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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 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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Exhibitions for Jorge Alban:
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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.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:
2007 Young Art From CostaRica, International Development Bank, Washington D.C.
2007 LA Freewaves:Too Much Freedom? Los Angeles, California, EEUU.
2006 Traveling Videobrasil selection curated by Solange Farkas. Centro Fundacion Telefonica, Peru.
2006 V Biennial of Visual Arts from the Central American Istmus, Museo de Arte, El Salvador.
2005 File 2005 Festival Int. de Lenguaje Electrónico, SESI, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2005 15 Festival Int. de Arte Electrónico Videobrasil, SESI, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2005 Bienal Costarricense de Artes Visuales Bienarte 2005, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica.
2005 La240 Muestra de Cine Joven, Centro Costarricense de Producción
Cinematográfica, San José, Costa Rica.
2004 The Mist Making Machine: Critical Approaches to Representation in Art, Museum of Contemporary Art & Design, San Jose, Costa Rica.
2003 First Central American Emerging Artist Salon, Museum of Contemporary Art & Design, San José, Costa Rica.
2002 First Confrontation in Art, National Gallery, San Jose, Costa Rica.
2002 Constructed Photography from the wider caribbean, Noorderlicht Photofestival, Leeuwarden, Holand.
2001 Images of Men: Museum of the Central Bank, San José, Costa Rica.
2001 Bienarte,Costa Rican Art National Biennial: National Art Gallery, San José, Costa Rica.
2000 Central American Biennial: National Gallery, San José, Costa Rica.
2000 EX3: Explore, Explode, Express: Museum of Contemporary Art and
Design MADC, San José, Costa Rica.
1999 The Art of Latin America and the Caribbean at the Threshold of the 21st Century:Unesco Building, Paris, France.
1999 Bienarte,Costa Rican Art National Biennial: Gallery, San José, Costa Rica.
1998 Contemporary Prints from Mexico and Costa Rica: Manuel de la Cruz Gallery, Calderón Guardia Museum, San José, Costa Rica.
1998 Imaginary Frontier: Sophia Wannamaker Gallery, Costa Rican-North
American Cultural Center, San José, Costa Rica.
1997 International Medellin City Biennial: Exhibition Palace, Medellin, Colombia.
1997 Body, Fragment and Memory: National Gallery of Contemporary Art,
San José, Costa Rica.
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