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Interrogatorio Inverso – Press
INTERROGATORIO INVERSO
Miguel Calderón
January 31 | April 3, 2020
Miguel Calderón: Interrogatorio Inverso
January 31, 2020 | April 3, 2020
Opening: Friday, January 31, 2020, 8:00 pm
Páramo and kurimanzutto present the exhibition Interrogatorio Inverso [Inverse Interrogation], by Miguel Calderón. Interrogatorio Inverso is a group of works in which Calderón explores themes such as the free association of images, perception, the workings of memory, and the mass production and dissemination of news images. The artist combines these issues with his characteristic way of creating narratives based on his encounters with real persons who have undergone extreme experiences.
The central piece of the exhibition is an interview with the former director of Interpol Mexico, in which he narrates some of the most outstanding cases of his career. His eloquent language, humor and physical presence create a sense of being in front of a character from a police novel that is constantly confronted by existential questions. On a parallel screen, Calderón adds footage extracted from various news archives that are part of the collective unconscious and that are linked to the events described during the interview. The exhibition includes other pieces associated with the idea of images multiplied through communications media.
Interrogatorio Inverso is the fourth show of the program entitled Impasse 2019-2020, a project by Daniel Guzmán. Impasse is designed to reactivate and strengthen ties with the local contemporary art scene through a selection of artists, both Mexican and foreign, who have made their careers in Mexico.
About the artist
Miguel Calderón (Mexico City, 1971) explores a broad range of themes, from violence and corruption in Mexico, to youth and family dynamics, to the supernatural. However, his work is unified by an ever-present sense of theatricality, questioning the fine line between reality and fiction.
Frequently cast from the perspective of an outsider, he highlights the macabre complexity of man’s position in the universe deftly weaving together mockery, foolishness, social critique and sincerity of emotion. He creates works from a mashup of vernacular references, employing a variety of media, including video, photography, sculpture and painting.For Calderón, it is important that art be accessible; he came of age as an artist in Mexico during the 1990s, when he was a key figure in the development of a young alternative art scene in Mexico.
Calderón received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1994. He has been the recipient of the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation Grant & Commissions program (2013), The MacArthur Fellowship for Film and New Media (2000), and the Bancomer/Rockefeller Fellowship (1995).
Recent major solo exhibitions include: Independientemente de con quien duerma, Fototeca Latinoamericana (FoLa), Buenos Aires (2017); Miguel Calderón: Color Bleed, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, New York (2012); Miguel Calderón, solo project, Casa América, Madrid, Spain (2010); Conversations with a Tropical Vulture, with George Kuchar, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2010); Bestseller, Panorámica, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2009); Ridiculum Vitae, La Panadería, Mexico City, Mexico (1998). The artist has also exhibited in numerous group shows, at the following institutions: Museo Jumex, Mexico City (2015); The Galleries at Moore, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia (2015); Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico (2014); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California (2014); The Foundation Cartier, Paris, France (2013); Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico City, Mexico (2011); The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California (2011); Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico (2010); Museum Moderner Kunst (MUMOK), Vienna, Austria (2009); National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland (2007); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, United States (2007); PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, United States (2002), among others.
Calderón has participated in various biennials, including: 7th Internationale Photo- Triennial, Esslingen, Germany (2007); Bussan Biennale, Bussan, Korea (2006); Sharja Biennial 7, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (2005); Yokohama Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan (2005); ARCO, Madrid, Spain (1998).
Calderón currently lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico.
Páramo would like to extend its gratitude to kurimanzutto, Tequila 1800 Cristalino and UBS for their collaborative support. Miguel Calderón thanks Emilio Azcárraga Jean and Televisa for their contribution providing audiovisual material for the realization of this work.
For further information, please contact: archivo@paramogaleria.com Press enquiries: media@paramogaleria.com / +52 33 3825 0921
Ahora imagino cosas
AHORA IMAGINO COSAS
Talk
Bruno Gruppalli, Carlos Maldonado & Carlos Velázquez
November 29, 2019
AHORA IMAGINO COSAS
Bruno Gruppalli (visual artist), Carlos Maldonado (visual artist) and the writer Carlos Velázquez.
Friday, November 29, 2019, 7:00 pm. Hidalgo 1228, Colonia Americana 44160, Guadalajara, Mexico.
Talk offered by the artists Bruno Gruppalli (visual artist), Carlos Maldonado (visual artist) and the writer Carlos Velázquez (author of La Biblia Vaquera, Aprende a amar el plástico, among others).
