Press Kit (August 30th/31st, 2012) - Goldmann Public Relations ...

NEWTOPIA: The State of Human Rights
Contemporary Arts Exhibition in Mechelen and Brussels
01.09. – 10.12.2012
in Contemporary Drawing, MoMA, New York (2011); The School, The Work,
The Family, Gallery Nova, Zagreb (2009); What Keeps Mankind Alive? 11 th
Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul (2009); Made in Turkey, Ernst Barlach Museum,
Wedel (2009); ...With All Due Intent, Manifesta 5, San Sebastian (2004).
ALEJANDRO CESARCO was born in 1975 in Montevideo, Uruguay. He
lives and works in New York, USA.
The work of Alejandro Cesarco operates within the borders of conceptual
art, as a research project that questions the very idea of narration, the origin
of the conditions that enable a text and the mechanisms of the process by
which it generates meanings. The focus of Cesarco’s work is the question
of the autonomy of the text and the modality of the relationship between
work and spectator, between the written word and the reader. The act of
artistic production itself is for the artist often grounded in the act of reading,
and all of his work revolves around problems of hermeneutics and
translation, as these can be observed from the privileged perspective of
literature.
Recent solo and duo exhibitions include: A Common Ground: Alejandro
Cesarco & Magela Ferrero, Uruguayan Pavilion, 54 th Venice Biennale
(2011); Art Statements, Basel (2011); Activating the Collection: One Without
the Other, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2011); Present Memory, Tate
Modern, London (2010); Turning Some Pages, MoMA, New York (2010).
Recent group exhibitions include: Nine Screens, MoMA, New York
(2010); Desire, The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin (2010); Subjective
Projections, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld (2009); 2 nd Trienal
Poli/Gráfica de San Juan, Puerto Rico (2009); The Archeology of Longings,
Kadist Art Foundation, Paris (2008); Adquisiciones, donaciones y
comodatos 2007, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires,
Buenos Aires (2007). www.cesarco.info
OLGA CHERNYSHEVA was born in 1962 in Moscow, Russia. She lives
and works in Moscow.
In her poignant films and photographs, Olga Chernysheva explores the
current economic climate in Russia and often documents the debris of the
Soviet world, human as well as material. From such a position one usually
expects crude evidence of an end - tragic even if historically necessary. But
Chernysheva’s attitude is very different. In her work the idea of communism,
the social state and its utopian dimensions are still present as a spectral
reminder, even if these are now forgotten and discredited; thus, the idealism
of much of her work contrasts violently with the new post-Soviet order and
the neo-liberal ideology which has left behind a large segment of its
citizens, once protected by the communist state.
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