maggie cardelùs

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<I>origine du monde with tongues</i>, 2020 </br> cast bronze, leather, and faux leather </br> 85 x 63 cm / 33.5 x 24.8 in
<I>origine du monde with tongues</i>, 2020 </br> (alternate view)
<I>origine du monde with tongues</i>, 2020 </br> cast bronze, leather, and faux leather </br> 85 x 63 cm / 33.5 x 24.8 in
<I>origine du monde with tongues</i>, 2020 </br> cast bronze, leather, and faux leather </br> 85 x 63 cm / 33.5 x 24.8 in
<I>doing life</I>, 2012 </br> installation view, kaufmann repetto, milan
<I>doing life</I>, 2012 </br> installation view, kaufmann repetto, milan
<I>doing life</I>, 2012 </br> installation view, kaufmann repetto, milan
<I>maggie here (maggie there)</I>, 2012 </br> digital photo print, bleach, muriatic acid, alcohol, hydrogen peroxide </br> mouthwash, silver cleaner </br> 270 x 127 cm / 106.3 x 50 in
<I>laura unraveling, with style</I>, 2012 </br> digital photo print, 150 x 60 cm / 59 x 23.6 in
<I>laura, the throbbing pink spot, and the mysterious yellow light</I>, 2012 </br> cut-out photograph, spray paint, nails </br> 90 × 60 cm / 35.4 x 23.6 in
<I>a rainy day transfiguration of Laura</I>, 2012 </br> layered cut-outs photographs, 114 x 165 cm / 44.9 x 65 in
<I>maggie there (maggie here)</I>, 2012 </br> cut out photograph, 270 x 127 cm / 106.3 x 50 in
<i>Maggie Cardelus</i>, 2012 </br> installation view, museum of modern art, moscow
<i>Maggie Cardelus</i>, 2012 </br> installation view, museum of modern art, moscow
<i>Maggie Cardelus</i>, 2012 </br> installation view, museum of modern art, moscow
<i>Maggie Cardelus</i>, 2012 </br> installation view, museum of modern art, moscow
<i>Maggie Cardelus</i>, 2012 </br> installation view, museum of modern art, moscow
<i>Maggie Cardelus</i>, 2012 </br> installation view, museum of modern art, moscow
<i>Maggie Cardelus</i>, 2012 </br> installation view, museum of modern art, moscow
<I>laura, almost 12</I>, 2011 </br> dissolved photographs, variable dimensions
<I>laura in the flow</I>, 2011 </br> layered cut out photographs, wood </br> 132,5 x 95,2 cm / 52.2 x 37.5 in
<I>laura's great great grandmother</I>, 2011 </br> incised plastic with printed image, sourdough, glass, wood </br> 119 x 92,5 cm / 46.8 x 36.4 in
<I>morning</I>, 2011 </br> photographs mounted on aluminium and rubbed with silver polish and vinegar, wood, glass, enamel paint </br> 100 x 70 x 3 cm / 39.4 x 27.5 x 1.2 in
<I>heat</I>, 2011 </br> layered cut out photographs, plastic, aluminium frame, painted wall </br> 70 x 50 cm / 27.5 x 19.7 in
<I>slice of space</I>, 2011 </br> photographs, wood frame, house paint </br> 33,5 x 41 cm / 13.2 x 16.1 in
<I>unravelling the universe</I>, 2011 </br> cut photographs, plexiglass, painted wall </br> 122 x 122 x 2 cm / 48 x 48 x 0.8 in
<I>inscape / becoming</I>, 2011 </br> in foreground: white clay, sourdough crust coats interior </br> 26 x 56 cm / 10.2 x 22 in </br> on wall: corian lithophane, steel frame, light electronics </br> 50 x 76 x 5 cm / 19.7 x 29.9 x 2 in
<i>umbilicus</I>, 2011 </br> red clays, variable dimensions
<I>echigo forest with zoo</I>, 2008 </br> four layers of cut out photographs, 100 x 150 cm / 39.4 x 59 in
<I>looking for time (quogue)</I>, 2007 </br> video, color sound, 18’ </br> ceramic, 60 x 50 cm / 23.6 x 19.7 in
<I>looking for time (quogue)</I>, 2007 </br> layered cut-outs photographs, 100 x 150 cm / 39.4 x 59 in
<i>zoo, age 10</I>, 2007 </br> video, color, sound
<i>zoo, age 10</I>, 2007 </br> video, color, sound
<I>looking for time (window in quogue)</I>, 2007 </br> layered cut out photographs, 100 x 150 cm / 39.4 x 59 in
<I>floating body</I>, 2006 </br> plexiglas, cut out photographs, 25 x 20 x 20 cm / 9.8 x 7.9 x 7.9 in
<I>lala’s bullfight</I>, 2006 </br> cut out photographs, 70 x 100 cm / 27.5 x 39.4 in
<i>galicia</i>, 2005 </br> cut out photographs, 47 x 61 cm / 18.5 x 24 in
<I>lala’s bullfighter with priest and two ladies</I>, 2005 </br> cut out photographs, 100 x 66 cm / 39.4 x 26 in
<i>fuzzy zoo</I>, 2005 </br> cut out photographs, 120 x 120 cm / 47.2 x 47.2 in
<I>zoo flying</I>, 2004 </br> cut out photographs, 180 x 160 cm / 70.9 x 63 in
<I>bird people</I>, 2004 </br> cut out photographs, 200 x 200 cm / 78.7 x 78.7 in
<i>bella and zoo</i>, 2003 </br> cut out photographs, 120 x 400 cm / 47.2 x 157.5 in
<i>laura’s inheritance</I>, 2003 </br> cut out photographs, 400 x 530 x 27 cm / 157.5 x 208.7 x 10.6 in
<i>zoo age 5</I>, 2002 </br> cut out photographs, 10 x 125 cm / 3.9 x 49.2 in
<I>vanishing points: light piece with light</I>, 2001 </br> cut out photographs, thread, glue, 300 x 300 cm / 118.1 x 118.1 in
<I>vanishing points: shadow piece with shadows</I>, 2001 </br> cut out photograph, 125 x 300 cm / 49.2 x 118.1 in
<I>august 10</I>, 2001 </br> cut out photographs, 250 x 120 cm / 98.4 x 47.2 in

