Sitio de Seguridad/Safe Area - Long Beach, CA
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N 33° 46.466 W 118° 10.811
11S E 390722 N 3737771
This sculpture is located at the Museum of Latin American Art at 628 Alamitos Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90802.
Waymark Code: WMBJRJ
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 05/27/2011
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Located directly in front of the Museum of Latin American Art building in Long Beach, California, the plaque accompanying this work reads:
"Daniel Ruanova
(Mexico, b.1976)
Sitio de seguridad/
Safe Area, 2010
Galvanized steel
On loan from the artist
STL.L.2010.012
Sitio de Seguridad/Safe Area is part of the series THE FUCK
OFF PROJECT, which consists of a multiple large-scale and
site-specific sculptural project. The prject is reconstructed
and reconfigured according to the context and the size of the
place where it is exhibited. Safe Area is devised to simulta-
neously invade and defend public space, as a physical and
conceptual metaphor about the use of violence as protection
systems of individual, community, and political spaces."
This website (
visit link) has photos of some of the artist's other works (many similar in style to this one) as well as this to inform us:
"Daniel Ruanova works with a variety of materials, often transforming canvases and found objects into unexpected forms. Despite his interest in drawing from popular culture, Ruanova is keenly aware of the formal concerns in painting and sculpture, and works to push the traditional boundaries of these media through his unconventional use of materials. Sometimes his sculptures take form of abstracted guns, at other times Ruanova builds his three dimensional works out of an assemblage of colorful plastic guns, tanks, and toy soldiers. He uses the fictitious worlds of children´s toys, videogames, and comic books to create an ironic take on the current realities of war and violence. Whether paying a tongue-in-cheek homage to the power and might of fictional American superheroes, or producing intensely layered paintings whose abstract compositions are built from hyper-graphic images of targets, explosions, gunshot holes, and camouflage, Ruanova presents a political commentary that is informed by the direct relationship of living at the border with the Unites States, but is global rather than local in its scope.
(text from Catalogue: Strange New World / Art and Deign from Tijuana, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego)"