Tania Bruguera
Estadística / Statistic, 1996
Width: 70cm
Height: 110cm
Medium: Sculpture - Human hair, cloth on cardboard
EXHIBITIONS:
1998 La Dirección de la Mirada (The Direction of the Gaze), Stadhaus Zurich, Switzerland; 1999 Musée des Beaux Arts, La Chaux-des-Fonds, Switzerland.2007 (May 29-Sep 9) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2007 (Oct 7-Dec 31) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
2009 (Oct 3-Jan 4) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Jordan Schnitzer Museum, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
2010 (Oct 15-Jan 10) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
2010 (Feb-Apr 4) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
2010 (Jun 27-Sep 19) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
REFERENCES:
Ines Anselmi and Eugenio Valdés Figueroa, La Dirección de la Mirada (New York: Springer, 1999), p. 33, illus. Ariel Ribeaux, “Work in progress: Tania Bruguera, lo que nos corresponde” (Work In Progress: Tania Bruguera, What Belongs To Us), Heterogénesis (Switzerland) VIII: 28 (June 1999), pp. 50-55. Octavio Zayas, “Cuba, los Mapas del Deseo” (Cuba; The Maps of Desire), Catalogue, Ed. Folio (Vienna, Austria: Kunsthalle Wien, 1999), pp. 155-157. Yolanda Wood, “La aventura del silencio en Tania Bruguera” (The Adventure of Silence in Tania Bruguera), ArteCubano 3 (2000), Havana, pp. 34-37, illus. Corina Matamoros, Guía de Arte Cubano (A Guide to Cuban Art), (Havana, Cuba: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, 2001), p. 94, illus. Abelardo Mena Chicuri, Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection (University of Florida Press, 2007).
El peso de la culpa (Sin título #3) / The Weight of Guilt (Untitled #3), 1998
Width: 63.5cm
Height: 71.1cm
Medium: Photography - Vintage color print
EXHIBITIONS:
1997 Seventh Havana Biennial.2007 (May 29-Sep 9) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2007 (Oct 7-Dec 31) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
2009 (Oct 3-Jan 4) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Jordan Schnitzer Museum, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
2010 (Oct 15-Jan 10) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
2010 (Feb-Apr 4) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
2010 (Jun 27-Sep 19) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
REFERENCES:
Alejandra Pozo, “Cuerpos de artistas en plena acción” (Bodies of Artists in Action), ArtNexus 26 (Oct-Dec, 1997), pp. 77-79, illus. Ariel Ribeaux, “Work in progress: Tania Bruguera, lo que nos corresponde” (Work In Progress: Tania Bruguera, What Belongs To Us), Heterogénesis (Switzerland) VIII: 28 (June 1999), pp. 50-55. Yolanda Wood, “La aventura del silencio en Tania Bruguera” (The Adventure of Silence in Tania Bruguera), ArteCubano 3/2000, Havana, p. 36. Holly Block, ed., Art Cuba: The New Generation (Harry N. Abrams, 2001), p. 52. Abelardo Mena Chicuri, Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection (University of Florida Press, 2007).
El cuerpo del silencio (Sin título #2) / The Body of Silence (Untitled #2), 1998
Width: 63.5cm
Height: 71.1cm
Medium: Photography - Vintage color print
EXHIBITIONS:
1999 El jardín de los senderos que se bifurcan / The Garden of Forking Paths, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark; Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark; Edsvik Konst & Kultur, Sollentuna, Sweden; Helsinki City Museum, Helsinki, Finland.2007 (May 29-Sep 9) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2007 (Oct 7-Dec 31) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
2009 (Oct 3-Jan 4) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Jordan Schnitzer Museum, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
2010 (Oct 15-Jan 10) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
2010 (Feb-Apr 4) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
2010 (Jun 27-Sep 19) Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
REFERENCES:
Eurídice Arratia, “Cityscape Havana,” Flash Art 32:24 (Jan-Feb 1999), illus. Catalogue, The Garden of Forking Paths (Sweden: Ed. Tabapress, 1999). Ariel Ribeaux, “Work in progress: Tania Bruguera, lo que nos corresponde” (Work In Progress: Tania Bruguera, What Belongs To Us), Heterogénesis (Switzerland) VIII: 28 (June 1999), pp. 50-55. Yolanda Wood, “La aventura del silencio en Tania Bruguera” (The Adventure of Silence in Tania Bruguera), ArteCubano 3/2000, Havana, pp. 4-37. Holly Block, ed., Art Cuba: The New Generation (Harry N. Abrams, 2001), p. 53. Abelardo Mena Chicuri, Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection (University of Florida Press, 2007).
About Tania Bruguera
b. 1968, resides in Cuba and the United States
Given that Bruguera is internationally renowned as one of the most active practitioners of performance art, it’s no coincidence that her art was originally an homage to the memory of Ana Mendieta. In the early 1990s, while many artists . . .
Joining the collection, a striking, unsettling canvas from Roberto Fabelo’s recent show at Galería Habana