SELF-ECLIPSE. ARMANDO ANDRADE TUDELA

CURATED BY DANIEL STEEGMANN MANGRANÉ
 

“Putting together an exhibition with Armando Andrade Tudela is like undertaking a trepanation. It’s making a hole in the artist’s head and inserting our fingers. Opening up his work to take the pressure off. Cutting a doorway into an artist’s system and sending him off down new roads to adventure. A delicate, archaic, ironic business. This trepanation is also a way of escaping a kind of exhibition bureaucracy bent on petrifying works we’d like to keep in a critical state until they tip over into the categories – sculpture, painting, photography, film, tool, furniture – that dichotomize studio practice and conceptual practice, North and South, hand and head. Trepanation’s a ruse. There are others.

Putting together an exhibition with Armando Andrade Tudela is working and then not working. It’s experiencing a transition – the moment when “The sun refused to set or, no, the Earth refused to move so that the sun could set, yes.” It’s conceiving a space-time in which, in order to preserve them from that fixed mode of existence, the works are maintained in a kind of ambiguity, a process of transformation or of adaptation to paradoxical desires. Whether speaking to Peruvian modernity, European empathy, the pressure of things on the body or the traumatising effects of the academic, the work endlessly eludes any univocal approach, offering itself, instead, to oblique scrutiny from both sides of the Ocean.”

This was how Elfi Turpin presented On Working And Then Not Working at CRAC Alsace, as an exhibition in movement. Here at CA2M, the works will be curated by another artist, Daniel Steegmann, to give them another new form of life.

Armando Andrade Tudela (Lima, 1975) studied first in Peru and then at the Royal College of Art in London and at the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. His work has been exhibited at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Sao Paulo Biennial, Shanghai Biennial, Museo de Arte de Lima, MACBA in Barcelona, DAAD Berlin, Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, Frankfurter Kunstverein and Kunsthalle Basel.

RELATED ACTIVITIES

Performative visit to exhibition: Saturday at 12:30 and 18:30. July - September at 12:30 and 19:00. Closed for visits during August.

PUBLICATIONS

An exhibition catalogue will be published in conjunction with CRAC Alsace (France).