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Germán Cueto – Biography
Germán Cueto
GERMÁN CUETO
Germán Cueto (Mexico City, 1893-1975) was a sculptor, painter, and author whose artistic practice was an integral part of the beginning of Mexico’s revolutionary art scene. He was involved in several groups and movements including the Estridentista movement and was also a founding member of the Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios (LEAR). In addition to his influence in Mexico, Cueto linked with Modernist movements abroad, including the Parisian group Cercle et Carré. While Cueto was a pivotal member of several avant-garde movements, he also had a deep interest in traditional Mexican art, strongly expressed in the form of masks. Also, Cueto was well known for his monumental abstract sculptures, which became part of the pantheon of public arts in Mexico City. Among them is Cueto’s El Corredor, made for the Route of Friendship for the XIX Olympic Games held in Mexico City in 1968. Although he did not receive the recognition that many of his contemporaries did during his lifetime, Cueto participated in many exhibitions. During his time in Paris, he exhibited with the Cercle et le Carré group. After returning to Mexico, he showed in several significant galleries including Galería de Arte Mexicano in Mexico City in 1932 and again in 1944 for a major solo exhibition, UNAM gallery in 1933, Mont-Orendain gallery in Mexico City in 1948, Glardecor gallery in Mexico City in 1951, Salón de la Plástica Mexicana in 1954, Excélsior gallery and Proteo gallery in Mexico City in 1955, and the Instituto Francés de América Latina in1960. Since his death, Cueto has been featured in essential retrospective exhibitions including Germán Cueto, 1893- 1975: Homenaje a sus 60 años de labor artística: esculturas, pinturas, dibujos, esmaltes y otras técnicas, Museo de Arte Moderno (1981); and Germán Cueto, Museo Reina Sofia (2005). He was also part of México 1900-1950: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco, and the Avant-Garde at the Dallas Museum of Art (previously presented at the Grand Palais, Paris), and Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism 1910-1950, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in June 2017 (previously presented at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City).EDUCATION
1919 Academia de San Carlos, Mexico CitySOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Germán Cueto: Hierros y Sombras, Freijo Fine Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain 2006 Germán Cueto, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City Germán Cueto: La memoria como vanguardia, Museo Federico Silva, San Luis Potosí, Mexico; Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan, Mexico 2005 Germán Cueto, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain 1981 Germán Cueto, 1893-1975: Homenaje a Sus 60 Años De Labor Artística: Esculturas, Pinturas, Dibujos, Esmaltes y Otras Técnicas, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City 1965 Obras de Germán Cueto, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City 1954 Germán Cueto, Suenks-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm, Sweden Salón de la Plástica Mexicana, Mexico City 1951 Germán Cueto, Clardecor Gallery, Mexico City 1948 Germán Cueto, Mont-Orendain Gallery, Mexico City 1944 Germán Cueto, Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico CityGROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Los Modernos: Dialogues France / Mexique, Musée des Beaux-Arts of Lyon, France México 1900-1950: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco, and the Avant-Garde, Dallas Museum of Art, US Margen-Borde-Orilla, curated by Patrick Charpenel, Páramo, Guadalajara, Mexico Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism, 1910–1950, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, US 2016 México 1900-1950: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco, and the Avant-Garde, Grand Palais, Paris, France Donación Maples Arce, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism, 1910–1950, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US 2015 Los Modernos, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City 2014 50 Años, 50 Obras, Museo del Arte Moderno, Mexico City 2011 Cold America: Geometric Abstraction in Latin America, 1934-1973, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain 2006 Vasos Comunicantes 1900-1950: Vanguardias Latinoamericanas y Europa, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Madrid, Spain 1999 La escultura en México, Museo de Pontevedra, Pontevedra, Spain 1998 Forjar el Espacio, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Spain; Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain; Museo de Bellas Artes de Calais, Calais, France 1990 París-Arte, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain 1986 Futurismo & Futurismi, Palazzo Grassi de Venecia, Venicia, Italy 1964 Bienal de Escultura de México, Mexico City 1954 Salón de Plástica Mexicana, Mexico City 1937 Acción de L.E.A.R, Galería de Arte, Universidad Nacional, Mexico City 1933 Salón de Otoño madrileño, Madrid, Spain 1931 Salon des Surindépendants, Paris, France 1930 Cercle et Carré, Gallery 23, Paris, France; Dalmau Gallery, Barcelona, Spain Artistas Latinoamericanos, organized by Joaquín Torres-García, Galería Zak, Saint-Germain- des Près, France 1929 Exposición grupal, Quatre Gallery, Paris, France Salon des Surindépendants, Paris, France 1928 Exposición grupal, Renaissance Gallery, Paris, France 1924 Café de Nadie, El Café de Nadie, Mexico CityCOLLECTIONS
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US Casa Estudio Luis Barragán, Mexico City Musée d’Art Moderne de Lille Métropole, Villeneuve-d’Ascq, France Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico CityBIBLIOGRAPHY
2018 Klich, Lynda. The Noisemakers: Estridentismo, Vanguardism, and Social Action in Post-revolutionary Mexico (The Phillips Collection Book Prize Series). Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2018. 2016 Klich, Lynda. “Mexico Estridentista” in Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism, 1910-1950. Exhibition catalogue. Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art; Mexico City: Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2016. Herrera Martínez Claudia, y Sánchez M. E. Duarte. Donación Maples Arce. Exhibition Catalogue. Mexico City: Museo Nacional de Arte: INBA, 2016. 2013 Mirkin, Dina. “Lola y Germán Cueto: dos rutas al vanguardismo en el México posrevolucionario” in Codo a Codo: Parejas De Artistas En México. Mexico City: Universidad Iberoamericana, 2013. 2012 Dumay, María G. 60 Artistas plásticos en el Borda. Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico: Instituto de Cultural de Morelos, 2012. 2010 Germán Cueto: Hierros y sombras. Exhibition Catalogue. Madrid: Freijo Fine Art Gallery, 2010. 2009 Rashkin, Elissa J. The Stridentist Movement in Mexico. The Avant-Garde and Cultural Change in the 920’s. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009. 2007 Germán Cueto. Mexico: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 2007. 2006 Germán Cueto. Exhibition Catalogue. Mexico City: Museo de Arte Alvar y Carmen T. de Carrillo Gil, 2006. Germán Cueto: La memoria como vanguardia. Exhibition Catalogue. San Luis Potosí: Museo Federico Silva, 2006. Vasos comunicantes 1900-1950: Vanguardias latinoamericanas y Europa. Exhibition Catalogue. Madrid: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, 2006. Navarrete, Sylvia. “Germán Cueto. Experimentación y vanguardia,” in Germán Cueto, 1893-1975. Mexico: INBA/MACG, 2006. 2004 Serge Fauchereau. Germán Cueto. Exhibition Catalogue. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2004. 1999 Bosch Romeu, Teresa. Germán Cueto, Un artista renovador. Mexico, D.F: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 1999. Moyssén, Xavier, Raúl Anguiano, and Luis Nishizawa. El escultor Germán Cueto y su tiempo. Mexico: Academia de Artes, 1999. 1981 Germán Cueto, 1893-1975: Homenaje a sus 60 años de labor artística: Esculturas, pinturas, dibujos, esmaltes y otras técnicas. Exhibition Catalogue, México, D.F: Museo de Arte Moderno, Bosque de Chapultepec, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1981. 1965 Obras de Germán Cueto. Exhibition Catalogue. México, D.F: Museo de Arte Moderno, 1965.
Javier Barrios – Biography
Javier Barrios
JAVIER BARRIOS
Javier Barrios (b. 1989) was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, and currently lives and works in Mexico City. Barrios investigates the power and social structures that mediate contemporary society, and he has a particular interest in modes of exchange and distribution, both as they apply to the economy and to the trafficking of information, ideas, and images. Through his meticulously executed pencil drawings, mixed media prints, as well as his diverse installations and sculptures, he examines the excesses and inequalities that he sees as inherent to capitalism, exploring issues of environmental degradation, unsustainable systems of production, and the seemingly inexorable homogenization and corporatization of the world around us. He frequently incorporates references to the history, culture, and traditions of Mexico into his work, making his critique both more specific and more pointed. Barrios is also interested in notions of resistance, in the ways in which the fringe pushes against the mainstream and how small acts of defiance can generate the collective force needed to affect change. In addition to his work as an artist, Barrios also runs the independent editorial project Ediciones Barrio Boy’z, which he founded in 2012 and in which he publishes his work and collaborations with other artists.
