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Al futuro según Ars Magnesium: Relato de la ida por la vuelta [To the Future According to Ars Magnesium: Story of the Journey Through Its Return],
Al futuro según Ars Magnesium: Relato de la ida por la vuelta [To the Future According to Ars Magnesium: Story of the Journey Through Its Return],

Al futuro según Ars Magnesium: Relato de la ida por la vuelta [To the Future According to Ars Magnesium: Story of the Journey Through Its Return],

Primary (Havana, Cuba, 1958–Havana, Cuba, and Vancouver, Canada, present)
NationalityCuban, North America
Date2001
MediumInk, watercolor and collage on paper
DimensionsImage: 10 1/4 × 6 7/8 in. (26 × 17.5 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Fran Magee and Gallery 106, 2003.86.7
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2003.86.7/7
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Label Text
Tonel’s work fuses comic-book imagery with subtle political and social references. In this work, he tells a fantastic story that jumps from a 17th-century alchemical text to the year 2058. Lenin, Gramsci, and Mayakovski all make appearances, as does the Cuban son band N.G. La Banda. Tonel uses specific Cuban idioms and expressions throughout the text, as though telling the history of the Russian revolution through Cuban popular culture. The narrative also weaves in and out of writing, collage, stamps, banknotes, and other appropriated elements.
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