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miguelcortez
Advertising is everywhere; you look at any sporting event and ads are all over the field. Corporations need to bombard you about their products and they do it whenever and wherever they can, and since they want your attention why not have them advertise on mousetraps? What better time to think about a corporation's product than when you pick up your trap with a dead rodent? These corporations deserve your attention since most either exploit overseas labor(Nike), exploit workers/unions(Walmart, Enron), produce cheap synthetic unhealthy food(McDonalds), or influence and profit from war and oil(Halliburton, ExxonMobil).
Abstract paintings from 2002 - 2003
several installations from 2003
Miguel Cortés Ruiz is an artist of Mexican origin residing in Chicago. This is a selection of works produced during the fall of 2000 and 2001.
Espectro Featured Exhibition Nov 01
this collection spans from 1995-1998. it includes paintings and computer collages.
Espectro Featured Exhibition Dec 99
a collection of new work based on the concept
of art as a manifestation from the
subconscious in a spontaneous manner.
selected works from 1990-1999
This is a series of work dealing with
socio-political issues that have occurred in the
americas in the past, it also tries to
analyze the effect of those events to see what
impact they have had in this modern society.
The first in the series deals with a photograph
by Lewis Hine in the earlier part of this century
of the exploitation of child labor in the US. I
compare it to our current exploitation of child
and women labor that is occurring in so
called third world countries by large
corporations such as Nike®. And it asks the
viewer "what has changed?".
The second one is about racism. and it asks
the same question. The third one is an
installation of images of the dead from the
student massacre that occurred in Mexico in
1968. and the question is still the same "what
has changed?".
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