EDUCATION
2015-2016 Educational Program SOMA, Mexico 2010-2014 B.A. SCJ Visual Arts Orientation, MexicoCURRENT AND UPCOMING
Artist Residency CASA WABI, Oaxaca, Mexico March 2019SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Huerta a Cuadros, Indoor LADRÓN Gallery, Mexico City Sillas plegables y flores, Páramo, Guadalajara, Mexico 2016 Maquina de vapor, Bikini Wax, Mexico City 2014 Habitación de oro, Diéresis, Guadalajara, Mexico 2013 Améxica: Ciudad amurallada, Alianza Francesa de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, MexicoGROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Bodega ACME, Salón ACME 7th edition, Mexico City Páramo | GNP ArteCareyes Film & Art Festival, Careyes, Mexico 2018 Cómo diluir el territorio, curated by Viviana Martínez, La No Bienal 2nd edition, San Jose, Costa Rica 2017 127, Páramo | 127, New York, USA Kitchen debate, curated by Paulina Ascencio, Regina Rex, Rawson Projects, New York, USA ProyectosLA: “Here the border is you”, curated by Luiza Teixeira de Freitas y and Claudia Segura, Los Angeles, USA Tres golpes, in collaboration with Joaquín Segura, curated by Paulina Ascencio, Fundación CALOSA Irapuato, Mexico 2016 Segunda Gran Bienal Tropical, project by Pablo León de la Barra Loíza, Puerto Rico Políticas del polvo, curated by Anuar Maauad, Galería Emma Molina, Monterrey, Mexico Reconstrucción, un proyecto de Abraham Cruzvillegas, curated by Viviana Kuri, Museo de Arte de Zapopan (MAZ), Zapopan, Mexico 2015 Under Construction, curated by Meaghan Kent, Páramo, Guadalajara, Mexico 2015-2014 Testigo del siglo, curated by Viviana Kuri and Humberto Moro, Museo de Arte de Zapopan (MAZ), Zapopan, Mexico 2014 Bienal Universitaria de Arte y Diseño, Academia de San Carlos, Mexico City 2013 Sin necesidad de profecías, curated by Humberto Moro, Diéresis, Guadalajara, Mexico 2011 Anatema-Guadalajara, curated by Miriam Novóa and Samantha Cendejas, Guadalajara, MexicoART RESIDENCIES
2019 CASA WABI, Oaxaca, Mexico 2018 The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York, USA (August-October) 2017 Hotel el Ganzo, San José del Cabo, Mexico (June)AWARDS AND GRANTS
2014 Selected artist, Primera Bienal de Arte y Diseño de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México UNAM, Academia de San Carlos, Mexico City Guest artist, Maratón de las Américas 89Plus: Autoconstrucción, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Simon Castets, Museo Jumex, Mexico CityCOLLECTIONS
Diéresis Collection, Guadalajara, Mexico GAIA Collection, Mexico Isabel and Agustín Coppel Collection, MexicoBIBLIOGRAPHY
2019 ¿Quiénes son las 10 nuevas promesas del arte en México? 10 curadores opinan | Parte 1, Revista Código, March 26, 2019. 2017 Quiroz, Marcela. Javier Barrios and Joaquin Segura. Artforum, pg 217, December 2017. Reconstrucción: Un proyecto de Abraham Cruzvillegas. Museo de Arte de Zapopan: Zapopan, Jalisco, 2017 (Exhibition Catalogue). Arte y Trabajo BWEPS. Sentir OXXO/ Una revisión del uso de la tienda en la producción visual en México. Campo de relámpagos, 2017. Barrios, Javier. De vuelta en Utopía. A, The Style Guide, June 2017. Marcial Pérez, David. Arte para reclamar la Antártida. EL PAÍS, February 2017.
Faivovich & Goldberg – Biography
Faivovich & Goldberg
FAIVOVICH & GOLDBERG
Since 2006, Guillermo Faivovich (b. 1977, Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Nicolás Goldberg (b. 1978, Paris, France) have been engaged in an intensive and wide-ranging research project—A Guide to El Campo del Cielo—that forms the basis of their practice. El Campo del Cielo is located in northern Argentina and was the site of a meteor shower an estimated 4,000 years ago. Faivovich & Goldberg combine the roles of scientist, historian, and anthropologist to realize projects that offer new ways of seeing and experiencing the terrestrial results of a long-ago cosmic event, as well as thinking about its historical and cultural significance. Over more than a decade, the duo has produced a diverse body of work that includes installations, sculptures, publications, as well as videos and photographs. In 2010, the artists created an exhibition that brought together two halves of El Taco, a meteorite from El Campo del Cielo, that had been separated for nearly 45 years, allowing visitors to walk through and around the reunited masses. More recently, they have used microphotography to produce images of thinly sliced sections of a meteorite that reveal dazzling, multi-colored silicate inclusions. Laboriously mining the particularities of a singular event, Faivovich & Goldberg illuminate broadly resonant themes—the dynamics between an object and its documentation, the inherent complexities of institutional histories, and the complicated personal, cultural, and national relationships that develop with artifacts. Faivovich and Goldberg currently live and work in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
CURRENT AND UPCOMING
Researchers in residence. Museo Rosa Galisteo de Rodríguez, Santa Fe, Argentina 2018 – 2019 Solo exhibition Mesón de Fierro: Towards the XXII Century, United Nations, Vienna, Austria March 14 – September 12, 2019 Group exhibition Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas, Queens Museum, NY, USA April 7 – August 18, 2019SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND COMMISSIONS
2019 Mesón de Fierro: Towards the XXII Century, United Nations, Vienna, Austria 2018 In search of Mesón de Fierro, Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria Decomiso, ASU Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, USA arteBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2017 Bienal Sur, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2016 Faivovich & Goldberg: Decomiso, SlyZmud, Buenos Aires, Argentina Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea 2015 The Tower of Knowledge, Páramo, Guadalajara, Mexico 2014 Campo del Cielo at Colección Guerrico, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2013 Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil A guide to Campo del Cielo, Nusser & Baumgart Gallery, Munich, Germany 2012 documenta (13), Kassel, Germany 2010 Meteorite “El Taco”, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany 2006 Retrato de La Sorpresa y los meteoritos que ya no están en Campo del Cielo, Piguem ´Onaxa Provincial Park, Campo del Cielo, Chaco, ArgentinaGROUP EXHIBITIONS, SEMINARS AND PERFORMANCES
2019 Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas, Queens Museum, NY, USA Páramo| GNP ArteCareyes Film & Art Festival, Careyes, Mexico 2018 Soon Enough: Art in Action, Tensta konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden Prima Materia, LACASAPARK, NY, USA 2017 Parte 11: Homenaje a Baigorria, Malba Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina Ephemeropterae #9, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria Mundos Alternos, Pacific Standard Time, California Museum of Photography, UCR, US Working for the Commons, Casco Art Institute, Utrecht, the Netherlands Sesión Extraordinaria, Antiguo Congreso de la Nación, ArteBA Dixit, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2015 Faivovich & Goldberg: recent work, PAOS y Casa Taller José Clemente Orozco, Guadalajara, Mexico UTOPIEdocumenta, Stadtmuseum Kassel, Germany Under Construction, Páramo, Guadalajara, Mexico Arte, Justamente, Simposio Internacional de Teoría sobre Arte Contemporáneo (SITAC XII), Mexico City, Mexico 2014 tc: temporary contemporary, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, USA Numero, Art Basel: Positions, Miami Beach, USA Territorio del Chaco, Art Basel: Public, Miami Beach, USA On The Road, Palacio de Xelmirez, Santiago de Compostela, Spain Traces, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, USA 2013 Faivovich & Goldberg on Walter De Maria, Artists on Artists lecture series, DIA: Chelsea, New York, USA Una guía a Campo del Cielo, lecture at Sanberg Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2012 Resonance, Goethe-Institute, New York, USA Presentación de Vol.II: Chaco, lecture at El Fogón de los Arrieros, Resistencia, Chaco, Argentina Ultimas Tendencias II, Museo de Arte de Buenos Aires, Argentina 2011 The Inaccessible Poem, Fondazione Mario Merz, Torino, Italy Estación Experimental, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, and LABoral, Gijón, Spain Collision 2: When Artistic and Scientific Research Meet, MIT, Cambridge, USA 2010 Presentación de Vol.I: El Taco, lecture at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2009 Reading and Composing A Guide to Campo del Cielo, CCS Bard College, NY, USA Proyecto secundario, Colegio Goethe, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2008 When Kittens become Cats, conference at Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany 2007 Sello postal “Chaco”: First Day Issue, Correo Central, Buenos Aires; Postal Palace, Rosario; Fiesta Nacional del Meteorito, Gancedo, Chaco, Argentina 2006 Fotografía Contemporánea, Ruth Benzacar Galería de Arte, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaRESIDENCIES
2018-2019 Research residency. Museo Rosa Galisteo de Rodríguez, Santa Fe, Argentina 2015 ASU, Arizona State University, USACOLLECTIONS
Jumex Collection, Mexico ASU Art Museum Collection, USA BESart Collection, Portugal Caraffa Museum Collection, Argentina GAIA Collection, MexicoBIBLIOGRAPHY
2019 Keats, Jonathon, From Puerto Rican Coconauts To Illegal Alien Crossings, A New Exhibit Exposes The Politics Of Sci-Fi, Forbes, April 8, 2019. Faivovich & Goldberg: In search of Mesón de Fierro, Naturhistorisches Museum: Vienna, Austria, 2019 (catalogue) Faivovich & Goldberg Exponen en Viena los artistas argentinos que hacen obras inspiradas en meteoritos, El Litoral, February 18, 2019. 2018 Hill, Troy. Argentine meteorite art crashes into the ASU Art Museum, The State Press, October 15, 2018. Villaro, Julia. Sobre “Un meteorito para la Sociedad Científica Argentina de 2105” de Nicolás Goldberg y Guillermo Faivovich”, Otra Parte, June 7, 2018. Faivovich & Goldberg Activan la Muestra Museo Tomado. Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Rosa Galisteo de Rodríguez, August 15, 2018. 2017 Faivovich & Goldberg. You are here, contribution for Artists on Walter De Maria. Dia Art Foundation, September 2017: 44-72. Lange-Berndts, Petra. Cosmic Debris, Steine. Kulturelle Praktiken des Steintransfers, September 2017: 134-136. Singh Soin, Himali. Faivovich & Goldberg. Artforum, Summer Issue, 2017: 384. Fernandez, Juan Maria. El arte que cayó del cielo. Revista Viva, August 2017: 38-42. Villa, Javier. Decomisados. ArteBA: Memoria Semestral de Arte Contemporáneo Argentino, July 2017: 106-107. Schanton, Pablo. El país donde un zapallo puede hacerse Cosmos. Catalogue Argentina Plataforma, Arco 2017: 94-99. Villaro, Julia. Poesía caída de otros cielos. Revista Ñ, February 2017: pp 21. 2016 Speranza, Graciela. Decomiso, Otra Parte: (http://revistaotraparte.com/semanal/arte/decomiso/) Faivovich & Goldberg. Creo haber contestado á todo lo que me has preguntado. Spiral Jetty, Buenos, Aires Argentina. 2015 UTOPIE documenta: Unrealized Projects from the History of the World Art Exhibition, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Kassel, 2015. Demeuse, Sarah. Farewell To Nature. Art in America, April 2015: 86-93. 2014 Weir, Andy. Cosmic Alreadymades: Exhibiting Indifference at dOCUMENTA (13), Journal of Curatorial Studies 3: 1, pp. 98-116. 2013 Puhringer, A. Museale Galerieausstellung: Faivovich & Goldberg bei Nusser & Baumgart, München. Artnews, May 15, 2013. Hermann J. Galerietipp. Faivovich & Goldberg, A Guide to Campo del Cielo bei Nusser & Baumgart. Sueddeutsche Zeitung, May 8, 2013. Iglesias, C. A*Desk, February 2013. Faivovich & Goldberg. El Mesón de Fierro y la máquina de hacer llover. 9 Bienal Mercosul. 2012 Faivovich & Goldberg. The Campo del Cielo Meteorites – Vol. II: Chaco. dOCUMENTA (13). Cologne: Walther König, 2012. Schwerfel, Heinz Peter. Die Himmelsstürmer. Das Kunstmagazin, 2012: 44-47. Mayerle, Astrid. Watchlist. Künstler, die uns aufgefallen sind: Faivovich & Goldberg. Monopol Magazin, June 2012: 32-33. Rabottini, Alessandro. Alreadymade. Faivovich & Goldberg. Mousse 14, Summer 2012: 72-75. Werneburg, B. dOCUMENTA (13): sechs. Faivovich & Goldberg. Interview Magazine, June 2012. Hubl, Michael. Eine Omnipotenzphantasie. Kunstforum Vol. 217, August 2012: 26-28. Christov-Bagarkiev, Carolyn. The dance was very frenetic, lively, rattling, clanging, rolling, contorted, and lasted for a long time. dOCUMENTA (13), The Books of Books 1/3 2012: 30. Puhringer, Alexander. Der Fall der Dinge. Untitled. The State of the Art No. 4, Autumn 2012. 2011 Starling, Simon. The Inaccessible Poem. Torino: Fondazione Merz, 2011. Faivovich & Goldberg. Meteorite ‘El Taco’. AGMA Magazine, Winter 2011: 16-21. Bomb Magazine No. 116, Summer 2011: 79-83. Lorch, Catrin. Faivovich & Goldberg. Artforum, February 2011: 243-4. En Guide Til Campo del Cielo del 1: El Taco. Smug Magazine, 2011. Estación Experimental. Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, 2011. Pauls, Alan. Meteorito. Otra Parte, 2011. Iglesias, Claudio. A través del universo. Radar, Página/12 2011. 2010 Faivovich & Goldberg. The Campo del Cielo Meteorites – Vol. I: El Taco. dOCUMENTA(13). Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2010. Lundh, Johan. Part of the Process. Mousse Magazine, 2010. Coulson, Amanda. ArtReview Issue 64, December 2010. Es regnet Meteoriten. Frankfurter Allgemeine, September 2010. Hohmann, Silke. Kosmisches Readymade. Der Weg nach Kassel führt durchs All und Argentinien. Ein Buch von Guillermo Faivovich und Nicolás Goldberg erzählt Davon, wie der Meteorite El taco die Kunstelt verändert. Monopol, December 2010. 2009 Transacciones Filosóficas. Uqbar Foundation-Sepia. 2008 Discovery of a Multiton Meteorite. Revista Script. Villa, Javier. Una Guía a Campo del Cielo. ADN, La Nación.
