Luis Camnitzer

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Residencia

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Exposiciones colectivas vigentes
Porter-Camnitzer: El New York Graphic Workshop en el Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Chile, 1969-2024

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Próximas exposiciones individuales
Antología de las Playas del Este

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Profesionales que le han comisariado
Hans-Michael Herzog en: Luis Camnitzer, 2013
Luis Camnitzer, 2013
Luis Camnitzer, 2012
Luis Camnitzer / Colección Daros Latinamerica, 2012
Luis Camnitzer, 2012
Luis Camnitzer, 2011
Luis Camnitzer, 2011
Luis Camnitzer, 2011
Luis Camnitzer, 2010
Katrin Steffen en: Luis Camnitzer, 2013
Luis Camnitzer, 2013
Luis Camnitzer, 2012
Luis Camnitzer / Colección Daros Latinamerica, 2012
Luis Camnitzer, 2011
Luis Camnitzer, 2011
Luis Camnitzer, 2011
Luis Camnitzer, 2010
Montserrat Rojas Corradi en: Nunca nadie, ni yo mismo, 2020
Más allá de “2 obras de Luis Camnitzer”, 2018

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Ferias en las que participa con OBRA
ARTBO 2017
ARCOmadrid 2015

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Galerías y otras organizaciones que le representan

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Organizaciones con obra

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Profesionales con obra

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ACTIVIDAD VIGENTE

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Etiquetas
Arte conceptual  Arte contemporáneo  Arte latinoamericano  Arte Político  Crítica Institucional  Didáctica  Educación  Intervención Artística  Intervenciones Públicas  Objeto Artístico 

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Descripción del Artista

Luis Camnitzer (1937) es un artista uruguayo de origen alemán que vive en Nueva York desde 1964. Afín en lo formal al movimiento conceptual estadounidense de las décadas de 1960 y 1970, y figura clave del arte conceptual latinoamericano, ha venido desarrollando a lo largo de los últimos 50 años una producción esencialmente autónoma y diferenciada. Su obra explora temas como la represión bajo sistemas de poder, normas pedagógicas y la deconstrucción de marcos familiares. Su uso del lenguaje como medio artístico ha distinguido su práctica por más de cinco décadas. Su trabajo ha sido expuesto en importantes instituciones desde la década de los 60, incluyendo exposiciones individuales en el Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, Santiago, Chile (2013); Museo de Arte Kemper, St. Louis, MO (2011); El Museo del Barrio, Nueva York (1995); Museo Carrillo Gil, Ciudad de México (1993); List Visual Arts Center en M.I.T., Cambridge, MA (1991); Lehman College Art Gallery en el Bronx, Nueva York (1991); Kunsthalle Kiel, Alemania (2003); El Museo Daros en Zurich, Suiza, El Museo del Barrio, Nueva York; y Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Bogotá, Colombia (2010-13). El Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía está preparando una gran retrospectiva del artista que se inaugurará en octubre de 2018. Camnitzer ha sido asesor pedagógico de Fundación Cisneros/Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Luis Camnitzer (b.1937) is a German-born Uruguayan artist and writer who moved to New York in 1964. He was at the vanguard of 1960s Conceptualism, working primarily in printmaking, sculpture, and installations. Camnitzer’s artwork explores subjects such as repression under systems of power, pedagogical norms, and the deconstruction of familiar frameworks. His humorous, biting, and often politically charged use of language as art medium has distinguished his practice for over four decades. In 1964, he co-founded The New York Graphic Workshop, along with fellow artists Liliana Porter and José Guillermo Castillo (1941–1999). For six years until the end of the workshop in 1970, they examined the conceptual meaning behind printmaking, and sought to test and expand the definition of the medium. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Camnitzer developed a body of work that explored language as a primary medium, printing text on paper or walls, such as in his Dictionary etchings and room-size installation, Living Room (both 1969). As his interest in language unfolded, so did his aim to identify socio-political problems through his art. Camnitzer responded to the growing wave of Latin American military regimes taking root in the late 1960s, but his work also points to the dynamic political landscape of his adopted country, the United States. During the 1970s, Camnitzer created a key body of work that blended both language and humor—producing a series of Object Boxes that placed ordinary items within wood-framed glass boxes with text printed on brass plaques. In many ways, these boxes anticipate one of Camnitzer’s most important works, the Uruguayan Torture Series (1983–84). This photo-etching series epitomizes Camnitzer’s ability to question the social and political roles of an individual in society, while also examining a dimension of human psychology by pairing images and text to create new meaning. Though Camnitzer never left New York, his practice remains intrinsically connected to his homeland and the whole of Latin America. This consistent dedication cements his place as a key figure in shaping debates around ideas of postcolonialism, Conceptualism, and pedagogy. A retrospective of Camnitzer’s work, Luis Camnitzer: Hospice of Failed Utopias, was on view in 2018 at El Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain. Camnitzer’s work has been shown at important institutions since the 1960s, including solo exhibitions at El Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, Santiago, Chile (2013); Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (2011); El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY (1995); Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico (1993); and List Visual Arts Center at M.I.T., Cambridge, MA (1991). Retrospectives of his work have been presented at Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY (1991); Kunsthalle Kiel, Germany (2003); Daros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland (2010); El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY (2011); and Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá (2012). His work has appeared in numerous group exhibitions, including HOME—So Different, So Appealing, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), CA, which traveled to Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (2017); I am you, you are too, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (2017); Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (2014); and Information, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (1970). He has been featured in several international biennials, including the Bienal de la Habana, Cuba (1984, 1986, 1991, 2009); Pavilion of Uruguay, 43 Biennale di Venezia, Italy (1988); Whitney Biennial (2000); and Documenta 11 (2002). Camnitzer’s work is in the permanent collections of countless institutions, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Tate, London, UK; Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Daros Latinamerica Collection, Zurich, Switzerland. He was the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowships on two occasions, 1961 and 1982. A highly regarded critic and curator, Camnitzer is a frequent contributor to contemporary art magazines. He has authored the publications New Art of Cuba (University of Texas Press: 1994, 2003), Conceptualism in Latin American Art: Didactics of Liberation (University of Texas Press: 2007), translated as Didáctica de la liberación: Arte conceptualista latinoamericano (Hum, Montevideo, Uruguay, CENDEAC, Murcia, Spain and Fundación Gilberto Álzate Avedaío, IDARTES: 2012). From 1969 to 2000, he taught at the State University of New York (SUNY) College at Old Westbury, and is professor emeritus.

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