Pablo Siquier

Reception for the Artist: November 8, 2008, 7-10pm

- The diverse ways in which a certain cultural emanation is developed by different persons or communities (for example, the constructive utopias in Brazil, Europe and Argentina).
- The process by which a specific formal answer, is emptied from the ideological contents that originated it and used for diverse and even opposite purposes (the influence of Bauhaus in the industrial mass production).
- The transformation experienced by a style when transplanted to another physical and social reality (the Vitruvian model in religious architecture in the Spanish colonies of America).

These enunciations are a few examples of what has always fascinated me, both sensual and intellectually: the impure condition of culture and the visual expressions of that complexity.
In a young country as mine this is an everyday and constitutive condition. Buenos Aires and its architecture are proof of it. I intend to register all this in my work. If I have to synthesize in two words the themes that inspire it these would be sickness and contamination.

Pablo SiquierAlejandra von Hartz Gallery is delighted to announce an exhibition of New Work by Argentine artist Pablo Siquier (b. Buenos Aires, 1961) from November 8, 2008 – January 31, 2009

The exhibition includes works on canvas and on paper, as well as a mural.

Pablo Siquier's selected Solo Exhibitions are: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Palacio Velazquez, Madrid (2005), Ruth Benzacar Gallery, Buenos Aires (2003), Sicardi Gallery, Houston (2001), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires (1997), Annina Nosei Gallery, New York (1997).

Selected Group Exhibitions: “9ª. Bieninal of La Habana”, Cuba (2006), “26ª. Biennial of Sao Paulo”, Brazil (2004), “Project Artgentina, Miami (2003), “F(r)icciones”, Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2000), “Painting Zero Degree”, travelling exhibition organized by Independent Curators International, New York: Michigan, Oklahoma, Ohio, USA (2000), “Amnesia”, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica (1998), “The Rational Twist”, Apex Art, New York (1996), “Space of time”, Americas Society, New York (1993)

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