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Collaborative duo of visual artists

Allora & Calzadilla
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Allora & Calzadilla, "Stop Repair, Prepare", 2008
Born Jennifer Allora (1974-03-20) March twenty, 1974 (historic period 48) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Guillermo Calzadilla (1971-01-10) January x, 1971 (age 51) Havana, Cuba
Teaching Jennifer Allora: University of Richmond, Virginia, Massachusetts Institute of Applied science and Guillermo Calzadilla: Escuela de Artes Plasticas, San Juan and Bard Higher
Known for functioning, sculpture, video art, and sound fine art

Jennifer Allora (built-in 20 March 1974) and Guillermo Calzadilla (born x January 1971) are a collaborative duo of visual artists who live and work in San Juan, Puerto Rico. They were the United States Representatives for the 2011 Venice Biennale, the 54th International Art Exhibition, in 2011.[i]

Early on life and teaching [edit]

Jennifer Allora was born in 1974 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[2] In 1996 she received a BA from the University of Richmond in Virginia.[ii] Between 1998-99 she was a swain at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program.[3] In 2003 she attained a Master of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2]

Guillermo Calzadilla was born in 1971 in Havana, Cuba.[ii] In 1996 he received a BFA from Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Diseño de Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico.[2] In 1998 he attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and he attained an MFA from Bard College in 2001.[four]

They began working together after meeting while studying abroad in Florence, Italy in 1995.[five]

Piece of work and themes [edit]

Since the beginning of their collaborative career in 1995, Allora & Calzadilla have worked in a variety of media to produce a body of work spanning sculpture, photography, performance art, sound and video.

Starting in 1999, Land Marker is a series of projects that encompasses moving picture, video, photography and operation pieces related to the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, which, for 60 years, was used by the United States for armed services operations, leading to a civil defiance campaign waged by local residents. The works include Land Marking (1999/2003/2006), Country Marking (Footprints) (2001–02), Returning a Sound (2004), Nether Give-and-take (2005) and Half Mast\Full Mast (2010). Allora & Calzadilla interrogate the economic, cultural, and political markers that differentiate i area of land from another, and the processes of colonization and gentrification that come to define its changing condition. Equally a whole, these works connected performances typical of political activism to artistic traditions like engraving. Land Marking is explained semantically as an instrument for reading marks left on the territory (landmarks) instead of every bit a simple point of spatial orientation (landmark).[6] The spatial investigations in Allora & Calzadilla's piece of work are fabricated in terms of what the artists call "the trace." At once a poetic trope and a set up of cloth operations, the trace links presence and absence, inscription and erasure, preservation and destruction, and advent and disappearance.[7]

Allora & Calzadilla's body of work has long explored the dynamic between music and ability. Some of the pieces that trace this "age-quondam sonic militarism against the contours of its relationship to contemporary civilization and political ideology"[8] are Clamor (2006), Sediments, Sentiments (Figures of Speech) (2007), Wake Up (2007) and Stop, Repair, Fix: Variations on Ode to Joy for a Prepared Piano (2008). The commencement 3 characteristic "massive sculptural installation, live performance, collaboration, and, of course, extensive audio tracks."[8] Stop, Repair, Prepare is a complex hybrid of sculpture, performance and experimental musical do. It consists of an early on 20th century Bechstein piano that has been put up on wheels and 'prepared' past cutting a round hole in the center of the trunk and reversing the pedals, which allows a series of performers to play variations on the Ode to Joy (as transcribed for pianoforte by Franz Liszt) from inside of the instrument. During the performance, the pianist, girdled by the absurd brim of the musical instrument, periodically trudges with it through the performance infinite, dragging its weight as he or she plays.[nine]

Since their participation in dOCUMENTA (13) with the video Raptor'south Rapture, Allora & Calzadilla, have created works that move beyond the purely human. Co-ordinate to critic Emily Eliza Scott, their work is "focused to appoint what we might call the worldly. These artworks illuminate entanglements betwixt the man and the nonhuman as they unfold in time, signaling a dual (re-) thinking of humans equally natural---1 among other species and surroundings---and nature as historical."[10] Following the same thematic interest in cultural artifacts and deep fourth dimension, the artists presented the 2 part exhibition "Intervals" at the Philadelphia Museum of Fine art and The Material Workshop and Museum. There, they employed objects, films, live performances, and sound to invoke the bridge of geologic time and our own place within it.[eleven] The artists presented a trilogy of video works that nowadays modernistic musicians and vocalists engaging with ancient artifacts through sound. Apotome (2013) stars vocalist Tim Storms, who holds the world record for producing the lowest note every recorded—but audible to the human ear with distension. As he wanders among taxidermied animals in subterranean storerooms of Paris'due south National History Museum he produces, according to critic Emily Nathan, "a deep, satanic rumble" which "seems to conductor from his very cadre." These sounds are a subsonic version of a musical score played in 1798 for two elephants brought to Paris as spoils from the Napoleonic Wars, in the first recorded instance of attempted inter-species communication through music.[12]

