painting of all excuses

Raúl Cordero & Michel Pérez “El Pollo”
PAINTING OF ALL EXCUSES
CentralTrak Gallery. Dallas, Texas.
January 21st – March 2nd, 2013
CentralTrak, The University of Texas at Dallas Artists Residency, provides space for eight artists to live, work and exhibit, and serves as a community center for broad intellectual
discourse around the arts. While the Residency promotes artistic experimentation through its support of production, the companion Gallery encourages critical engagement with
the local urban context through its exhibitions and related programs. It is located at 800 Exposition Ave. Dallas, TX 75226. U.S.A. http://centraltrak.net
PAINTING OF ALL EXCUSES
These paintings are a new exploration of how the
changes of chromatic tonalities can generate
new images, or stories, or content ...
El proceso que realizo es
similar al de un pintor
realista, o de un arqueologo,
o un decorador de platos de
Estas pinturas son una nueva
cocina.
exploración sobre como los cambios
de tonalidades cromáticas pueden
My process is similar to that of a
generar nuevas imagenes,
realist painter or an archeologist,
o historias, o contenidos...
or a food decorator.
RAÚL CORDERO
MICHEL PÉREZ “EL POLLO”
INSTALLATION VIEW OF ‘PAINTING OF ALL EXCUSES”, AT CENTRALTRACK, DALLAS. January 21st / March 2nd, 2013.
INSTALLATION VIEW OF ‘PAINTING OF ALL EXCUSES”, AT CENTRALTRACK, DALLAS. January 21st / March 2nd, 2013.
INSTALLATION VIEW OF ‘PAINTING OF ALL EXCUSES”, AT CENTRALTRACK, DALLAS. January 21st / March 2nd, 2013.
INSTALLATION VIEW OF ‘PAINTING OF ALL EXCUSES”, AT CENTRALTRACK, DALLAS. January 21st / March 2nd, 2013.
INSTALLATION VIEW OF ‘PAINTING OF ALL EXCUSES”, AT CENTRALTRACK, DALLAS. January 21st / March 2nd, 2013.
RAÚL CORDERO
FR I
2013. Oil on canvas
230 x 190 cm
Text on the painting:
Once, I made a very ugly painting dedicated to the
memory of my late uncle Fermín Rubiales.
It was so ugly that no one wanted to spend even a
second looking at it. Then my art dealer decided that
he was going to show it at an important museum and
donate it to their collection (although we always say
they bought it).
Now everybody wants to commission a similar version
of FR. They seem to be moved by the idea of me,
dedicating a painting to my late uncle.
RAÚL CORDERO
FR II
2013. Oil on canvas
230 x 155 cm
Text on the painting:
Once, I made a very ugly painting dedicated to the
memory of my late uncle Fermín Rubiales.
It was so ugly that no one wanted to spend even a
second looking at it. Then my art dealer decided that
he was going to show it at an important museum and
donate it to their collection (although we always say
they bought it).
Now everybody wants to commission a similar version
of FR. They seem to be moved by the idea of me,
dedicating a painting to my late uncle.
RAÚL CORDERO
FR III
2013. Oil on canvas
230 x 190 cm
Text on the painting:
Once, I made a very ugly painting dedicated to the
memory of my late uncle Fermín Rubiales.
It was so ugly that no one wanted to spend even a
second looking at it. Then my art dealer decided that
he was going to show it at an important museum and
donate it to their collection (although we always say
they bought it).
Now everybody wants to commission a similar version
of FR. They seem to be moved by the idea of me,
dedicating a painting to my late uncle.
RAÚL CORDERO
BOY / GIRL
2013. Oil on canvas
120 x 85 cm
Contains elements of William Eggleston’s “Huntsville,
Alabama”
RAÚL CORDERO
BOY / BOY
2013. Oil on canvas
120 x 85 cm
Contains elements of William Eggleston’s “Huntsville,
Alabama”
MICHEL PÉREZ “EL POLLO”
PO
2012. Acrylic on canvas
225 x 225 cm
MICHEL PÉREZ “EL POLLO”
CAMINO
2012. Acrylic on canvas
220 x 220 cm
MICHEL PÉREZ “EL POLLO”
LLAMADO
2011. Acrylic on canvas
150 x 130 cm
MICHEL PÉREZ “EL POLLO”
DANZA
2012. Acrylic on canvas
225 x 225 cm
MICHEL PÉREZ “EL POLLO”
SIESTA
2012. Acrylic on canvas
120 x 150 cm
RAÚL CORDERO. La Habana, Cuba. 1971
Studied at the Academia San Alejandro and the Instituto Superior de Diseño, in Havana, Cuba; The Graphic Media Development Centre and the Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, in The Nederlands.
