Armando Andrade Tudela at Dvir Gallery

Artist: Armando Andrade Tudela

Exhibition title: Shadows and cervical hinges

Venue: Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Date: November 11 – December 17, 2022

Photography: Elad Sarig / all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Dvir Gallery

Dvir Gallery is delighted to present ‘Shadows and cervical hinges’, the first solo show of Armando Andrade Tudela with the gallery.

For this exhibition, Andrade Tudela has created three new series of textiles entitled ‘Shadows and Cervical hinges’, ‘Ulna’ and ‘Untitled (T.A)’, all produced using an extremely reduced number of visual signs that are modified during the production process.

Index of signs:
Hinges, necks and a double profile, smiling emoji ball and chain, a distorted scan of a batik-dyed sock, the shadow of another neck, a quote from Chichimecatecuhtli — an indigenous Mexican that while being interrogated by the Spanish Inquisition during the 16th century, said: ‘Who are these who undo us, and disturb us, and live over us, and we carry them on our shoulders and they subjugate us?

The textiles are first printed, then cut, assembled, then reprinted, and in some cases reassembled again until they produce a text of sorts that is indivisible from its structural composition. Alongside the canvases, Andrade Tudela has produced a new series of photograms titled ‘Serflex Type’, where plastic handcuffs are used to produce grids, crosses and curves creating a form of ‘typography of violence’. These, as well as new works on paper, function as the punctuation marks of the exhibition.

With the support of Ensba Lyon. The artist will like to thank Sarah Breassier, Laura Ouakil, Vincent Guiomar, Guillaume Seyller, Julie Kieffer, Constance Burger-Leenhardt, and Denis Lecoq.

Armando Andrade Tudela (b. 1975, Lima, Perú) had multiple solo exhibition in institutions such as the MACBA (Barcelona), CRAC Alsace (Altkirch), Mali – Museo de Arte de Lima (Lima), Museo Tamayo (Mexico City), Frankfurter Kunstverein (Frankfurt am Main), Kunsthalle Basel (Basel), and FRAC Bourgogne (Dijon). Over the years, he was featured in group shows at the Centre Pompidou (Paris), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York City), Jewish Museum of Belgium (Brussels), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), Museo Jumex (Mexico City), Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea (Torino), Tate Liverpool (Liverpool), MAM (São Paulo), MMK (Frankfurt am Main), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), and San Diego Museum of Art (San Diego), among others.

His works are part of numerous prestigious collections, such as the Centre Pompidou (Paris), MoMA (New York City), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York City), MMK (Frankfurt), MACBA (Barcelona), Museo de Arte de Lima (Lima), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), Castello di Rivoli (Torino), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis) and Queensland Art Gallery Collection (Brisbane).

Andrade Tudela was the recipient of the Becas de Artes Plasticas 2019 from the Fundacion Botìn and the DAAD Kunstlerprogramm in Berlin in 2008. Upcoming shows for 2023, including Le Cap St Fons, St Fons and MoMA, NY.

Armando Andrade Tudela, Shadows and cervical hinges, 2022, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv

Armando Andrade Tudela, Shadows and cervical hinges, 2022, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv

Armando Andrade Tudela, Shadows and cervical hinges, 2022, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv

Armando Andrade Tudela, Shadows and cervical hinges, 2022, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv

Armando Andrade Tudela, Shadows and cervical hinges, 2022, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv

Armando Andrade Tudela, Serflex Type I, 2022, photogram, 40.7 x 54.4 cm

Armando Andrade Tudela, Serflex Type VI, 2022, photogram, 40.7 x 54.4 cm

Armando Andrade Tudela, Serflex Type II, 2022, photogram, 40.7 x 54.4 cm

Armando Andrade Tudela, Serflex Type VII, 2022, photogram, 40.7 x 54.4 cm

Armando Andrade Tudela, Shadows and Cervical Hinges #4, 2022, silkscreen print on textile, 230 x 120 cm

Armando Andrade Tudela, N.NUCA.A.S., 2022, pencil and silkscreen print on paper, 40.7 x 55.9 cm

Armando Andrade Tudela, Serflex Type III, 2022, photogram, 54.4 x 40.7 cm

Armando Andrade Tudela, Shadows and Cervical Hinges #3, 2022, silkscreen print on textile, 230 x 120 cm

Armando Andrade Tudela, Serflex Type IV, 2022, photogram, 40.7 x 54.4 cm

Armando Andrade Tudela, Serflex Type VIII, 2022, photogram, 40.7 x 54.4 cm

Armando Andrade Tudela, Serflex Type IX, 2022, photogram, 40.7 x 54.4 cm

Armando Andrade Tudela, Untitled (T.A.), 2022, silkscreen print and bleach on textile 230 x 165 cm

Armando Andrade Tudela, Ulna #4, 2022, silkscreen print on textile, 230 x 135 cm

Armando Andrade Tudela, Ulna #2, 2022, silkscreen print on textile, 230 x 135 cm

Armando Andrade Tudela, Serflex Type V, 2022, photogram, 54.4 x 40.7 cm

Armando Andrade Tudela, Cerrojo / Sintaxis, 2022, pencil and silkscreen print on paper 55.9 x 40.7 cm

Armando Andrade Tudela, Untitled, 2022, silkscreen print on textile, 230 x 92 cm

Armando Andrade Tudela, M.T.A.E.Q.A.U.T.I.R.N.O.A, 2022, pencil and silkscreen print on paper, 40.7 x 55.9 cm

Armando Andrade Tudela, Sommaire, 2022, pencil and silkscreen print on paper, 40.7 x 55.9 cm

Armando Andrade Tudela, Untitled (T.A.), 2022, silkscreen print and bleach on textile 230 x 165 cm

Armando Andrade Tudela, Ulna #1, 2022, silkscreen print on textile, 230 x 135 cm

Armando Andrade Tudela, Shadows and Cervical Hinges #2, 2022, silkscreen print on textile, 230 x 120 cm