{"id":10205,"date":"2023-03-21T18:05:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T22:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=10205"},"modified":"2023-03-21T18:02:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T22:02:29","slug":"minerva-cuevas-at-kurimanzutto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/21\/minerva-cuevas-at-kurimanzutto\/","title":{"rendered":"Minerva Cuevas at Kurimanzutto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018In Gods we Trust,\u2019 is the provocative title of Minerva Cuevas\u2019 new exhibition at Chelsea\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kurimanzutto.com\/exhibitions\/minerva-cuevas-in-gods-we-trust#tab:slideshow;tab-1:slideshow\"> Kurimanzutto Gallery<\/a>, a show featuring sculptures of pre-Hispanic deities and vintage magazine ads promoting powerful multi-national oil companies.\u00a0 Here, a priest of Tlazolteotl, an Aztec deity associated with lust and excess, sits on the pages of financial newspapers, an oil-like substance applied to his mouth and dripped on his arms.\u00a0 The interrelation of power and oil (a substance also used by pre-Hispanic cultures) also appears in the artist\u2019s huge and damning wall mural featuring nature-inspired corporate logos of companies that have helped bring about climate crisis.\u00a0 (On view in Chelsea through April 15<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 2934px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/a9b694cf-3923-ba9c-a164-b83e48a9ddb0.jpg\" width=\"2934\" height=\"2924\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minerva Cuevas, Tlazolteotl Priest, foamular, acrylic paint and financial newspapers, \u201922 \u2013 \u201823<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018In Gods we Trust,\u2019 is the provocative title of Minerva Cuevas\u2019 new exhibition at Chelsea\u2019s Kurimanzutto Gallery, a show featuring sculptures of pre-Hispanic deities and vintage magazine ads promoting powerful multi-national oil companies.\u00a0 Here, a priest of Tlazolteotl, an Aztec deity associated with lust and excess, sits on the pages of financial newspapers, an oil-like &hellip; 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