GREEN GO HOME www.nfgaleria.com 28010, Madrid Blanca deNavarra, 12. Rirkrit Tiravanija /Tomas Vu GREEN GO HOME make a graffiti and display the works made with the Spanish andAmerican press point by andasthestarting thetwoofthem. theSpanish with made the works display and graffiti a make with altered American press, images ofthe North over which Tiravanija will For their project at Untitled, TiravanijaRirkrit and Tomas Vu will cover the walls came aboutfrom foreigners’ exploitation ofnature. green and go, but rather than originating from interaction, this term military gringo is alsothought In Brazil, to have been derived from theEnglishwords potential origintothetermgringo. song that they frequently sang, “Green Grow the Rushes, O,” asanother serves The sides. switch to many led nation, Protestant a for fighting were they that War.Theresentment overtheir treatment byand a realizationtheir superiors, were sentbythe U.S. government in theMexican-American toparticipate Roman Catholic In 1846, Americans and immigrants from Ireland and Germany word wasusedtodescribeapersonofIrish descent. them from pronouncing Castilian properly. Moreover,in Madridespecially, the the term was used to describe foreigners accents prevented whose particular byTerreros gringo canCastilian dictionary bedated toa1786 Pando y inwhich There are,however, alternative explanations. One earlierinstance of theuse Mexican Invasion. of the greenhave coat theory pointed outthat U.S. troops wore blueduringthe uniform frequently included green coats. Hence “Green go home!” Detractors holds that during the Mexican-American War,One story American troops the phrase“Green gohome!”. foreigner—has been assumed by many to have etymologically originated with The term gringo—commonly used in Latin America todescribe a Western misunderstanding, and, to some degree, an invention of the imagination. of“Green folklore, a The mythand story Go Home”part partially part is Green GoHome Rirkrit Tiravanija /Tomas Vu of theeducational andecologicalproject TheLandFoundation. Station, a collective projecthistorians and currators. He is president of artists, He is a teacher at Columbia Univeristy and a founder and curator of Utopia biennale inseveral ocassions. at the Sao PaoloHe has alsoparticipated Biennale, Whitney Biennial, and Venice Guggenheim inNYC. the or 1994, in Spain in Sofia Reina the (2005), Paris de Ville La de Moderne NY, the MOMA, the inLosAngeles Musee d’artin 1999, the LACMA in1996, and social action. He and has otherhad formsofpublic shows at service combining traditional object making, public and private teaching, performances, influential artists of his generation. His practice defies media-based description TiravanijaRirkrit (1961,Buenos Aires) iswidely recognized as one of the most 103 piecesrooted inthe2001attackonWorld Trade Center. vision ofBosch’sFlatland, a serieof 2012 – Delights” “Garden2006 Earthly of include series the Opium Dreamsimportant where Vu showsusamodernday own work exhibiting in galleries of Paris, Bogota, New York, Beijing…His most Smith, Sarah Sze, WilliamKentridge, Jasper Johns, Kara Walker aswellhis overseen collaboration and publication of projects such as Kiki with artists directorand artistic of the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies. He has Tomas Vu (Saigon),professor atColumbia Universityand founder since 1996, of resistance. misunderstandings. “Green Go Home” is meant to be a wall of resisters, and holds grid The up the statement and reinforces the layers ofinterpretation, readings, and text. graffiti the of condition the addressing as viewer the to itself ofresistance—reveals topersonalities music to films character—from cost manylives and much strife.the presenceitself, Intheimagery of each neighbors in Latin American from Mexicosouthwards: an antagonism that has underlying subtext and of U.S. colonialist interventions, attitudes, towards its The provocation inherent in “Green Go Home,”positioned is against the subtle GREEN GO HOME GREEN GO HOME NF/ Nieves Fernández General view 2016 Green GoHome GREEN GO HOME NF/ Nieves Fernández General view 2016 Green GoHome GREEN GO HOME NF/ Nieves Fernández General view 2016 Green GoHome GREEN GO HOME 37,9 x58cm Silkscreen onnewspaper 2015 Green gohome

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