Mexican American Art Since 1848 (MAAS1848)

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  Dante Alighieri

  title Dante Alighieri 

  description California artist Jeffrey Vallance proposed to make an intervention at the Tijuana Wax Museum for inSITE2000. Collaborating with Mexico City-based wax-figure maker Victor Hugo Yanez, Vallance produced three new figures for the museum: the Virgin of Guadalupe, Dante, and former US President Richard Nixon. Vallance started with a list of about twenty-eight names of historical and contemporary figures as potential additions to the display at the museum, and arrive at the selection of the three figures based on the existing exhibition structure. The Virgin of Guadalupe could be seen in full figure situated on her own, while Nixon was placed in the presidential room holding in his hands the symbolic element that came to define his public career, a simulated set of reel-to-reel Watergate tapes, and Dante was placed at the entrance to hell with his hand pointing the way. With his project for the Wax Museum, Vallance deepened his own interest and fascination with the three selected figures. In this way, having followed stories for years from different parts of the world detailing apparitions of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Vallance, during a residency period in San Diego, could add yet another apparition to the list - he spotted her up high on a stone column at the Courtyard by Marriott downtown hotel. -- inSITE2000  Sculpture and Installations  Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)  This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 311, Folder 01, Item 387)  Tijuana Wax Museum  [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. 

  artist/creator Decker, Alan  Vallance, Jeffrey 

  subject Authors  Wax Figures  Popular Culture  Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321  Boundaries  Sculpture (Visual Work)  Figurative Art  Mexican-American Border Region  Kitsch  Waxworks  Gesture  Insite2000  Installations (Visual Works)  Border Art 

  contributor Calisphere 

• Press Coverage, Kpbs Radio: Jeffrey Vallance

  title Press Coverage, Kpbs Radio: Jeffrey Vallance 

  description Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art  Radio news and arts program "The Lounge" hosted by Dirk Sutro.  Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)  This sound recording was extracted from a CD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 254, CD 00-70)  [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. 

  artist/creator Vallance, Jeffrey 

  subject Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico)  Vallance, Jeffrey (American Sculptor And Painter, Born 1955)  Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321  Artists  Interviews  Border Art  Sound Recordings  Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994  Radio Programs  Insite2000 

  contributor Calisphere