As part of the Impasse program, curated by Daniel Guzmán, a conversation will tale place about the exhibition Algo me está haciendo, by the artist Bruno Gruppalli, which addresses the exhibition itself and its relationship with literature, music and other ideas.
Páramo would like to extend its gratitude to Tequila 1800 Cristalino for their collaborative support.
TAGS: #BrunoGruppalli #Algomeestahaciendo #Ahoraimaginocosas #Paramo
SFMOMA
SFMOMA
SOFT POWER
Eamon Ore-Giron & Tuan Andrew Nguyen
October 26, 2019 – February 17, 2020
SOFT POWER | SFMOMA
Eamon Ore-Giron & Tuan Andrew Nguyen
October 26, 2019 – February 17, 2020
Opening: Saturday, October 26, 2019
Artists Eamon Ore-Giron and Tuan Andrew Nguyen participate in the group exhibition SOFT POWER. This show is about the ways in which artists deploy art to explore their roles as citizens and social actors. Appropriated from the Reagan-era term used to describe how a country’s “soft” assets such as culture, political values, and foreign policies can be more influential than coercive or violent expressions of power, the title contemplates the potential of art and offers a provocation to the public to exert their own influence on the world. Presented on two floors of the museum, the exhibition features new commissions and recent works by twenty international artists. Taken together, the works in SOFT POWER demonstrate what cultural theorist and filmmaker Manthia Diawara has called a solidarity between intuitions —a concept that acknowledges the complexity, darkness, and opacity from which our reality emerges— that expresses the poetry and imagination of our differences.
Text: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Image: Eamon Ore-Giron, “Infinite Regress LXXXII”, 2019, 267 x 457 cm / 106 x 180”, 2019. Courtesy of the artist.
Image: Tuan Andrew Nguyen, “Engulfed” (detalle), 2018. Courtesy of the artist.
Artists
Eamon Ore-Giron
Tuan Andrew Nguyen
TAGS: #EamonOre-Giron #TuanAndrewNguyen @sfmoma #softpower20
Algo me está haciendo – Press
ALGO ME ESTÁ HACIENDO
Bruno Gruppalli
October 24, 2019 | January 17, 2020
Bruno Gruppalli: Algo me está haciendo
October 24, 2019 | January 17, 2020
Opening: Thursday, October 24, 2019, 8:00 pm
Páramo presents the exhibition Algo me está haciendo, by Bruno Gruppalli. It is the artist’s first individual exhibition with the gallery, and the third show of the gallery’s Impasse 2019-2020 program, curated and selected by Daniel Guzmán. The program is designed to reactivate and strengthen the relationship with the local scene through a selection of artists, national and international, who in some way or another develop their work in Mexico.
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ALGO ME ESTÁ HACIENDO brings together works that Bruno Gruppalli builds from materiality. In diversity he builds, appeals for the line and the way to create routes that link and contemplate us. Matter is present through his gaze: the gaze of things. The drawings look at us, the objects contemplate us.
Gruppalli proposes a language that implies the look; not sight: vision. Psychedelia is, then, in each one: our vision. Materiality stops us with many links, but ideas transfer us; light the spiral where the everyday is altered in our contemplation. You can find aspects similar to what is happening to you in another place in time. An assimilated form: The spiral.
This set of works by Bruno Gruppalli is discovered —I explain myself, they do not hide or reveal anything. It is about discovering another language in the drawing and the materiality that makes them up. They are an invitation to the props room of a theater, where through objects we can invent the world.*
*Text: Carlos Maldonado, “Una forma asimilada: la espiral” (abstract)
About the artist
Bruno Gruppalli (Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1984) works from various media (drawing, performance, installation, sculpture, collage and photography) analyzing and relating communication codes, fashion and personal policies on consumption and altered states of perception, based often in autobiographical, semiotic sources or in relation to the History of art and subcultures. He focuses his attention on the idea of language and its transmutation, affecting our perceptual beliefs, directing our impulses and influencing our behavior, always putting it in relation to a body measure. There is an interest in the constant change of formats regarding the way of trying to configure a corpus of schizophrenic work, through the idea that identity is unstable and contradictory, that the work materializes a residue of a post-everything world, in a constant state of fragmentation and synthesis with a great tendency towards hermeticism as an idea and position about the interpretation of things.
