Jorge Tacla: Sign of Abandonment

by Candace Moeller (Editor), Paula Barría (Editor)

Overview

"His paintings register the upheavals big and small that all cities and cultures are both enduring and sliding toward, unable to halt the passage of time and history." John Yau Includes texts by: John Yau; Francesca Pietropaolo; Raúl Zamudio Taylor; Richard Vine; Dan Cameron; Donald Kuspit; Christian Viveros-Fauné; Florencia San Martín

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789569843457
Publisher:	Ediciones metales pesados
Publication date:	10/18/2017
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	168
File size:	10 MB

About the Author

Tacla studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes, Universidad de Chile in Santiago and moved to New York in 1981. Since then, Tacla's paintings have been exhibited in museums, biennials and galleries throughout the world. Recent notable exhibitions include Upheaval at Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA, 2016; Hidden Identities: Paintings and Drawings by Jorge Tacla at the Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C., 2015-2016; Jorge Tacla: Hidden Identities at Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York, NY, 2015; Identidades Ocultas at the Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, Santiago, Chile, 2014; Tales of Two Cities: New York & Beijing at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT, 2014; Emergency Pavilion at the 55th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy, 2013; Doble Vida at Galeria Lucía de la Puente, Lima, Peru, 2013; Dublin Contemporary, Dublin, Ireland, 2011; Sharjah Biennial 10, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2011; Altered Remains at Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York, NY, 2011; and the 798 Biennial, Beijing, China, 2009. He has also completed several permanent installations including a mixed-media mural at the Museo de la Memoria y Derechos Humanos in Santiago, Chile. Throughout his career, Tacla has been awarded numerous Grants and Fellowships. Notable awards include the New York Foundation for the Arts (1987, 1991); the Eco Art Award, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1992); and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1988), among others. In 2013 he completed a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Bellagio, Italy. Tacla lives and works in New York City and Santiago, Chile.