artist short biography

Born in 1962, in Alexandria, Virginia. Lives and works in Paris.

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Upcoming group exhibitions

2020 Vent’anni – Twenty Years, 20th anniversary exhibition, kaufmann repetto, Milan Selected solo exhibitions

2014 Maggie Cardelus, Galeria F2, Madrid Total Environment, Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid

2012 Doing Life, kaufmann repetto, Milan Total Environment, MMOMA Moscow Museum of Modern Art Moscow, Moscow

2011 Galería Fúcares, Madrid Laura, Almost 12, Galeria Vanguardia, Bilbao

2009 Cluster: Maggie Cardelus / Daniela De Lorenzo, Galleria Maria Grazia del Prete, Rome

2007 Looking for time, Galeria Fucares, Madrid Looking for time, francesca kaufmann, Milan

2004 Bird People, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Zoo’s Days, Galeria Fucares, Madrid-Almagro, Spain Laura’s Inheritance, francesca kaufmann, Milan

2001 Vanishing Points, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Hearth Pieces, Galeria Fucares, Madrid-Almagro Circus, Deitch Projects, New York 2000 White Pieces, francesca kaufmann, Milan Matrix, Galeria Fucares, Madrid-Almagro

1997 Installation #12: Dispersal, Galeria Fucares, Madrid-Almagro Installation #11, Colegio de Arquitectos, Malaga

1995 Installation #10, Galeria Fucares, Almagro

1994 Installation #9, The Temple Gallery, Rome

1993 Installation #8, ViaFarini, Milan Selected group exhibitions

2011 Ficciones y Realidades, Museo Patio Herreriano, Vallaloid, curated by Maria Corral Tra Arte e Design: Vivere e Pensare in Carta e Cartone, Museo Diocesano, Milan, curated by Paolo Biscottini Fiction and Reality, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, curated by Maria Corral