Emanuel Tovar – Biography
Emanuel Tovar
EMANUEL TOVAR
Emanuel Tovar (b. 1974) was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he currently lives and works. Tovar’s practice departs from the conflicts and vulnerabilities of the human condition. He is interested in matter and sculpture as a reflection of the social context, and as a media for the construction of dialogues. Tovar´s geometric deconstructions, which seem to be mere formal exercises, function as metaphors for the disintegration of structural lines that fracture and transform. Fragility is a constant in his creative search while questioning social schemes and those of art itself. Using forgotten materials and elements, recycled, reused and recuperated from a social context in which consumerism is prevalent and social classes are increasingly more pronounced, he creates systems through a chaotic precarious process. Similar to the practices that occur in conflictive contexts (where construction is made with the most elemental and close at hand materials), generating tensions to make the viewer aware of that which prevails in the near perimeter; to recuperate the “other” histories that grow like parasites fed by the waste of society. Tovar thinks of the periphery as a retaining belt of capitalist societies, where he finds abstract realities in a fleeting context of fragile economy, of perishable architectures removed from the established order. To discuss precariousness, to reflect on the power of action, human labor, and work, establishing settings where it seems as though the system is cracking. His works become postcards that portray the suburban chaos in a kind of an antithesis of aesthetic perfection.EDUCATION
2001 BFA with a major in sculpture, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico 2000 II Encuentro internacional de Profesores y Estudiantes de Artes Plásticas, Havana, CubaCURRENT AND UPCOMING
Group exhibition Der Arf Nira En Egar U.O.C., Rinomina & NERI | Barranco, Mexico City October 10, 2019SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Solo Project for PARC’ Peru with Páramo, Lima Peru Viaje inmaterial, Páramo, Guadalajara, Mexico 2016 Un surco en la nada, Cuadro22, Switzerland La huida del tiempo, Obra Gris, Guadalajara, Mexico 2014 La conspiración de las bestias, Diéresis, Guadalajara, Mexico 2011 El trabajo te hará libre, Museo de Arte Zapopan, Zapopan, Mexico 2009 El triunfo de la voluntad, Charro Negro, Zapopan, Mexico Gloria Desierta, en Casa Del Lago, Mexico City 2007 White Dumbo Flying Over Infonavit, Museo de las Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico 2005 Súper Punk, Arena México, Guadalajara, Mexico 2003 Bombiux-Tix-Tix, Museo Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara, MexicoGROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Der Arf Nira En Egar U.O.C., Rinomina & NERI | Barranco, Mexico City Sumatorio, Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City Páramo | GNP ArteCareyes Film & Art Festival, Careyes, Mexico 2018 Courage! Near Infra Red, curated by Abraham Cruzvillegas at Rinomina Gallery, Paris, France Cycles of Collapsing Progress, Contemporary Art Exhibition Mexico x Lebanon, curated by Karina El Helou in partnership with Anissa Touati, Tripoli, Lebanon 2017 El día es azul el silencio es verde la vida es amarilla, curated by Paola Santoscoy, Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City 127, Páramo | 127, New York, USA Monumentos, anti-Monumentos y nueva escultura pública, Museo Universitario del CHOPO, Mexico City A Poet*hical Wager, MOCA, Cleveland, USA Vuelos y cantos dentro de un edificio que llora, Guadalajara 90210, Edificio Fermín Riestra, Guadalajara, Mexico Monumentos, anti-Monumentos y Nueva Escultura Pública, Museo de Arte Zapopan, Zapopan, Mexico 2016 Destroy your humanity, Gabinete Homo-Extraterrestre, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, USA La huida del tiempo, Obra Gris, Guadalajara, Mexico Reconstrucción, a project by Abraham Cruzvillegas, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Guadalajara, Mexico 2015 La llamada del Dios Extraño # 2, Museo de la Pintores Oaxaqueños, Oaxaca, Mexico Under Construction, Páramo Gallery, Guadalajara, Mexico Mi mano izquierda, Casa Taller José Clemente Orozco, PAOS, Guadalajara, Mexico 2014 Leviatán, Museo Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara, Mexico 2013 Sin necesidad de profecías, Diéresis Gallery, Guadalajara Mexico 2011 Everything Must Go, Casey Kaplan, New York, USA 2010 “Traveling Show” & “El Gabinete Blanco”, Colección Jumex, Mexico City 2008 El norte del sur, Baró Cruz, Sao Paulo, Brazil The Best Art Work in the World (or The Portrait of the Artist), Charro Negro, Guadalajara, Mexico Standing On One Foot, TPS (Triangle Project Space), San Antonio, TX, USA 2007 YAQ, La Planta Arte Contemporáneo Omnilife, Guadalajara, Mexico One Foot High and Rising, The Balmoral, Los Angeles, CA, USA Babylon, VIII Festival de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona, Centro de Cultura de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 2006 Distort, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City … un minuto por favor, Casa Taller José Clemente Orozco, Guadalajara, Mexico 2005 Declaraciones, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain 2004 Sólo los Personajes Cambian, MARCO, Monterrey, Mexico La Relatividad del Tiempo y los distintos sistemas de referencia, curated by Patrick Charpenel, OPA, Guadalajara, MexicoPERFORMANCES
2019 Cantos Baldíos, Isla de Mezcala, Jalisco, Mexico Timonero inmerso en la oscuridad, The Mistake Room 5th anniversary, Los Angeles, USA Mira, yo he puesto delante de ti una puerta abierta que nadie puede cerrar, in collaboration with Bruno Gruppalli, Tequila, Jalisco, Mexico 2018 Ritos estructurales, 14th edition Performance Art and Visual Art Festival VERBO, curated by Rodrigo Campuzano and Samantha Moreira São Paulo, Brazil El culo del diablo and Un surco en la nada, U-TURN PROJECT ROOM, arteBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina Ritos estructurales, Isla de Mezcala, Jalisco, Mexico 2017 Un surco en la nada, Páramo, Tetetlán, Mexico City Serie materia habitable, 90210, Edificio Fermín Riestra, Guadalajara, Mexico Cantos Baldíos, A Poet*hical Wager group exhibition at MOCA, Cleveland, USA 2016 Un surco en la nada, Cuadro22, Switzerland Ritos Estructurales, Reconstrucción, a project by Abraham Cruzvillegas, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Mexico La huida del tiempo, Obra Gris, Guadalajara, Mexico Gloria Suspendida, Gallery Weekend Mexico City, Páramo, Mexico City 2014 Monumento a la Inmaterialidad for Leviatán, Museo Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara, Mexico Sinfonía Triste for La conspiración de las bestias, Diéresis, Guadalajara, Mexico 2013 Miércoles de ceniza for Sin necesidad de profecías, Diéresis, Guadalajara, MexicoCURATORIAL PROJECTS
2007 Trinchera (Homage to José Clemente Orozco), Museo Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara, MexicoLECTURES
2013 Promotion and dissemination, experiences in the professional field, DAAD, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico 2008 Multidisciplinary approaches and experiences from arts graduates, División de Artes y Humanidades, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico 2006 Taller de Equilibrio Precario, Ex Convento del Carmen, Guadalajara, MexicoOTHER PROJECTS
2014 Gabinete Homo-Extraterrestre Collective, Member 2012 Co-founder, Cerro Quemado (Asociación Autónoma de Artistas y Agentes Culturales de Occidente) 2008 APT member (Artist Pension Trust) 2005 Co-founder, Clemente JacqsGRANTS
2015-2017 Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte (national system of art creators), The National Fund for Culture and Arts, Mexico 2013-2014 Programa de Estímulo a la Creación y Desarrollo Artístico (stimulus program for art creation and development), State Council for Culture and Arts, Mexico 2005-2006 Programa de Estímulo a la Creación y Desarrollo Artístico (stimulus program for art creation and development), The National Fund for Culture and Arts, Mexico 2002-2003 Programa de Estímulo a la Creación y Desarrollo Artístico (stimulus program for art creation and development), The National Fund for Culture and Arts, MexicoAWARDS
2017 ILLY award for Solo Project at PARC’ Peru ART RES#IDENCIES 2017-2018 Artist Residency at Páramo, Tetetlán, Mexico City 2017 Artist residency at Casa WABI January – February, Tokyo, JapanCOLLECTIONS
Diéresis Collection, Mexico Carrillo Gil Collection, Mexico Museo Tamayo Collection, Mexico Isabel y Agustín Coppel Collection, Mexico Charpenel Collection, Mexico GAIA Collection, MexicoBIBLIOGRAPHY
