Carlos Garaicoa (CRF 1997): Overlapping
10 June - 5 September 2010
Irish Museum of Modern Art
Royal Hospital Kilmainham
Dublin 8
Ireland
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Admission is free
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Overlapping is an exhibition by one of Cuba's leading contemporary artists Carlos Garaicoa, whose work explores the social fabric of our cities through the examination of its architecture. The exhibition brings together new and recent works comprising sculpture, installation, drawing, video and photography, which explore the themes of architecture and urbanism, politics and history, and narrative and human culture. Since the early 1990s Garaicoa has developed his multi-faceted practice as a means to critique modernist utopian architecture and the collapse of 20th-century ideologies using the city as his point of departure. Adopting the city of Havana as his laboratory, his works are charged with provocative commentaries on issues such as architecture's ability to alter the course of history, the failure of modernism as a catalyst for social change and the frustration and decay of 20th-century utopias.
The exhibition is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue documenting Garaicoa's work since 2006. Published by Charta it includes essays by Seán Kissane; Okwui Enwezor, curator, writer and critic; and Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Director of the Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City. Buy online at
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"Islands Never Found"
28 June – 28 November 2010
Hellenic Ministry of Culture And Tourism
State Museum of Contemporary Art
Kolokotroni 21, Stavroupoli 56430, Thessaloniki
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Venues: State Museum of Contemporary Art (Moni Lazariston) and Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki (Warehouse Β1, Port), Thessaloniki, Greece
Participating artists : Marina Abramović, Alice Aycock, Marina Bolla, Louise Bourgeois, Yves Bresson, Tony Cragg, Danica Dakić, Latifa Echakhch, Jan Fabre, Hans Peter Feldmann, Gloria Friedmann,
Carlos Garaicoa, Gilbert & George, Siobhán Hapaska, Rebecca Horn, Ilya Kabakov, Anselm Kiefer, Kimsooja, Jannis Kounellis, Maria Loizidou, Richard Long, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Maurizio Nannucci, Luigi Ontani, Dennis Oppenheim, Orlan, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Lucas Samaras, Barthélémy Toguo, Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Costas Tsoclis, Mamoru Tsukada, Günther Uecker, Lois Weinberger, Dimitris Xonoglou.
The exhibition "Islands Never Found" (Isole Mai Trovate / Îles Introuvables) focuses on the artist's journey—the actual, but mostly the inner journey and its itinerary, stopovers, objectives, living conditions, achievements and failures. It is organised by the State Museum of Contemporary Art (Τhessaloniki, Greece), the Musée d'Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne Métropole and the Comune di Genova/ Palazzo Ducale.
The exhibition currently presented in Thessaloniki was on show from March till June 2010 at the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa and will finally be presented from December 2010 – April 2011 at the Musée d' Art Moderne in St. Étienne.
The exhibition "Islands Never Found" (Isole Mai Trovate / Îles Introuvables) places centre-stage the artist's personality, which is rich but contradictory, in part deleterious and unreservedly self-destructive and creative, tormented and self-sufficient. Τhe show is a tribute to those artists who along with their obsessive, committed and limitless creativity, and their ruthless radicalism and extravagant intellectual liberty, are able to create novel socio-cultural situations and mindsets. Thus, they show the way of new territories, which like the islands of the immense rolling ocean, simultaneously evoke asylum and imprisonment, home and hell, liberation and dissolution.
Warehouse B1, Port – P.O. Box 107 59, 54110 Thessaloniki
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