<Site-specific installation, light sculpture & sound installation>

place:

Baptistery of the Duomo di Volterra, Italy

opening: 2008-11-01 | ending: 2008-11-03
curator: Klaudia Rushkowski & Wofgang Storch

The site-specific installation integrates the projection of luminous rays forming an octagonal double pyramid with the sound of eight voices reproducing fragments of the Nican Mopohua, a Sixteen Century book, attributed to Juan Valeriano -first written document of the appearance of Tonantzin-Guadalupe at the Tepeyac hill.

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<lambda prints - different formats>

place: Oratory of the Mine of Montecatini Val di Cecina, Italy
opening: 2008-11-01 | ending: 2008-11-30
curator: Klaudia Rushkowski & Wofgang Storch

At the Oratory of the Mine of Montecatini Val di Cecina, where one of the oldest paintings in Italy of the Virgin of Guadalupe was found, Alejandro Gómez de Tuddo installed a series of photographs at the place where old religious paintings use to be: Sudden apparitions: tattooed images over the skin and landscape of two nations.

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<x-ray & photographs>

place:

Museo de Arte Contemporaneo AZ Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico

opening: 2008-03-08 | ending: 2008-07-30
curator: Basilisco/María Eugenia Fuentes Lanning

The XIX Century mansion occupied by the Museum of Contemporary Art AZ of Morelia, was transformed into a Mental Health Institution to receive the works of Alejandro Gómez de Tuddo and the danish artist Eva Gerd.

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<installation: magnetic resonance, audio & human brain>

place: Forum Universal de las Culturas, Centro de las Artes, Monterrey, México
opening: 2007-06-01 | ending: 2007-08-01
curator: Fernando Delmar

Alejandro Gómez de Tuddo retoma el tema de la locura para reflexionar sobre los mecanismos de la representación y la imaginación; la memoria y el recuerdo. Las proyecciones que forman parte de esta obra provienen de resonancias magnéticas de instrumental médico de principios del siglo pasado que el artista encontró en un antiguo hospital psiquiátrico clausurado. La estructura espiral evoca la trayectoria del pensamiento. Al igual que el cerebro del paciente que se encuentra en su interior, nos encontramos dentro de un contenedor translúcido, rodeados de las imágenes de los instrumentos que en un pasado no muy remoto, fueron utilizados para intervenir ese mismo cerebro en formaldehído. Las imágenes de los instrumentos y sus "artefactos" (distorsiones en la imagen del objeto sometido a resonancia magnética que aparecen unidos a la imagen misma del objeto), pendulan y mutan en sincronía con otras resonancias sonoras: el aleteo de las aves, sus graznidos y el sonido producido por el viento en su paso por una antigua construcción abandonada, a manera de arpa eólica. Pero más allá de las teorías cognitivas, Gómez de Tuddo recrea fragmentos de la historia del estudio de la mente y de los procesos de pensar, ver e imaginar.

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<lambda prints 1.44 x .95 m>

place: La Station, Nice
opening: 2007-01-19 | ending: 2007-02-18
curator: Cédric Teisseire




cave canem: beware of the dog

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<72 x 48 in. lambda prints>

place: Museum of Modern Art, Mexico
opening: 2005-10-01 | ending: 2005-12-01
curator: Luís Martín Lozano

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<72 x 48 in. lambda prints>

place: Centro de las Artes-Fototeca-Monterrey, Mexico
opening: 2005-06-01 | ending: 2005-09-01
curator: Loretto Garza Zambrano

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<multimedia & silk altar piece with lambda print 82 x 1.20 m.>

place: Supperclub, Rome
opening: 2005-05-01 | ending: 2005-06-01
curator: Marco Delogu

The photograph of a young man killed during the Iran-Irak war –surrounded by plastic flowers with very vivid colors- is the central icon of a large format series of images that are part of the most recent works of Alejandro Gómez de Tuddo, done in Iran during 2004. Firuz Abad, precisely where the ruins of one of the more ancient fire temples are found, lodge today a small cemetery: young soldiers like the main character of this portrait rest here; they were given a golden key –to attain the opening of the doors of Allah’s paradise- in case they died in such war that it is so recent and yet seems so far

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<72 x 48 in. lambda prints>

place: Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneos, San José de Costa Rica
opening: 2005-05-01 | ending: 2005-06-01
curator: Teresa Macri. Organizzata da Prometeo Associazione Culturale per l´Arte Contemporanea:Ida Pisani-Klaus Steinmetz

Alejandro Gómez De Tuddo, infatti, non affida la sua rappresentazione alla fin troppo facile suggestione dell’iconografia smaccata messicana (sicuramente glamour e digeribile ad un fruitore pacatamente engagé), piuttosto si affida inconsciamente o consciamente al campo della iconologia ancorché fenomenologico, a quella storia delle immagini che ci si ripresentano e ci riappaiono velate dal tempo e che appartengono alla storia delle pulsioni individuali e collettive.