2019 El Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil abre espacio a Sumatorio, INBAL press, newsletter No. 340, March 11, 2019 2017 Reconstrucción: Un proyecto de Abraham Cruzvillegas. Exhibition catalogue, Museo de Arte de Zapopan: Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico, 2017. Rondan, Dioselinda. Premio illycafe anuncia la entrega de 5 mil dólares. Agencia Orbita, April 2017. Cuestionario Código: Emanuel Tovar. Revista Código: Mexico City, Mexico, October 2017. 2013 Sin necesidad de profecías. Exhibition catalogue, Diéresis: Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, July – August 2013. Pp. 26-32, 60-61, 71-73, 87-90. 2011 Lara, Baudelio. En portada: Emanuel Tovar Andrade. Revista de Educación y Desarrollo, Issue 18, Universidad de Guadalajara: Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico, July – September, 2011. Cover page and Pp. 98. 2010 “Traveling Show” & “El Gabinete Blanco”. Exhibition catalogue, Colección Jumex: Ecatepec, Mexico, 2010. Pp. 152-155, 162-163. 2009 Gloria Desierta. Exhibition catalogue, Casa Del Lago: Mexico City, Mexico, 2009. Pp. 64-67. Firulais (Fragmentos de la historia reciente de Guadalajara). Exhibition catalogue, Editorial Pandora S.A de C. V.: Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, March 2009. Pp. 34, 57, 49. Homenaje a Orozco. Instituto Cultural Cabañas: Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, March 2009. Pp. 119. 2008 ASIMÉTRICA afinidades y discrepancias. Exhibition catalogue, Instituto Cultural Cabañas: Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, April 2008. Pp. 168,175. 2004 Sólo los personajes cambian. Exhibition catalogue, MARCO: Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, 2004. Pp. 40, 44, 60-61.
Edgar Cobián – Biography
Edgar Cobián
EDGAR COBIÁN
Edgar Cobián (Guadalajara, Mexico, 1978) is a multidisciplinary artist, his work is developed in different media such as drawing, sculpture, video and music. It reflects on the notions of Utopia and Ideal as articulation and dismantling devices of dominant political, social and cultural structures. Between a certain cynicism and a dense sense of humor, his work explores the symbolic possibilities of the image and its dislocation by overlapping referents drawn from fields such as politics, art, popular culture or personal history. From metaphors and metonyms, sentences, and images that oscillate between irony and absurdity, uncertainty arises as a place of philosophical resistance to the ideological problems of humanity and the world of the neoliberal era. Cobián studied the Bachelor of Visual Arts at the Universidad de Guadalajara, was awarded of the program Jóvenes Creadores del Fondo Nacional Para la Cultura y las Artes, FONCA (2011-2012), Mexico. He has individually presented: OVERDRESSED, Páramo, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2019; Deep transverse massage, Impronta Casa Editora, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2019; Sed de Infinito of the Double program at the Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Mexico, 2017; Se ha dicho que la revolución no necesita al arte…, Guadalajara 90210, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2017; and La Historia Suele Ser un Escondite de Tiranos, Intervention in situ, Museum of the City, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2017 (and 2013 respectively). As well as Días de campo, Vitrina, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2009; Odre, Charro Negro Gallery, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2008; Primavera, Museo Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2007; and Trick, Casa del Lago, Mexico City, Mexico, 2005; among others. He has participated in multiple collective exhibition projects internationally, among which are: Lo-Pass Filter, with Eamon Ore-Giron, Taller Los Guayabos, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2017; Kitchen Debate in collaboration with Rawson Projects, Regina Rex and Site95, New York, 2017; Fábulas sin moraleja, Casa del Lago, Mexico City, 2017; Destroy All Your Humanity, Gabinete Homo-Extraterrestre, Off-Site Páramo, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, USA, 2016; La Llamada del Dios Extraño #2, El Museo de los Pintores Oaxaqueños, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2015; Crisis Complex, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 2012; Manifestly Present, Kasteel Oud-Rekem, Liden, Belgium, 2012; Still Lifes, Diablo Rosso Gallery, Panama, Panama, 2012; La Quebradora, MCCLA, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2012; Alarma!, Death Be Kind Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, 2011; Everything Must Go, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, USA, 2011; Third Beijing International Art Biennale, 2008; Standing on One Foot, Triangle Project Space, San Antonio, TX, USA, 2007. His independent activities as a musician and performer are the Lit & Luz Festival, MCA-Chicago, Chicago, USA, 2019, and Doña Pancha Fest, an ongoing project; and also Bicephalo projects, next to Gabriel Rico; and individually Cráneo Verde Humeante and Peor Aún.EDUCATION
1998-2002 Bachelor of Visual Arts, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, MexicoCURRENT AND UPCOMING
Solo exhibition OVERDRESSED, Páramo, Guadalajara, Mexico August 29 – October 11, 2019 Group exhibition El jardín de Galileo, Guadalajara90210, Guadalajara, MexicoSOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 OVERDRESSED, Páramo, Guadalajara, Mexico MASAJE TRANSVERSO PROFUNDO, Impronta, Guadalajara, Mexico 2017 SED DE INFINITO, Double program, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, MAZ, Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico SE HA DICHO QUE LA REVOLUCIÓN NO NECESITA AL ARTE, PERO QUE EL ARTE NECESITA DE LA REVOLUCIÓN. ESO NO ES CIERTO. LA REVOLUCIÓN SÍ NECESITA UN ARTE REVOLUCIONARIO, Guadalajara90210, Guadalajara, Mexico 2013 LA HISTORIA SUELE SER UN ESCONDITE DE TIRANOS, Intervención in situ, Museo de la Ciudad, Guadalajara, Mexico 2011 COMUNICADO, Ware, León, Guanajuato, Mexico 2009 DÍAS DE CAMPO, Vitrina, Guadalajara, Mexico 2008 ODRE, Galería Charro Negro Guadalajara, Mexico 2007 PRIMAVERA, Museo Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara, Mexico NUEVO PARA NADA, with Augusto Marbán, Haus der Kunst Gallery, Guadalajara, Mexico 2006 DONDE NADIE ME VEA, Casa Museo López Portillo, Guadalajara, Mexico MONSTRUOS, with Augusto Marbán, Proyecto Liga, Guadalajara, Mexico 2005 DREAM, Laboratorio Clemente Jacqs, Guadalajara, Mexico TRICK, Casa del Lago, Ciudad de MexicoGROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 EL JARDÍN DE GALILEO, Guadalajara90210, Guadalajara, Mexico LA DIVINA INVASIÓN, Gamma Gallery, Guadalajara, Mexico NO ALCOHOL, NO DROGA, NO MOTA, with Cristian Franco, La Murciélaga, Mexico City 2018 CONTACTO SANGRIENTO 8, Guadalajara90210, Guadalajara, Mexico ACTOS DELIBERADOS, Otro Espacio, Guadalajara, Mexico 2017 LO-PASS FILTER, with Eamon Ore-Giron, Taller Los Guayabos, Guadalajara, Mexico QUETZALCÓATL, Museo Raúl Anguiano (MURA), Guadalajara, Mexico KITCHEN DEBATE, Site95, Rawson Projects y Regina Rex, New York, USA FÁBULAS SIN MORALEJA. EL DESBORDAMIENTO DE LA CORRUPCIÓN EN MÉXICO, Casa del Lago, Mexico City DIY FICTION, Careyes Art Foundation, Costa Careyes, Jalisco, Mexico 2016 ATLAS SOBRE PAPEL, Páramo, Guadalajara, Mexico DESTROY ALL YOUR HUMANITY, Off-Site Páramo, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, USA 2015 RECONSTRUCCIÓN, a project of Abraham Cruzvillegas, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan, Mexico LA LLAMADA DEL DIOS EXTRAÑO #2, El Museo de los Pintores Oaxaqueños, Oaxaca, Mexico MANO IZQUIERDA, Casa Taller José Clemente Orozco, Guadalajara, Mexico MEXICO: THE FUTURE IS UNWRITTEN, MAP OF THE NEW ART, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy KLINKT KLINKT KLINKT, Impronta Gallery / Proyecto Cobra, Guadalajara, Mexico 2014 A RÍO REVUELTO, Machete Gallery, Mexico City LA FIESTA DEL ASNO, Casa de la Cultura Jalisciense, Guadalajara, Mexico LEVIATÁN, Museo de Arte Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara, Mexico 2013 APENDICE ESTUDIO ABIERTO #2, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan, Mexico TINNITUS Y FOSFENOS, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan, Mexico 2012 CRISIS COMPLEX, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney, Australia STILL LIFES, Galería Diablo Rosso, Panama, Panama MANIFESTLY PRESENT, curated by Annemie Van Laethem, KasteelOud-Rekem, Liden, Belgium LA QUEBRADORA, curated by Amy Pederson, MCCLA (Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts), San Francisco, CA, USA THE REVELATION OF WHAT HAS ALREADY BEEN DESTROYED, ObjectNotFound, Monterrey, N. L., Mexico 2011 FUERZAS BÁSICAS, curated by Lorena Peña, Museo de la Ciudad, Guadalajara, Mexico ALARMA!, curated by por Tony Garifalakis, Death Be Kind, Gallery, Melbourne, Australia EVERYTHING MUST GO, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, NY, USA LA PRÁCTICA DE LA TEXTUALIDAD, Galería Jesús Gallardo, Instituto Cultural de León, León, Guanajuato, Mexico 2010 INDIAN SUMMER, Galería Arena México, Guadalajara, Mexico THIS IS ABOUT NOTHING, Plataforma Arte Contemporáneo, Guadalajara, Mexico SIN TÍTULO, Galería Charro Negro, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2008 FIRULAIS, Fragmentos selectos de la historia reciente de Guadalajara, curated by Cristián Silva, Museo de la Ciudad, Guadalajara, Mexico OBRA PÚBLICA, RUTA OROZCO, Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico TERCERA BIENAL INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE DE BEIJING, Beijing, China 2007 ONE FOOT HIGH AND RISING, Balmoral Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA STANDING ON ONE FOOT, curated by Patrick Charpenel y Cynthia Gutierrez, TPS (Triangle Project Space), San Antonio, TX, USA 2006 TRAUERFALL, curated by Cristián Silva, GaleriaHaus der Kunst, Guadalajara, Mexico UN MINUTO POR FAVOR, curated by Lorena Peña y Rubén Méndez, Casa Taller José Clemente Orozco, Guadalajara, Mexico 2005 SIETE EN LA MIRA, Casa de la Tía Tina, Mexicali, B. C. Mexico TIFLITIS, Faro de Oriente, Ciudad de México, Mexico XOCONOXTLE, Siento Veinte, Guadalajara, Mexico 2004 GUADALAJARA DE DÍA, Ramis Barquet, Gallery Monterrey, N. L. Mexico DICEN QUE FINJO O MIENTO, curated by Jorge Méndez Blake, Central de Arte, Guadalajara, Mexico 2003 FELICES DE LA VIDA, Arena México Arte Contemporáneo, Guadalajara, Mexico JUGUETRO, Sector Reforma, Guadalajara, Mexico 2002 CAIDA LIBRE, La Automovilística, Guadalajara, Mexico DE LA ESCULTURA AL ARTE OBJETO, Galería del Sistema de Tren Eléctrico, Guadalajara, Mexico I BELIEVE IS HAS TO BE SEEN, Devart Gallery, Guadalajara, Mexico TÁBULA RASA, curated by Patrick Charpenel, Galería Haus Der Kunst, Guadalajara, MexicoOTHER PROJECTS
