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Max De Esteban

Proposition Two

Vidéo | dv | couleur | 7:38 | Espagne | 2012

Proposition Two: The Collection SYNOPSIS The Propositions series assemble my projects dealing with contemporary art issues through photography and video. Contemporary art, as most intellectual endeavors today, has its own narratives, languages and contradictions that often feel highly specialized and removed. These projects search for visual structures that raise questions and pull them back to the social and political. In particular, ?Proposition Two: The Collection? addresses the permanent collections in contemporary art museums today. A collection necessarily reflects the dominant/institutional understanding of the nature of art and its role in society. Long gone the alternative visions led by artists such as Broodthaers and Haacke, the model initiated by Thomas Krens has been carried out to its logical consequences by incorporating advertising and entertainment into the museums core values.

Biography Max was born in 1959 in Barcelona, Spain. Lived and worked in Palo Alto, New York, Madrid and London. In 2009 opened his first stable studio in Barcelona and since then focuses exclusively on personal project-based work. Solo Exhibitions: Elegies of Manumission, Quartier Gallery, Vienna, Feb. 2013 Proposition One. Festival de la Luz, Buenos Aires, 2012 Elegies of Manumission, CEHP, Bratislava, 2012 Proposition One. Klompching Gallery, New York, 2011 Proposition One. Spicer House, Barcelona, 2011 Vertige. Fotofestiwal, Lodz, 2010 Don?t listen to me. Spicer House, Barcelona, 2010 Selected Group Exhibitions: Museum of Fine Arts Houston, USA, 2012 Post Script, Cork, Irland, 2012 The Gathering. Rhubarb. Diemar/Noble, London, 2012 Winter Salon. Klompching Gallery, New York, 2012 PNetwork, Siegen, Germany, 2011 Fnac. Madrid and Barcelona, 2011 Escuela Arte, Granada, 2011 FotoTageTrier Triennial, Trier, Germany, 2010 Awards: Encontros da Imagem, Best Portfolio, Finalist, 2011, Portugal National Award of Professional Photography, Gold LUX, 2010, Spain Grand Prix Jury`s Special Award, Fotofestiwal 2010, Poland Monographs: Elegies of Manumission, Nazraeli Press, USA, 2012 Selected TV, Magazine, Journal and Online Features: TA3, TV feature, July 2012, Slovakia Pravda Kultura, Elegies of Manumission, by Jena Opoldusová, July 2012, Slovakia ARTVAS, Vertige, by Joanne Junga Yang, June 2012, Korea Lens Culture, Elegies of Manumission, by Jim Casper, May 2012, France DW-TV Deutsche Welle, TV feature, November 2011, Germany Feature Shoot, by Alison Zavos, November 2011, USA NYC Art Scene, November 2011, USA NY Art Beat, October 2011, USA Wired, August 2011, Italy, USA and Japan Conscientious, by J. Colberg,, March 2011, USA Hotshoe Magazine, by Bill Kouwenhoven, February 2011, UK Education: Graduate from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain) Master from Stanford University (USA) PhD from Universitat Ramon Llull (Spain) Fulbright Alumni. Representation: Klompching Gallery (New York) Charles Guice Contemporary (San Francisco) Spicer House (Barcelona)