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Miguel Angel Ríos, Terra Incognita, Photography on canvas
Miguel Angel Ríos, Terra Incognita, Photography on canvas
Miguel Angel Ríos, Terra Incognita, Photography on canvas
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Miguel Angel Ríos, Terra Incognita, Photography on canvas
Miguel Angel Ríos, Terra Incognita, Photography on canvas
Miguel Angel Ríos, Terra Incognita, Photography on canvas
Miguel Angel Ríos, Terra Incognita, Photography on canvas
Miguel Angel Ríos, Terra Incognita, Photography on canvas
Miguel Angel Ríos, Terra Incognita, Photography on canvas
Miguel Angel Ríos, Terra Incognita, Photography on canvas
Miguel Angel Ríos, Terra Incognita, Photography on canvas

Terra Incognita, 1995
Miguel Angel Ríos  

Photography : acrylic, mixed media · 193 x 309.9 x 0.3 cm 76 x 122 x 0.1 inch

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Photography : Unique artwork

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acrylic , mixed media on canvas

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193 x 309.9 x 0.3 cm 76 x 122 x 0.1 inch Height x Width x Depth

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Description

This artwork presents an intriguing fusion of cartography and abstract design. At its core is a vintage world map, intricately detailed with terrestrial and maritime elements, suggesting a historical navigation theme. Surrounding the map is a bold, red and white dashed circle, creating a stark contrast against the deep black background. Radiating lines crisscross this circle, connecting various points of the map, evoking the imagery of a complex spider web or an intricate network. The top and bottom of the circle are labeled "Upper Heavens" and "Nethermost Earth," adding a philosophical dimension that invites contemplation of celestial and terrestrial relationships. This synthesis of old-world and abstract modernity draws viewers into a journey through time and space, highlighting humanity's timeless quest for understanding and exploration. The composition's symmetry and color scheme enhance its visual impact, ensuring a captivating and thought-provoking experience.

A Landmark Work of Conceptual Art: Terra Incognita (1995) by Miguel Ángel Ríos. a visually striking and intellectually potent work from the highly acclaimed MAPAS series by the Argentinian conceptual artist Miguel Ángel Ríos. This piece is a seminal example of his innovative approach to exploring the profound themes of colonialism, globalization, and the reinterpretation of Latin American history.

Created in 1995, a period marking the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas, Ríos began creating his map series to offer a powerful critique of long histories of colonial power.
The title, Terra Incognita (Latin for "Unknown Territory"), refers to the term used by historical mapmakers to label unexplored lands—often those in the Southern Hemisphere. Ríos reclaims this concept to question how traditional, Eurocentric cartography arbitrarily imposes a specific geopolitical worldview and rigid frontiers upon the "New World".

The artwork transforms a historical, flat map—a representation of objective truth—into a dynamic, three-dimensional object that resists easy consumption.
Ríos is renowned for his meticulous "handmade aesthetic" that merges conceptual art with traditional craftsmanship. This work utilizes enlarged photographic print printed on archival art plastic of a historical map (likely a portolan chart of the Mediterranean/European coast), which the artist has manually manipulated.
The manipulated map is framed within a large canvas and encircled by a prominent red and white dashed oval border, starkly emphasizing the concept of "unknown territory." White and blue lines, reminiscent of navigational rhumb lines or a complex web, crisscross the map and extend beyond its formal borders, suggesting interconnectedness and entanglement.
This powerful work represents a critical engagement with identity and place, making it an essential acquisition for any serious collection focusing on Latin American contemporary art or post-colonial critique.

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Maps

Lines

Latin-American Art

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Miguel Angel Ríos

Miguel Angel Ríos

Argentina  • 1943

Presentation

Miguel Angel Ríos studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires before moving to New York in the 1970s to escape the military dictatorship in Argentina. He subsequently relocated to Mexico and now divides his time between the USA and Mexico.

In his work, Ríos pairs a rigorous conceptual approach with a meticulously constructed and often handmade aesthetic. Since the 1970s, he has made work about the concept of the "Latin American," using this idea as both an artistic strategy and a political problem. In the 1990s, he began creating a series of maps, which he carefully folded and pleated by hand. Marking the 500th anniversary of the "discovery" of the Americas, the maps indicate long histories of power and colonial experience, and they reference traditional Indigenous arts in the Americas, including the Andean quipu.

Since the early 2000s, Ríos has also delved into the medium of video to create symbolic narratives about human experience, violence, and mortality. For example, his videos of spinning tops--trompos--use the childhood game of tops as a backdrop for a meditation on the transience of life and the mechanics of power. In his 2012 Untitled video from The Ghost of Modernity, Ríos references high Modernism--with direct nods to John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, and Donald Judd--in the midst of the Mexican desert. "Is this ghostly geometric figure a lens through which the world can be reinterpreted?" the artist asks. "Or is it the paradigmatic principle of modernist thought that organizes the world around it? Are we inside or outside the cube? "

Ríos's works have been shown in a number of important solo exhibitions, including Landlocked, Arizona State University Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, USA (2015); Miguel Angel Ríos: Walkabout, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, USA and Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (MACG), Mexico City, Mexico (with exhibition catalogue) (2012); Miguel Angel Ríos, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand (2010); Manhattan Códice, John Weber Gallery, New York City, New York, USA and Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (MACG), Mexico City, Mexico (1999); Miguel Angel Ríos: Neither Colour, nor height, MUCEM, Marseille, France (2017);Miguel Angel Ríos, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Argentina (2009); On The Edge, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), California, USA (2009); Miguel Angel Ríos: On the Edge, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), Texas, USA (2019); A Morir, Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona, USA (2007); and No Way Out, Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden (2019).

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