Edgar Cobián is also a musician and has worked on Bicephalo projects, together with the artist Gabriel Rico, and individually as Cráneo Verde Humeante and Peor Aún. 2018 Festival LIT & LUZ, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA 2016 Gabinete Homo-Extraterreste, Collective consisting of: Esteban Aldrete, Cristian Franco, Daniel Guzmán, Bayrol Jiménez, Enrique Nuño, José Luis Sánchez Rull y Emanuel Tovar, Guadalajara, Mexico Miembro de la organización del festival underground DOÑA PANCHA FEST, in colaboration with the artist Cristian Franco and Daniel Guzmán, entre otros, Guadalajara, Mexico Las Mulas de Kentucky, Consejo artístico 2015 Live act of the project Cráneo Verde Humeante, ZEA MAYS, Actividades Paralelas, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan, Mexico POR UNA FIESTA MEJOR, project of Violeta Horcasitas, Mexico City 2014 Project presentation Cráneo Verde Humeante, Program Miércoles de SOMA, Mexico City 2013-2015 GRIT, Video Mexicano Contemporáneo, Una selección arbitraria 1996-2012. Compilation by Joaquín Segura. Meet Factory, Prague, Czech Republic; Goleb, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland; MAZ, Zapopan, México; Casa de la Cultura, Nuevo León, Mexico 2012 MOTIVOS FLORALES, ARCOMadrid, Solo Projects: FocusLatinoamerica. Madrid, Spain 2010 LOBOS DE JARDIN, L.A. Contemporary Art, Solo Projects. Los Angeles, California, USAART RESIDENCIES AND ART GRANTS
2017 Studio Los Guayabos, artists in residency, Guadalajara, Mexico 2016 PAOS (Programa de residencias para artistas), Museo Taller José Clemente Orozco, Guadalajara, Mexico 2011-2012 Young Creators of the FONCA Scholar Program, Visual Arts, Alternative Media, of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts, Mexico 2011 Object Not Found, Programa de residencias para artistas, 2011, curaduría por Rubén Gutiérrez, Monterrey, Nuevo León, MexicoBIBLIOGRAPHY
2019 MASAJE TRANSVERSO PROFUNDO. Exhibition catalog, Impronta Casa Editora, 2019 2018 MAKE, Literary Magazine. Issue #17, 2018 2014 FOTOCOPIAS. Ediciones Lázaro, Publicaciones Amateur, 2014 2011 PeepingTom’s. Digest #2, México. An exploration of the Mexican contemporary art scene, 2011 2009 Arte al límite. Magazine No. 36, 2009 Firulais, Fragmentos selectos de la historia reciente de Guadalajara. Exhibition catalog. Museo de la Ciudad, Dirección General de Cultura, 2009 2008 Asimétrica. Afinidades y discrepancias. Acciones artísticas colectivas en Guadalajara. 1949-2006. Exhibition catalog. Secretaria de Cultura del Estado de Jalisco, Mexico, 2008 Homenaje a Orozco. Exhibition catalog. Secretaria de Cultura del Gobierno de Jalisco, Instituto Cultural Cabañas, 2008 2007 Casa del Lago, Memoria de exposiciones, 2006. Universidad Autónoma de México, 2007 MArt. Guía de artistas emergentes para coleccionistas, 2007. Fundación Murrieta. Cuarta Pared. Magazine No. 6, 2007
Eamon Ore-Giron – Biography
Eamon Ore-Giron
EAMON ORE-GIRON
Eamon Ore-Giron (b. 1973) was born in Tucson, Arizona, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Ore-Giron blends a wide range of visual styles and influences in his brightly colored abstract geometric paintings realized on raw linen and canvas. The artist grew up in the Southwestern United States and has spent significant time in Spain; Peru, where his father is from; and Mexico. Ore-Giron’s travels, personal biography, and his formal education as a fine artist —he received an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles— have shaped his artistic vocabulary, which references Native American medicine wheels, Amazonian tapestries, the Mexican muralists, Russian Suprematism, and Latin American Concrete Art, as well as hard-edged abstraction and European modernism. Ore-Giron also works in video and music, as part of collaborative endeavors and as a musician and DJ. He is keenly aware of the history and cross-cultural evolution of musical styles. In a similar vein, his work makes manifest a history of the transnational exchange that has informed painting. He has said that his work “originates from a certain nostalgia for a global modernism” and the notion of a universal visual language. With his comprehensive approach, which marries Latin American aesthetics and indigenous craft and folk traditions with a 20th-century avant-garde, Ore-Giron creates a unique artistic style that feels at once timeless and contemporary and resonates across cultural contexts. Solo exhibitions have been presented at LAXART, Los Angeles (2015); Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York (2013); Pérez Art Museum Miami (2013); MUCA ROMA, Mexico City (2006); Queen’s Nails Annex, San Francisco (2005); and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia (2005). Ore-Giron’s work has been included in group shows at the SFMOMA, San Francisco; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; Prospect.3, New Orleans; and Deitch Projects, New York. His work has been covered in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, ArtForum, ANP Quarterly, and SFAQ, among other publications.EDUCATION
2006 MFA, University of California, Los Angeles, USA 1996 BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, USAARTISTIC COLLABORATIONS
2008–present Los Jaichackers, collaboration with Julio César Morales 2005–2013 OJO, seven-person artistic collaborationCURRENT AND UPCOMING
Group exhibition SOFT POWER, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA October 26, 2019 – February 17, 2020 Public art commission Wilshire/La Brea Station, Purple Line, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, USA (2022 anticipated completion) Bay Parkway Station, N Line, Brooklyn, Metropolitan Transit Authority, New York, USA (fall 2019 anticipated completion)SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Morococha, LAXART, Los Angeles, USA 2013 Smuggling The Sun, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, USA 2012 Open Tuning, E-D-G-B-D-G, 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles, USA 2010 Road to Ruins, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, USA 2009 Into A Long Punk, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, USA 2006 Los Jaichackers, MUCA ROMA, Mexico City, Mexico 2005 Los Cremators, Queens Nails Annex, San Francisco, USA Mirage, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, USAGROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 SOFT POWER, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA A Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas, Mandeville Gallery, Schenectady, NY, USA Páramo| GNP ArteCareyes Film & Art Festival, Careyes, Mexico 2018 Far Out: Movement through Form and Color, Union Station, Los Angeles, USA The Strangeness Will Wear Off, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, USA Common Forms, PEANA, Monterrey, Mexico Made in L.A. 2018, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA School of Chairs, 500 Capp Street Foundation, San Francisco, USA 2017 Tierra, Sangre, Oro, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa TX, USA Figure Ground; Beyond the White Field, organized by Rafa Esparza, Whitney Biennial 2017, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA 2016 Savage Curio, Et al., San Francisco, CA, US (two-person exhibition with Spencer Lewis) New Geometries, Fleisher/Ollman, Philadelphia, PA, USA Painters NYC, El Museo de los Pintores Oaxaqueños (MUPO), Oaxaca, Mexico 2015 Painters NYC, Páramo, Guadalajara, Mexico Something Else, Off Biennial, Cairo, Egypt 2014 Notes For Now, Prospect 3 New Orleans, New Orleans, USA 2013 Night Shade / Solanaceae, Perez Art Museum of Miami, USA ¡Oye, Mira!, Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, SF, CA, USA Metal Coyote, Y Gallery, New York, USA 2012 Going Public – Telling it as it is?, ENPAP (European Network of Public Art Producers), Bilbao, Spain 2011 Stories Song, Pepin Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, USA 2010 Lonarte, Municipality of Calheta, Madeira Portugal (public art installation) Wall-to-Wall, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Panorama: Los Angeles, ARCO Madrid, Spain 2009 Lovable Like Orphan and Bastard Children, The Green Gallery East Milwaukee, USA Glue, Paper, Scissors, Luckman Gallery, Cal State L.A, USA LA>, LA>COLLECTIONS
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA Kadist, San Francisco, USA Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USABIBLIOGRAPHY
