Armando Andrade Tudela
dal 4/2/2010 al 15/5/2010
Segnalato da
4/2/2010
Armando Andrade Tudela
Frac Bourgogne, Dijon
Hier, aujourd'hui, demain. Aujourd'hui, demain, hier. Demain, hier, aujour'hui. The main aim of his work is the circulation of forms in heterogeneous contexts. By means of sculptures, drawings, photographs and films, he takes a keen look at how aesthetic ideas are conveyed and assimilated at a local level, for example the way the modernist impact has spread and been interpreted in the South American continent.
curated by Eva González-Sancho, director of the Frac Bourgogne
The Frac Bourgogne/Regional Fund of Burgundy for Contemporary Art has
invited Armando Andrade Tudela (born in 1975 in Lima – Peru) to hold
his first solo show in France. He recently embarked upon a series of
monographic exhibitions, including the one at the FRAC Bourgogne, like
so many stages in his thinking about the conceptual and formal
presuppositions of Modernity. In them, more precisely, he sees space,
an environment defined by an architectural, geographical and even
social viewpoint, but also from the angle of its function as
exhibition venue.
After living in Lima, then training in London and the Netherlands,
before staying in first France and now Berlin, this has all prompted
an interest in projections and translations of things imaginary and
thoughts which exist from one culture to another. The main aim of his
work is the circulation of forms in heterogeneous contexts. By means
of sculptures, drawings, photographs and films, he takes a keen look
at how aesthetic ideas are conveyed and assimilated at a local level,
for example the way the modernist impact has spread and been
interpreted in the South American continent. He thus deals with a
formal vocabulary akin to Minimalism, and forms and images borrowed
from the daily round, from art history, and from popular culture.
In his more recent research, he has been experimenting with the
exhibition venue as a "foldable" space in which combinations of
different things leave potential meanings in their wake. He is close,
here, to many artists of his generation, trying to create an
environment which does not have a single centre of gravity, but
develops many, ad infinitum. For his show at the Frac Bourgogne, he
has chosen to carry on his exploration of space through sensations of
gravity, balance, and relations of scale and trajectory… What is
involved for him is getting away from what is already there in order
to create not discomfort, but to use his own word, "obliqueness." By
means of arrangements and devices with a mixed identity, somewhere
between sculpture, exhibition scenery, and architecture, and by
referring to a varied range of contexts, he produces a heterogeneous
space in which meanings ancient and modern can be at once challenged
and reformulated.
Claire Legrand, deputy director – in charge of public services
Translated by Simon Pleasance
Opening: 5 February 2010, 6 pm
Frac Bourgogne
49 rue de Longvic - Dijon
open from Monday to Saturday from 2-6 pm, except public holidays
Guided tour > Saturday June 20 th > 3 pm at the Frac - free entry