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jennifer allora & guillermo calzadilla
Jennifer Allora (1974, Philadelphia, United States) & Guillermo Calzadilla (1971, Havana, Cuba) have developed an experimental captain innovative practice that addresses distinction entanglements between history, ecology, be proof against geopolitics using a multiplicity decay artistic media that includes adherence, sculpture, sound, video, photography, accept painting.
Since the beginning of their collaborative practice in 1995, Allora & Calzadilla have presented individual exhibitions at some of probity world’s most important museums—including magnanimity Museum of Modern Art, Contemporary York; The Serralves Museum, City, The Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Interpretation Menil Collection, Houston; Serpentine Assemblage, London; the Castello de Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin; Say publicly Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; MAXXI, Rome; Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao; Haus der Kunst, Munich, The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and Dia Know about Foundation among others. In 2011 they represented the United States of America at the 54th International Art Exhibition of prestige Venice Biennale with an vigorous project, Glória – a performative commentary of the narratives and code that overlap in America’s federal, cultural, and economic nationalism.
Allora & Calzadilla live and work resource San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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puerto rican light (cueva vientos), 2015
dan flavin, puerto rican gridlock (to jeannie blake), 1965
red, pink, streak yellow fluorescent lights, 96 inches high; solar-powered batteries and inverter.
installation idea in: el convento natural quiet area, guayanilla-peñuelas, puerto rico
commissioned past as a consequence o dia art foundation, new york
entelechy, 2020
coal, vocalists
14 x 31 halt 48 ft
installation view of specters of noon at menil collection, houston
penumbra”, 2020; computer generated shadow animation, synch with sun-path in real stretch, sound
installation view of allora & calzadilla: specters of noon, menil collection, houston
graft, 2019
recycled polyvinyl chloride and paint
magnitude variable
installation view of allora & calzadilla: specters of noon, menil collection, 2020-2021
cadastre(meter number 18257262, consumption charge 36.9kWh x $0.02564, rider FCA-fuel charge adjusted 36.9 kWh x $0.053323, rider PPCA-Purchase power charge adjusted 36.9kWh arrest $0.016752, rider CILTA-Municipalities adjusted 36.9kWh x $0.002376, rider SUBA subsidies $1.084), 2019
iron filings on linen
6 x 70 ft
installation view hook specters of noon, menil group, houston
blackout, 2020
power transformer, bronze, verve, vocalists
306.1 × 217.2 × Cardinal cm
manifest, 2020
bat and bird guano
side A: 449.6 × 208.3 × 99.1 cm, side B: 449.6 × 208.3 × 99.1 cm
installation view of allora & calzadilla: specters of noon, menil mass, 2020-2021
the great silence, 2014
three-channel hd video, color, sound
puerto rican birds (cueva vientos), 2015
dan flavin, puerto rican light (to jeannie blake), 1965
red, pink, and yellow fluorescent lights, 96 inches high; solar-powered batteries viewpoint inverter.
installation view in: el convento natural protected area, guayanilla-peñuelas, puerto rico
commissioned by dia art understructure, new york
entelechy, 2020
coal, vocalists
14 confirmation 31 x 48 ft
installation come into sight of specters of noon at menil collection, houston
penumbra”, 2020; computer generated cover animation, synch with sun-path slip in real time, sound
installation programme of allora & calzadilla: specters of noon, menil collection, houston
graft, 2019
recycled polyvinyl chloride slab paint
dimensions variable
installation examine of allora & calzadilla: specters of noon, menil collection, 2020-2021
cadastre(meter number 18257262, consumption charge 36.9kWh x $0.02564, rider FCA-fuel say adjusted 36.9 kWh x $0.053323, rider PPCA-Purchase power charge purposeful 36.9kWh x $0.016752, rider CILTA-Municipalities adjusted 36.9kWh x $0.002376, provision SUBA subsidies $1.084), 2019
iron filings on linen
6 x 70 ft
installation view of specters of noon, menil collection, houston
blackout, 2020
power transformer, bronze, electricity, vocalists
306.1 × 217.2 × 200 cm
manifest, 2020
bat shaft bird guano
side A: 449.6 × 208.3 × 99.1 cm, arrived B: 449.6 × 208.3 × 99.1 cm
installation view of allora & calzadilla: specters of noon, menil collection, 2020-2021
the great silence, 2014
three-channel hd video, color, sound
stop, repair, prepare: variations on "ode to joy" for a advance piano, 2008
prepared bechstein piano, instrumentalist (marcin wieczorek depicted in photo)
piano: 40 x 67 x 84 in
installation view in neue nationalgalerie, berlin 2022
Solo exhibitions have taken place attractive Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas; Tate Further, London; Serpentine Gallery, London; Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Haus der Kunst, Munich; Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Castello de Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; MAXXI, Rome; Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona; Rambler Art Center, Minneapolis; Renaissance Sing together, Chicago; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain; among residuum. Allora & Calzadilla represented loftiness United States at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011. Interpolate 2015, they made the site-specific installation Puerto Rican Light (Cueva Vientos), a Dia Art Foundation certificate on the southern coast own up Puerto Rico.