Otros ejemplos recientes
24 June – 1 August, 2015
Untitled (Remembered), 2015, presenta un texto sobre diferentes metodologías y tipologías del recordar entre libros y postales que van desde una vieja lámina de Mercurio en reposo a un still de Monica Vitti en L’Avventura.
A Portrait of Robert Walser, 2015, muestra un texto corto, que describe cómo funciona la escritura de Robert Walser, pegado a una ventana ocultando parcialmente el skyline de Manhattan.
Studies for a Series on Love (Wendy’s Hand – Left and Wendy’s Hand – Right), 2015, son dos retratos apenas mayores que el tamaño real de las manos de la pareja del artista, que parecerían sostener o abrazar entre ellas el espacio de la exposición.
Alejandro Cesarco (1975 Montevideo, Uruguay) vive y trabaja en Nueva York. Entre sus exposiciones individuales recientes se incluyen: Prescribe the Symptom, Midway, Minneapolis (2015), Secondary Revision, Frac Île-de- France/Le Plateau, París (2013), A Portrait, A Story, And An Ending, Kunsthalle Zürich, Suiza (2013), Alejandro Cesarco, MuMOK, Viena (2012). Entre las exposiciones colectivas se encuentran: Under The Same Sun, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Nueva York (2014), Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (2013), The Imminence of Poetics, 30ª Bienal de São Paulo (2012). En 2011 recibió el premio Baloise en Art Basel con su instalación The Streets Were Dark With Something More Than Night Or The Closer I Get To The End The More I Rewrite The Beginning. Cesarco es el director de la organización artística sin ánimo de lucro Art Resources Transfer.
Parra & Romero is pleased to announce Alejandro Cesarco’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Other Recent Examples presents a selection of works that balance ideas of writing and style, memory and its affects, silence and surface, love and regret, influence and inheritance.
The following works will be on view:
Allegory, or, The Perils of the Present Tense, 2015, is Cesarco’s most recent video and it is composed of a fragmented text, appearing as inter-titles, interspersed with snapshot-like images of memories. Throughout the work conjectures about the past are balanced against promises of the future. By talking about the past the artist is also talking about his wants or desires. In this sense, talking about the past becomes a way of talking about the future; of fashioning a future.
Index (With Feeling), 2015 is the most recent and largest in an on-going series of indexes that Cesarco has composed for books he has not yet written and most probably never will. The indexes are a project that map the development of Cesarco’s interests, readings and preoccupations and thus become a form of self-portraiture that unfolds over time. Index (With Feeling) addresses particular states of weak affects: aesthetic categories grounded in ambivalent or even explicitly contradictory feelings: jealousy, anxiety, regret, etc.
Untitled (Remembered), 2015 presents a text on methodologies and typologies of remembering among piles of books and a wide range of ephemera that range from a vintage postcard of a statue of Mercury in repose to a still of Monica Vitti in L’avventura.
A Portrait of Robert Walser, 2015 shows a short text, taped to a window and partially obscuring the Manhattan skyline, describes how Robert Walser’s writing works.
Studies for a Series on Love (Wendy’s Hand – Left and Wendy’s Hand – Right), 2015. Two slightly larger than life-size portraits of the artist’s partner´s hands appear to hold the exhibition space between their grasp.
Alejandro Cesarco (b. 1975 Montevideo, Uruguay) lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include: Prescribe the Symptom, Midway, Minneapolis (2015), Secondary Revision, Frac Île – de – France/Le Plateau, Paris (2013), A Portrait, A Story, And An Ending, Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland (2013), Alejandro Cesarco, MuMOK, Vienna (2012). Group exhibitions include: Under The Same Sun, The Solomon R.mbrac Guggenheim Museum, New York (2014), Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (2013), The Imminence of Poetics, 30th Bienal de São Paulo (2012). In 2011 he was the recipient of the Baloise Art Prize at Art 42 Basel with his installation The Streets Were Dark With Something More Than Night Or The Closer I Get To The End The More I Rewrite The Beginning. Cesarco is director of the non-profit arts organization, Art Resources Transfer.