Has taught as visiting professor at the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), in Havana, Cuba; at the San Francisco Art Institute, in San Francisco, California and at The Art Academy of Cincinnati, de Ohio in the
United States of America. Lives in Havana and Mexico City.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS SELECTION
2013 Raúl Cordero and Michel Pérez El Pollo: Painting Of All Excuses. CentralTrak. Dallas, Texas. U.S.A. 2012 73 Kg. Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno. Palmas de Gran Canaria. España. / Raúl Cordero.
Fortaleza de la Cabaña. XI Bienal de la Habana. Cuba. 2011 Hendrickje. Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. San Diego, California. U.S.A. / Raúl Cordero “Recent Work” at MYTO Gallery. MACO,
Mexico. - 2010 Make it plain. Magnan Metz Gallery. New York, U.S.A. - 2009 Hendrickje. Galería Servando. La Habana, Cuba. / Raúl Cordero. “Nuevas pinturas”, 10ma Bienal de La Habana. Galeria Acacia.
La Habana, Cuba. / “Last visions of the heroe”, Open Studio. La Habana, Cuba. / Raúl Cordero. Painting as a state of mind. Project room. Circa. San Juan, Puerto Rico. - 2008 Raúl Cordero. MYTO Gallery,
Mexico DF. - 2007 Raúl Cordero “Expenditures” at MYTO Gallery. Liste, Basel. Switzerland / Raúl Cordero + Angel Masip. Galería Casado Santapau. Madrid, Spain - 2006 Raúl Cordero. Trabajo Reciente. 9na
Bienal de la Habana. Galería Servando. La Habana, Cuba - 2005 Adorno. Centro Cultural “Fresa y Chocolate”. 27 Festival del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano. La Habana, Cuba. – 2003 The Rolling Landmark.
Iturralde Gallery (Absolut International Biennial), Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. - 2002 Tres Pinturas. Galería Habana. La Habana, Cuba / Stages - The zooming experience - Shopworn. Iturralde Gallery. Los
Angeles, California, U.S.A. / Raúl Cordero (1996-2001). Palacio de Abrantes. Universidad de Salamanca. Spain / Raúl Cordero (1996-2001). Museo La Ciudadela. Pamplona. Spain – 2001 Raúl Cordero.
Walter & McBean Galleries. San Francisco Art Institute. San Francisco, California, U.S.A. – 2000 Raúl Cordero at the New Media Room, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. Cornell University. New York,
U.S.A. / Raúl Cordero, LiebmanMagnan Gallery, New York, U.S.A. / Raúl Cordero, Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, California State University, San Bernardino, California, U.S.A. – 1999 I I Miss You Much,
Paintings, video-installations and some other stuff. Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. - 1998 Raúl Cordero: RE-MIXED, Galería Habana, La Habana, Cuba – 1997 Quiz Paintings, Iturralde
Gallery, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A - 1996 Todo depende del relato: pinturas/videos, Centro Wifredo Lam, La Habana, Cuba / Trabajo reciente: fotografías, Galería 23 y 12, La Habana, Cuba – 1994
Lecciones de la Vida, Galería Habana, La Habana, Cuba
GROUP EXHIBITIONS SELECTION
2012 IB6621. Raúl Cordero/Flavio Garciandía/Michel Perez El Pollo. Mai 36 Galerie. Zürich, Zwitzerland. / Heavy and Happy Painters. XI Havana Biennial. La Habana, Cuba. / Herejes del Vacío.
Galeria Habana, La Habana, Cuba. / 2011 Cuban Visions. Metropolitan Pavillion. New York, U.S.A. / Race, Diaspora, and Identity: Cuban Art Today. Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Oregon. U.S.A.2010 Cuando una pintura se mueve... algo debe estar podrido!
. Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (MAPR).
San Juan, Puerto Rico. - 2009 Cuando una pintura se mueve... algo debe estar podrido!
