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Studio International, March 1971, Volume 180, Number 931, p92-93
Felipe Ehrenberg:
Date with fate at the Tate
Last year’s retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Longbeach, California, of the work of Felipe Ehrenberg
(entitled Manchuria: Peripheral Vision) from May to August 2010 drew attention to Mexican artist Ehrenberg’s contemporary significance. These primarily multi-media works, some 200 in all, interconnect hemispheres, continents, decades and cultures across the planet since then. The famous performance piece, A date with fate at the Tate was arguably the first item of its kind (an audio-recording documentation) to be represented in the permanent collection of Tate Modern. He became prominent in Studio International in 1971 (Volume 180, Number 931). Studio International was first in the field there. We reproduce Ehrenberg’s pages from the relevant l971 issue (see below) from our archives.
The exhibition at MOLAA was a major milestone recording Felipe Ehrenberg’s output as well as his part in the resurgence of Mexican contemporary art since the 1970s. His output has been that of a perpetual activist in the visual arts, precursor of many in his chosen field.
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