{"id":679,"date":"2006-09-29T04:35:09","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T04:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melybarragan.com\/portfolio\/?p=679"},"modified":"2022-01-20T02:19:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T02:19:15","slug":"transactions-contemporary-latin-american-and-latino-art-mcasd-museum-of-contemporary-art-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melybarragan.com\/portfolio\/transactions-contemporary-latin-american-and-latino-art-mcasd-museum-of-contemporary-art-san-diego\/","title":{"rendered":"TRANSactions CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICAN AND LATINO ART @ MCASD Museum Of Contemporary Art San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BARRAG\u00c1N MELY\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mexican, born 1975<\/p>\n<p>suite of four prints, edition of 100<\/p>\n<p>Aquatint (33.7 X 41.3 cm) Museum purchase with proceeds from Museum of Contemporary Art Of San Diego. ART AUCTION 2004-2006<\/p>\n<p>In 2002 Mely Barrag\u00e1n undertook a yearlong study of the roadside sculptures commonly called &lt;<em>mono mofles<\/em> (Muffler men).<\/p>\n<p>Constructed of used muffler and tailpipe parts, the <em>monos mofles<\/em> stand outside muffler shops in downtown Tijuana to advertise the mechanic\u00b4s welding skills and to attract business in a<\/p>\n<p>competitive strip of automobile repair shops. The dynamic commercial activity of these streets (and larger number of automotive business) reflects the centrality of the car to Tijuana\u00b4s urban experience.<\/p>\n<p>Barrag\u00e1n\u00b4s intent is to document the sculpture typology of the mono mofles- a local craft that represents regional identity -and reposition it as a legitimate folk art equal to any Mexico\u00b4s respected<\/p>\n<p>artisan traditions.<\/p>\n<p>Text from museum catalogue.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BARRAG\u00c1N MELY\u00a0 Mexican, born 1975 suite of four prints, edition of 100 Aquatint (33.7 X 41.3 cm) Museum purchase with proceeds from Museum of Contemporary Art Of San Diego. ART AUCTION 2004-2006 In 2002 Mely Barrag\u00e1n undertook a yearlong study of the roadside sculptures commonly called &lt;mono mofles (Muffler men). Constructed of used muffler and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-print","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/melybarragan.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/transactions-MCASD-2007.jpg?fit=1500%2C1159&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melybarragan.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melybarragan.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melybarragan.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melybarragan.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melybarragan.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/melybarragan.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/melybarragan.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melybarragan.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melybarragan.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melybarragan.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melybarragan.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}