Alexandre Arrechea: Landscape and Hierarchies Opening

13 Front Street,Frenchtown NJ 08825

17 September, 2022

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Join us for a reception 6 to 8 PM on Saturday, Sept. 17 to celebrate the opening of Landscape and Hierarchies, a solo exhibition featuring new works by Alexandre Arrechea. Arrechea is internationally renowned as one of the founding members of the Cuban collective, Los Carpinteros, and has earned acclaim as an artist whose work interrogates such issues as history, memory, politics, and the power relations of the urban space. This exhibition marks 20 years of Arrechea’s solo career. Browse the galleries and experience the multimedia installations, monumental watercolor drawings, and sculptures that explore the connections between the individual and the collective and the power small actions have on society and the environment. Curated by Elsa Mora, Landscape and Hierarchies is on view through Jan. 22, 2023. It is presented in ArtYard’s first-floor River Gallery and second-floor John & Lynn Kearney Gallery. On Sunday, Sept. 18, ArtYard will host an artist talk and gallery walk with Arrechea. The talk is moderated by Cuban-born American writer, curator, and art conservator Rosa Lowinger and features never-before-seen footage of the early stages of Arrechea’s career, an audience Q&A, and a tour of the exhibition. More information about this ticketed event is here. Masks required. To learn more about Landscape & Hierarchies and related events, click here. About Alexandre Arrechea Alexandre Arrechea’s work comprises large-scale installations, sculptures, watercolor drawings, and videos that explore such issues as history, memory, politics, and the power relations of the urban space. The artist is internationally renowned as one of the founding members of the Cuban collective, Los Carpinteros (The Carpenters), active between 1991 and 2003. The group created some of the most important works to emerge from Latin America. Los Carpinteros adopted their name in 1994, deciding to renounce the notion of individual authorship and refer back to an older guild tradition of artisans and skilled laborers. In their practice, they mixed architecture, design, and sculpture to create work based in formalism, conceptualism, and activism. Embarking on his solo career in 2003, Arrechea is widely recognized for Nolimits (2013), a monumental project composed of ten sculptures inspired by iconic buildings in New York City and erected along Park Avenue, and Katrina Chairs (2016), erected at the Coachella Music Festival, Palm Springs, California. Last December, he created Dreaming with Lions, an immersive rotunda resembling an enormous forum-like library installed at Faena Miami Beach.