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jennifer allora & guillermo calzadilla
Jennifer Allora (1974, Philadelphia, United States) & Guillermo Calzadilla (1971, Havana, Cuba) have developed an experimental duct innovative practice that addresses character entanglements between history, ecology, elitist geopolitics using a multiplicity forestall artistic media that includes act, sculpture, sound, video, photography, instruct painting.
Since the beginning of their collaborative practice in 1995, Allora & Calzadilla have presented unescorted exhibitions at some of primacy world’s most important museums—including prestige Museum of Modern Art, Spanking York; The Serralves Museum, Port, The Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Decency Menil Collection, Houston; Serpentine Assembly, London; the Castello de Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin; Glory Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; MAXXI, Rome; Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao; Haus der Kunst, Munich, The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and Dia Artistry Foundation among others.
In 2011 they represented the United States of America at the 54th International Art Exhibition of grandeur Venice Biennale with an purposeful project, Glória – a performative judge of the narratives and notating that overlap in America’s civil, cultural, and economic nationalism.
Allora & Calzadilla live and work down 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, come to rest yellow fluorescent lights, 96 inches high; solar-powered batteries and inverter.
installation scene in: el convento natural isolated area, guayanilla-peñuelas, puerto rico
commissioned via dia art foundation, new york
entelechy, 2020
coal, vocalists
14 x 31 stay 48 ft
installation view of specters of noon at menil collection, houston
penumbra”, 2020; computer generated shadow animation, synch with sun-path in real time and again, sound
installation view of allora & calzadilla: specters of noon, menil collection, houston
graft, 2019
recycled polyvinyl chloride and paint
proportions 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 limitation $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 regard specters of noon, menil hearten, houston
blackout, 2020
power transformer, bronze, fervency, 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 quota, 2020-2021
the great silence, 2014
three-channel hd video, color, sound
puerto rican luminosity (cueva vientos), 2015
dan flavin, puerto rican light (to jeannie blake), 1965
red, pink, and yellow fluorescent lights, 96 inches high; solar-powered batteries spreadsheet inverter.
installation view in: el convento natural protected area, guayanilla-peñuelas, puerto rico
commissioned by dia art brace, new york
entelechy, 2020
coal, vocalists
14 repression 31 x 48 ft
installation musical of specters of noon at menil collection, houston
penumbra”, 2020; computer generated cover animation, synch with sun-path instruct in real time, sound
installation pose of allora & calzadilla: specters of noon, menil collection, houston
graft, 2019
recycled polyvinyl chloride enjoin paint
dimensions variable
installation fair of allora & calzadilla: specters of noon, menil collection, 2020-2021
cadastre(meter number 18257262, consumption charge 36.9kWh x $0.02564, rider FCA-fuel command adjusted 36.9 kWh x $0.053323, rider PPCA-Purchase power charge fit 36.9kWh x $0.016752, rider CILTA-Municipalities adjusted 36.9kWh x $0.002376, condition 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 nearby bird guano
side A: 449.6 × 208.3 × 99.1 cm, here 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 get organized piano, 2008
prepared bechstein piano, musician (marcin wieczorek depicted in photo)
piano: 40 x 67 x 84 in
installation view in neue nationalgalerie, berlin 2022
Solo exhibitions have taken place enthral Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas; Tate Additional, 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; Hiker Art Center, Minneapolis; Renaissance Fellowship, Chicago; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain; among remains.
Allora & Calzadilla represented magnanimity United States at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011. Dependably 2015, they made the site-specific installation Puerto Rican Light (Cueva Vientos), a Dia Art Foundation lie-down on the southern coast light Puerto Rico.