Descripción de la Exposición
Taking the experience of displacement in Mauro Cerqueira’s oeuvre, as a starting point, this solo show, curated by João Terras, aims to explore a visual and scenic “landscape” for engaging with his work.
The core journey of the exhibition arises from the trip in which Mauro Cerqueira (Guimarães, 1982. Lives and works in Porto), along with the artist Babi Badalov, undertook between Paris and Tangier, in 2021. Following the footsteps of the writers Jean Genet and Mohamed Choukri, and prompted by the encounter with Genet’s grave at Larache, Mauro Cerqueira films Badalov walking through the streets of Morocco while reading Jean Genet’s poem “The Condemned to Death.”
From Tangier to OPorto, from the screen to the canvas, the exhibition seeks to engage the audience with artists’ phantoms and ideals. Through Mauro Cerqueira’s his multi medium practice of painting, installation, performance and video, most of the time using poor and precarious materials, the exhibition emphasizes a kind of abstractionism of reality, always political and marginal.
Mauro Cerqueira (b. 1982) is an artist based in Oporto, Portugal. He studied at the Escola Superior Artística do Porto. He has participated in many solo and group exhibitions at national and international galleries and institutions such as Institute for New Connovative Action, Seattle; David Dale Gallery, Glasgow; MARCO/ Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra; Galeria Nuno Centeno, Porto; Galería Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid; Serralves Museum, Oporto; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Gas Natural Fenosa; Galeria Graça Brandão, Lisboa; La Casa Encendida, Madrid, among others. Cerqueira has been in several residencies including Rauschenberg Residency, Captiva Island, Florida, USA; Grant João Hogan, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany or Ateliê Fidalga, São Paulo, Brazil. His work is included in several international public and private collections such as: Museu de Serralves, Porto, Portugal; Rauschenberg Foundation, Florida, USA; Museu de Arte Contemporânea Elvas, Portugal; Meana & Larrucea Collection, Spain; Olor Visual Collection, Spain; or, the Lázaro Collection, Spain.
Mauro Cerqueira, along with the artist André Sousa, founded the independent space Uma Certa Falta de Coerência (A Certain Lack of Coherence - ACLoC). Among many others, ACLoC has collaborated with and exhibited the works of artists such as Babi Badalov, Stephan Dillemuth, Dan Graham, Mieko Meguro, Silvestre Pestana, Luisa Cunha, Ani Schulze, June Crespo, Pedro G. Romero, Josephine Pryde, Rigo 23, Daniel Barroca.
Exposición. 19 nov de 2024 - 02 mar de 2025 / Museo Nacional del Prado / Madrid, España
Formación. 23 nov de 2024 - 29 nov de 2024 / Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) / Madrid, España
