Alejandro Cesarco
Works
3 archival ink-jet prints
102 × 71 cm each
Archival ink-jet print
90 × 60 cm
Archival ink-jet print
90 × 60 cm
Archival ink-jet print
90 × 60 cm
Installation view, The Ongoing Story, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, 2022
Archival ink-jet print
142 × 55 cm
Archival ink-jet print
142 × 55 cm
Archival ink-jet print
142 × 55 cm
Installation view, The Ongoing Story, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, 2022
Installation view, The Ongoing Story, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, 2022
2 archival ink-jet prints
21 × 25,5 cm; 26,5 × 31,4 × 2,5 cm framed each
Installation view, The Ongoing Story, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, 2022
Installation view, The Ongoing Story, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, 2022
Installation view, The Ongoing Story, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, 2022
Archival ink-jet print
83 × 57 cm
Installation view, Three Books on Memory, Galleria Raffaella Cortese | Albisola, 2024
Vinyl text on wall
Installation view, Three Books on Memory, Galleria Raffaella Cortese | Albisola, 2024
Vinyl text on wall
4 archival ink-jet prints
76,2 × 54,6 cm each
4 archival ink-jet prints
76,2 × 54,6 cm each
4 archival ink-jet prints
76,2 × 54,6 cm each
4 archival ink-jet prints
76,2 × 54,6 cm each
Archival ink-jet print
95 × 119 cm
Installation view, Otros ejemplos recientes, 2023, Artium Museoa, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del País Vasco
Installation view, Otros ejemplos recientes, 2023, Artium Museoa, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del País Vasco
Installation view, Otros ejemplos recientes, 2023, Artium Museoa, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del País Vasco
Framed archival ink-jet print
102 × 134 cm
Installation view, The Measures of Memory, Galleriia Raffaella Cortese, 2017
Two framed archival ink-jet prints
76 × 56 cm (each)
Installation view, The Ongoing Story, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, 2022
Archival inkjet print
37 × 50,4 cm; 40,2 × 53,6 × 3 cm framed
Video, various formats, color, sound
Duration: 8' 40"
Video 4k, color, no sound
Duration: 7' 24"
16mm black and white film transferred to video, sound
Duration: 15' 30''
Video, color, sound
Duration: 18' 25"
Biography
Alejandro Cesarco was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1975. Lives and works between New York and Madrid.
He works with Galleria Raffaella Cortese since 2014.
In the past two decades Alejandro Cesarco has been making art as well as publishing books and curating exhibitions. Using film, photography and text, Cesarco’s practice investigates the agency of meaning, and how the expression of that agency is embedded within the practices of writing and reading, translating and misreading, repeating and remembering. The formal strategies of Cesarco’s (isolating a footnote from its context, the ongoing compilation of indexes for an as-yet unwritten book, a video who’s narrative structure is based on secrecy, for example) are often marked by an emotional register, where affect colludes with language to produce a series of metanarratives in dialogue with the histories of Conceptual Art. In addition to his studio practice, the artist has curated several exhibitions and is director of Art Resources Transfer (A.R.T.), a nonprofit organization that publishes books by artists and distributes free books on art to public schools, libraries and prisons.
Recent solo exhibitions include: Other Recent Examples, Lumiar Cité, Lisbon, Portugal (2023); Otros ejemplos recientes, ARTIUM, Vitoria, Spain (2023); The Ongoing Story, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan (2022); Todo en negro, los ojos cerrados por el exceso del desastre, Fotogalería Teatro San Martín, Buenos Aires (2021); Alejandro Cesarco, a solo exhibition, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2019); Aprendiendo el Lenguaje, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico (2019); Tactics & Techniques, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius (2019); Alejandro Cesarco. Apprendre la langue (présent continu I), Jeu de Paume, Paris and CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux (2019); Song, The Renaissance Society, Chicago (2017); The Inner Shadow, A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam (2016); Prescribe the Symptom, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (2015); Secondary Revision, Frac Île-de-France /Le Plateau, Paris (2013); A Portrait, a Story, and an Ending, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich (2013); _Alejandro Cesarc_o, 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).
Group exhibitions include: READ, curated by Elmgreen & Dragset, Kunsthalle Praha, Prague (2023); 50 años. Una exposición de arte contemporáneo a cincuenta años del golpe de Estado en Uruguay, SUBTE Centro de exposiciones, Montevideo (2023); Picasso: Untitled, La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2023); Chosen Memories: Contemporary Latin American Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift and Beyond, MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York (2023); CLOSER, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany (2022); Footnotes I have never seen, Beletage, Zurich, Switzerland (2022); INFORMATION (Today), Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (2021) Travelled to: Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo; Affective Affinities, 33rd Bienal de São Paulo (2018); Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City (2017); 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 für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (2013); and The Imminence of Poetics, 30th Bienal de São Paulo (2012).
Recent curatorial projects include: It’s Just a Matter of Time, with Manuel Segade, ARCOmadrid, IFEMA, Madrid (2020); Viewing Room. A charted journey through the contemporary art collection of the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, SculptureCenter, Long Island City, NY (2015); Between Artists, ongoing series of pocket sized, conversation based books published by A.R.T. Press, New York.
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