Manolo Lugo

At your service

At your service

Unpack Gallery, Toronto

2014

At your service is a performance in which the artist prepares and serves hors d'oeuvres to the attending audience on 100 appetizer white plates during an exhibition's opening or closing reception, functioning as a catering service. The used plates are then washed and dried before being stored on a china cabinet. After all plates have been washed, dried and stored, the artist closes the doors of the cabinet and throws the cabinet to the ground, damaging the plates inside. The artist then picks the cabinet up, rearranges the broken plates inside and selecting some of the pieces, creates small displays on serving trays that are placed on the working table where the food was prepared.

At your service is a performance in which the artist prepares and serves finger

foods to the audience on 100 restaurant appetizer white plates during the

opening or closing reception of Out of Sight. The work functions as a catering

service.

The used plates will then be washed on site with the aide of two plastic basins

and drying towels, before being stored on a wooden cabinet. After all plates

have been washed, dried and stored, the doors of the cabinet will be closed and

the cabinet thrown to the ground, damaging the plates inside. The artist will then

pick the cabinet up, rearrange the broken plates inside and selecting some of

the pieces, will create small displays on serving trays that would be placed on

the working table where the food was prepared.

At your service is a performance in which the artist prepares and serves finger

foods to the audience on 100 restaurant appetizer white plates during the

opening or closing reception of Out of Sight. The work functions as a catering

service.

The used plates will then be washed on site with the aide of two plastic basins

and drying towels, before being stored on a wooden cabinet. After all plates

have been washed, dried and stored, the doors of the cabinet will be closed and

the cabinet thrown to the ground, damaging the plates inside. The artist will then

pick the cabinet up, rearrange the broken plates inside and selecting some of

the pieces, will create small displays on serving trays that would be placed on

the working table where the food was prepared.

One always fails to speak of what one loves

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Malverde's left miracles

Universitarios and Enrique Sanchez

Full circle

Contact high

Contact high

2012

Performance for the camera

Covergirl

Using Covergirl's foundation artists Golboo Amani and Manolo Lugo cover each other's faces with each of the tones of the cosmetic, progressing from lightest to darkest. Each time the face has been covered with a tone, it is wiped with a white handkerchief that is then pinned to the adjacent wall.

Calms and tempest of the Van de Veldes

Appropriating the maritime art of Willem van de Velde the Younger and Wilem van de Velde the Elder, most of the image is removed leaving only the textile objects portrayed. The image isolates a technology that reveals the effective power of long distance sailing at a time when European coloniality was in its apogee.

En la cocina y con la pierna rota

Using iron maiden's font and tie dye imagery Spanish popular sayings that reveal internalized misogynist, homophobic, classist or racist attitudes.

Ties

Lugo tied 60 ties around his neck, face and head while a mirror was held to his face. Once his head was covered with ties he spun. The performance ended as he left the room.

Border towns

Border towns is generated using Google Earth and Photoshop to assemble maps of cities and towns that spread north and south of the Mexico-U.S. border. The roads of these towns are digitally traced discarding in the process all cartographic and topographic information with the intention to reveal the arbitrary and abstract nature of national boundaries.

Laundry folds

Laundry folds is the photographic documentation of a perfomative gesture that consists of regularly and systematically sorting, washing, drying, folding and sorting again the garments and textile objects used in the artist's house. Week by week, I fold this laundry, classify it and stack it into sculptural forms that are then photographed on a white table against a white background. I have inconsistently built this body of work for the past five years.

Dark Harbour

Dark Harbour is a replica of a sail boat's hull's section below the water line placed upside down on the floor.

Receipt Accumulation

Receipt Accumulation is the collection of all the monetary transactions of the household I inhabited at the time during a trimester. The front of the receipts were glued to the wall so that only the back was visible to the viewer. They were arranged chronologically from left to right, stacking up the transaction that occurred on the same day. This work also took the form of a roll of receipts accumulated for a trimester that was attached to a gallery wall