Armando Andrade Tudela
10 Mar - 06 Jun 2010
ARMANDO ANDRADE TUDELA
10/03/2010 - 06/06/2010
Capella MACBA
"Behind each addict there is a story to be told." That is the slogan of the Synanon Foundation, created in 1958 by Chuck Dederich, a former member of Alcoholics Anonymous, in Santa Monica (California). This is a pioneering institution in the treatment of addiction. A residence without doctors devoted to self-help. The name is a garbled mixture of 'symposium' and 'seminar', a project in tune with the utopian spirit that inspired a good part of the 1960s and which the Peruvian artist living in Berlin Armando Andrade Tudela (Lima, 1975) uses as a starting point for his new film.
The film will be shown at Capella MACBA with another, which has never been seen before either, about a strange forest of stones in Marcahuasi (Peru), which is the centre of the hippie movement in that country, and an unusual catalogue of shapes that make up a weird canon of natural sculpture. The two films are shown in an architectural space designed by the artist himself, which can be read as another work, in sculpture format. Moreover, a fourth work will be shown, this time an old one, with the title Casas alteradas (Altered Houses, 2006).
Andrade Tudela uses sculpture, photography and drawing. His work is an analytical, but in no way humourless, approach to the different 'drifts' of the formal languages and semantics of Modernity. On this occasion he is inaugurating a series of monographic exhibitions which will have Capella MACBA as their setting, a complex space marked beforehand by the adaptation of a sacred building as a warehouse, first of all, and now as an exhibition room. That history makes the place difficult to use without taking its specific features into account, but means that it is a fertile ground for installing works specially designed to be seen in this context.
The choice of Andrade Tudela to inaugurate this new series of exhibitions is not a chance one. His work delves into the life of forms, into the way in which the language of Modernity, stripped of forms and meanings, has undergone countless transformations and reappears time and again in the most unusual contexts. Singular spaces like workshops and rooms in a drug addiction rehabilitation centre; a commune, a leftover from the secular utopia of the sixties like Synanon where the Bauhaus furniture lives side by side with scenery reminiscent of the Tyrol, all the result of the continuous moves made owing to the social work the institution does to raise funds.
Curator: Chus Martínez
Organisation and production: Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA)
10/03/2010 - 06/06/2010
Capella MACBA
"Behind each addict there is a story to be told." That is the slogan of the Synanon Foundation, created in 1958 by Chuck Dederich, a former member of Alcoholics Anonymous, in Santa Monica (California). This is a pioneering institution in the treatment of addiction. A residence without doctors devoted to self-help. The name is a garbled mixture of 'symposium' and 'seminar', a project in tune with the utopian spirit that inspired a good part of the 1960s and which the Peruvian artist living in Berlin Armando Andrade Tudela (Lima, 1975) uses as a starting point for his new film.
The film will be shown at Capella MACBA with another, which has never been seen before either, about a strange forest of stones in Marcahuasi (Peru), which is the centre of the hippie movement in that country, and an unusual catalogue of shapes that make up a weird canon of natural sculpture. The two films are shown in an architectural space designed by the artist himself, which can be read as another work, in sculpture format. Moreover, a fourth work will be shown, this time an old one, with the title Casas alteradas (Altered Houses, 2006).
Andrade Tudela uses sculpture, photography and drawing. His work is an analytical, but in no way humourless, approach to the different 'drifts' of the formal languages and semantics of Modernity. On this occasion he is inaugurating a series of monographic exhibitions which will have Capella MACBA as their setting, a complex space marked beforehand by the adaptation of a sacred building as a warehouse, first of all, and now as an exhibition room. That history makes the place difficult to use without taking its specific features into account, but means that it is a fertile ground for installing works specially designed to be seen in this context.
The choice of Andrade Tudela to inaugurate this new series of exhibitions is not a chance one. His work delves into the life of forms, into the way in which the language of Modernity, stripped of forms and meanings, has undergone countless transformations and reappears time and again in the most unusual contexts. Singular spaces like workshops and rooms in a drug addiction rehabilitation centre; a commune, a leftover from the secular utopia of the sixties like Synanon where the Bauhaus furniture lives side by side with scenery reminiscent of the Tyrol, all the result of the continuous moves made owing to the social work the institution does to raise funds.
Curator: Chus Martínez
Organisation and production: Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA)