The Anonymous Gallery kicked off their Mexico City location with a bang with a recently closed group show – Fresh Kills. The title of the showing refers to the 2,200 acres in New York known as Fresh Kills Landfill that will be converted to a huge public park over the course of the next 30 years. The transformation of what was formerly the world’s largest landfill into something beautiful is a metaphor for the type of work the artists in this show do – taking materials that most would see as refuse or appropriation and contextualize those items in their artwork to create something new. With choice works from artists like Aaron Young, Barry McGee, David Ellis, Greg Lamarche, Richard Prince, Swoon, and Tom Sachs in this inaugural exhibition, the new showspace’s program is certainly one that AM will be following.
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