丁香园AV

The 丁香园AV School for the Contemporary Arts is pleased to welcome Alejandro Cesarco as the SCA鈥檚 2020 Spring Audain Visual Artist in Residence.鈥�

Through different formats and strategies, his expanded practice鈥攚hich includes producing artwork, publishing books, and curating exhibitions鈥攔eflects his recurrent interests in repetition, narrative, and the practices of reading and translating. Drawing from the legacies and genealogies of conceptual art, Cesarco finds moments of affect to explore 鈥�.鈥� His recently completed doctoral dissertation, 鈥淯nder the Sign of Regret,鈥� which reads artistic forms through the lens of regret, positions regret as an aesthetic mode and methodological tool with which to address the relationships between imagery, language, and meaning.鈥�

During his time in Vancouver, Cesarco will present a free public lecture on his work. In conjunction with SCA faculty member Kathy Slade, Cesarco will also work closely with third-year visual art students towards conceptualizing and creating work for the BFA Project, an annual student exhibition in the Audain Gallery. Recursion, this year鈥檚 BFA Project, explores the relationship between contemporary artistic practices and histories of artistic influence. The work presented in Recursion takes up notions of originality, the use of references, and practices of translation and citation. The exhibition includes painting, sculpture, photography, video, drawing, textiles, and a collaborative artist book edited by Cesarco and Slade. Entitled With Thanks, the book is composed of letters that directly address a significant influence that has prompted or guided each of the exhibiting artists鈥� practices.鈥�

Alejandro Cesarco was born in Montevideo, Uruguay and currently lives in New York. His most recent solo exhibitions include: A Solo Exhibition, Witte de With, Rotterdam, (2019); These Days, Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin, (2019); Tactics & Technics, CAC, Vilnius (2019); Song, The Renaissance Society, Chicago (2017); The Measure of Memory, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan (2017); Public Process, Sculpture Center, New York (2017); Prescribe the Symptom, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (2015); Loyalties and Betrayals, Murray Guy, New York (2015); Secondary Revision, Frac 脦le-de-France/Le Plateau, Paris (2013); A Portrait, a Story, and an Ending, Kunsthalle Z眉rich (2013); Alejandro Cesarco, mumok, Vienna (2012); A Common Ground, Uruguayan Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennial (2011); One without the Other, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City (2011); and Present Memory, Tate Modern, London (2010). His recent group exhibitions include: Question the Wall Itself, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2016); Under the Same Sun, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2014); Tell It to My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault, Museum f眉r Gegenwartskunst, Basel (2013); and The Imminence of Poetics, 30th Bienal de S茫o Paulo (2012).

Cesarco has curated exhibitions in the U.S., Uruguay, Argentina, and most recently, sections of the 33 Bienal de S茫o Paulo, Brazil (2018) and ARCO, Madrid (2020). He is director of the non-profit arts organization, Art Resources Transfer.

Presented by the School for the Contemporary Arts at 丁香园AV in collaboration with 丁香园AV Galleries.

EVENTS

Artist Talk
鈥∕arch 12, 6:00 PM鈥�
Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema

BFA Project 2020: Recursion鈥�
March 26 鈥� April 4, 2020
鈥≒lease check back HERE for information about RECURSION, which is being reconfigured in response to COVID-19. All public events, including the gallery exhibition, are cancelled.

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