2019 Ore-Giron, Eamon. Selected Works from the Infinite Regress Series. Bom Dia Books. December 2019. Rigual, Luis R., Eamon Ore-Giron Explores Transcendence In A New Exhibition For Nina Johnson, Modern Luxury Miami Magazine, December 2019. Artwork cover. Modern Luxury Miami Magazine, December 2019. 2018 Binlot, Ann, The long, layered narrative of the Pacific Rim, Documental Journal, November 9, 2018. Zeller, Heidi, New Union Station exhibition features artists’ interpretations of energy, transition and movement, The Source, September 4, 2018. Knight, Christopher. Made in L.A. 2018: Why the Hammer Biennial is the right show for disturbing times, Los Angeles Times, June 5, 2018. Stromberg, Matt. Resolutely Political LA Artists Focus on the Body in City´s Latest Biennial, Hyperallergic, June 4, 2018. Durón, Maximiliano. Here´s the ´Made in L.A. 2018´Artist List, Artnews, February 3, 2018. Vankin, Deborah. ‘Hammer Museum announces artists for Made in L.A. 2018: expect the biennial to get political, Los Angeles Times, February 13, 2018. 2017 Gropp, Jenny. Smuggling The Sun, The Georgia Review, Summer 2017. Tierra. Sangre. Oro, Terremoto, September 24, 2017. 2015 Knight, Christopher. Two perspectives on no way out by Eamon Ore-Giron, Los Angeles Times, January 30, 2015. Slenske, Michael. LAXART’s Next Phase, W Magazine, January 14, 2015. 2014 Morales, Julio César. Eamon Ore-Giron in conversation with Julio Morales, SFAQ, Nov. issue 2014. Sirmans, Franklin, with contributions by Rita Gonzalez, David C. Hunt, Christine Y. Kim, Rickey Laurentiis, Mary A. McCay, and Melissa A. Weber. Los Jaichackers. In Prospect 3: Notes for Now, exh. cat., New York: Prospect New Orleans/U.S.A Biennial, Inc., Prestel, 2014. 2013 LLee, Nathaniel. Critic’s Pick: Eamon Ore-Giron, ArtForum, July 8, 2013. Johnson, Ken. Eamon Ore-Giron: Smuggling the Sun, The New York Times, June 27, 2013. Laluyan, Oscar. Geometric Heat Generated by Ore-Giron, Arte Fuse, June 16, 2013. 2010 Provo, Ben. OJO, ANP Quarterly, Volume 2, Number 4, 2010. 2008 Gurza, Agustin. Chicano art, beyond rebellion, The Los Angeles Times, April 6, 2008. 2007 Gurza, Agustin. LA Boyz, Welcome to LACMA, The Los Angeles Times, March 2, 2007. 2006 Baker, Kenneth. Played backward or forward, video at YBCA makes for unsettling images, The San Francisco Chronicle, December 28, 2006. 2004 Index (image only, no text), March 2004. Relax, Japan (image only, no text), April 2004. 2002 Fowler, Brandon. The Disobedients, Tokion Magazine, No. 29, May/June 2002. Joo, Eungie. New Folk: Stories From The Backyard, Flash Art, December 2002.
Bayrol Jiménez – Biography
Bayrol Jiménez
BAYROL JIMÉNEZ
The practice of Bayrol Jiménez (Oaxaca, Mexico, 1984) seeks to show experiences within drawing, painting or installation. This is conceived based on two ideas of memory. First as a space where the memories of images are not true to reality but work as a kind of collage of everything lived, small cuts that blend with each other. Second, the physical memory of the draftsman acquired through the practice of drawing through the eyes, the hand, the fingers, or the whole body, are only experience focused on processes that are transformed, under the philosophical concept of Emile Cioran, into simulations and waste. Bayrol studied at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving, La Esmeralda, and at the Villa Arson National Superior School of Art in Nice, France. As part of his work, Bayrol Jiménez has made several international individual and collective exhibitions in which they stand out: Después de la fermentación sólo queda el pozo, Páramo, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2019; Sombras de los Valles, 14th edition, Hamburg, Germany, 2018; Frestas Triennial of Arts of Sao Paolo, Brazil, 2014; exhibition finalists Canson International Drawing Award, France, 2014; Sakàhan, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 2013; Resisting the Present, National Museum of Modern Art in Paris, France and Amparo Museum in Puebla, Mexico, 2012. Within the continuous development of his practice, Jiménez has been an artist in residence in various spaces such as the Foundry Darling, Montreal, Canada, 2019; SeMA Nanji, Seoul Museum, South Korea, 2017; Bancomer Program Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, 2017; PAOS Guadalajara, Mexico, 2015; La Cite des Arts, Paris, France, 2012; and also FONCA Scholar Program 2015-2016 / 2013-2014; among others. Of the most recent (Foundry Darling, Montreal, Canada, 2019) is where the last proposal of his work comes from. Bayrol Jiménez’s work is part of several private international collections including the Asante Collection, Switzerland; Kadist Collection, San Francisco, USA; Luciano Benneton Collection, Italy; Diéresis Collection, Guadalajara, Mexico; MIN Art Museum / Black Coffee Gallery, Mexico and Freek Lomme Collection, The Netherlands.EDUCATION
2003-2005 National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving, Mexito City 2005-2007 Villa Arson National Superior School of Art, Nice, FranceCURRENT AND UPCOMING
Solo exhibition Después de la fermentación sólo queda el pozo, Páramo, Guadalajara, Mexico August 29 – October 11, 2019 Group exhibition Dessin tissé de repentirs, Foundry Darling, Montreal, Canada April, 2019SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Después de la fermentación sólo queda el pozo, Páramo, Guadalajara, Mexico 2018 Sombras de los valles, 14a, Hamburg, Germany Trabajo honrado, Yope projects, Oaxaca, Mexico 2015 my house backyard, Mural painting commission, Metro Northshields, New Castle, England 2014 Des grands yeux morts, Dukan Gallery, Liepzig, Germany El tiempo muerto de los días perdidos, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Mexito City 2013 LandEscape, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Valencia, Spain 2012 The roads of devotion, Dukan Hourdequin Gallery, Paris, France Taste Rico, La Station, Nice, France Dramamón, Proyecto Fachada, Saps, Mexito City Huella Urbana, Casa Vecina, Mexito City 2011 Death & Gold, l’Assault de la Menuiserie, Saint Etienne, France 2009 Symposium d´art contemporain, Baie Saint Paul, Quebec, CanadaGROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Dessin tissé de repentirs, Foundry Darling, Montreal, Canada gang bang, Gabinete de gráfica y papel, MACG, Mexito City 2018 Modos de ver, Bancomer-MACG program, Mexito City 2017 International residents 11th, SeMA Nanji, Seul, South Korea Intento deliberado de incongruencia, CentralSureste, Campeche, Mexico 2016 Una red de líneas que se intercecan, ESPAC, Mexito City Nouvelles de nulle part, Centre d’art les Capucins, Embrun, France Atlas sobre papel, Páramo, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico Destroy All Your Humanity, Off-Site Páramo, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, USA 2015 Ofrenda, Bayrol Jiménez / Rolando Martínez, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexito City Bienal de la Habana, Bayrol Jiménez/Rolando Martínez, La Curtiduría, Havana, Cuba La Llamada del Dios Extraño #2, El Museo de los Pintores Oaxaqueños, Oaxaca, Mexico 20 ans d’expositions, Group exhibition, l’ Assault de la Menuiserie, Saint Etienne, France Blam Baum Balade, Bayrol Jimenez & Jeremire Paul, MDAC Haut de Cagnes, Provence-Alpes-Cote D’ Azur, France 2014 Frestas Trienal de Artes, Sorocaba, Sao Paolo, Brazil La llamada del Dios Extraño, Gabinete Homo-Extraterrestre, Diéresis, Guadalajara, Mexico Premio de dibujo Canson Prix, Esther Montoriol Gallery, Barcelona, Spain Premio de dibujo Canson Prix, ArtParis, Grand Palais, Paris, France Pinta, Artfair, Galería Dukan, London, England 2013 Las leyes naturales de la entropía, ZsONAMACO, Oaxaca, Mexico Sakahan, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada 2012 Resisting the Present, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville of Paris, France Smile, Galerie de Mussees de Toulon, France Mitos Oficiales, Laboratorio Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico 2011 Resisting the Present, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico Thevoiceof…, Onomatopee, Eindhoven, Netherlands Resistencia, Museo de los Pintores de Oaxaca (MUPO), Mexico 2009 54 Salón de Arte Montrouge, Montrouge, Paris, FranceART GRANTS
2017 Fifth edition, Bancomer MACG program 2015-2016 Young Creators of the FONCA Scholar Program, Mexico 2013-2014 Young Creators of the FONCA Scholar Program, MexicoART RESIDENCIES
2019 Foundry Darling, Montreal, Canada 2017 Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea, SeMA NANJI 2015 PAOS Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico 2012 Cité International des Arts, Paris, France 2009 Simposium d’art Contemporain Baie Saint Paul, Quebec, CanadaCOLLECTIONS
Asante Collection, Switzerland Kadist Collection, San Francisco, USA Luciano Benneton Collection, Italy HYD Midtown, Miami, USA Diéresis Collection, Guadalajara, Mexico MIN Art Museum / Black Coffee Gallery, México Freek Lomme Collection, Netherlands
Adrián S. Bará – Biography
Adrián S. Bará
ADRIÁN S. BARÁ
