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Artist: Pablo Helguera   
Exhibition: silence
Date: January 31 2007 - February 24 2007
Curator: Galen Joseph-Hunter and Dylan J. Gauthier
Bio:
Pablo Helguera (* Mexico City, 1971) is a visual artist living and working in New York. His work usually acquires unusual formats, ranging from experimental symposiums, phonograph recordings, exhibition acoustiguides, or nomadic museums. Helguera usually departs from historic research or from interests surrounding the very nature of art, the viewer's perception of it, and the role that art making and culture in general plays in politics and society. He often combines literary and musical strategies, as well as pedagogy and education theory. Helguera has presented his work on an individual level at the Museum of Modern Art of New York (performance: Parallel Lives, 2003) and at the Royal College of Art in London ( Los del Este, 2004, Monique Beudert Curatorial Program). He has also shown his work in various biennials such as the 8th Havana Biennial, San Juan's Poly-graphic Triennial (2004) and PERFORMA 05, New York's first performance art biennial. He has exhibited at the Museo del Barrio in New York, an institution that holds some of his primary works in its permanent collection. He has also exhibited at the Shedhalle in Zurich, PS1 in New York, MCA Chicago, IFA Bonn, Metropolitan Museum in Tokio, MALBA in Buenos Aires, Ex-Teresa in Mexico City, Sculpture Center, Bronx Museum,as well as in Zagreb, Berlin, Athens, Ljubljana, São Paulo, Bogotá,and Chicago. His work has been reviewed by the New York Times, Art in America, Artforum, Tema Celeste and Art Nexus. As cultural promotor and educator, Helguera worked for 15 years in US museums, most recently being head of Public Programs at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1998-2005). As part of his museum career, he organized nearly 500 public programs. He has been the co-director of the International Forum of Contemporary Art experts in ARCO, Madrid (2003-05), and was director of the 5th SITAC in Mexico City in 2005 (Symposium of Contemporary Art Theory). He has also been juror of the biennials of Guatemala, Costa Rica, and the National Contemporary Art Competition of San Juan. He is the author of the books "Endingness" (2005) and "The Pablo Helguera Manual of Contemporary Art Style" (2006). Pablo Helguera is represented by Enrique Guerrero Gallery in Mexico City.

 

 

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