Gabriel Acevedo Velarde
Bio
(Lima, 1976) lives and works between Holland and Lima. He holds a BFA at Universidad de las Américas, Puebla.
Gabriel’s solo exhibitions include: Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid; Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City; Museu de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo. Acevedo has participated in numerous group exhibitions such as Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid; Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI); E-flux, New York; LiMac, Madrid; Paço das Artes, Sao Paulo; Künstlerhaus Bethainen, Berlin; Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires; Biennial of Sao Paulo; Sao Paulo; the Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre; among many others.
His work is part of the following collections: MALI, Lima; Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles; Pinacoteca do São Paulo, São Paulo; Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Buenos Aires; JP Morgan Chase Art Collection; New York; among others.
Statement
Gabriel Acevedo Velarde is an interdisciplinary artist. Acevedo searches for hidden elements in the relationships between culture, power and society. Drawing on scientific theories and established clichés, Acevedo creates ways to dismantle the unshakable, as if behind every universal truth there were a faw, a mystery to be solved that could unleash the chaos of any established order. In doing so, the artist turns reality into a science fiction scenario. Gabriel Acevedo Velarde was born in Lima, Peru, in 1976. After spending different periods of time in Mexico City, Sao Paulo, New York and Berlin, he returned to Peru in 2014, where he currently lives and works. He holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, Mexico and from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
Additional information
Hay un espacio en común entre el mundo de deseos subjetivos y la experiencia de las instituciones modernas, como el estado o el museo. Es un estado de “quasi-escenografía” en donde estas dos dimensiones se distorsionan mutuamente.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
