Elefante blanco = White elephant
West, Franz / Blancsube, Michel
White Elephant is the bilingual catalogue (Spanish/English) of the Franz West exhibition at the Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City, and includes some works never presented before. The works show the relation of West's production with people, playing with the implications of museum display, whose power lies in the transformation of what museums contain into cult objects.
Needless to say, the exhibition includes some of his "adaptiv...