A Rubén Ortiz-Torres Story (Preview)
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Rubén Ortiz-Torres explores his past and present in an uncertain socio-economic future.
Since the early-80s, artist Rubén Ortiz-Torres has been working as a photographer, painter, sculptor, writer, filmmaker and video producer. Often associated with the development of a Mexican form of postmodernism, Ortiz-Torres's life is a collage that explores the social and aesthetic transformations related to cross-cultural exchange and globalization.
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A Rubén Ortiz-Torres Story (Preview)
Preview: Season 13 Episode 6 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Since the early-80s, artist Rubén Ortiz-Torres has been working as a photographer, painter, sculptor, writer, filmmaker and video producer. Often associated with the development of a Mexican form of postmodernism, Ortiz-Torres's life is a collage that explores the social and aesthetic transformations related to cross-cultural exchange and globalization.
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How Rubén Ortiz-Torres Reclaims Symbols of Oppression
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Clip: S13 Ep6 | 8m 52s | Ortiz-Torres uses destruction as a form of creation in his decades-long body of work. (8m 52s)
Rubén Ortiz-Torres Remixes 'América Tropical'
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Clip: S13 Ep6 | 2m 11s | Ruben Ortiz-Torres' 'White Washed America' recreates whitewashed mural "América Tropical." (2m 11s)
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