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  Kiosko Esotérico: Kiosk Outside The Centro Cultural In Tijuana

  title Kiosko Esotérico: Kiosk Outside The Centro Cultural In Tijuana 

  description Architecture and City Planning  Centro Cultural Tijuana  Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design  For inSITE97, Pablo Vargas Lugo constructed "Esoteric Kiosk/Kiosko Esotérico," a futuristic piece of portable architecture with fake newspapers displaying fantastical imagery. Installed outside the Centro Cultural Tijuana, the kiosk was open for public viewing everyday and folded up each night to convey a sense of secrecy about its contents. The structure was divided into four sections showing two intersecting images, each referencing scientific discoveries about extraterrestrial life and life inside the core of planet Earth. Vargas Lugo related the images of the discoveries to images of heaven and hell, creating a work that functioned as an altarpiece, advertisement, and newspaper stand. --inSITE97  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 392)  [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. 

  artist/creator Vargas Lugo, Pablo  Rittermann, Philipp Scholz 

  subject Advertisements  Pavilions  Public Art  Sculpture (Visual Work)  Altarpieces  Mexican-American Border Region  Newspaper Vendors  Information  Insite97  Extraterrestrial Beings  Installations (Visual Works)  Newspaper 

  contributor Calisphere