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Urbano Project will present Librería Donceles, a socially-engaged art project consisting of an itinerant bookstore of more than 10,000 used books in Spanish. While in residence at Urbano, the participatory art installation will be a meeting place for the community, hosting a series of bilingual salon-like gatherings for conversations, performances and workshops designed to encourage cultural understanding, tolerance and social activism.
Read MoreNew York artist Pablo Helguera’s secondhand bookstore, Librería Donceles, seems particularly well-suited for Boston, a city known for its literary leanings. The traveling art project, comprising more than 10,000 volumes spanning numerous genres, opens Friday for an 11-week run at the art studio Urbano in Jamaica Plain and will provide visitors with a unique experience: Organizers say it will be the only bookstore in town devoted to used Spanish-language titles.
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Read MoreFor the exhibition "Librería Donceles," Pablo Helguera installed a functioning Spanish-language used-book store in the large front room
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Read MorePablo Helguera (1971, Mexico City) is an interdisciplinary artist and Director of Adult and Academic Programs in the Department of Education
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Pablo Helguera (born Mexico City, 1971) lives and works in New York City. His work generally acquires unusual formats, ranging from experimental symposiums, phonograph recordings, exhibition audio-guides, publications or nomadic museums. Helguera normally departs from historic research or from interests surrounding the very nature of art production, its perception, and the role that art making and culture in general plays in politics and society. He often combines literary and musical strategies as well as pedagogy and education theory.
Helguera has presented performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2007), the Museum of Modern Art of New York (2003) and at the Royal College of Art de London (2004). He has participated in the 8th Havana Biennial, San Juan's Poly-graphic Triennial (2004) and PERFORMA 05, New York's first performance art biennial. He has exhibited in numerous institutions including the Museo del Barrio in New York, the Shedhalle in Zurich, PS1 in New York, IFA Bonn, Metropolitan Museum in Tokyo, MALBA in Buenos Aires, Ex-Teresa in Mexico City, Sculpture Center, and the Bronx Museum.
Additionally, Helguera has an extensive museum career and is currently the Director of Adult and Academic Programs at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Previously, he has headed programs for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, ARCO, Madrid, and SITAC (Symposium of Contemporary Art Theory) in Mexico City. He has juried the biennials of Guatemala, Costa Rica, and the national contemporary art competition of San Juan, is the author of four books including the Manual of Contemporary Art Style, and is represented by Enrique Guerrero Gallery in Mexico City.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art