Adrian S. Bará’s (b.1982) practice, at its core, explores the body and its relation to space and modern architecture, as well as its representation at the intersection between sculpture, installation, painting, and video. The artist’s training as a filmmaker drives his narrative—pulling in from daily materials and positions to construct ‘sculpted situations’ that are meant to be activated by viewers as they project their own accounts into the objects that invite them to do so. Bará´s artwork often functions as archival traces of personal events—as stories that are meant to be intervened, challenged, and transformed through acts of looking. Bará has held solo and two-person exhibitions including the ongoing project and exhibition Estructuras de la Razón, Páramo, Guadalajara, México (2019) and ArtCenter / South Florida in Miami, USA (2017); Adrián S. Bará and Florian Schmidt, Johannes Vogt, New York, USA (2017); Aesthetics of a Collapsed System, Casa Pedregal, Mexico City (2016); Le Palais, Páramo, Guadalajara, Mexico (2015). Selected group exhibitions include Almost Solid Light: New Work from Mexico, Paul Kasmin, NY, USA (2018); Tinnitus y Fosfenos, Zapopan Art Museum, Zapopan, Mexico (2014); and Everything Must Go, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, USA (2011). In 2019, Bará was an artist-in-residence at PIVÔ Research, São Paulo, Brazil, and in 2016 at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York, USA. The artist work as director of photography for films includes The Weekend Sailor (2016), Madrid International Film Festival award for best cinematography, and The Solitude of Memory (2014), included in Le Festival de Cannes 2015, and winner of the Jury Award for Documentary Short at the Slamdance Film Festival. Work by the artist is held in private collections worldwide, including the Space Collection, Irvine, California, USA; Luciano Benetton Collection, Italy; Isabel and Agustín Coppel Collection, Mexico, and Diéresis Collection, Guadalajara, Mexico.EDUCATION
2002 – 2006 B.A., Motion Picture Arts and Cinematography in Film and Video, Capilano University, North Vancouver, CanadaCURRENT AND UPCOMING
Group exhibition El castillo de los ladrillos rotos, guadalajara90210, Mexico City, Mexico Fall 2019 Casa de Luz, curated by Camila Bechelany, São Paulo, Brazil Fall 2019 Art residency Casa Nano, Fundación Casa Wabi, Japan January – February 2020 Lacasapark art residency, New York, USA Spring 2020SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Estructuras de la razón, Páramo, Guadalajara, Mexico 2018 Adrián S. Bará and Torbjørn Kvasbø, Stereo Exchange, Copenhagen, Denmark Memorias del mundo, Site Specific Intervention, Tetetlán, Casa Prieto, Mexico City 2017-2018 Estructuras de la razón, curated by Rachael Rakes, ArtCenter/South Florida, Miami, USA 2017 Estructuras de la razón, MAW, New York, USA Adrián S. Bará and Florian Schmidt, Johannes Vogt, New York, USA Si, No, Si, No, Si, curated by Omar Lopez Chahoud, Site 57 gallery, New York, USA 2016 Gallery Weekend Mexico City, Páramo, Mexico City A Portrait of Sovereignty, Solivagant Contemporary Art Projects, New York, USA 2015 Le Palais, Páramo, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico Transposición, FIFI projects gallery, San Pedro GG, Nuevo León, Mexico 2014 American Cinema, Travesía cuatro gallery, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico 2013 En las profundidades de la naturaleza, la razón debe inclinarse, FIFI projects gallery, Mexico City 2012 Rock and Roll, Casa Vecina, Mexico City Mondrian, Abstract Skating, T0, T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, curated by Antoine Thélamon, Sala Juárez, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico 2010 Proyecto Muro, curated by Abraham Cruzvillegas, Sala Juárez, Guadalajara, Jalisco, MexicoGROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Casa de Luz, curated by Camila Bechelany, São Paulo, Brazil 2019 El castillo de los ladrillos rotos, guadalajara90210, Mexico City, Mexico 2018 Prima Materia, LACASAPARK, curated by Viridiana Mayagoitia, Gardiner, New York, USA Almost Solid Light: New Work from Mexico, organized by Mario Navarro, Paul Kasmin, NY, USA Border (Untitled), Cody Gallery, Marymount University, VA, USA The Sun Shits a Dying Light, Which We Eat to Stay Alive, Mexico City 2017 You Are Here, Peana Projects, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico Anónimo, curated by Humberto Moro, The Bass Museum of Art, Miami, USA Proyectos LA, curated by Luisa Teixeira de Freitas & Claudia Segura, Los Angeles, CA, USA 127, Páramo|127, New York, USA 2016 Body-Nature, Cal State University, Fullerton Begovich Gallery, Irvin, CA, USA Barn Show, Johannes Vogt gallery, New York, USA Divagation, Y gallery, New York, USA Reconstrucción, curated by Abraham Cruzvillegas, Museo de Arte de Zapopan (MAZ), Jalisco, Mexico 2015 Paradise Syndrome, Peana Projects, Brooklyn, New York, USA Under Construction, Páramo, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico A false horizon: art from Latin America, Peana projects, New York, USA 2014 Leviatán, Art Museum Raúl Anguiano (MURA), Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico Continually revealing multiple routes of entry and exit, FIFI projects gallery, San Pedro GG, Nuevo León, Mexico Abstraction in Action, ARCO Madrid, Sayago & Pardon Collection, Madrid, Spain 2013 Tinnitus y Fosfenos, Museo de Arte de Zapopan (MAZ), Jalisco, Mexico Natures mortes, FIFI projects gallery, San Pedro GG, Nuevo Léon, Mexico Sin necesidad de profecías, Diéresis, Guadalajara, Jalisco 2012 Paradise is an Island so is Hell, Careyes art gallery, Careyes, Jalisco, Mexico 2011 Everything Must Go, curated by José Noe Suro and Eduardo Sarabia, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, USAART RESIDENCIES AND ART GRANTS
2019 Art residency CASA WABI, Oaxaca, Mexico Art residency PIVÔ, São Paulo, Brazil 2017 QueensSpace, New York, USA 2016 International Studio & Curatorial program ISCP, New York, USA Programa de Estímulos a Jóvenes Creadores, FONCA, Mexico 2012 Casa Vecina, Estudio Extendido, Centro Histórico Foundation, Mexico CityCOLLECTIONS
Space Collection, Irvine, California, USA Luciano Benetton Collection, Italy Suro Collection, Guadalajara, Mexico Diéresis Collection, Guadalajara, Mexico Gaia Collection, Mexico Isabel and Agustín Coppel Collection, MexicoFILM PROJECTS AND FILM FESTIVALS SCREENINGS
2016 The Weekend Sailor (Cinematographer), documentary by Bernardo Arsuaga. Nice International Film Festival, France. Nominee for best cinematography. 2015 The Solitude of Memory (Cinematographer), documentary by Juan Pablo Gonzalez, Semaine de la Critique at the Festival de Cannes, France; Morelia International Film Festival, Mexico; Official Selection Full Frame Documentary Film Festival (Mirroring Mexico), North Carolina. 2014 The Solitude of Memory (Cinematographer), World Premiere at Amsterdam International Documentary Festival, Netherlands; Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival, Scotland. Marea (Cinematographer), film by Amaury Vergara, FICUNAM Film Festival, Mexico City; International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, Havana, Cuba. 2012 A Game of Chess (Cinematographer), film by Marcel Dzama, Cinematographer, David Zwirner gallery, New York, USA.AWARDS
2016 Mejor Cinematografía en Documental, Madrid IFF, The Weekend Sailor, Madrid, España.BIBLIOGRAPHY
2018 Rakes, Rachael. Estructuras de la razón: Interview with Adrián S. Bará. Miami Rail, January 8, 2018. González Rosas, Blanca. Tetetlán, un lugar fascinante. Proceso, March 19, 2018. 2017 La fenomenología del arte. La Tempestad, November 21, 2017. Celaya, Víctor. El estado de indeterminación de Adrián Bará. Hotbook, 2017 Reconstrucción, un proyecto de Abraham Cruzvillegas, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, MAZ (catalogue). 2016 Arte mexicano figura en Art Basel. El Universal, November 29, 2016. Creatividad sin límite en #CDMX. Vogue México, September 2016. Bará, Adrián S. Aesthetics of a Collapsed System de Adrián Bará para Código. Código, April-May 2016. 2015 Phaidon Contemporary Artist Series Editor Michele Robecchi´s Picks from NADA Miami Beach 2015. Artspace, December 4, 2015. Spirou, Kiriakus. Paradise Found: Latin American and Spanish Art takes over Abandoned Marble Factory in Brooklyn. Yatzer, October 2015. Introspección e interacción: Una decena de obras presentan la visión de realidad y ficción del autor en la exposición Le palais. Ocio, August 2015. Adrián S. Bará at Páramo. Art Viewer, August 10, 2015. Minero, María. Ficciones de la Realidad. Primera Fila, 2015. Gil, Rubén. Le Palais, estancia entre la ficción y la realidad. La Jornada Jalisco, July 31, 2015. Colavita, Julia. 8 Must-See Works at Zona MACO. Artsy, January 30, 2015. 2013 Guía rápida para el amante de arte. Chilango, April 11, 2013. 2012 Cañas Retana, Giselle. Convierten al “skateboarding” en una expresión artística. Milenio, December 13, 2012. Ragasol, Tania. Rock and Roll: Adrián S. Bará. Casa Vecina: Estudio Extendido, México, 2012. 2011 Cotter, Holland. Everything Must Go. The New York Times, July 14, 2011. 2009 Acerca de la pérdida de los recuerdos. El Informador, May 2009.Tuan Andrew Nguyen – Biography
Tuan Andrew Nguyen
TUAN ANDREW NGUYEN
Tuan Andrew Nguyen (b. 1976) was born in Saigon, and currently lives and works in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Andrew Nguyen is a multimedia artist who explores identity, memory, and history and their complex interrelationship within the context of exile and cultural estrangement. He earned a BFA from the University of California, Irvine, in 1999, and received his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2004. He co-founded Sàn Art, an artist-run exhibition space in Ho Chi Minh City (est. 2007) and is a founding member of the artist collective The Propeller Group (est. 2006). The group appropriates marketing and advertising strategies to investigate power structures and economic systems, and often focuses their work on Vietnam and the rapid rise of capitalism in this formally Communist country.
