Galería Elba Benítez is pleased to announce Group Show / Muestra colectiva, Alejandro Cesarco’s second exhibition at the gallery.
The exhibition brings together twenty-seven works made between the sixteenth century and the present, which, from a wide range of contexts and languages, explore memory as a practice of fiction, repetition, and transformation. Rather than presenting a chronological trajectory, the works propose a constellation of affinities around the persistence of the image, portraiture, the fragility of language, and the ways in which the past continues to act upon the present.
Alejandro Cesarco is an Uruguayan artist living in Madrid. He has exhibited in museums and galleries throughout Latin America, the United States, and Europe, including the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Museo Rufino Tamayo (Mexico City), Tate Modern (London), The Renaissance Society (Chicago), Frac Île-de- France/Le Plateau (Paris), MALBA (Buenos Aires), mumok (Vienna), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), Artium Museoa (Vitoria-Gasteiz), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), and Kunsthalle Basel (Basel). He represented Uruguay at the 54th Venice Biennale and participated in the São Paulo Biennial on two occasions. He is Professor at Malmö Art Academy (Sweden) and Director of A.rt R.esources T.ransfer, a nonprofit organization based in New York. Since February, he runs Lawrence, a small art bookstore in Madrid. The exhibition Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Sweet Revenge, which he co-curated with Nancy Spector, is on view at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía through October 12.
