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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, 2019

SOLO 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, Argentina  

GROUP 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, Argentina  

RESIDENCIES

2018-2019 Research residency. Museo Rosa Galisteo de Rodríguez, Santa Fe, Argentina 2015 ASU, Arizona State University, USA  

COLLECTIONS

Jumex Collection, Mexico ASU Art Museum Collection, USA BESart Collection, Portugal Caraffa Museum Collection, Argentina GAIA Collection, Mexico  

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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.​