Centro
Colombo Americano. Bogotá, Colombia /
Slow Paintings. Museum Morsbroich. Leverkusen, Germany. / Glamour de Occidente. 10ma Bienal de la Habana. Casa de Mexico. La Habana, Cuba. - 2008
LATINOLATINO. Palazzo della Vicaria, Trapani, Italia. / Liste ’08 (MYTO Gallery). Basel, Switzerland. / Unbroken Ties: Dialogues in Cuban Art. Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan, U.S.A. / Cuba: Artists
Experience Their Country. Hunterdon Museum of Art. New Jersey, U.S.A. / TROPICS: A Contemporary View of Haiti, Cuba and Brazil. Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. Los Angeles, California. U.S.A. /
Identifíquese. Galeria Habana. La Habana, Cuba. - 2007 Unbroken Ties: Dialogues in Cuban Art. Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.A. / WAITING LIST. Time and transition in Comtemporary
Cuban Art. City Art Museum, Ljubljana - ExitArt, New York, U.S.A./ European Media Art Festival. Osnabrück, Germany. / LUMO Trienale. Jyväskylä, Finland. – 2006 Unbroken Ties: Dialogues in Cuban Art.
Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California, U.S.A. / 9na Bienal de la Habana. La Habana, Cuba / Museo Tomado. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. La Habana, Cuba. / Unbroken Ties: Dialogues
in Cuban Art. Museum of Latin American Art. Long Beach, California. U.S.A. / IMPAKT Festival 2006. Utretch, Holland / Espacios Sagrados: Raúl Cordero, Marta María Pérez y José Manuel Fors. FOTO
30, Galería Wood’s. Guatemala. – 2005 Contactos y Mediaciones. Poéticas de lo digital en el Arte Cubano. Dunlop Art Gallery. Regina, Canada. / Barrocos y Neo-Barrocos: El infierno de lo bello. Palacio
de Abrantes / Museo de Arte Contemporaneo. Salamanca, España. / IN BORDERLINES/ EN LAS FRONTERAS. Nuevas piezas en la colección del MEIAC. Instituto Cervantes. Praga, Checoslovaquia. / Raul
Cordero, Felipe Dulzaides y Alexandre Arrechea en la Casa de las Americas. Casa de las Americas. La Habana, Cuba. / Salón de Arte Cubano Contemporáneo. Fototeca de Cuba. La Habana, Cuba. / Raul
Cordero / Manuel Losada / José Clemente Orozco. Iturralde Gallery. Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. – 2004 Zoll Douane. Hamburgo, Alemania. / Domicile: a sense of place. Center of Contemporary Arts
(COCA). Seattle, U.S.A. / Sign Languaje. The Museum of Contemporary Arts (MOCA). Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.- 2003 Sin Embargo. Fluid Image, Grenoble, Francia. / Away from home. Wexner Center
for the Arts. Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A. – 2002 El Museo crece. Adquisiciones recientes de arte cubano contemporáneo. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. La Habana, Cuba / LA FREEWAVES: TV or not TV. A
celebration of experimental media arts throughout Los Angeles. Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. / SuperMover: Video projections from trucks. Photofest. Houston, Texas. U.S.A. / III Salón de Arte Cubano
Contemporáneo. Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales. La Habana, Cuba / Copyright. Centro Cultural de España. La Habana, Cuba - 2001 Raúl Cordero, Luis Gómez, Elsa Mora, Fernando Rodríguez,
José A. Toirac. The Contemporary Arts Center (CAC). Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A. / Poëziezimer Watou . Watou, Belgica. / Present. Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, Holanda. / Sonsbeek 9-Locus/Focus.