For the 56th Biennale di Venezia, Allora & Calzadilla presented In the Midst of Things, a choral work with music by composer Gene Coleman based on Haydn'south oratorio The Cosmos (1796–98), whose original libretto drew on descriptions of the origins of the world and humankind from the Book of Psalms, the Book of Genesis and Milton's Paradise Lost (1667). Allora & Calzadilla follow Milton's in medias res tradition for a series of interruptions on Haydn's score. In taking liberties, Allora & Calzadilla are too playing on the translation history of the libretto: originally written in rather awkward English language, it's said to have been improved by the subsequent German translation. Co-ordinate to Dorothy Feaver, "the Voxnova Italia choir's concrete movement through the Arsenale mimics their voices: they shift positions, facing each other, turning away, roaming through the space in low-central cotton wearing apparel, epic merely casual."[thirteen] In the piece, cacophony and melody face i another — just every bit the group of choral interpreters move dorsum and forth in the space.[14] Referring this piece of work, Laura C. Rogers has said the artists "challenge viewers to build meaning by reading a work as literal, metaphorical, evidential, and political, just besides to take function in the piece of work equally an experiential event that heightens 1'southward aesthetic sensibility."[xv]

Exhibitions [edit]

Allora & Calzadilla'southward work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions internationally. Notable exhibitions include All the World'due south Futures, curated by Okwui Enwezor, at the Venice Biennale (2015), Intervals, curated by Carlos Basualdo and Erica F. Boxing, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Fabric Workshop and Museum (2014), the group show Costume Bureau (2014) at Framer Framed in Amsterdam, dOCUMENTA (xiii) (2012), curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. Their work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in venues such as the Museum of Mod Fine art (2009), National Museum of Art, Oslo (2009) [sixteen] Haus der Kunst, Munich (2008),[17] Serpentine Gallery and Whitechapel Fine art Gallery, London (2007),[18] Les Rencontres d'Arles festival, France (2008), Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (2008),[xix] Kunsthalle Zurich (2007),[20] and the Renaissance Society, Chicago (2007).[21] Allora & Calzadilla also participated in the 5th and 7th Gwangju Biennale (2004 and 2008).

2011 Venice Biennale [edit]

On September 8, 2010, the U.s.a. Agency of Educational and Cultural Diplomacy (ECA) announced the selection of Allora & Calzadilla as the American representative at the 2011 Venice Biennale, a first for artists living in Puerto Rico.[22] The proposal for the exhibition was developed between the artists and curator Lisa D. Freiman (Chair, Department of Gimmicky Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, and Manager, 100 Acres: The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park), during the fall and winter of 2009.[23] The exhibition consisted of half dozen new commissions including: Armed Liberty Lying on a Sunbed (2011), Track and Field (2011), Trunk in Flight (Delta) (2011), Body in Flying (American) (2011), choreographed past Rebecca Davis,[24] Algorithm (2011) and Half Mast\Full Mast (2010). In near of the pieces, the artists did away with subtlety in favor of a straight invocation of the imposing specter of American militarism, treating nationalism kickoff and foremost as an artful language that expresses itself through the war machine machine, ritualized bodies, and official architecture. The installations and performances inside the pavilion further the artists' investigations of "bio-power" and engineering, deforming and repurposing bodies and materials in conjunctions that are at once ominous and comical.[25]

Public collections [edit]

Their works are held in a number of public institutions, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York,[26] the Museum of Modern Art, New York,[27] Centre Pompidou, Paris,[28] the Dallas Museum of Fine art, Dallas, TX,[29] the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,[thirty] the Walker Art Center,[31] the Tate Modern, London,[32] [33] the Princeton University Fine art Museum, New Jersey,[34] the Museum Het Domein,[35] the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan,[36] the MUSEION – Museum of Modernistic and Contemporary Art, Bolzano,[37] [38] [39] the Musée d'Fine art Moderne de la Ville de Paris,[40] the Kunstmuseen Krefeld,[41] The Israël Museum, Jerusalem,[42] the *[http://world wide web.frac-aquitaine.net Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain (FRAC), Aquitaine,[43] the Castello de Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli,[44] the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore,[45] Artium. Centro Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Basque Country[46] and the Ellipse Foundation in Alcoitão, Portugal.[47]

