Artium Museoa, Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country presents the exhibition Alejandro Cesarco: Other Recent Examples (A1 Gallery, until 24 September 2023). This exhibition, dedicated to the work of Alejandro Cesarco (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1975), brings together pieces in a variety of media – photographs, videos and text-based works – that propose reflecting on the construction and experience of learning, as well as on the processes associated with memory, perception and language. Other Recent Examples is the first solo exhibition in Spain dedicated to the work of Alejandro Cesarco, produced in collaboration with Lumiar Cité/Maumaus in Lisbon. A publication is being produced to accompany the exhibition project, including the translation of the essay “Notes on Mother Tongues” by the author Mirene Arsanios. Coinciding with the opening of the exhibition, and taking into account the profile of the artist as a publisher, the museum is organising a conversation on publishing practices (Friday 24 March at 6 pm) with the participation of Alejandro Cesarco, Thomas Boutoux, Beatriz Herráez and Catalina Lozano.

Other Recent Examples is part of one of the main lines of research in the museum’s exhibition programme, concentrating on the junctions that historically occur between the field of art and forms of writing. Questions such as biography, the correlations between language and image, appropriation strategies and systems of order and declassification occupy these junctions and exchanges between literature and the visual arts. The exhibition also touches upon a vital area of work in the museum’s programmes: the figure of the artist as educator and the relationships established between artistic practices and experimental pedagogical models.

The exhibition includes, among other works, Index (An Educator), a piece produced in 2023 that is the most recent and most extensive in a series of indexes that the artist has created for books that he has not yet written and will probably never write. These indexes – in this case spread over 18 pages – trace the development of his interests, readings and preoccupations and have become a form of self-portrait unfolding over time. Other Recent Examples includes the video work entitled Figuratively, made in 2021, a record of a new generation of Uruguayan teenagers, chosen through Instagram, who were simply asked to imagine their future as they were portrayed.

Other works in the show include the silkscreen The Difference Between Thirty Two and Forty Five (2017), a humorous representation of the artist’s fears about ageing; the video Learning the Language (Present Continuous II) (2022), part of a series in which Cesarco addresses recurring concerns such as memory, repetition and regret; and a number of photographs dating back to 2022, Untitled (Speaking in Tongues), Figure With Shadow (Stage I-III) and All the Doors of My Mother’s Home.

As an adjoining space alongside the exhibition, a consultation area is being constructed that incorporates texts and authors associated with Alejandro Cesarco’s work as an editor. Among other publications, it includes a selection of books published within the framework of Art Resources Transfer (A.R.T.), an independent non-profit organisation committed to documenting and disseminating the work of artists to an often disregarded audience in the circuit of cultural consumption.

Other Recent Examples is the first solo exhibition in a public institution in Spain dedicated to the work of Alejandro Cesarco and is produced in collaboration with Lumiar Cité/Maumaus in Lisbon. In the context of this exhibition project, a publication is being produced that includes the translation of the essay “Notes on Mother Tongues” by the author Mirene Arsanios.