Artist Information:
Jorge Alban
San José,
Costa Rica
Member Since: Mar 2002
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Artist Statement:
My current work elaborates on
spatial/textual/historical
tensions that reveal
contradictions between the
represented and its
representation, between the
small personal anecdote and
the grand historical
narrative. My photography
thus incarnates the failure of
male socialization and the
ways in which Latin America
still conceives and applies
power.
Between 1995-1998 I intervened
crashed car pieces with
photographic self-portraits
holding my little girl. It was
an attempt to challenge the
archetypes at work in
paintings like the Virgin with
Child of Il Duccio de
Buoninsegna, painted around
the year 1300 A.C. , so
abundant in catholic imagery.
The trashed car junk provided
a most appropriatte showcase
for masculine destructive
powers, a reference to the
Pantocratos "punishing god"
(as oppossed to the all
forgiving virgin Mary).
Several of these pieces,
including Toyota Corolla 92
(1996 and Taxi Year Unknown
(1997), were exhibited at
Body, Fragment Memory. In the
catalog of this show,
published by the Museum of
Costa Rican Art in 1997.
The critic Vivianne Loria
(current Lápiz Magazine
collaborator) stated in that
shows catalog: "In the Works
by Jorge Albán, the image is
diffused, hidden and enhanced
as fragments on a metallic
support, fragmented on it ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2005 Houses of Memory, Mexican
Cultural Center, Costa Rica.
1997 Concentric Times, Gallery
of La Nación, San José, Costa
Rica.
1995 Confluences, Gallery of
the Calderón Guardia Museum,
San José, C.R.
1993 Arqueticos, Galería of
the Melico Salazar Theatre,
San José, Costa Rica.
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Artist Galleries:
Jacob Karpio Gallery, San
Jose, Costa Rica.
Phone: (506) 2577963
jacobkarpio@racsa.co.cr...
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Artist Reviews:
"This war on words is also
waged in many of the
photographic works of Jorge
Albán, who uses
intertextuality as one of the
main resources of construction
and meaning. For instance, in
the series titled Las
Palabras, the word Amoréxico
is superposed on the pages of
a diary...
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Collections:
Museum of Costa Rican Art, San
José, Costa Rica
La Nación, most respected
Costarican Newspaper, Tibás,
Costa Rica.
Zurcher Arquitects, San José,
Costa Rica.
Jaime Tishler Collection, San
Jose, Costa Rica.
Noorderlicht Photofestival,
Groningen, The Netherlands.
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Jorge Alban's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Jorge Alban's Portfolio. Browse Alban's body of work: My current work elaborates on spatial/textual/historical tensions that reveal contradictions between the represented and its representation, between the small personal anecdote and the grand historical narrative. My photography thus incarnates the failure of male socialization and the ways in which Latin America still conceives and applies power.
Between 1995-1998 I intervened crashed car pieces with photographic self-portraits holding my little girl. It was an attempt to challenge the archetypes at work in paintings like the Virgin with Child of Il Duccio de Buoninsegna, painted around the year 1300 A.C. , so abundant in catholic imagery.
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