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Title
La tierra prometida: detail showing row of columns with neon sculptures
Creator
Rittermann, Philipp Scholz (American photographer, 1955 CE-)
Díaz, Gonzalo (artist)
Contributor
InSITE97
Date Created and/or Issued
1997
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
inSite Archive: Selections
Rights Information
Unknown
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Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.
Description
Sculpture and Installations
Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
Gonzalo Díaz's inSITE97 project, La tierra prometida/The Promised Land, was installed in the basement of the Children's Museum in San Diego. Following the fourteen Stations of the Cross, the installation was built upon fourteen columns each distinguished by a word with multiple meanings spelled out in blue neon. Each column was also marked by an illuminated bronze Roman numeral as well as enigmatic figure at the top of the column, shrouded in dark wrappings. Playing off of the large orthogonal space, Díaz created a mythological/spiritual space for the viewer. --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 309, Folder 04, Item 099)
[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
The New Children's Museum (American museum)
Type
image
Format
Acrylic paint; wood (plant material); plastic bags; brass (alloy)
Form/Genre
sculpture (visual work)
neon sculpture
installations (visual works)
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb4269231k
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Emigration and immigration
Border art
Boundaries
Stations of the Cross
Sculpture (visual work)
Neon sculpture
Installations (visual works)
Mexican-American border region
InSITE97
Place
Mexican-American border region

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