Dedications, 2003
All the dedications from the books in Cesarco’s library. A compilation of author’s affection for their muses, mentors and motivators. A definition of audience.
Cesarco, The Streets Were Dark With Something More Than Night, Or The Closer I Get To The End The More I Rewrite the Beginning, 2011
At Art Basel, Alejandro Cesarco presents a mise-en-scène comprising wall texts, a slide show, framed photographs, and an artist’s book. The work reconfigures the conventions of the detective story to imagine the viewer as a private investigator, ensnared in self-reflexive observation. While holding out the promise of meaning and order, the installation will use the […]
Alejandro Cesarco, Two Films, 2009
Murray Guy is very pleased to present a solo exhibition featuring two new films by Alejandro Cesarco. These works continue Cesarco’s investigation of the narrative and affective possibilities of conceptual art. Both films are re-enactments or translations which push the resonant limits of narrative, enacting processes of remembering and forgetting. Everness (2008) is a looped […]
A sensed perturbation, 2009
Murray Guy is very pleased to present A sensed perturbation, an exhibition featuring recent work by Nina Beier and Marie Lund, Manon de Boer, Matthew Buckingham, Alejandro Cesarco, Moyra Davey, Kenneth Goldsmith, and Josh Shaddock, curated by Jacob King. Please join us for an opening reception on June 18 from 6 to 8 pm. The […]
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 2012
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a condensed and personalized translation of James Joyce’s classic, consisting of all the months of January of Cesarco’s youth.
Alejandro Cesarco / John Baldessari, 2007
Alejandro Cesarco and John Baldessari, have collaborated on Retrospective, a series of twelve silk-screens on aluminum works. Retrospective deals with the idea of looking back, how meaning is re-contextualized through memory framing, selecting, re-telling and continuance of a dialogue, history and the acknowledgment of influence. Implicit in the project is a concern for the difference […]
Where I’m Calling From, 2012
Where I’m Calling From is an imagined book, laid out in four prints, that compiles a series of photographs and texts that that reflects on and excavates the artist’s influences and early work.The compiled works and references are an unveiling of methodologies that act as a direct confrontation with the past, perhaps as a way […]
The Reader, 2011
“The Reader” reconfigures the conventions of the detective story to imagine the viewer as a private investigator, ensnared in self-reflexive observation. The slide show combines a series of fragmented texts with a voiceover written by Cesarco and read by Lawrence Weiner. The sequences are forced to resemble a film, however, a story is never fully […]
Methodology, 2011
Methodology is a video concerning secrecy as a narrative structure and mode of address. What is said, what can be said, the way in which people act in relation to what cannot be said, what is alluded to, taken for granted, or ultimately silenced. Originally commissioned for the Uruguay Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale, […]
The Gift and The Retribution, 2011
The Gift and the Retribution consists of photographs of the covers of two books with crossed dedications: “The Goodbyes” by Juan Carlos Onetti (which is dedicated to Idea Vilariño) and “Love Poems” Idea Vilariño (which is dedicated to Juan Carlos Onetti.) A recurring motif in Cesarco’s work, the dedication is a device for justifying the […]
Present Memory, 2010
An intimate portrait of the artist’s father, Present Memory documents both a constructed and anticipated memory. The literal and metaphorical projection staged in the work is a rehearsal of fears: an attempt at dealing with a future absence, the process of mourning and remembering, mortality and letting go. Projected in the same location on three […]
The Two Stories, 2009
A story is being read out loud to an audience in a private family room. What we hear is actually not the story being told but the thoughts of the person reading the story; the instances of distraction, nervousness, etc. The camera follows the reader’s gaze as it goes from the text to the different […]