The Tomb/Magical Ritual: rock hanging from a beam

Alvaro Blancarte's project, "The Tomb/Magical Ritual/La tumba/ritual mágico," was located in the gardens of the Centro Cultural Tijuana. Erected amidst a formation of stones, the project was composed of towering and intersecting wooden beams fastened to each other with heavy rope from which a number of individual stones were hung, suggesting a calculated balancing act. Created as an homage to the region's ethnic populations, the project became a site for ritual performances by ethnic groups during the opening of inSITE94. - inSITE94

• 1994

• Blancarte, Alvaro (Mexican installation artist, born 1934)

• InSITE94

This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 02, Item 045)

Centro Cultural Tijuana

wood (plant material); rock; rope

• InSITE94

• Mexican-American border region

• Memorials

• Architecture (object genre)
• Border art
• Native American
• Public sculpture
• Ritual

• image

Shared Shelf: 16715326

Online finding aid

• inSite Archive

Garden and Landscape

Sculpture and Installations

[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

Unknown (US)

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2020-10-28