Press File
ON WORKING AND THEN NOT WORKING
June 14 - September 16, 2018
Solo exhibition by Armando Andrade Tudela. Curated by Elfi Turpin.
Courtesy Armando Andrade Tudela, 2014.
Opening Garden Party on Thursday, June 14 at 7.30 pm. Free shuttle from Art Basel, departure at the corner of Bleichestrasse & Isteinerstrasse at 7 pm, return to Basel (via Mulhouse) at 10.30 pm. Reservation: [email protected]
Press preview on Wednesday, June 13 at 2 pm. Shuttle from Art Basel by reservation.
Press contact: Richard Neyroud, [email protected] T. +33 (0)3 89 08 82 59 Putting together an exhibition with Armando Andrade Tudela is like undertaking a trepanation. It’s making a hole in the artist’s head and inserting our fingers. Opening up his work to take the pressure off. Cutting a doorway into an artist’s system and sending him off down new roads to adventure. A delicate, archaic, ironic business. Trepanation is also a way of escaping a kind of exhibition bureaucracy bent on petrifying works we’d like to keep in a critical state until they tip over into the categories – sculpture, painting, photography, film, tool, furniture – that dichotomize studio practice and conceptual practice, North and South, hand and head. Trepanation’s a ruse. There are others.
Putting together an exhibition with Armando Andrade Tudela is working and then not working. It’s experiencing a transition – the moment when «The sun refused to set or, no, the Earth refused to move so that the sun could set, yes.»* It’s conceiving a space-time in which, in order to preserve them from that fixed mode of existence, the works are maintained in a kind of ambiguity, a process of transformation or of adaptation to paradoxical desires. Whether speaking to Peruvian modernity, European empathy, the pressure of things on the body or the traumatising effects of the academic, the work endlessly eludes any univocal approach, offering itself, instead, to oblique scrutiny from both sides of the Ocean.
- E. T., may 2018.
* Alan Dugan, Poems Seven: New Poems and Complete Poetry, Seven Stories Press, NYC, 2001.
On Working And Then Not Working is conceived in collaboration with CA2M - Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (Madrid) which will propose a second iteration of the exhibition that will be curated by Daniel Steegmann Mangrané on February 22, 2019, and will go along with a publication.
Armando Andrade Tudela Étude pour un tapis R.B., 2017 CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, exhibition view Zigzag incisions.
Armando Andrade Tudela Cordel # 1-3, 2017 CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, exhibition view Zigzag incisions. Armando Andrade Tudela Carved Bone, 2017 Carreras Mugica, Bilbao, exhibition view.
Armando Andrade Tudela Huesos de Bambù, 2018 Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, exhibition view. Armando Andrade Tudela Sculpture légère (Doillon), 2006 100 x 33 x 27 cm Photography Andy Keate.
Armando Andrade Tudela Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, exhibition view, 2017. Armando Andrade Tudela Gold Coast Customs, 2013. Exhibition view, Carl Freedman Gallery, London.
Armando Andrade Tudela Jour transparent I, Jour transparent II, Jour transparent III, 2013. Exhibition view, Le Grand Café - Centre d’art contemporain, Saint-Nazaire. ARMANDO ANDRADE TUDELA Born in 1975, Lima, Peru. Lives and works in Lyon.
Represented by galleries Francesca Minini, Milan ; Elba Benitez, Madrid ; Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo.
Recent solo exhibitions
2018 HUESOS DE BAMBÙ, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy.
2017 CYL, Bikini, Espace d’art contemporain, Lyon, France. EL HUESO TALLADO, Carreras Mugica, Bilbao, Spain. AYRTON, Museo Tamayo, MC, Mexico. HETEROLOGIA LIMENA, Salón, Madrid, Spain.
2016 ARMANDO ANDRADE TUDELA, Galería Elba Benitez, Madrid, Spain.
2015 POST-FOLKLORE, Francesca Minini, Milan, Italy. TRES MITADES, Proyecto AMIL, Lima, Peru. NORMALETTE, Art3, Valence, France.
2014 NOMADISM BEGINS AT HOME, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Germany. TRES MITADES, Galeria Fortes Villaca, São Paulo, Brazil.
2013 SEUIL DE RETABLISSEMENT, Le Grand Café, Saint- Nazaire, France. GOLD COAST CUSTOMS, Carl Freedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom. SOMBRAS DEL PROGRESO, Galeria Elba Benìtez, Madrid, Spain.
2012 ARMANDO ANDRADE TUDELA, DAAD Gallery, Berlin, Germany. LIQUIDACION, Museo de Arte de Lima, Lima, Peru. ARMANDO ANDRADE TUDELA, Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil.
2011 ALTO, SORTA, SOPRA, Supportico Lopez, Berlin, Germany.
2010 SALLE DE REPETITION Part 2, Carl Freedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom. SALLE DE REPETITION Part 1, Carl Freedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom. AHIR DEMA, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
2009 HIER, AUJOURD’HUI, DEMAIL, AUJOURD’HUI, DEMAIN,HIER,DEMAIN, HIER, AUJOURD’HUI, FRAC Bourgogne, France. TORCIDA, DAAD Gallery, Berlin, Germany. ARMANDO ANDRADE TUDELA, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom. The art center
Based in Altkirch and close to Switzerland (Basel) and Germany (Freiburg), CRAC Alsace is a contemporary art center devoted to research and creation which through the conception of exhibitions, publishing and specific activities of mediation, aims to support artistic production by encouraging the encounters between the public, the artists and the artworks.
Information CRAC Alsace is open from Tuesday to Friday, 10 am to 6 pm. Saturday to Sunday, 2 to 6 pm. Guided tours on Saturdays and Sundays at 3 pm. Closed August 13-19.
Access Train station Altkirch / Mulhouse - Mulhouse-Bâle-Freibourg Airport.
Partnerships The exhibition received the support of Les artisans du son, Mulhouse.
CRAC Alsace is a member of d.c.a and Versant Est.
CRAC Alsace is supported by: Ville d’Altkirch, Conseil Départemental du Haut-Rhin, Région Grand Est, DRAC Grand Est - Ministère de la Culture.
CRAC Alsace is also supported by: Les Amis du CRAC Alsace; Club d’entreprises partenaires du CRAC Alsace - CRAC 40: Cinéma Palace Lumière, Entreprise de peinture Mambré, Garage Fritsch Renault, Altkirch; Divines d’Alsace, Association des Femmes du Vin d’Alsace; Vins d’Alsace; Géant des Beaux-Arts, Saverne; Université populaire, Mulhouse; Paris Art. PRESS INFORMATION TO MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR STAY, WE CAN ARRANGE FOR TWO TOURS IN THE SAME DAY: THE CRAC ALSACE & THE KUNSTHALLE MULHOUSE.
CURRENTLY AT KUNSTHALLE MULHOUSE:
Negative Knots Solo exhibition by Etienne Chambaud. 07.06 - 26.08.2018
Étienne Chambaud, ‘SET’, 2017. 7 x 5,5 x 4,5 cm. Courtesy the artist & LABOR, Mexico.
Negative Knots is a quasi-fractal exhibition. It is composed of several strata of exhibitions that share the same space or compete for it. Neither a simple sum nor a subtraction of one by the other, they suggest a more complex combination which does not reveal itself a priori. They act as many parallel dimensions, sometimes facing one another, sometimes overlapping or coinciding, creating a common space or conversely mutually excluding one another and coexisting without any shared boundaries.
Press contact: Clarisse Schwarb, [email protected] T.+33 (0)3 69 77 66 28
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