Sense of Mendicity

Exposición / Alejandra Von Hartz Gallery / 2630 NW 2ND Avenue / Miami, Florida, Estados Unidos
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Cuándo:
10 oct de 2013 - 22 nov de 2013

Inauguración:
10 oct de 2013

Organizada por:
Alejandra Von Hartz Gallery

Artistas participantes:
Danilo Dueñas

       

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Descripción de la Exposición

Alejandra von Hartz Gallery presents the solo exhibition Sense of Mendicity by DANILO DUEÑAS. This is the Colombian-born, Berlin-based artist's second solo exhibition with the gallery. It will feature a site specific installation and new works.

 

Dueñas works with found materials, intervening and assembling them into complex constructions in which the minimal, the sculptural, the pictorial and the monumental coexist, albeit, tensely. Through a thoroughly experimental process, he creates new poetics, activated by an acute awareness and a sensitive reaction to the space that contains the work. Meaning and time are also present, as well as art history and its incidence, in permanent questioning of his own and contemporary art practices.

 

Danilo Dueñas was born in 1956 in Cali, Colombia. He has been a Professor at the University of Los Andes, the National University of Colombia and the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogotá since 1990. In 1995, he participated in the exhibitions Mesótica and Transatlántica, curated by Carlos Basualdo at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design in San José de Costa Rica and the Alejandro Otero Museum of Visual Arts in Caracas, respectively. In 1999, he was the recipient of the Johnnie Walker in the Arts Prize granted by Paulo Herkenhoff, Oswaldo Sánchez and Ana Sokoloff, or his installation 'Espacio Preservado II', presented at the Luis Ángel Arango Library. In 2001, two simultaneous retrospective exhibitions of his works were held at the Museum of Modern Art in Bogotá and the Museum of Art of the National University of Colombia, curated by María Iovino. In 2003, another retrospective exhibition was held at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Caracas curated by Carmen María Jaramillo. In 2006, he was the international guest at the Caracas FIA and in 2008 he presented 'Dentro del espacio expositivo' at Periférico Caracas, curated by Jesus Fuenmayor. In 2011 he was one of the guests of the DAAD Berliner Kunstlerprogramm. His works are also represented in the Museum of Fine Arts in Caracas and the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro. He is part of the Artist Pension Trust Mexico. Recent exhibitions include 'At Actium and a tribute to John McCracken', 2011 at DAAD Galerie, Berlin, 'A door repeated and the wardrobe fell', 2012 at Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin and a solo presentation of this work at the abc- art berlin contemporary 2013.

 

Danilo Dueñas lives and works in Berlin.

 

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