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Allora &#; Calzadilla: Ironing a Camel’s Hump
Allora & Calzadilla, Body in Flight (American), Performance by gymnast David Durante at the U.S. Pavilion, 54th International Art Exhibition. Photo: Andrew Bordwin
The U.S. Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale provides a good argument to look into Puerto Rico-based artists Allora & Calzadilla&#;s proposal and how the mechanisms of political art are incorporated into the market and finally neutralized.
By Carla Acevedo-Yates
Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla are a collaborative artist team based in San Juan. Having worked together for over 15 years, Allora & Calzadilla develop works that reconfigure meaning by questioning the ways we relate to familiar objects, sounds, and gestures, while referencing social, economic, and political themes. They were selected by Lisa Freiman of the Indianapolis Museum to propose a project for the U.S. Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale. A politically correct choice by the U.S. Department of State, their implication in this mega art event raises important questions regarding the current state of political art, representative art events, and artist denominations. An interview for ARTPULSE reveals even more.
Reflecting Puerto Rico&#;s political and cultural double life, Jen
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Solo Exhibition Catalogues and Monographs
Allora & Calzadilla: Specters of Noon. Houston and New Haven: The Menil Collection and Yale University Press,
Allora, Jennifer and Guillermo Calzadilla. A Modest Proposal: Puerto Rico’s Crucible. Barcelona: Fundació Antoni Tàpies,
Allora, Jennifer and Guillermo Calzadilla. Allora & Calzadilla. Barcelona: Fundació Antoni Tàpies,
Hanru, Hou and Anne Palopoli. Allora & Calzadila: Blackout. Roma: Lazy Dog Press,
Allora, Jennifer and Guillermo Calzadilla. Allora & Calzadilla: Puerto Rican Light: (Cueva Vientos), New York: Dia Art Foundation,
Gloria: Allora & Calzadilla. New York: DelMonico Books and Prestel,
Allora, Jennifer and Yates McKee. Allora & Calzadilla: Vieques Videos London: Lisson Gallery,
Allora & Calzadilla. Zurich: JRP/Ringier,
Martin, Sylvia, Carsten Ruhl, and Raimar Stange. Allora & Calzadilla. Krefeld: Kunstmuseen Krefeld; Nürnberg: Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg,
Allora & Calzadilla & Et Cetera. Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Books,
Rosenberg, Angela. Allora & Calzadilla: COMPASS. Berlin: Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin,
Lorz, Julienne. Allora & Calzadilla: Stop, Repair, Prepare. Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,
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