Description
Benito Huerta – Temporary Like Achillies, 1999 is in the following COLLECTIONS:
- American Masters Collection/The Collector’s Fund
- El Paso Museum of Art
- Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
- Spencer Museum of Art (1999.0284)
- Topeka Public Library
- University of Arizona Museum of Art
- Western Michigan University
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“The title Temporary Like Achilles is from a Bob Dylan song. It alludes to being vulnerable at times. This relates to the world being turned upside down or what we think of as upside down. Who decides that and why. The circles are taken from a painting Dicere Totis in Linguis Latin for “speaking in tongues.” This painting has male and female body parts, along with a still life, that is strewn over a linear grid. These images of a personal nature are in flux as the stacked circles (like juggler’s balls) are in a tenuous arrangement – they look like they could possibly fall. The grid is composed of linear images blown up and overlapping and, thus, abstracted. So life, personal and universal is in a state of flux and vulnerability.”