Alejandro Cesarco. Help!

Alejandro Cesarco

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2002

Video (color, sound)

Not on view

Medium Video (color, sound)
Duration 2 min.
Credit Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros through the Latin American and Caribbean Fund in honor of Stuart Comer
Object number 666.2017
Department Media and Performance

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Alejandro Cesarco

Alejandro Cesarco

Uruguayan, born 1975 4 works online

Alejandro Cesarco is as interested in the mechanics of storytelling as in the story itself. Rather than positioning himself as an author, he makes work by “cataloging, classifying, appropriating, reading, misreading, and retelling.

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Provenance

Murray Guy Gallery, New York
Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York and Caracas, 2011
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2017

Exhibition history

Austin, TestSite, "TestSite 04.5, Based on a True Story (Exercises in Reading and Writing)", October 24 - November 28, 2004

Vancouver, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, "Alejandro Cesarco: Now and Then", March 17 - April 24, 2009

Puebla, Mexico, Museo Amparo, “Portadores de sentido,” February 9 - July 22, 2019

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