Recognition [edit]

In 2008 Allora & Calzadilla were featured in the PBS series Art:21.[48] In 2011 the artists were shortlisted for London's Fourth Plinth commission.[49] They represented the Us in the 2011 Venice Biennale.[1]

Awards & Grants [edit]

  • 2007 Rencontres d'Arles Discovery Honor laureate, France
  • 2006 Hugo Dominate Prize Finalist[50]
  • 2006 Nam June Paik Award Finalist
  • 2004 Gwangju Biennial Prize[51]
  • 2003 Penny McCall Foundation Grant
  • 2002 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant[52]
  • 2000-2001 Cintas Fellowship (Guillermo Calzadilla)[53]

Bibliography [edit]

Solo Exhibition Catalogues and Publications [edit]

  • Freiman, Lisa D, ed. Gloria: Allora & Calzadilla. New York: DelMonico Books and Prestel, 2011.
  • McKee, Yates. Allora & Calzadilla: Vieques Videos 2003-2010. London: Lisson Gallery, 2011.
  • Stange, Raimar. Allora & Calzadilla. Nurnberg: Verlag fur moderne Kunst Nurnberg, 2010.
  • Ruf, Beatrix, ed. Allora & Calzadilla. Zurich: JRP/Ringier, 2009.
  • Allora, Jennifer and Guillermo Calzadilla. Guantanamo Bay Vocal Book. Japan: CCA Kitakyushu, 2009.
  • Klerck Gange, Eva and Hou Hanru. Allora & Calzadilla. Oslo: Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkiyektur og blueprint, 2009
  • Rosenberg, Angela (ed.), Allora & Calzadilla Compass, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2009.
  • Martin, Sylvia. Allora & Calzadilla – A Homo Screaming is Not a Dancing Acquit. How To Appear Invisible. Krefeld: Kunstmuseen Krefeld/Museum Haus Esters, 2009.
  • Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, Allora & Calzadilla & etc., Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2009.
  • Lorz, Julienne. Allora & Calzadilla: Cease, Repair, Prepare. Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2008.
  • Miki, Akiko, et al. Allora & Calzadilla: Country Marking. Paris: Palais de Tokyo, 2006.
  • Hernández Chong-Cuy, Sofia ed. Allora & Calzadilla, Ink, Monterrey and the Americas Lodge, New York, 2005.
  • McKee, Yates. Mutual Sense? Boston: Constitute of Contemporary Fine art, Boston|Institute of Gimmicky Fine art, 2004.

Selected Articles and Reviews [edit]

  • Bishop, Claire. "Delegated Functioning: Outsourcing Actuality." Oct, Leap 2012, 91.
  • Rosenberg, Karen, "Going for the Gilded," Art in America, June–July 2011
  • Yates McKee, "Wake, Vestige, Survival: Sustainability and the Politics of the Trace in Allora and Calzadilla'southward Land Mark," Oct #133, MIT Press, summer 2010.
  • Smith, Roberta. "I Only popped Out to Play Beethoven." New York Times, December 9, 2010.
  • Motta, Carlos. "Allora & Calzadilla", Bomb, no. 109 (Autumn 2009): 65-71
  • McDonough, Tom. "Use What Sinks: Allora & Calzadilla," Fine art in America, January, 2008, 82-86.
  • Smolik, Noemi. "Allora & Calzadilla: Haus der Kunst / Kunstverein," Artforum, October 2008, 397-98.
  • Charlesworth, J.J. "Allora & Calzadilla: Power Plays," Art Review, London, Effect 15, October 2007.
  • Feldman Hannah, Sound Tracks, Artforum, pp. 336–340, May 2007
  • Grifin, Tim. "Remote Possibilities: A Round Tablet Discussion on Land Art's Changing Terrain." Artforum, Summer 2005, 288.
  • Illes, Chrissie, Tirdad Zolghadr, and Ralph Rugoff. "Venice Biennial 2005." Frieze no. 93 (September 2005): 98-101
  • Kastner, Jeffrey. "Two for the Show." Artforum, May 2005, 141.
  • McKee, Yates."Allora & Calzadilla. The monstrous dimension of art," Flash Art, Milan, no. 240, January–February 2005.
  • Obrist, Hans-Ulrich. "m Words: Allora and Calzadilla Talk about Three Places in Vieques." Artforum, March 2005, 204-5.

References [edit]

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  52. ^ Fellows in Chronological Order Cintas Foundation

External links [edit]

  • Allora Calzadilla collection at the State of israel Museum. Retrieved September 2016.
  • Allora & Calzadilla, biography. kurimanzutto.com

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