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MURMMURS|2012 Intervened Newspapers Seven Newspapers of of 58 x 32 cm MURMMURS installed at Kunst Institute Melly, Rotterdam Netherlands


MURMMURS |2012


Murmurs is a project that utilizes a communication code that the artist learned from an imprisoned Mexican drug trafficker. The code is an anamorphic writing system that allows messages to be read-only from specific vantage points. Using the code, Macotela inserted a series of advertisements in “El Sol de México,” a Mexican national newspaper, and each ad contained a different phrase. The installation consists of the actual newspapers pinned to the gallery walls. Viewers must position themselves on their knees with their chests and chins pressed against the wall while looking up to discern the expressions. Only in this position of prayer or imminent execution can the viewer decode the phrase




Antonio Vega Macotela

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Mexico 1980,  Lives and works between Barcelona, Amsterdam and Oslo.

Antonio Vega Macotela among other Fellowships and residencies has been a fellow Resident of The Rijksakademie Van Beldende Kunsten, the National acaddemy of art in Oslo, and more recently the ETH in Zurich.He has exhibited his work in international venues such as the 23th and 34th Sao Paulo Biennial, the 14th Istanbul Biennial, the Second Triennial of the New Museum in NY, Manifesta 9 in Genk Belgium, Prospect 3 in New Orleans, dOCUMENTA 14 in Kassel, the Center Pompidou Metz and The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles among others.