Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas
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Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas (October 3, 1934 – June 2, 2015), also known as Michel Cardena, was a
Biography
Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas was born in
In 1962 he moved to the
Cárdenas was one of the ten artists invited by then Crown Princess, HM Queen
Between 1963 and 1978 he was awarded several scholarships from the Ministry of Culture of the Netherlands, including a travel grant to travel to the
Cárdenas started working with video as an artistic medium in 1970. Two years later, teaming up with Sigurdur Gudmundsson, Pieter Laurens Mol and Ulises Carrión, he founds the 'In-Out Center'-First Credit Union of Artists in the Netherlands, the first Dutch artists' cooperative with its own gallery situated on Reguliersgracht in Amsterdam.[3][6] The cross-border events held here were an important impetus for the development of body art, performance and new art forms in the Netherlands. Wies Smals was inspired by this center to initiate De Appel in 1975.
In 1986, Cárdenas decided to return to his original form of art: painting.[3]
Throughout the 70's and the 80's, Cárdenas lectured at various Dutch art schools, including the
His works were featured at the exhibition ' Snapshot No.5' (1989) in the
- "The Netherlands had barely heard of Pop Art, New Realism or Duchamp when Michel Cardena came from Colombia to our country with a huge baggage of knowledge about the new developments in art.” ('Snapshot No. 5' -
In 1990 Cárdenas won the third prize at the First Triennial of Painting, in Osaka, Japan.[2] A year later he is awarded a study scholarship from the Foundation of Art, Design and Architecture in the Netherlands to study calligraphy in Tokyo, Japan[1]
His work has been frequently supported by grants from the Dutch government and exhibited in solo and group shows in the Netherlands and around the world.[8]
In 2004 Cárdenas was elevated to the rank of Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.[2][9][10][11]
Video work
Cárdenas started working with video because of the new opportunities it offered. He created a large and varied body of video work that explores many themes including sexuality, desire and his own
One of the central visual elements in Cardenas’ video works was heat.[12] His live performances were variations of the same theme: heating people or objects, in his attempt to melt away the cold detachment of the Dutch society. Since 1971, he has been operating under the name "Cardena Warming up etc. etc. etc. Company".
Cárdenas authored a private publication titled “Black and white and sometimes colorful No. 2”(Amsterdam 1980), consisting of 14 A4 pages folded and bound together. This publication extensively describes two of his performances released earlier that year, titled "Black and white and sometimes colorfoul No. 2" and "Peaceful new year, 108 years after Bertrand Russell". The publication also includes articles from Documenta 6 on video art, an interview with Wies Smals and two other performances ("My name is beautiful" from 1978 and "I am waiting for you" from 1979).[5]
His video works were exhibited at several museums and galleries, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1981. In the same year he participated in the large retrospective exhibition in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.[3]
Museums and exhibitions
Banco de la República,
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Gemeente Museum, The Hague, Netherlands
Bodenseemuseum, Friedrichshafen, Germany
Borås Konstmuseum, Borås, Sweden
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Het Princessehof, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
Amro Bank Collection, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Bessel and Pierrete Kok Collection, Brussels, Belgium
Professor Shigenobu Kimura Collection, Osaka, Japan
Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Collectie Bouwfonds, Hoevelaken, Netherlands
Bonhefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands
Wetering Galerie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
See also
- Nouveau Realisme
- Pop Art
- Video art
- Filmbank
- nl:Experimentele film in Nederland
External links
- [10][permanent dead link] Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas official website
- [11][permanent dead link] Collection of video works by Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas
References
- ^ a b c d e [1][permanent dead link] www.macardenas.nl
- ^ ISBN 9789059730311, page 174
- ^ a b c d e "Wetering Galerie - tentoonstelling". Archived from the original on 2004-08-12. Retrieved 2012-10-02. www.weteringgalerie.nl/tentoonstellingen/cardenas/persbericht.html
- ^ [2] www.askart.com/AskART/artists/biography.aspx?artist=11021109
- ^ a b [3] kunstenaarsboeken.blogspot.nl/2012/02/schilderen-als-performance-michel.html
- ^ [4] www.dewitteraaf.be/artikel/detail/nl/3603
- ^ [5] www.galeries.nl/mnexpo.asp?exponr=16268
- ^ a b [6][permanent dead link] catalogue.nimk.nl/site/?page=%2Fsite%2Fartist.php%3Fid%3D18
- ^ [7] www.nrc.nl/redactie/binnenland/lintjesregen/LintjesregenNRC.xls -list of recipients of the Order of Oranje Nassau
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-07-02. Retrieved 2012-10-02.
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