Gruppalli has shown his work in different museums within which are the Museo de Guadalajara (MUSA), Guadalajara, Mexico; the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (MAMBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (MNBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (MACRO), Rome, Italy; Rosa Galisteo, Santa Fe, Argentina; Contemporary art museum Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museum of the book and the language, Buenos Aires, Argentina; as well as various galleries and exhibition spaces such as the Recoleta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Borges Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Klemm Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Guadalajara 90210, Guadalajara, Mexico; Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Istituto Garuzzo per le Arti Visive, Turin, Italy; Maria Casado, Buenos Aires, Argentina; San Martín Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Mite, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Vasari, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Floating Island, Buenos Aires, Argentina; among others. His work is part of museum collections in Argentina and various national and international private collections such as the Diéresis Collection, Guadalajara, Mexico; MACRO Museum, Rosario, Argentina; Museum of contemporary art, Bahía Blanca, Argentina and La Rural, Argentina. He currently lives and works in Guadalajara, Mexico.
For further information, please contact: media@paramogaleria.com / +52 33 3825 0921.
Press enquiries: media@paramogaleria.com / +52 33 3825 0921.
Páramo would like to extend its gratitude to Tequila 1800 Cristalino and Cerveza Minerva for their collaborative support.
TAGS: #BrunoGruppalli #Algomeestahaciendo #Paramo
The Rotating Raffle Drum
THE ROTATING RAFFLE DRUM
Nasim Hantehzadeh
October 24, 2019 | January 17, 2020
The Rotating Raffle Drum – Press
THE ROTATING RAFFLE DRUM
Nasim Hantehzadeh
October 24, 2019 | January 17, 2020
Nasim Hantehzadeh: The Rotating Raffle Drum
October 24, 2019 | January 17, 2020
Opening: Thursday, October 24, 2019, 8:00 pm
Páramo is pleased to announce The Rotating Raffle Drum, the first solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Nasim Hantehzadeh to be held at the galley.
In her art practice, Hantehzadeh continues to develop a significant visual language with painting and drawing elements such as forms, gestures, and colors that is under nonstop continuous evolvement. Her visual language emphasizes the sense of in-betweenness and the space of emptiness, where metamorphic forms co-exist.
The body of work presented in this exhibition was developed during the artist’s four months journey across the United States, from the West Coast to the East Coast. During her travels, notions such as the sense of belonging, location and the history of the location, and time were processed. In Hantehzadeh’s work, trusting in the stability of the meaning of her symbolism proves challenging for the viewer. Polymorphic forms represent multiple symbols at once as they are juxtaposed and placed in context to different parts of the rectangle. In the piece entitled Left Behinds, for instance, circular forms may represent eyes as they appear in the horizon, or become a military target or a mouth as they expand larger, while other times they highlight anuses as they appear around star shaped lines.
The title of the exhibition, The Rotating Raffle Drum, is metaphorically used by the artist to describe her approach to memories during her travels. She identifies a memory as a raffle ticket when the rotating raffle drum stops spinning and randomly reveals a ticket. During the process of making the works, memories are coded by forms, gestures, and colors, and are transformed to a story that each work carries inside.
About the artist
Nasim Hantehzadeh (b. 1988) was born in Oklahoma City, OK, and grew up in Tehran, Iran where she started her art education at the Art and Architecture Tehran Center University in 2007. Hantehzadeh moved back to the United States and continued her art studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) where she received her BFA in 2013. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries such as Lefebvre & Fils in Paris, France as well as galleries in Italy, Iran, and the United States. Hantehzadeh received Resnick Scholarship, D’Arsy Hayman scholarship in 2015, and UCLA Art council award in 2016, she is a current graduate student in the Painting – Drawing program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Work by the artist is held in private collections worldwide, including the Frederick R Weisman Art Foundation, USA; New American Paintings, Edition #135, USA; New American Paintings, Edition #129, USA; Diéresis Collection, Guadalajara, Mexico; GAIA Collection, Mexico; Isabel and Agustín Coppel Collection, Mexico; Lynda and Stewart Resnick Collection, USA.
For further information, please contact: archivo@paramogaleria.com / +52 33 3825 0921.
Press enquiries: media@paramogaleria.com / +52 33 3825 0921.
Páramo would like to extend its gratitude to Tequila 1800 Cristalino and Cerveza Minerva for their collaborative support.
TAGS: #NasimHantehzadeh #TheRotatintRaffleDrum #Paramo