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<72 x 48 in. lambda prints>

place: Scuderie del Palazzo Santacroce, Rome
opening: 2005-05-01 | ending: 2005-06-01
curator: Irma Arestizábal

The morning of his death I gave away his things;
I just kept the beach ball that still holds his breath.

Juán Carrillo Arias, La Giganta

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<72 x 48 in. lambda prints>

place: Parque Ferial Juán Cárlos I, Madrid
opening: 2005-02-11 | ending: 2005-02-17
curator: Antonio Zaya

Alejandro Gómez de Tuddo’s work among the top ten most interesting proposals on view at ARCO of the more than six thousand works exhibited."

20 minutos, Madrid, February 11, 2005

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<72 x 48 in. lambda prints>

place: Bewag Halle-Prenzlauerberg, Berlin, Germany
opening: 2004-09-01 | ending: 2004-09-01
curator: Wolfgang Storch & Klaudia Ruschkowski

There are no titles, only indications of the place and year of the shot: Saigon 2002, Tehran 2004, Naples 2003; the photographic eye of Alejandro Gómez de Tuddo captures traces of a daily, universal violence almost archaic: bodies of animals reduced to shreds, slaughterd or sacrificed in rituals that survive into our postmodern times; living creatures that other living creatures kill for nourishmentor simply to ingratiate themselves; beings that only exist in the imaginary...

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<lambda prints 72 x 47>

place: San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy
opening: 2004-06-01 | ending: 2004-09-01
curator: Luigi Maria Perotti

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<56 x 37 in. lambda prints>

place: Latin Collector Gallery, New York
opening: 2004-06-01 | ending: 2004-09-01
curator: Carlos Motta

Alejandro Gómez de Tuddo's photographs inhabit a place between the real and the symbolic, his images are evidence of a personal search for social rectification through a visual mourning.

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<72 x 48 in. lambda prints>

place: Villa Maraini, Istituto Svizzero di Roma
opening: 2004-03-01 | ending: 2004-07-01
curator: Francesco Fiorentino

(Neottolemo) ...it's the body of his death that looses his blood long was he under the foot of death to his and our disgraces I have put an end."

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<72 x 48 in. lambda prints>

place: Supperclub, Roma, partner tecnico di 4romaeuropafestival
opening: 2003-10-01 | ending: 2003-10-01
curator: -

James Hall’s performance creates three-dimensional installations based upon Alejandro Gómez de Tuddo’s photographs; his own interpretation of these images delves into the emptiness that many people feel and their need to practice sacrifice and torture on themselves, as well as on others, as a means of bringing life into their “still lives”. Thus, the interpretation of the photographs continues its own lineage of thought and emotion.

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<20 x 28 in. cybachrome prints; feather with id tag & installation>

place: Spazio espositivo, Università degli Studi di Roma Tre
opening: 2003-05-01 | ending: 2003-05-01
curator: Bruna Donatelli

“The work of Alejandro Gómez de Tuddo is a scenario; another aspect of photography. We may photograph whatever we found or add something else to the reality: transform it and then shoot it..." “...it is a work divided in two parts: The photographs of the feather at the place where it was laid by, and the feather with its tag, which is part of a second composition...” “...his images are a reflection on death, birds & the dispersion of birds...”

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<On-line exhibition>

place: www.ps122gallery.org "Nueva York"
opening: 2003-03-01 | ending: 2003-03-01
curator: Cécile Mainardi

Writing holds that which can make its skin explode when it so holds, late into the night.

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<56 x 37 in. lambda prints>

place: Roman Forum - Mercati di Traiano, Rome
opening: 2002-05-01 | ending: 2002-05-01
curator: Marco Delogu

"The nahual or animal alterego represents the strongest bond between man and nature surronding him; a kind of insurance against the human forces uncapable of giving satisfaction to the constraints of the natural world where he lives and acts, over which the cultivated man has risen but is still attached to..." "... It is a disjunction from the 'Me' that we are (or think we are) towards the other that we also are, and who is always different from us. Disjunction: apparition; experience of the oddity of being human."

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<56 x 37 in. cybachrome prints>

place: Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna; Valle Giulia, Rome
opening: 2001-10-01 | ending: 2001-10-01
curator: Anna Mattirolo

Sacrifice belongs to a series of diptics that express the dualism between direct and reflected light: the binomial rite-everyday life...

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