Untitled Non-Productive Activities consists of a series of sculptures in the public space with found materials and without prior notice. The sculptures will follow a method developed for the documenta 13 of Kassel in Germany in 2012.
The project consists of a series of improvised actions decided through a system designed by the artist. The method is based on the assignment of a color to thirty-four ideas or formal aspects that have been recurrent in his work. Concepts such as “democraticist”, affective, emotional, or communal are crossed with a standard catalogue of colors from a paint shop. Each idea in turn is renamed by chance: democraticist is assigned to a variation of blue, called constellation in the commercial catalogue; communal became ‘green picnic'; affirmative corresponds to a pink called rehilete, among other variations.
Based on these new concepts, the artist painted a set of ‘Chinese sticks’ or ‘mikado’ with each of the thirty-four corresponding colors. Then, as he did in Kassel, the artist will hurl them in the street, and will remove daily all the sticks, except the last two (or three), which combine two (or three) ideas that determine the action to be performed.
 

The artistic process of Abraham Cruzvillegas (Mexico City, 1968) is deeply influenced by its surroundings. Rather than be defined by a particular medium, many of his projects are linked through the platform of self-construction – a concept that derives from the ingenious and precarious construction tactics implemented by the inhabitants of Ajusco, a colony of his childhood in Mexico City. Cruzvillegas studied pedagogy at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México from 1986 to 1990 in the city of Mexico, and took part in the Taller de los viernes workshop with Gabriel Orozco.
Among his exhibitions and major projects are: Empty Lot, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom (2015); MALI in situ: Abraham Cruzvillegas, Museo de arte de Lima, Lima, Peru (2015); Autoconstrucción, Museo Jumex y Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico and Mexico City (2014); Abraham Cruzvillegas: The Autoconstrucción Suites, Haus der Kunst, Münich, Germany (2014) and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, United States (2013); Self Builder’s Groove, Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Diens, Berlin, Germany (2011); Autoconstrucción, the Film, The New Museum, New York, United States (2011) among others.
Some of the biennales in which his work has been included: 12th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, UAE (2015); 12 Bienal de la Habana, Havana, Cuba (2015); The Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai, China (2012); dOCUMENTA 13, Kassel, Germany (2012); 12th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey (2011); 50 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2003). Abraham Cruzvillegas lives and works in Mexico City.

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