Los Super Elegantes

 
Sixteen 2006 DVD running time 3:55 Video for the song Sixteen, directed by Miguel Calderon. Shot on location in Mexico City and Acapulco.
Nothing Really Matters 2002 DVD running time 4:21 The first video from the new album by Los Super Elegantes, entitled Nothing Really Matters. Shot on location in Greece.

 

Los Super Elegantes is the collaborative team of Milena Muzquiz and Martiniano Lopez-Crozet. Together they perform onstage at concerts and art events; record albums and produce music videos; make photographs and t-shirts, and write and star in their own plays. In cathartic and turbulent performances, Lopez Crozet and Muzquiz take on endless roles, from rock stars and television soap opera characters, to writers and onstage provocateurs. Their work blurs the line between art and music, high and pop culture, punk and mariachi, failure and success, real life and pop stardom. The final product, a pastiche of allusions to contemporary culture, portrays and deconstructs the variety of styles and fashions available in our media-saturated era.

Milena Muzquiz (Tijuana, 1974) and Martiniano Lopez-Crozet (Argentina, 1968) formed Los Super Elegantes in San Francisco in 1995; they live and work in Los Angeles. Their first musical album Channelizing Paradise was released in 2002. Los Super Elegantes were featured in the 2004 Whitney Biennial, in the same year they created the highly successful Slow Dance Club as part of the Frieze Art Fair 2004 Art Project Commissions. Los Super Elegantes work has been reviewed in numerous publications including ArtForum, Index, Purple, Interview and many others. Milena and Martiniano are currently working on their new album and in the production of their first motion picture: Los Super Elegantes An Autobiography.


MILENA MUZQUIZ

Born 1974 Tijuana, Mexico

Lives and works in Los Angeles, California

 

EDUCATION

2002 M.F.A., Pasadena Art Center, Pasadena, California

1996 B.F.A., California College of Arts and Crafts, San Fransisco, California


MARTINIANO LOPEZ-CROZET

Born 1968 Bahía Blanca, Argentina

Lives and works in Los Angeles, California

 

EDUCATION

1996 B.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute

1988 B.A., Universidad de Belgrano, Argentina

Selected Exhibitions
2007 Paul Petro Contemporary Art
2005 Pick a Paisley, Tropic is the Topic, Decorating with Dogs, Blow de la Barra, London
  The Technical Vocabulary of an Interior Decorator, Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles
2004 Slow Dance Club, Frieze Art Fair, London
  Made in Mexico, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
  Whitney Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2003 Sundown Salon, Schindler House, Los Angeles, CA
  To Be Political It Has To Look Nice, Apexart, New York, NY
  The 25th Anniversary Gala, L.A.C.E. Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  The Falling Leaves of St. Pierre, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA
  Assume Vivid Astro Focus #9 and Los Super Elegantes, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
2002 Los Super Elegantes and Silverio, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
  Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Low Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  You Think I'm Superficial, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, FL
2001 Song Poems, Leslie, Cohen and Brown, New York, NY
  Mark Sellwyn Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
  89.9 KCRW Live Radio Show, Santa Monica, CA
2000 Angie and Eric, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
  107.1 The Red Zone Live Radio Show, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Pietro and Paola, Over Here Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  Hollywood, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
  Mexcelente, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
1998 Beyond the Wild, Small Gallery, Pasadena Art Center, Pasadena, CA
1997 Clegg and Guttmann, CCSIS and Los Super Elegantes, Mamacita Fashion, Mexico City, Mexico
  Sick Soul II, Collaboration with Clegg and Guttmann, American Fine Arts, New York, NY

1996 Clegg and Guttmann and Los Super Elegantes, Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany
  Spiculating America, Artist Television Access, San Francisco, CA
  Nihom Koga Kuin Sennmonngakko School Video Show, Tokyo, Japan
  CCSIS Video Screening, San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA
1995 Los Gordos Show, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
  The Filth Festival, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
1994 Shh! They Are Sleeping, Nahl Hall, CCAC, Oakland, CA
Bibliography
2005 Kraus, Tumlir & McFadden, LA Artland Contemporary Art from Los Angeles, Black Dog Publishing, 2005, p. 203
  Lafuente, Pablo, “Los Super Elegantes”, Display: Recent Installation Photographs from London Galleries and Venues, Rachmaninoff’s, 2005, p. 65
  Hackworth, Nick, “Los Super Elegantes: A Retrospective”, Dazed and Confused, November 2005, Vol. II, No. 31, p. 175
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