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Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design Sculpture and Installations Architecture and City Planning 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 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. Centro Cultural Tijuana
Type
image
Format
Newspapers; steel (alloy)
Form/Genre
public art sculpture (visual work) Newspaper installations (visual works)
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb3347737c
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Advertisements Newspaper vendors Altarpieces Extraterrestrial beings Pavilions Information Public art Sculpture (visual work) Newspaper Installations (visual works) Mexican-American border region InSITE97
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