ARMANDO ANDRADE TUDELA

Born in , in 1975. He lives and works in St Etienne, France

EDUCATION

Pontifícia Universidad Católica, Lima, Perú The Royal College of Art, London Jan Van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht

SOLO SHOW

2010 Ahir, demà, Museu d’ Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona Hier, Aujourd’hui, Demain, Aujourd’hui, Demain, Hier, Demain, Hier, Aujourd’hui, FRAC Bourgogne 2009 DAAD, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 2008 Gamblers Die Broke, Frankfurter Kunstverein Gamblers Die Broke, Kunsthalle, Basel 2007 Les Signaux de L’ Ame, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam 2006 Inka Snow, Counter Gallery, London 2004 Camión, Counter Gallery, London 2003 The Bakery, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam

GROUP SHOW

2010 “Does the Angle Between Two Words Have a Happy Ending?”, Federica Schiavo Gallery, Rome, Italy. Curated by Ishmael Randall-Weeks Rehabilitation, Wiels, Brussels Modernologies Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw 2009 Panorama da Arte Brasileira, Museu de Arte Moderno, Sao Paulo Warsaw Under Construction, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Modernologies, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona Time as Matter, NewAcquistions, Museu d’ Art Contemporani de Barcelona Yellow and Green, MMK,Frankfurt Second Hand, curated byJasper Sharp, Engholm Englehorn Gallery, Vienna 2008 Armando Andrade Tudela,two-person show with Florian Pumshol, Krobath Wimmer Galerie, Vienna Neutre Intense, La Maison Populaire, Paris 2007 Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, (Touring) Lyon Biennial, Lyon Curación Geométrica, The Reliance, London 2006 Biennial – selected by Jonathan Watkins, China Sao Paulo Biennial – selected by Adriano Pedrosa, Brazil 2005 Torino Trienniale, T1, selected by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev & Francesco Bonami, Various venues, Torino, Italy Tropical Abstraction, Stadelijk Musem Bureau, Amsterdam. Curated by Roos Gortzak Farsites, inSITE 05, curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Tijuana / San Diego Museum of Art 2004 Rheinschau Projects, Cologne, Germany PR04, Puerto Rico Biennale, Rincón, Puerto Rico The Concert In The Egg, The Ship, London To Be Political It Has To Look Nice, Apex Art, New York 2003 Retriever, Pearl Projects, London ISHMAEL RANDALLEl Paso, WEEKS Casa Cultura Mario Quintana, Porto Alegre MERCADO, 2008 FRUIT2002 CASES, MIRRORS,Interim Show,2008 Royal College of Art, London VARIABLE DIMENSIONSDiversion, 291 Gallery, London FEDERICA SCHIAVO GALLERY PIAZZA MONTEVECCHIO 16 ROMA ARMANDO ANDRADE TUDELA

UNTITLED, 2006 mixed media on paper 26 x 35 cm (47 x 59 framed)

Andrade Tudela’s work gives literal form to a number of ideas: exile and return, the transmigration of style and corollaries between politics and aesthetics. Tudela’s series of collages from 2006 show an exploration in which Tropical abstraction (provi- ding a space in which old and new meanings can be examined and formulated) meets a drive to revisit the utopian dreams of early 20th century modernism. In Untitled, there is a layering of four collaged images: a starry nights sky that is reminiscent of the “big bang”; a figure covered in mud holding a freshly kneaded ball of mud alluding to both the Woodstock generation and possibly the figure of creation; an image of the Itamarity Palace (Niemeyer’s masterpiece that serves as the ministry of foreign affaire in Brasilia); and a group of women (some in bikinis and some topless) holding batons behind their back in some sort of aerobic or dance formation. A key to perhaps seeing into this jarring and visually beautiful image is looking at that very contrasting history of Brazil and the Tropicalia movement, where many of the key figures, including Caetano Veloso, were imprisoned by the Brazilian military junta in the late 1960s, yet Brazil, like and other South American countries, was characterized in the popular counter-culture imagination of Europe and North America as a tropical land of sun, sea, drugs and free love, much as India was roman- ticized as a country of transcendental wisdom.

FEDERICA SCHIAVO GALLERY PIAZZA MONTEVECCHIO 16 ROMA