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26/6/2002

Two exhibitions

Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea CGAC, Santiago de Compostela

Richard Tuttle: cENTER
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela
Ground Floor and Double Space
Dates: June 27 - September 22
Curator: Susan Harris

For over four decades, the artist Richard Tuttle (1941, Rahway, New Jersey) has staked out a prominent place on the international artistic scene. His work is suffused with a profound sense of spirituality and serenity. It does not deal with the absolute ? with conclusions or definitions, instead he intuitively forges his own path of investigation. What strikes us about his work are its difficult classification ? which is often halfway between sculpture, drawing and painting ? and the use of unconventional material ? paper, rubber, plywood, wire and cloth ? as well as the small scale of the pieces. The work of Richard Tuttle is being shown in two simultaneous exhibitions, Memento (28 June - 29 September), at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves in Oporto (Portugal), and cENTER, at the CGAC. Although the shows were conceived independently, Tuttle has imagined them to be complementary parts of a greater whole.

The train of thought behind cENTER takes the shape of twenty showcases arranged in a spiral, containing a selection of the vast production of publications designed by the artist from 1965 to the present.
Like all of his work, his books resist being put into categories.
An example of this would be White Sails from 2001, with its small scale (8 x 8 x 2 cm), or Open Carefully from 2002, a white plastic bag in the shape of a kidney ? two objects, which at first glance, do not look at all like books. Unlike other works by this artist, the printed work is usually carried out in close collaboration with other artists, poets or writers such as Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Charles Bernstein, Ilma Rakusa and John Yau.

Around the showcases are mounted Blue/Red Alphabet, 26 pieces, and Replace IV, 40 pieces, two recent series of small paintings full of light. The exhibition includes pieces created specifically for CGAC, expressing the wish of the artist to relate his work to the architecture of the setting and the spirituality of Santiago de Compostela.

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Antonio Murado: A Million Acres
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela
First Floor
Dates: June 27 - September 22
Curator: Cecilia Pereira

The idea behind Un millón de acres (A Million Acres) is to map out an imaginary journey taking us through the last two decades of the artistic production of Antonio Murado (Lugo, 1964).
The coordinates and geographical features of this curious trajectory are marked out through his most important works, using expressions from his own personal vocabulary ? tangles, clouds, petals, icescapes, nets, slates or branches.
Forming part of a new generation that burst, unabashedly, onto the international scene, in 1997 Antonio Murado decided to continue working out of New York on a work of art that confronts problems of perception with aesthetic sensitivity and great refinement.
This he does by constructing undefined images, evocative of memory, that find their place on the vague threshold between the abstract and the figurative, always frozen at the precise instant of recognition.
From the very beginning, he used the classic images of the history of landscape painting and scientific microscope photographs borrowed from his father's library as a source of inspiration in representing outer and inner life, in his quest for a global landscape, of both the microcosm and the macrocosm. Murado is a painter who is fascinated by the alchemy of painting.
In spite of the fact that his technical mastery gives him strict control over the behaviour of the material, it coexists with voluntary chance processes, which allow him to distance himself ? like a member of an expedition in search of the expressive possibilities of painting.
Un millón de acres also brings together his recent paintings done in a large format which are tremendously suggestive, such as Icescapes. These are frozen landscapes, focusing on ice, sea, and snow... and huge diptychs of waves or fragments of sky with clouds ? genuine abstract elements of the landscape ? which are complemented by rusts and craquelures, metaphors of ancient paintings ? of the passage of time.

The Press Conference, where the artists will explain their shows, will take place at CGAC on Thursday, June 27, at 12:30 h.

The following day, June 28, Richard Tuttle will open Memento at the Museu de arte contemporanea de Serralves, Oporto.

If you are interested in travel to Oporto from CGAC (two and a half hours by car), please call the Press Department in CGAC. Ph: +34 981 546 632 / cgac.prensa@xunta.es

Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC),Valle Inclan s/n 15704, Santiago de Compostela

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