"Alexander Caesar. Other recent examples" to Artium Museoa

The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country, Artium Museoa, presents the exhibition Alejandro Cesarco. Other recent examples up to September 24, 2023.

This exhibition dedicated to the work of Alejandro Cesarco (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1975) brings together works in different media – photographs, videos and pieces made from text – that propose a reflection on the construction and experience of learning, and those processes linked to memory, perception and language. Other recent examples are the first solo exhibition in a public institution in Spain dedicated to the work of Alejandro Cesarco and produced in collaboration with Lumiar Cité/Maumaus de Lisboa.

In the context of this exhibition project, a publication is published that includes the translation of the essay Notes on Mother Tongues by the author Mirene Arsanios. Coinciding with the opening of the exhibition, and in keeping with the artist's profile as a publisher, the museum is organizing a conversation on publishing practices (March 24, 6 p.m.) in which Alejandro Cesarco, Thomas Boutoux, Beatriz Herráez and Catalina will participate Lozano.

Other recent examples are part of one of the main research lines of Artium Museoa's exhibition program that attends to the intersections that have historically taken place between the field of art and forms of writing. Questions such as those of biography, correspondences between language and image, strategies of appropriation and systems of order and declassification occupy these crossroads and exchanges between literature and visual arts. On the other hand, the exhibition affects a fundamental axis of work in the museum's programs, the figure of the artist as an educational agent and the relationships established between artistic practices and experimental pedagogical models.

The exhibition includes, among other works, Index (An Educator) [Index (Una educadora)], a piece made in 2023 that is the most recent and most extensive of a series of indexes that the artist has composed for books that have not yet been written and will probably never be written. These indexes – in this case spread over 18 pages – trace the development of his interests, readings and concerns, and have become a form of self-portrait that unfolds over time. Other recent examples also present the video work Figuratively, made in 2021, a record of a new generation of Uruguayan teenagers, selected through Instagram, who were only asked to imagine their future while they were portrayed

Other works present in the show are the screen print The Difference Between Thirty Two and Forty Five (2017), a humorous representation of the artist's fears in relation to aging; the video Learning the Language (Present Continous II) (2022), belonging to a series in which Cesarco addresses some recurring concerns, such as memory, repetition or regret; and the series of photographs dated 2022 Untitled (Speaking in Tongues), Figure With Shadow (Stage I-III) and [All the Doors of my mother's house].

Attached to the exhibition and in parallel with it, a consultation space is built that incorporates texts and authors associated with the work of Alejandro Cesarco as editor. Among other publications, a selection of books published as part of Art Resources Transfer (ART), an independent non-profit organization committed to documenting and disseminating the work of artists to an audience often unrecognized on the circuit, is collected of cultural consumption. Other recent examples are the first solo exhibition in a public institution in Spain dedicated to the work of Alejandro Cesarco and produced in collaboration with Lumiar Cité/Maumaus in Lisbon. In the context of this exhibition project, a publication is published that includes the translation of the essay Notes on Mother Tongues by the author Mirene Arsanios.