kurimanzutto - Minerva Cuevas at Vanabbemuseum

Minerva Cuevas at Vanabbemuseum | The Netherlands

01-22-08

Trio exhibition
Minerva Cuevas | Aernout Mik | Mladen Stilinović

opening january 26, 3 - 7 p.m.

january 26 - may 4, 2008
Vanabbemuseum - Eindhoven

On 26 January 2008 the trio exhibition Minerva Cuevas (Mexico, 1975), Aernout Mik (Amsterdam, 1962) and Mladen Stilinovic (Zagreb, 1947) opens in the Van Abbemuseum. The trio consists of three solo exhibitions and shows artistic positions that the Van Abbemuseum considers relevant today. This trio sets each in dialogue with another, providing points of comparison and difference. Each of the artists in this presentation relate to the artistic traditions of realism, drawing on small everyday realities and histories to tell stories about economy, perception and survival.

The solo exhibition shows an expanded series of new works including the projects Phenomena (2007), Social Entomology (2007) and Insect Concert (2007). Minerva Cuevas uses social issues and activism as the effect the virtual space of the Internet, museums or the urban sphere. Her exhibitions are not solely presentations of work but active environments in which images and artefacts are appropriated

and reconfigured and the context of their reception is questioned. In this exhibition, Cuevas plays out her interest in the civilisational properties of science and the museum, exploring the concepts of 'evolution' and the opposition between notions of the 'wild' and the 'civilized'.

more information: www.vanabbemuseum.nl/engels/tentoonstellingen/triocms_e.htm


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