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Mountain Spirits Dancing with Nuclear Rods
Mountain Spirits Dancing with Nuclear Rods
Mountain Spirits Dancing with Nuclear Rods

Mountain Spirits Dancing with Nuclear Rods

Artist Luís Jiménez 1940 El Paso Texas - 2006 Hondo, New Mexico
Date1974
Mediumlithograph on paper
Dimensionssight: 47 1/2 × 33 1/2 in. (120.7 × 85.1 cm)
frame: 53 × 39 × 1 1/2 in. (134.6 × 99.1 × 3.8 cm)
ClassificationsPrints & Printmaking
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, museum purchase, 1997 General Obligation Bonds
Object numberPC1999.34.1
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Nuclear Communities of the Southwest
on view March 23, 2024 - September 15, 2024

Jiménez combines the worlds of science and nature by imagining personified mountain spirits incorporating nuclear rods, the power source of nuclear reactors, in their ceremonial practice. The stark contrasts within the print allude to Jiménez’s point of view on nuclear power and its effect on the natural world, especially in Indigenous communities, as he reckons with contrasting sources of immense energy. This print was part of Dumb Dump, a 1994 exhibition at the Anderson Museum in Roswell, which protested the disposal of used nuclear rods onto the Mescalero Apache reservation. The protest was successful, and the nuclear rods never made it to Roswell.
Comunidades nucleares del Sudoeste
25 de marzo de 2024 - 15 de septiembre de 2024

 iménez combina los mundos de la ciencia y la naturaleza al imaginar unos espíritus de la montaña personificados que portan barras de combustible nuclear (la fuente de energía de los reactores nucleares) en sus rituales ceremoniales. El marcado contraste de este grabado hace alusión al punto de vista de Jimenez sobre la energía nuclear y sus efectos en el mundo natural, especialmente en las comunidades indígenas, al considerar fuentes contrastantes de energía incalculable. Este grabado pertenece a la exposición Dumb Dump (Vertido imbécil) de 1994 del Museo en Roswell, como forma de protesta por el desecho de barras de combustible nuclear en la reserva mescalero apache. La protesta tuvo éxito y las barras de combustible nuclear nunca llegaron a Roswell.
Terms
    Texas Dancing
    Luís Jiménez
    1979
    Baile Con La Talaca
    Luís Jiménez
    1984
    El Buen Pastor
    Luís Jiménez
    1999
    Air, Earth, Fire, Water
    Luís Jiménez
    1991
    Artist and Model
    Luís Jiménez
    drawn 1982, printed 2007
    Steve Jordan
    Luís Jiménez
    1984
    Dead Coyote
    Luís Jiménez
    1989
    The Rose Tattoo
    Luís Jiménez
    1983