The Mexico City-based artist collective Tercerunquinto (Julio Castro, Gabriel Cazares Salas and Rolando Flores Tovar) created a site-specific work for their exhibition Real Estate: Properties and Other Holdings. Tercerunquinto stages architectural interventions in public spaces, transforming familiar sites into something unknown and enabling visitors to experience these places with a refreshed eye. For their work at MCA Denver, the artists conceived a project that engaged the surrounding development of the museum's neighborhood.
Tercerunquinto entered into separate contracts with two local real estate developers to preserve a single property in its current state. The contract then became the artwork. Inspired by the vast development taking shape in lower downtown (as well as throughout the city of Denver), the artists brought this urban transformation into the gallery by designating the museum as custodian of these contracts. Should any change to the property take place, the work of art would be destroyed. In addition to this new work, the exhibition featured three of the artists' earlier projects, providing a broader and richer understanding of their conceptually-driven practice.
Curated by
Nora Burnett Abrams, Ellen Bruss Curator
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Real Estate: Properties and Other Holdings was sponsored in part by MCA Denver Director's Vision Society members and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. MCA would also like to thank the citizens of the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District.