[Austin-ghetto-list] Re: Luis Jimenez show

[Michael Eisenstadt]

jaxon41 wrote:

> Michael__Thanks for your report on Governor Goodhair at the Jimenez opening.
> I meant to go myself but stupidly forgot to mark it on my calendar.  Tell us
> MORE about the show!  Is it worth seeing?  What kind of stuff is displayed?
> I love Luis' sculpture--so alive with action!!  Almost cartoony, eh?  There
> once was one of his broncobuster (vaquero?) pieces in front of the UT Art
> Bldg, but don't know if its still there or not.  I used to go and admire it
> from every angle and then walk north to do the same for the bronze mustangs
> group.  Coppini?   jaxon

it is a magnificent show, great drawings from a great draughtsman,
stone lithographs (you can see the grain of the stone), hand colored,
also water colors. 

inventiveness aplenty, self portraits showing his blind left eye,
witty takes such as Mrs. Bobbitt cutting her sleeping husband's
dick off as Judith and Holofernes, other martyrdoms, Cholos about
to commence drunken weekends against lurid Western skies, these
are the same works as were shown at the National Gallery in 
Washington. check it out at Mexic-arte at 5th St. and Congress
Ave.

The broncobuster sculpture that was for a while in front of the
UT art building is gone. Luis once did a great number on us.
We were living on West 9th st, Luis was on his way to Houston
to deliver one of his monumental fiberglass sculptures -- I
forget which one, possible one of his Last of the Mohicans
with colored light bulbs. He was hauling it on a large flatbed
trailer with a large pickup truck. He came and parked it
right across the street from us.

Mike Eisenstadt