Arnhem, Holanda / From the Negative. Conceptual Photography from Cuba. North Dakota Museum of Art, North Dakota, U.S.A. - 2000 VII Bienal de La Habana , La Habana, Cuba / Vistas Nuevas: Recent
Video from Cuba, The Kitchen, New York, U.S.A. / Moving Pictures, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.A. / One on One, Art in General, New York, U.S.A. / Fin de siglo. Nuevo milenio cubano, Centro
de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, La Habana, Cuba – 1999 Video & Technologies: Challenge for Contemporary Cuban Art, Art in General, New York, U.S.A. / Mas allá del papel, Centro Cultural del
Conde Duque, Madrid, España / Visiones Contemporáneas, Lyle O’Reitzel Arte Contemporáneo, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana - 1998 Contemporary Art from Cuba, Urasoe Museum, Okinawa /
Hillside Forum Daikanayama, Tokyo / Iwaki City Cultural Hall, Japón / Il Salón de Arte Cubano Contemporáneo, Centro Wifredo Lam, La Habana, Cuba / Fragmentos a su imán, Galería Latinoamericana,
Casa de las Américas, La Habana, Cuba / Seducciones, Centro Wifredo Lam, La Habana, Cuba – 1997 Troisieme Manifestation Internationale Video et Art Electronique, Montreal, Canadá - 1996 III Trienal
de Grafica Original, Kunthaus, Grenchen, Suiza / Bienal Internacional de Pintura de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador - 1995 I Salón de Arte Cubano Contemporáneo, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana,
Cuba / ICOGRADA Next Generation, House of Commons, The Parliament House of the U.K. Westminster, London, U.K. / Una de Cada Clase, Fundación Ludwig de Cuba, La Habana, Cuba / Arte Correo,
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Musée National D´Art Moderne Centre Pompidou, Paris, France / Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba / Centro Wifredo Lam. La Habana, Cuba. / / Museum of Contemporary Art. MOCA, Los
Angeles, California, U.S.A. / Columbus Museum of Arts, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A. / Museum of Art. Fort Lauderdale, Florida. U.S.A. / DAROS Latinoamérica Collection, Zürich, Suiza. / 21C Art Museum.
Kentucky, Illinois, U.S.A. / Museum for Contemporary Art. San Diego, California, U.S.A. / Museum of Latin American Art. MOLAA, California, U.S.A. / Champ Libre Foundation. Montréal, Canadá. / Museum
voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Holland. / Neuberger Berman, New York, U.S.A. / Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (SMAK), Gent, Belgium. / Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno. Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Spain. / University of Central Florida Library Collection, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. / Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC), Spain.
MICHEL PÉREZ “EL POLLO”. Manzanillo, Cuba. 1981
Studied at the Professional Academy of Fine Arts, at Holguín; and the Instituto Superior de Arte, at La Habana, Cuba. Lives in Havana.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS SELECTION
2013. Raúl Cordero and Michel Pérez El Pollo: Painting Of All Excuses. CentralTrak. Dallas, Texas. U.S.A. 2011 Jugando a comprender (Playing to figure out). Galerie Knörle & Bättig. Winterthur,
Switzerland. / La bondad del desconocido (The kindness of the stranger). Servando Gallery, Havana, Cuba. 2010 Prometo ser breve (I Promise to Be Brief). Servando Gallery, Havana, Cuba. / Cierra los
ojos, abre la boca (Shut the Eyes, Open the Mouth). Tomás y Valiente Contemporary Art Center, Madrid, Spain. / Aburrido del chocolate (Fed up with Chocolate). Luz y Suárez del Villar Gallery, Madrid,
Spain. 2009 Las apariencias no engañan (Appearance Cannot Be Deceptive). Guayasamín Gallery, Havana, Cuba. 2008 Llorando de la risa (To Die Laughing). La Casona Gallery, Havana, Cuba. / Inventario
(Inventory). Ludwig Foundation, La Habana, Cuba. 2007 Te hablo de algo serio (Talking about Something Serious). Luz y Oficios Art Center, Havana, Cuba. 2006 Mirada de bandolero (Gaze of a Nasty
Crook). Casa de la Cultura de Plaza, Havana, Cuba. 2004 Acción sin idea (Act without Idea). Casa de la Cultura de Plaza, Havana, Cuba.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS SELECTION
2013 On- Painting. Atlantic Modern Art Center. CAAM. Gran Canaria, Spain. 2012 Gulliver. Freies Museum Berlin, Germany. / IB6621. Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland. / Heavy & Happy painters.
Havana eleventh Biennial Exhibition Collateral Show, Cuba. / Un olor que entra por mi ventana (A smell that comes through my window). Havana eleventh Biennial Exhibition, Cuba. 2011 Junge Szene
Kuba(Cuban young scene ). Cultural Center “Pasinger Fabrik” bei Muenchen, Germany. / Junge Szene Kuba(Cuban young scene) Staedtischen Museum in Traunstein, Germany. / Torbellino(Whirlwind).
Havana Gallery, Havana, Cuba. / The Arsenal. Asociación Cultural Yemayá, Madrid, Spain. / Life Style. Luz & Suarez del Villar Gallery, Madrid, Spain. 2010 Polimorfos perversos (Wicked Polymorfouses).
