also an article on corn pith sculptures from Smarthistory
Brief Video: Sebastião Salgado on ‘Serra Pelada, Gold Mine, Brazil’
Longer interview: pedro reyes + carla fernández on practice and personal life for friedman benda’s “design in dialogue”
Serpent in St. John’s cup (featherwork): St. John with Serpent in Chalice
A modern use of the quipu profiled on PBS: Brief But Spectacular PBS July 19, 2023
Virgin of the Mountain, Potosi: Virgin of the Mountain of Potosi, 1720
Recipe for cochineal dye/instructions: Pretty in Pink
Catalog from Gloria Cortina, with more pictures of the inside of the Bullet cabinet: