Posthumous Choreographies & Other Optical Labyrinths
Curated by Fernando Castro Flórez
Exhibition: June 2nd – July 2nd, 2005
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 2nd 6-8 pm

WHITE BOX, and its affiliate THE ANNEX, is proud to present a two-part exhibition of twenty-two artists from Castilla - Leon in central Spain. The exhibition is curated by renowned critic and author Fernando Castro Flórez, whose focus is on issues connected with the transitory life styles of contemporary artists from the Castilla - Leon region. They share with other artists from around the world the condition of having to navigate a forever shifting reality, a changing of place and location either physically, virtually or both.

White Box’s Posthumous Choreographies section stages a group of outstanding artists involved in art-making that bends and flexes performance, gesture, dance, and other fleeting art-making choreographic modes. The Annex’s Other Optical Labyrinths combines artists dealing with residues, fusions and crossovers, mixing the optical-retinal, digital and electronic media as though an exercise in Dust Breeding. The concept Dust Breeding is loosely based on an artwork by Man Ray that emerged from observing the ‘dust’ collected on Marcel Duchamp’s Grand Verre. Having been placed on the ground, and by biting the dust, another artful dimension, not intended by Duchamp, materialized.

The exhibition is accompanied by two, 300-page volumes of critical texts by Anna María Guasch, Menene Gras, Víctor del Río, Javier Hernando Carrasco, Miguel Angel Hernández and Fernando Castro Flórez. Also included are critical essays on the 22 artists in the exhibitions and an abundant selection of color illustrations of works representing each artist’s career.

POSTHUMOUS CHOREOGRAPHIES:
BENE BERGADO / DORA GARCÍA / KAORU KATAYAMA / LOLA MARAZUELA / BRUNO MARCOS / ANGEL MARCOS / ENRIQUE MARTY / ISAAC MONTOYA / DEBORAH NOFRET / JAVIER NUÑEZ GASCO / MARINA NUÑEZ / DOMINGO SANCHEZ BLANCO

OTHER OPTICAL LABYRINTHS - Dust Breeding / Élevages de Poussière:
TOÑO BARREIRO / FELIX CURTO / LEOPOLDO FERRÁN- AGUSTINA OTERO / CARLOS LEÓN / JESUS MAX / ANA PRADA / CONCHA PRADA / FERNANDO RENES / FERNANDO SINAGA / DANIEL VERBISThe catalogues, and the White Box–The Annex exhibitions, were produced by, and have received generous funding from, the Cultural Council of the Autonomous Government of Castilla - Leon and the Siglo para las Artes Foundation. White Box’s annual exhibition program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the New York State Council for the Arts.

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