The Tower of Knowledge

The Tower of Knowledge
Faivovich & Goldberg
press conference:
September 17th, 12 hrs.
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September 22nd, 20 hrs.
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upcoming exhibition:
Painters from NYC, Dec 10.
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Col. Americana — C.P. 44160
Guadal ajara, Jalisco , México
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The Tower of Knowledge
Faivovich & Goldberg
Páramo is pleased to present “The Tower of Knowledge,” the first solo exhibition by Faivovich & Goldberg
in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Since 2006, Guillermo Faivovich and Nicolás Goldberg have continued an extensive research endeavor
that revolves around the cultural impact of the Campo del Cielo meteorites in Argentina. Through this
case study, a continuous journey has led them from the crater-field to an ongoing program of wide reaching fieldwork in various institutions in Argentina, Germany, England, the United States, and Spain,
in which the artists’ approach to these iron masses includes bibliographical inquir y, archival research,
and interaction with people who have been involved in the histor y of the region. For “The Tower of
Knowledge,” they have created an experiential environment that explores these origins and illuminates
the wonder and brilliance of the unknown and intangible found in nature.
Faivovich & Goldberg recently began an ongoing residency and collaboration with Arizona State
University (ASU), a leading university in meteorite studies with the largest university-based meteorite
collection. On the second floor galler y, 21 unique prints will be presented, furthering their current line of
research with a new stage of their microphotography project that examines a meteorite acquired for this
occassion on eBay by the ASU Art Museum. At ASU’s Center for Meteorite Studies, they have har vested
new images from thinly sliced sections of the meteorite under a petrographic microscope, exploring and
capturing the stunningly brilliant and mysterious silicate inclusions.
The first floor galler y is an all- encompassing installation that reveals an encounter with a 120 -pound
meteorite recently gifted to the artists by Dr. William Cassidy, a planetar y geologist from the University
of Pittsburgh and main scientist of the Campo del Cielo meteorite fall. Dr. Cassidy conducted over a
dozen field trips in the crater field during 1962-1972 and 2005 -2007. He suggested a new approach to
the understanding of the site and was thereby responsible for the unearthing of many multi-ton Campo
del Cielo meteorites. The many layered web of connections created in this installation emphasizes the
inherent necessities in collaboration as it crosses the boundaries between science and art, culture and
politics.
Guillermo Faivovich (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1977) and Nicolás Goldberg (Paris, France, 1978)
first exhibited the Campo del Cielo meteorite “El Taco” at Portikus, Frankfurt in 2010, where the two
main masses of El Taco were reunited after almost forty-five years of being apart. The exhibition was
accompanied by The Campo del Cielo Meteorites - Vol. 1: El Taco, edited by dOCUMENTA (13) and Hatje
Cantz. On occasion of their dOCUMENTA (13) commission (2012), The Campo del Cielo Meteorites Vol. 2: Chaco was published and focused on the issues and multiplicity of positions that emerged from
their proposal of temporarily transporting the 37-ton meteorite “El Chaco” from Campo del Cielo to be
installed in front of the Fridericianum Museum. Additional group exhibitions include: “The Inaccesible
Poem,” curated by Simon Starling at the Fondazione Merz Torino (2011), the 9th Mercosur Biennial,
Porto Alegre (2013), and “UTOPIEdocumenta” at the Stadtmuseum, Kassel, Germany (2015). Lectures
include: “Collision 2: When Artistic and Scientific Research Meet,” MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts
(2011), “Artists on Artists” DIA Foundation, New York, and P. A .O.S Residencias, Museo Taller José
Clemente Orozco, Guadalajara, Mexico (2015). Faivovich & Goldberg will have solo exhibitions at The
Mistake Room, Los Angeles, in 2017 and the Arizona State University Art Museum in 2018.
Av. Hidalg o 1228,
Col. Americana — C.P. 44160
Guadal ajara, Jalisco , México
T.+52 (33) 3 825 0921
+ 52 (33) 4780 5243
info @paramogaleria .com
ww w.paramogaleria .com