Alejandro Cesarco to Represent Uruguay at 54th Venice Biennale 6/1-11/27

Uruguayan Pavilion at the 54th International Biennale di Venezia

ALEJANDRO CESARCO

Location: Giardini, Venice
Dates: 4 June - 27 November 2011
Preview: 1 - 3 June 2011
Opening Reception: 5:30 pm, 2 June, 2011

The Ministry of Culture of Uruguay is pleased to announce that the artist Alejandro Cesarco, along with artist Magela Ferrero, has been selected by curator Clio E. Bugel to represent Uruguay in the 54th edition of the Venice Biennale.

Alejandro Cesarco will exhibit two interrelated works, specifically conceived for Venice. "Methodology" (2011) is a video that takes up secrecy as a narrative structure and a mode of address: what is said and what cannot be said, and the way people act in relation to what is alluded to, taken for granted, or ultimately silenced. The second work is a photographic diptych, "The Gift and the Retribution" (2011), and consists of photographs of the covers of two books with crossed dedications: "The Goodbyes" by Juan Carlos Onetti and "Love Poems" Idea Vilariño. A recurring motif in Cesarco's work, the dedication is a device for justifying the production of a work to a public.

Alejandro Cesarco was born in 1975 in Montevideo, Uruguay. At the leading edge of a young generation of artists taking up the strategies of Conceptual Art, Cesarco's practice often shares with Conceptualism an abiding concern for reading and for relationships between words and images. But he turns these structures of distribution in on themselves, materializing translations, repetitions, misunderstandings and memories, and actualizing meaning as something felt rather than deduced. He has exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States, Latin America and Europe. His most recent solo exhibitions include, "One Without The Other", Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City (2011); "Present Memory", Tate Modern, Level 2 Gallery Series, London (2010); "Alejandro Cesarco", ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas (2010); "Two Films", Murray Guy, New York (2009); "Three Works", Tanya Leighton, Berlin (2009); and "Retrospective", in collaboration with John Baldessari, Murray Guy, New York (2007). He has curated exhibitions in the United States, Uruguay, Argentina and a project for the 6th Mercosur Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2007). He is director of the non-profit arts organization Art Resources Transfer, where he conceived and edits "Between Artists", an ongoing series of conversation-based books. He lives and works in New York.

Murray Guy will present a solo project with Alejandro Cesarco at Art Statements, Art 42 Basel, Booth S22. For more information please contact the gallery at 212.463.7372 or info@murrayguy.com.

ON VIEW IN THE GALLERY:

VISION IS ELASTIC. THOUGHT IS ELASTIC.
curated by Moyra Davey & Zoe Leonard
21 April - 4 June 2011