Above: A place setting of “Le Point de Bascule,” an installation by the de la Torre Brothers as part of their exhibition, “Upward Mobility,” at the McNay Art Museum
An appetizing invitation from the de la Torre Brothers you can’t refuse? First entering the McNay’s gallery containing their almost-all-media dinner-party installation, “Le Point de Bascule,” you feel as though the guests must have stepped away from the table for a smoke on the patio after a wildly fabulous meal. Taxidermy around the walls make it feel oddly at home in big-game-hunting Texas.
We’re repulsed by this opulence. But we’re also thinking: ‘God, I wish I’d been invited to this party.’”
Artist Einar de la Torre, interviwed by Patricia Escarcega for an article in The New York Times
Above: The dining room table in “Le Point de Bascule,” a multimedia art installation by the de la Torre Brothers
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