Multi-layered, maximalist, dizzying and dazzling, the mixed-media work of brothers Einar and Jamex De La Torre is a chaotic feast for the senses.
Nodding to everything from pre-Columbian deities and Colonialism to horror classics and modern-day monsters, the brothers' wide-ranging projects boast narratives as stacked as the objects themselves.
Thanks to the easy flow from one over-the-top room to the next,"Upward Mobility" indeed feels tailor-made for the McNay. But as we learned during a walkthrough with Einar De La Torre, the exhibition also includes some remarkable pieces and arrangements created specifically for the occasion.
navigating the depths of Hell and other mutant-like creatures welcome McNay visitors into"Dark Nature," the exhibition's first thematic chapter. "This is a feast of conspicuous consumption," De La Torre explained."We're repulsed by it but we're also wishing they invited us.""The scale of this we've never touched. The biggest table we've done was maybe 10 or 12 feet. This one is about 26 feet. ... When the McNay said they wanted to put it up on a platform, we thought, 'Let's add mirrors so you can see the underbelly.' money bags in the chandeliers .
"So, these are movie posters," De La Torre said of the prints."She's grumpy at humanity because we're not taking care of nature — so she's tearing it all up. ... And he's coming at her shooting. ... He's creating more highways with his tribes. He wants the industrial revolution to continue and to make more gasoline and internal combustion engines because it's all about petroleum for him.
"This is the third Coatlicue we have in the show," De La Torre said."In this case we morphed her with Neil Armstrong in all her glory. ... The idea is that, here we are colonizing the moon — with cactus and chips. ... We came to the States in '72, right when the Apollo 13 series was still landing on the moon. As kids, it affected the hell out of us. This is a little bit about Rapture theology, which is a very American thing.
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