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Mauro Cerqueira. Cismadores. Photo: courtesy MARCO / Marta Fernández
Mauro Cerqueira. Cismadores. Photo: courtesy MARCO / Marta Fernández
Mauro Cerqueira. Cismadores. Photo: courtesy MARCO / Marta Fernández
Mauro Cerqueira. Cismadores. Photo: courtesy MARCO / Marta Fernández
Mauro Cerqueira. Cismadores. Photo: courtesy MARCO / Marta Fernández
Mauro Cerqueira. Cismadores. Photo: courtesy MARCO / Marta Fernández
Mauro Cerqueira. Cismadores. Photo: courtesy MARCO / Marta Fernández
Mauro Cerqueira. Cismadores. Photo: courtesy MARCO / Marta Fernández
Mauro Cerqueira. Cismadores. Photo: courtesy MARCO / Marta Fernández
Mauro Cerqueira. Cismadores. Photo: courtesy MARCO / Marta Fernández
Mauro Cerqueira. Cismadores. Photo: courtesy MARCO / Marta Fernández
Mauro Cerqueira. Cismadores. Photo: courtesy MARCO / Marta Fernández

MAURO CERQUEIRA. Cismadores

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Dates: 
10 April 2015 - 14 June 2015
Place: 
Anexo [main entrance]
Hours: 
Mondays to Saturdays (including bank holidays) from 11am to 2:30pm and from 5pm to 9pm / Sundays from 11am to 2:30pm
Production: 
MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo
Curator: 
Ángel Calvo Ulloa

On the opening day, Friday 10 April at 7.30 pm, an open meet-and-greet with the audience will be led by the artist, Mauro Cerqueira, and the curator, Ángel Calvo Ulloa, at the conference room.

INTERTEXTUAL


Programming and calendar

Starting January 2015, the space formerly occupied by the bookstore and gift shop on the main entrance of MARCO will become a project room, in the spirit of the Espazo Anexo located on the pedestrian square at the back of the building from 2004 to 2011. Faithful to the MARCO trademark programming style, this new line highlights MARCO's self-produced projects, both regarding site-specific works and cycles of exhibitions in which a single curator organises a year long programme of exhibitions.

Intertextual takes a selection of artists belonging to the same generation who represent the artistic reality of recent years, both on the national and the international scale, and that discover an ideal field of work in these interconnected influences. The proposal emerges out of the need to create spaces in which younger artists can shape their projects and where their work can be evaluated starting from the recreation and consolidation of a space like the Annex, which provides a perfect location for making the works as visible as possible, both because of its size and characteristics, and the constant flow of visitors walking by it.

Intertextual programme opened on the 16th of January with the installation 249 litros by Carlos Maciá. Mauro Cerqueira’s exhibition will be followed by other specific projects throughout 2015 by Juan López, June Crespo and Fernando García.

JUAN LÓPEZ (Cantabria, Spain, 1979)
26 June – 23 August 2015

JUNE CRESPO (Bilbao, Spain, 1982)
4 September – 1 November 2015

FERNANDO GARCÍA (Madrid, Spain, 1975)
13 November 2015 – 24 January 2016

Summary


The work of Mauro Cerqueira (b. Guimarães, 1982) is situated at the point where the traditional and the accidental converge. Remains which come to life in his hands become a warning sign which informs us of the process of dismantling the city of Porto. Dangerously balanced assemblages, just like their surroundings, are at risk of collapsing at any time. 

Cerqueira's interventions reproduce hastily abandonned spaces — suddenly left behind — in which everyday life becomes and intense protagonist which ends up envoloping the viewer.

Cismadores arises from accumulated experiences on the street, from situations with such realism that they are hard to believe, individuals living a life in constant loop whose existence is based on the search for alcohol, tobacco or heroin or accepting labour exploitation as unavoidable.

As in other previous works, the result is an installation in which video is blended into the remains of a sinking urban environment. Tables recreate the terraces where the conflict takes place on a daily basis; bottles and other objects make life possible in that maze. Recordings made on the street reproduce apparently empty conversations, in which any gossip suffices to give rise to heated debate and anger among individuals sentenced to reencounter one another.

Ter que falar, the solo exhibition exhibited in 2013 at Galería Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid, or Dar o braço, receber a mão, the installation made on the occassion of the show 12 Contemporâneos – Estados Presentes, Museu Serralves, 2014, are two clear points of departure for this project in which issues like alcohol, the black market and dire situations come together in a purely plastic game, which give feed back to urban stories that take place, everyday, beyond the boundaries of the museum.

Artists

Mauro Cerqueira


Mauro Cerqueira
(Guimarães, 1982) vive y trabaja en Oporto, Portugal. Among his latest exhibtion are: Gatunar, Galería Murias Centeno, Lisbon, 2014; Disparity and Demand, La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec, Paris, 2014; 12 Contemporâneos: Estados Presentes, Museu Serralves, Porto, 2014; Ter que falar, Galería Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid, 2013; VI Bienal de Jafre, Jafre, 2013; Cobra d’água, Galeria Graça Brandão, Lisbon, 2013; Interpunction #4, Galerie Tatjana Pieters, Ghent, 2013, Brutalidade Jardim, Galería Marília Razuk, São Paulo, 2013 or Cidade Crua, Piano Nobile, Geneva, 2013. Together with André Sousa, Cerqueira runs the space Uma certa falta de coerência in the city of Porto and in 2013 he enjoyed a scholarship granted by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation within the residencies program developed at Captiva Island, Florida.

http://maurocerqueira.blogspot.pt

Curator

Ángel Calvo Ulloa


Ángel Calvo Ulloa
(Lalín, Pontevedra, 1984) lives and works in Madrid and Santiago de Compostela.

As a curator he has developed the public actions project entitled  Un disparo de advertencia (Lalín, Pontevedra, 2011); the show Natureza! Estás soa? by Álvaro Negro (PALEXCO, Corunna, 2011); the group show Welcome to my loft (Centro Torrente Ballester, Ferrol, 2012); Wily Forza Ingobernable (FAC, Santiago de Compostela, 2013); Sssh! del silencio un lenguaje (Galería Nuble, Santander, 2013); and the project Diálogos Improbables (Espazo NonLugar, Lalín, 2012-13). In 2014 and 2015 he curated Crise de Identidade (Fundación Granell, Santiago de Compostela); En el coche de San Fernando (SALÓN, Madrid); Sobre el muro (Galería L21, Madrid) within the programme entitled Jugada a 3 Bandas; Ende der party (Tokonoma Apartment, Kasel); C O M E R C U L E B R A (1er Escalón, Murcia); Fugir para lado algum within the programme Expediçao (Maus Hábitos, Oporto) and Del rombo al hexágono hay dos líneas, together with Tania Pardo (Galería Rosa Santos, Valencia). He is currently developing INTERTEXTUAL, an exhibition programme for the MARCO (Vigo) and together with Alfredo Aracil, he is working on Tener que sentir, with Los Bragales collection, for Antiguo Instituto Jovellanos (Gijón). Calvo has been granted within the Inéditos Program 2014, for organising the exhibition Aprender a caer in La Casa Encendida, Madrid, and also within the visual arts call Can Felipa, Barcelona, to develop the proposal Incluso un paisaje tranquilo… He has taken part in virtual projects like They've left us alone for The Naked, The Hague (2014) or Numismática con río Miño al fondo with Fermín Jiménez Landa for Curatorial Clube (2014). Ángel Calvo Ulloa is a member of the OsTres group currently working on the exhibition programme of Espacio Miramemira in Santiago de Compostela.

www.angelcalvoulloa.com