Montevideo, Uruguay, 1975
Lives and works in Madrid, Spain
In his practice, Alejandro Cesarco employs strategies of translation and appropriation, which involve narrating, re-narrating, interpreting, misinterpreting, quoting, and re-signifying. A central aspect of his work is questioning the differences and similarities between looking and reading. Cesarco’s work investigates the book as a technology, delves into the construction and preservation of memory, and engages with the limits and opacity of language. Through various mediums and strategies, he employs secrecy, indexicality, and fragmentation as narrative modalities. While rooted in art history and heavily influenced by literature and literary theory, Cesarco’s work, without being confessional, is at the same time deeply personal. Broadly speaking, his work examines how meanings shift through different forms of repetition, such as recontextualization and translation.
Alejandro Cesarco is an artist, editor, and curator. He has exhibited in museums and galleries across Latin America, the United States, and Europe, including the Museum of Modern Art (NY), Museo Rufino Tamayo (Mexico), Tate Modern (London), The Renaissance Society (Chicago), Frac Île-de-France/Le Plateau (Paris), Malba (Buenos Aires), Mumok (Vienna), Salomon R. Guggenheim (NY), Artium Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del País Vasco (Vitoria), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), and Kunsthalle Basel (Basel). He represented Uruguay at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011) and participated in the São Paulo Biennial on two occasions (2012 and 2018). He is Professor at Malmö Art Academy (Sweden) and Director of the New York based non-profit organization Art Resources Transfer.