Fernando Pradilla Gallery, Madrid, Spain. / En la tierra no hay nada gratis (There´s Nothing for Free on Earth). Luz y Oficios Gallery, Havana, Cuba. / Lo uno y lo múltiple (The Individuality and the
Multiplicity). Contemporary Cuban Art, “Espacio Cultural Excelencias”, Madrid, Spain. / Bomba (Bomb). Wilfredo Lam Contemporary Art Center , Havana, Cuba. / EL Arsenal Asociación Cultural
Yemayá,Madrid, España. 2009. Heracles (Heraclius). Luz y Suárez del Villar Gallery, Madrid, Spain. / Homenaje a Juan Gil-Albert (Homage to Juan Gil-Albert ). Luz y Suárez del Villar Gallery, Madrid,
Spain. / Homenaje a Jean Claude Abreu (Homage to Jean Claude Abreu). Medinaceli Art Center , Soria, Spain. / HC College. Run Museum, Havana X Biennial Exhibition Collateral Show, Cuba. 2008. Isla
in Continente, Arte Cubano Contemporáneo (Island in Continent, Cuban Contemporary Art). Fundarte Arts National Gallery, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, C.A / Bla bla bla (All Talk). Servando Gallery, Havana,
Cuba. / Crónicas del entusiasmo (Enthusiasm Chronicles). Luz y Suárez del Villar Gallery, Madrid, Spain. / Far Far Away. Co-Lab Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark. / Plastilina (Plasticine). Hispanoamerican
Cultural Center , Havana, Cuba. 2007. Casa tomada (Seized Building). Menos 1 Gallery, Madrid, Spain. / Situación construida, exposición colectiva “Cabeza de Vena” (Constructed Situation in Exhibition
Vein Head). Higher Art Institute, Havana, Cuba. / La Cosecha (The Harvest). Visual Arts Development Center, Havana, Cuba. 2005. Cuba, the Next Generation. Cuban Art Space, New York, USA. / Cuba from
the Inside Looking Out II. Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Detroit, USA. / Safismo (Sapphism). Villa Panamericana Gallery, Havana, Cuba. / Selección natural (Natural Selection). Servando Cabrera Gallery, Havana,
Cuba. 2004. Cuba from the Inside Looking Out. Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Detroit, USA. / Wild Thing. Center for Cuban Studies, New York, USA. / Pintura húmeda (Wet Paint). Cuban National Library, Havana,
Cuba. / Proyecto Kamikaze (Kamikaze Project). San Antonio de los Baños Art Center, Havana, Cuba. / Espacio abierto (Open Space). Sao Paulo Biennial Exhibition Collateral Show, Sao Paulo, Brazil. 2003.
Circuito Cerrado (Close Circuit). Havana Eighth Biennial Exhibition Collateral Show, Havana, Cuba. / Diagonal (Diagonal). Provincial Art and Design Center, Havana, Cuba. / Making Off. Pabellón Cuba,
Havana, Cuba. 2002. Llega y pon (Improvised Neighborhood). Havana Seventh Biennial Exhibition Collateral Show, ISA Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
AWARDS
2012- Premio Havana Cultura, Havana, Cuba. 2003- Premio de Pintura. Salón de la Ciudad, Bayamo, Granma 1998- Premio de Pintura. Salón Nacional de Estudiantes, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. 1997Mención Especial. Salón Nacional de Estudiantes, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.
Raúl Cordero & Michel Pérez “El Pollo”
PAINTING OF ALL EXCUSES
CentralTrak Gallery. Dallas, Texas.
January 21st – March 2nd, 2013
CENTRALTRACK STAFF:
Heyd Fontenot. Director
Brian Scott. Facilities Manager
Laura Sewell. Office Manager
http://centraltrak.net
The Artists would like to thank:
Kate Scheerin, Heyd Fontenot and José Artaiz
RAUL CORDERO STUDIO:
Studio Assistant: Cristina Ochoa
Silkscreen Technician: Juan Cárdenas Bermeo
www.raulcorderostudio.com
raulcorderostudio@gmail.com
PH. +(52) 55 52603804 /+(52) 1 5525297759
MICHEL PEREZ “EL POLLO” STUDIO:
www.michelperezpollo.com
mpollopc@gmail.com
PH. +(537) 8303261 / +(535) 2948387
Raúl Cordero and Michel Pérez “El Pollo” are represented by
Mai 36 Galerie
Rämistrasse 37. Zürich, Switzerland.
+ 41 (0)44 261 68 80
mail@mai36.com
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