Alexandre Arrechea
1970 Trinidad/Cuba
Estudios y Experiencia Profesional
Graduado del Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) en 1994. Miembro del grupo Los Carpinteros por 12 años hasta el 4 de Julio del 2003, que continúa de manera independiente su trabajo como artista. Alexandre Arrechea en su trabajo interdisciplinario revela un especial interés en la exploración de los espacios públicos y domésticos. Ciudad Transportable (2000), The Garden of Mistrust (2003-2005) Perpetual Free Entrance (2006) and Mississippi Bucket (2008), son proyectos monumentales realizados en los últimos años.
Exhibiciones Personales
(selección)
2010 Architecture of Perception, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Casado Santapau Gallery, Spain
Magnan Projetcs Gallery, NY, USA
Savannah College of Art and Design, USA
2009 Un día después del futuro. Gallery Villa Manuela [September 4] La Habana, Cuba
Everything, something, nothing. CAB Centro de Arte Caja Burgos [October 9] Burgos, Spain
ARCO, 2009
2008 Mistrust, [September 2 – October 26] American University Museum at the Katzen,Washington D.C. USA
Suicide landscape, [May 13] Casado-Santa-Pau Gallery,Madrid
2007 What could happen if I lie,[September 6 to October 20] Magnan Projects, Magnan
Emerich Gallery. NY, NY. USA
Espacio Derrotado, [January 30] Casado-SantaPau Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Scalpel and cotton, [February 15] Contemporary Links [June 30] San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, USA
2006 Perpetual Free Entrance, [June 12-September 24] Patio Herreriano, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Español, Valladolid, Spain
The Limit [March 11] Mary Goldman Gallery [February 18] LA,California. USA
2005 Dust [November 17], Magnan Projects. NY, NY. USA POLVO [November 9], Miramar Trade Center, La Habana, Cuba
Nada Art Fair [Miami December 1-4] Mary Goldman Gallery
Pulse [Miami December 1-4] Magnan Projects
Nowhere [November 26,2005- January 27,2006] Alonso Fine Art, Miami, USA
Raúl Cordero, Felipe Dulzaides, Alexandre Arrechea en la Casa de las Américas [July 22] Casa de las Americas, La Habana,Cuba
Exhibiciones Colectivas y Eventos
(selección)
2010 Museum of Art and Desing, NY. USA
2009 Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art, Russia
Las Américas Latinas. Las fatigas del querer.[May 21- October 4] Spazio Oberdan, Viale Vittorio Veneto.Milano / Italy
Havana Biennial, Cuba
TesaloniKi Biennial, [May 24 – September 27] Greece
Pulse, NY, USA
Arteamericas, Miami, FL, USA
2008 Prisoner’s Dilemma: Selections from the Ella Fontanals- Cisneros Collection. December 3, 2008 – March 1, 2009, Miami, USA
Pinta Art Fair, Nov 14 The Metropolitan Pavilion y The Altman Art Building, New York. USA
Prospect 1, November 1, 2008 through January 18, 2009 New Orleans.USA
MACO, México International Art Fair.Centro Banamex México, D.F.
MIART, Milano, Italy
ARCO, 2008
Informed by Function Feb. 6 – May 15, 2008 Lehman College Art Gallery Bedford Park Boulevard West, Bronx, N.Y. USA
Elefante Negro, Museo Diego Rivera, Anahuacalli, México D.F. México
2007 MoMA N.Y. New Perspectives in Latin American Art
Tomorrow. Artsonje Center. Kumho Museum of Art. Seoul, Korea
We Are Your Future Special Project to the 2nd Moscow Biennale of the Fine Arts
Caribbean Encounters, scheduled to open on August 31st 2007 – January 17th 2008 Brooklyn Museum, NY. USA
2006 Fatamorgana Ilusion and deception in Contemporary Art,[November 25] Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
Taipei Biennial [October 4] Taipei,China
Moving Image, Alonso Art [October 21-November 25] Miami, Florida, USA
Stop y Forward, [September 22] Galería Habana, Cuba
Volta Show 2 June 14-18] ULTRA BRAG, Südquaistrasse 55, CH-4019 Basel, Switzerland
2005 51a Bienal de Venecia, 2005 Italy
Out of place-works on paper. [May 21], Mary Goldman Gallery. LA, CA. USA
Scope: Contemporary Cuban Video/Film Curator Judy Cheung. Co-presented by May Works Festival CALGARY and EMMEDIA GALLERY
Group show Magnan project Gallery [may 12] NY, NY, USA
Salón de Arte Contemporáneo [Jan 21] Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, La Habana, Cuba.
Premios y Becas
2005 Braziers International. Oxfordshire, England/ 2002 Artist in residence, The Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, New Castle, England/ 2000 Prize. Fomento de las Artes, UNESCO, 7ma Bienal de la Habana, Havana, Cuba/ 1997 First Prize, Contemporary Art-People’s Award, El Mundo Magazine, Argentaria Foundation. ARCO Fair/ 1995-6 Endowment. Departamento de Exposiciones y Colecciones, Ministerio de Cultura Español, Madrid, Spain
Colecciones
Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, New York, USA/ Artist Pension Trust/ CIFO, Miami/Brooklyn Museum, NY, USA/ Würth Museum of Modern Art of La Rioja/ MAM. Museo de Arte de Miami, Florida.USA/ Ellipse Foundation, Portugal/ Museo del Barrio.New York.NY.USA/Fortlauderdale Museum, Miami, USA/ San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, USA/ Museum of Contemporary Art, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA, USA /Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA, USA/ The Martin Margulles Collection, Miami, FL, USA /Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba /Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany/ Arizona State University, ASU Art Museum, Arizona, USA /Museo Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain /Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo A.C., Mexico City, Mexico/ Daros Collection, Zurich, Switzerland/ Fundación ARCO, Museo Galego de Arte Contemporáneo, Spain/ Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo MEIAC, Badajoz, Spain /Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art Foundation, Vienna, Austria/ Ulrich Museum, Wichita State University, Kansas, USA /University of California at Santa Barbara Museum, CA, USA/ Fredrick Weissman Foundation Beverly Hills, CA, USA /Cincinnati Museum of Contemporary Art Cincinnati, OH, USA