2010 Al di là delle apparenze opache, Museo dei Cappuccini, Reggio Emilia, curated by Gigliola Foschi

2009 The 4th Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial (ETAT), Echigo-Tsumari Region, Japan Linz09, House of Stories, curated by Julia Stoff, Christine Weisser, Linz Modernstarts: Dentro/Fuera, Sala Museística CajaSur, Cordoba

2008 ARTIFACTS, Album di Famiglia nell’arte contemporanea, Mirafiori Motor Village, Turin Eppi Femili, Teatro Studio, Scandicci, Italy Photomonth, Krakow, Poland Cohabitation: 13 artists and collage, francesca kaufmann, Milan

2007 La Femenidad del Arte, Fundacion Caja Castellon, Valencia, curated by Marisa Propesa Una casa per no Viure, Sala d’Exposicions de La Caixa, Girona, curated by Nimfa Bisbe

2006 International Photography Biennale, Brescia 2005 Alternative Paradise, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan Serene Obsession, Haim Chanin Fine Arts, New York Women on the Verge, Alona Kagan Gallery, New York Collection 2, Annecy, curated by Philippe Piguet Fondation Salomon

2004 Bambini nel tempo, Palazzo Tè, Mantua, Italy, curated by Sergio Risaliti La Gran Mentira del Arte, Galeria Fucares, Madrid-Almagro, curated by Oscar Alonso Molina

2003 Imago, Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, curated by Andrea Bruciati Assenze Presenze, Centre Culturel le Botanique, Bruxelles, curated by Emmanuel Lambion Popstraction, Deitch Projects, New York

2002 Exit, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, curated by F. Bonami Gotico…pero Exotico, Artium-Museo de Arte Contemporanea, Victoria, Spain, curated by Javier Gonzalez de Durana

2001 Boom, Manifattura Tabacchi, Florence, curated by S. Risaliti

2000 SchattenRisse, Lehnbachhaus, Munich, curated by Marion Ackerman Trends: Milano, Salara, Bologna, Galeria Sandenga, Granada, curated by Gianfranco Maraniello El Arte Es Ellos, Tecla Sala, Barcelona e El Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, curated by Victoria Combalia

1999 Un Monde Irréel, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, curated by Caroline Smulders Tiempo Existencial, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de la Fundacion La Caixa, Lerida, Spain, curated by Nimfa Bisbe Passaggi invisibili, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, curated by Daria Filardo e Arabella Natallini Officina Europa, Villa delle Rose, Bologna, curated by Renato Barilli Castelli di Carte, Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan, curated by Francesca Kaufmann Como nos Vemos, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, curated by V. Combalia

1998 San Zenone, Galleria Civica di Campione, Campione d’Italia Rock Around the Clock, Ciocca Arte Contemporanea, Milan, curated by Alessandra Galasso Como Nos Vemos, Centre Cultural Tecla Sala, Barcelona, curated by Victoria Combalia Con la Pazienza si Acquista Scienza, ViaFarini e C/O, Milan, curated by Alessandra Galasso

1997 Collecion Testimony de la Fundacion Caixa, travelling exibition Open Studio, International Studio Program, New York

1995 Topi d’archivio, ViaFarini, Milan, curated by Francesca Pasini 1994 Primordi-Installation #8: Humming, Palazzo d’Arte della Triennale, Milan

1992 Installation #5, Hunter Gallery, Hunter College, New York, curated by Susan Edwards Installation #4, Visionfest, Liverpool Education 1992 Master of Fine Arts, Hunter College, New York 1988 Master of Architecture, Columbia University GSAPP, New York 1985 Bachelor of Arts, Wellesley College, USA

Financial Times, 2016

El Cultural, 2016

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