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Archive for the ‘group shows’ Category
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Group exhibitions
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(by HL)……The objects displayed in this comfortless roomscape point to specific conditions in Cuba: the elegant teacup balanced precariously on the back of the sofa is empty (tea has been unobtainable for domestic use since the 1960s); the light bulb cannot be used (incandescent lighting has been banned since 2005); the plate commemorating President and Mrs John Kennedy dates from the begging …
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Strata. Probing the LESTORY (Lessons in History) by Nuno Faria
(Archeology) is nothing more than a re-writing: that is, preserved in the form of exteriority, a regulated transformation of what has already been written. It is not a return to the innermost secret of the origin; it is the systematic description of the discourse-object. Michel Foucault
A utopia yet to be created, an unfinished design, a monument-atopy, a map without places: Who could respond with …
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The Castel in the Air, curated by Adam Budak
The exhibition “THE CASTLE IN THE AIR. Séance of Imagination” is a subtle projection of a hidden (other) life of the Castle. In this choreography of imagination, the Castle is a phantasmagoria and a mirage: oneiric theatre of a soul, a possible abstraction of a thought and a symbol of a fantasized encounter – outside of a history, beyond time and memory, on a margin …
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‘Sammlung im Prozess’ curated by Georg Elben
Eine Sammlung ist das Kernstück eines Museums, sie stellt neben Ausstellungen den bleibenden und identitätsstiftenden Existenzgrund eines Museums dar. Diese These stimmt auch für das Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, dessen Skulpturensammlung ein sehr spezielles Profil besitzt. Deshalb steht die Bestandsaufnahme der Sammlung des Museums am Anfang einer Reihe von Veränderungen, mit denen der neue Direktor Georg Elben seine Arbeit in Marl aufnimmt. Die neue Ausstellung „Sammlung …
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‘Interrogando a Marcel’ Diango Hernández
A veces pienso en Marcel cuando me decía -el espectador es un ser invisible, un elemento además volátil y por lo tanto incontrolable, e insistía -si conocieras mi plan comprenderías que un espacio solo puede ser ocupado por una idea. No obstante a mis esfuerzos por definir un nuevo tipo de espectador jamás pude convencer a Marcel, mis ideas eran demasiado imprecisas, mis argumentos todos …
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‘Interrogating Marcel’ by Diango Hernández
Sometimes I think about Marcel and I remember him telling me: ‘The visitor is an invisible being, a volatile element and therefore the visitor is by principle uncontrollable’ With vehemence Marcel would continue: ‘If you would know my plan, maybe you would understand that a single space can only be occupied by a single idea’. Yet to all my efforts towards defining a new type …
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‘Neues Rheinland’, Museum Morsbroich (curated by Stefanie Kreuzer) –2010
Marginal Zones of Revolutionary Everyday Life by Ursula Frohne. Diango Hernández’s works illuminate the art-life of the revolutionary spirit of a movement that was political and artistic in equal measure. His subtle Moses-en-scène not only conjure up the economy of scarcity in Cuba – many observers harbor exoticizing ideas about the Caribbean version of socialism- but also point to a particular pathology that is …
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‘The New Décor’, Garage, Moscow (curated by Ralph Rugoff) –2010
QUANTUM TUNNELING (the ghost we love) by Diango Hernández. Ein Gespenst geht um in Europa… There has been some reports that testify the present of certain people that eventually can walk through walls, just like ghosts do. A hanging round ball lamp is crossing through 4 different spaces and at the same time is theoretically lighting these four spaces. The four spaces which can …
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11th Triennale, Fellbach, Germany (curated by Ulrike Gross) –2010
‘Larger than life stranger than fiction’. Die Umkehrung von Größenverhältnissen, die Miniaturisierung und das kleine Format sind in der bildenden Kunst und Literatur seit jeher Mittel der Verfremdung, um menschliche Werte und das sich wandelnde gesellschaftliche Selbstverständnis zum Ausdruck zu bringen. Bereits in den Wunderkammern der Renaissance trifft man auf Fantasiewesen, Memento Mori-Darstellungen, Miniaturkunst wie auch wissenschaftliche Apparaturen und Naturalien, in denen das Wissen …
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‘The New Décor’, Hayward Gallery (curated by Ralph Rugoff) –2010
After studying Industrial Design in Havana in the early 1990s, Diango Hernández became one of the founders of Ordo Amoris Cabinet, a Cuban artists’ and designers’ collective. This group’s particular focus was the ‘provisional aesthetic’ of making do and getting by adopted by ordinary people during Cuba’s ‘Special Period’, the years acute economic crisis caused by the collapse of the Soviet Union. A decade later, …
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‘Touched’, The 10th Liverpool Biennial (curated by Peter Gorschlüter) –2010
‘Homesick’ by Diango Hernández. Many artists have transformed museum’s rooms or a commercial galley’s spaces into their temporary “homes”, in these places they’ve lived for days, weeks and sometimes even months. The idea of seeing, assuming, accepting or transforming the “white cube” into a living space it has many social, political and of course cultural implications. Most of these artist’s performances have shown the way …
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‘Goldene Zeiten’, Haus der Kunst, Munich (curated by Patrizia Dander and Julienne Lorz) –2010
Since the mid 1990s – in reaction to Cuba’s extreme economic and societal crisis after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc – Diango Hernández has dedicated himself to the aesthetics and content of the crisis’ phenomenon in his home country: “I have followed a line of research since I have started working and this line guides us through many reflections about strategies of validation of …