Exposición en Tampa, Florida, Estados Unidos

The Return of the Real

Rodrigo Valenzuela, Barricade# 3, 2017 archival inkjet print, 54 x 44 inches — Cortesía de Christian Viveros-Fauné

Dónde:

USF Contemporary Art Museum - University of South Florida / 4202 E. Fowler Ave. / Tampa, Florida, Estados Unidos

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Cuándo:

26 ago de 2019 - 07 dic de 2019

Inauguración:

26 ago de 2019

Comisariada por:

Christian Viveros-Fauné

Organizada por:

USF Contemporary Art Museum - University of South Florida

Artistas participantes:

Robert Lazzarini , Rodrigo Valenzuela

Descripción de la Exposición

A two-person exhibition, featuring the work of Los Angeles-based artist Rodrigo Valenzuela (b. 1982 Santiago, Chile) and New York-based sculptor Robert Lazzarini (b. 1965, Denville, N.J.), The Return of the Real presents the work of two U.S.-based artists who are distinctly committed to re-presentation as a mode of visual experimentation and reasoning. Though both artists rearrange, reconstruct and ultimately distort reality, they do so ultimately to arrive at objects and images that undermine their own truth telling. The concept of “re-presentation” is central to contemporary art today. The hyphen is intentionally added to destabilize the normal reading of the word “representation” as a transparent record of “reality.” Because all re-presentations are constructions from a particular subject position, no re-presentation can be absolutely objective or universal. This is true of all modes of human thought and expression: it applies equally to the work of the artist, economist, philosopher, scientist and politician. In the ... words of critic Hal Foster—from whom the title of this exhibition is borrowed—the work of both of these artists is grounded in the materiality of actual bodies, objects and social sites. Lazzarini’s and Valenzuela’s artworks look to establish new ways of seeing critically at a time that demands a profoundly flexible and skeptical understanding of seemingly established facts, fabricated fears and “fake news.”

Imágenes de la Exposición

Robert Lazzarini, chain-link fence (Torn), 2012 steel and pigment; 134 x 276 x 75 inches — Cortesía de Christian Viveros-Fauné

Entrada actualizada el el 04 sep de 2019

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