EDUCATION
2004
Master of Fine Arts, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA
1999
Bachelor of Arts, University of California, Irvine, USA
CURRENT AND UPCOMING
Group exhibition
SOFT POWER, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
October 26, 2019 – February 17, 2020
Temporal Topography: MAIIAM’s New Acquisitions; from 2010 to Present, curated by Kittima Chareeprasit, Maiiam Contemporary Arts Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand
March 30, 2019 – March 30, 2020
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
Tuan Andrew Nguyen: Letters from Saigon to Saigon, Asia Society, New York, USA
My Ailing Beliefs Can Cure Your Wretched Desires, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
Tuan Andrew Nguyen: The Island, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, USA
2017
Empty Forest, The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
The Island, Páramo, Guadalajara, Mexico
2008
Quiet Shiny Words, Gallery Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2004
While Dodging Fake Bullets in the Dark, Voz Alta Projects, San Diego, USA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
SOFT POWER, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Where The Sea Remembers, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, USA
Temporal Topography: MAIIAM’s New Acquisitions; from 2010 to Present, curated by Kittima Chareeprasit, Maiiam Contemporary Arts Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Journey Beyond the Arrow, curated by Zoe Butt, Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates
2018
Believe, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada
Detour: Lived Worlds, Art021 contemporary art fair, Shanghai, China
Thailand Biennale, Krabi, Thailand
2017
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
127, Páramo | 127, New York, USA
The Propeller Group, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, USA
2016
The Propeller Group, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, USA
The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music, James Cohan, New York, USA
2015
Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Göteborg, Sweden
All the World’s Futures, 56th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
After Utopia, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Fairy Tales, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
44th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2014
Prospect.3: Notes for Now, New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans, USA
SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2014: Ghosts, Spies, and Grandmothers, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
Unlearn, Tradition (un) Realized, Arko Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
Residual: Disrupted Choreographies, Carre d’Art, Nimes, France
Transmission, Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand
2013
In Between, Beit HaGafen – Arab Jewish Culture Center, Haifa, Israel
Home Away, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, USA
ASEAN Media Arts Festival, traveling exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
Unknown Forces, MSGSÜ Tophane-i Amire Culture and Arts Center, Istanbul, Turkey
Cities of Ancient Futures, Changwon Asian Art Festival, Changwon, South Korea
No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA; Asia Society Hong Kong Center, Hong Kong
Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions: Public Diary, Tokyo, Japan
Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
2012
Impakt Festival 2012: No More Westerns!, Utrecht, Netherlands
7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
The Unseen, 4th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Six Lines of Flight, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Made in L.A., Los Angeles Biennial, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
The Ungovernables, New Museum, New York, USA
Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, Bangkok, Thailand
2011
Video, An Art, A History, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2010
Night Festival, National Museum of Singapore, Singapore
Art Paris + Guests, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Projects 93, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Against Easy Listening, 1A Space, Hong Kong
8th Shanghai Biennale, in collaboration with Superflex, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Kuandu Biennale, in collaboration with Superflex, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
Porcelain / Mánh Ghép Cuôc Đòi, in collaboration with Superflex, Sàn Art, Ho Chi City Minh, Vietnam
Project 35, Independent Curators International, New York, USA
FAX, Para Site, Hong Kong
2009
Lim Dim, curated by Tran Luong, Stenersenmuseet, Oslo, Norway Palais Project, Vienna, Austria
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany
What’s the Big Idea?, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
2008
Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
transPOP: Korea Vietnam Remix, Arko Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
2nd Singapore Biennale, Singapore
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
The Farmers and The Helicopters, Freer / Sackler, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA
2007
Requiem for a Wall, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
The History of a Decade That Has Not Yet Been Named, Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France
Vietnamese International Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA
Depiction Perversion Repulsion Obsession Subversion, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Arts, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2006
5th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
26th Louis Vuitton Hawaii International Film Festival, Honolulu, USA
Imaginary Country, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Diaspora, Esplanade Concert Hall, Singapore
2005
Bangkok Democrazy, 4th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, Bangkok, Thailand
US ASEAN Film Festival, Falls Church, USA
American Film Market, Santa Monica, USA
18th Annual Singapore International Film Festival, Singapore
Short Shorts Film Festival Asia, Tokyo, Japan
2004
Under the Couch Film/Video Festival, Los Angeles, USA
In Place of Place, One Night Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
e-flux video rental project, e-flux, New York, USA
There’s No Place Like Place, One Night Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Supersonic, The Windtunnel, Pasadena, USA
Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film & Video Festival, Director’s Guild of America, Los Angeles, USA
2003
Vietnamese International Film Festival, University of California, Irvine, USA
MINE, Lombard Freid, New York, USA
re: fresh; re-thinking the relationship between hip hop and art, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA
COLLABORATIONS AND OTHER PROJECTS
2007
Co-founder Sàn Art, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (Board Member, 2009–2016)
2006
Established the artistic collective The Propeller Group
CONFERENCES, LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS
2018
Not Seeing is Believing, Visiting Artist Lectures, University of Oregon School of Art + Design, Oregon, USA
2014
Creative Time Summit, Stockholm, Sweden
2013
MFA Lecture Series, USC Roski School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
No Country: Regarding South and Southeast Asia, symposium, co-presented by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Queens Museum, New York, USA
2012
Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions: Public Diary, Tokyo, Japan
Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
PUBLIC INTEREST: Projects & Prototypes, LACE and Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, USA
Art Matters grantee panel discussion, Los Angeles, USA
2008
transPOP: Korea Vietnam Remix panelist, Seoul, South Korea
2007
Claire Trevor School of Art, University of California, Irvine, USA
California Institute of the Arts visiting artist, Valencia, USA
2006
White Cube Black Box, guest speaker, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
COLLECTIONS
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, USA, and Paris, France
The Burger Collection, Hong Kong
Asia Society, New York, USA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019
Chiang Mai’s contemporary art museum tells its tale, The Nation, Thailand Portal, April 1, 2019.
Bailey, Stephanie. Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber, OCULA Magazine online, March 15, 2019.
2018
Binlot, Ann. The long, layered narrative of the Pacific Rim, Document Journal, November 9, 2018.
Axworthy, Nicol. Art Exhibit Examines Vietnam’s Treatment Of Animals. VegNews, July 5, 2018.
Tsui, Enid. Vietnamese artist’s Hong Kong exhibition on endangered species gives this meat-loving city something to think about. South China Morning Post, July 02, 2018.
Rose, Frank. Is It an Art Collective or a Vietnamese Ad Agency? Yes and Yes. New York Times, February 23, 2018.
Fiss, Karen. The Propeller Group: We Are Restless, But We Will Not Rest (Even After Death). Art Practical, February 13, 2018.
Ha Thuc, Caroline. Tuan Andrew Nguyen: Animal Tales and the State of War. COBO social, January 26, 2018.
Thao Nguyen, Vuong. Empty Forest: Dissecting the Fraught Relationship Between Man and Animal. January 22, 2018.
2017
Luong, Ruben. The Progressive Director. Art Asia Pacific, May/Jun 2017.
Farago, Jason. A User’s Guide to the Whitney Biennial. The New York Times, March 8, 2017: (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/arts/design/a-users-guide-to-the-whitney-biennial.html?_ r=0)
2013
In Between. Exh. cat. Beit HaGafen – Arab Jewish Culture Center, Haifa, Israel
Viveros-Faune, Christian. The Propeller Group Take on the Art World’s Celebrity Fixation. The Village Voice, September 25, 2013: (http://www.villagevoice.com/2013-09-25/art/no-country-for-poor-men)
Cities of Ancient Futures. Exh. cat. Changwon Asian Art Festival, Changwon, South Korea
Mehta, Diane. The Propeller Group. Bomb Magazine online, February 21, 2013: (http://bomb site.com/issues/1000/articles/7073)
Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions: Public Diary. Exh. cat. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
2012
7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT7). Exh. cat. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
The Unseen: 4th Guangzhou Triennial. Exh. cat. Guangzhou, China
Knight, Christopher. Art review: The Hammer biennial ‘Made in L.A. 2012’ succeeds. Los Angeles Times, June 8, 2012: (articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/08/entertainment/la-et-hammer-biennial-review-20120609/2)
Made in L.A. 2012. Exh. cat. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Salz, Jerry. Big-Government Conservatives. New York, February 24, 2012: (http://nymag.com/ arts/art/reviews/ungovernables-new-museum-saltz)
Nguyen, Mic. For The Propeller Group, Talking about Art Is an Art. Hyphen, March 30, 2012: (http://hyphenmagazine.com/blog/2012/3/30/propeller-group-talking-about-art-art)
Joo, Eugenie. The Ungovernables: The 2012 New Museum Triennial. Exh. cat. New Museum, New York, USA
2011
Video, an Art, a History: 1965–2010. A Selection from the Centre Pompidou and Singapore Art Museum Collections. Exh. cat. Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Negotiating Home, History and Nation: Two decades of Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia 1911–2011. Exh. cat. Singapore Art Museum, Singapore.
2010
FAX: The Hong Kong Works, Para Site, Hong Kong.
Butt, Zoe. The Pilgrimage of Inspiration – Artists as Engineers in Vietnam: The Propeller Group Interview with Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Phu Nam Thuc Ha, and Matt Lucero. Independent Curators International: Dispatch, May 13, 2010: (http://curatorsintl.org/images/assets/propeller.pdf).
Giao, Vu Thi Quynh. Vietnam the World Tour: The Propeller Group, diacritics, October 9, 2010: (http://diacritics.org/?p=1127).
2008
ArtAsiaPacific Almanac 2008. Vol. 3, New York, USA
2007
Lyon Biennial. Exh.cat. Lyon, France