Abraham Cruzvillegas
| Abraham Cruzvillegas | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Abraham Cruzvillegas |
| Born | Mexico City, Mexico |
| Field | Sculpture, Video art, Installation, Painting |
Abraham Cruzvillegas (born 1968, Mexico City) is a Mexican conceptual artist. He is known for his work with "found objects".
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[edit] Biography and works
He studied Philosophy and Art at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He later became a professor and went on to teach Art History and Theory at UNAM.
As a sculptor and writer, Cruzvillegas began as a central participant in a new wave of conceptual art in Mexico City during the late 1980s and 90s, studying under Gabriel Orozco from 1987 to 1991. Along with Orozco, Damian Ortega, Dr Lakra, and Minerva Cuevas, Cruzvillegas was considered part of a new movement in Latin American art (which has been compared to the YBA boom in Britain in the 1980s).[1][2]
Since that period, Cruzvillegas has shown his work in one person and group exhibitions in a number of galleries across Europe, South America and the United States. In 1994, his work was shown in the Fifth Havana Biennial; in 2002 in the XXV São Paulo Biennial; in 2003 in the Fiftieth Venice Biennale; in 2005 in the 1st Torino Triennale; in 2008 in the Bienal de Cali, in Colombia; in the Tenth Havana Biennial, and the Seventh Bienal do Mercosul in Portoalegre. His work has been shown at the New Museum, New York and at Tate Modern in London.
He is also the co-author of two books in collaboration with the Mexican artist Dr Lakra.
[edit] Analysis
For the 2002 São Paulo Biennial, Cruzvillegas wrote: “However art makes itself evident, it shall remain, above all, raw source material in all its natural, unstable, physical, chaotic and crystalline states: solid, liquid, colloidal and gaseous. It is the joy of energy."[3]
Reviewing Cruzvillegas' 2003 show, Holland Cotter wrote, "In all Mr. Cruzvillegas's work, little is stated but much is said".[4]
[edit] Residencies
- 2005 Residency at Atelier Calder, Saché, France
- 2006 Altadis Contemporary Art Prize, France-Spain
- 2006-2007 Residency at Brownstone Foundation, Paris
- 2007 Residency at Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Umbria, Italy
- 2008 Artist Research Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
- 2008 Residency at Cove Park/CCA, Glasgow, Scotland
- 2009 Residency at the Wattis Institute/CCA, San Francisco
- 2010-2011 DAAD Artists in Berlin Residency Program
[edit] References
- ^ "[1]". Financial Times. Retrieved on 1st April 2011
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/arts/design/dr-lakra-exhibits-tattoo-inspired-drawings-in-new-york.html New York Times, 24 March 2011, Retrieved on 1st April 2011]
- ^ http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/found_and_lost/ Frieze Magazine, Retrieved 1st April 2011
- ^ Art in Review New York Times, 16 May 2003, retrieved on 1 April 2011
[edit] External links
- Found and Lost, Frieze Magazine, October 2006
- Review of Autoconstrucción, Frieze Magazine, January 2009
- kurimanzutto gallery page
- 'The Art of the Nuevo', Financial Times, November, 2010
- 'A Mexican in Paris', Vice Magazine
- TateShots: Abraham Cruzvillegas The artist on his piece Autoconstrucción. 17 March 2011
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