Alejandro Cesarco wins Baloise Prize
Congratulations to Alejandro Cesarco who has been awarded the 2011 Baloise Art Prize for his installation, The Streets Were Dark With Something More Than Night or The Closer I Get To The End The More I Rewrite The Beginning, currently on view at Art Statements in Art 42 Basel.
Cesarco's work was selected from among 25 projects at Art Statements by a jury consisting of Karola Kraus, director of MuMOK, Vienna; Daniel Birnbaum, director of the Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Petra Roettig, director of the Galerie der Gegenwart, Hamburger Kunsthalle; and Thomas Olbricht, me Collectors Room, Berlin.
Cesarco's installation is a mise-en-scène comprising wall texts, a slide show, framed photographs, and an artist's book, which reconfigure the conventions of the detective story to imagine the viewer as a private investigator, ensnared in self-reflexive observation. While holding out the promise of meaning and order, the assembled works use the codes of the genre to disarticulate narrative structures of reading and looking.
For more information on the Baloise Prize, please visit: www.baloise.com/art
