TRUCE
Echoes of Art in an Age of Endless Conclusions
SITE SANTA FE’s second Biennial, TRUCE: Echoes of Art in an Age of Endless Conclusions, benefited from the concurrent opening of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum as well as the second ART Santa Fe Contemporary Art Fair, producing a triple header that attracted the art world’s attention. Aptly named, this Biennial signaled a truce with the community by engaging in dialogues with local voices. Curator Francesco Bonami assembled 27 artists from 20 countries whose work connected isolated individuals to communal forces and contested our culture’s language of violence as “the only transmitter of meaning.” Among this Biennial’s successes count Sam Taylor-Wood’s simultaneous videos of five isolated people narrating their lives, Esko Männikkö’s bleak photographs of West Texas Hispanic communities, subREAL’s documenting of Ceaucescu’s fall, and, in his first U.S. showing, William Kentridge’s animations of post-apartheid South Africa.
Exhibited Artists:
Massimo Bartolini
Vanessa Beecroft
Maurizio Cattelan
Olafur Eliasson
Giuseppe Gabellone
Kevin Hanley
Gary Hume
Noritoshi Hirakawa
Huang Yong Ping
Martin Polák & Lukáš Jasanský
Alexis Leyva Machado "KCHO"
William Kentridge
Suchan Kinoshita
Udomsak Krisanamis
Sharon Lockhart
Esko Männikkö
Chris Moore
Tracey Moffatt
Elizabeth Peyton
Tobias Rehberger
Miguel Rio Branco
Rudolf Stingel
Pascale Marthine Tayou
Sam Taylor-Wood
Jaan Toomik
Eulália Valldosera
subREAL (Cãlin Dan and Josif Kiraly)
Curator:
Francesco Bonami
Massimo Bartolini
Massimo Bartolini, born in Cecina in 1962, where he currently resides and works, has a multifaceted background. He studied as a surveyor in Livorno (1...LEARN MOREVanessa Beecroft
Vanessa Beecroft’s work has been shown internationally since 1993, and has shaped performance art, the representation of the female body, and the soci...LEARN MOREMaurizio Cattelan
Since the early 1990s Maurizio Cattelan has been internationally recognized for his humorous and ironic works which provoke and challenge the limits o...LEARN MOREOlafur Eliasson
The works of artist Olafur Eliasson explore the relevance of art in the world at large. Born in 1967, Eliasson grew up in Iceland and Denmark, where h...LEARN MOREGiuseppe Gabellone
Born in 1973 in Brindisi, Italy, Giuseppe Gabellone lives and works in Paris. Through his practice, which combines several mediums, Gabellone created ...LEARN MOREKevin Hanley
Kevin Hanley is a multimedia artist exhibiting since 1992, and for 12 years was an associate professor at Art Center College of Design. His work has b...LEARN MOREGary Hume
Painting is receding into a system of unconventional signs; Hume's LEARN MORENoritoshi Hirakawa
Born 1960 in Japan. Residing in New York City since 1993. Hirakawa is now an internationally known contemporary artist after studying Applied Sociolog...LEARN MOREHuang Yong Ping
Who is the strongest? Who is the weakest? Where does power reside in today's society and how can we measure the power that rules in different contexts...LEARN MOREMartin Polák & Lukáš Jasanský
In a kind of Duchampian autopsy of their own culture, these two photographers allow the audience to observe a metamorphosis of context within a pure a...LEARN MOREAlexis Leyva Machado "KCHO"
Any political regime, Cuba included, will be defined differently by those who flee it and those who decide to stay. KCHO's work is doomed to the same ...LEARN MOREWilliam Kentridge
William Kentridge is internationally acclaimed for his drawings, films, theatre and opera productions. His method combines drawing, writing, film, per...LEARN MORESuchan Kinoshita
"The phenomenology of the intangible" is perhaps the best definition of Suchan Kinoshita's work. The world could disappear under a mantle of dust, lea...LEARN MOREUdomsak Krisanamis
Language is the source of all possible abstraction. Using the field of his painting as an assignment to learn, Udomsak Krisanamis moves slowly toward ...LEARN MORESharon Lockhart
Movies are an alternate reality, a different point of view from which to focus on the world. Each photograph or still taken by Lockhart is the attempt...LEARN MOREEsko Männikkö
Finnish photographer Esko Männikkö gained international acclaim in the mid 1990s with the series LEARN MOREChris Moore
Fashion: not as a device to step upon the stool of contemporary art, but an aesthetic dimension of daily life. Clothes are the elements that define yo...LEARN MORETracey Moffatt
In a metaphysical setting amid the Australian desert a silent, anthropological drama is performed. In a Beckett-like situation, two women examine thei...LEARN MOREElizabeth Peyton
Elizabeth Peyton lives and works in New York. Her work first attracted public attention in 1993 when an exhibition of her historical portraits was sho...LEARN MORETobias Rehberger
Art as a discussion of comfort levels appears to be Rehberger's tack in designing the space and objects of his installation. Thinking of architecture ...LEARN MOREMiguel Rio Branco
Son of diplomats, Miguel Rio Branco spent his childhood in Portugal, Switzerland, Brazil and the United States. He has variously been a painter, a pho...LEARN MORERudolf Stingel
From his captivatingly realistic oil paintings to his innovative use of Celotex, Styrofoam, carpet, and aluminum, Rudolf Stingel challenges traditiona...LEARN MOREPascale Marthine Tayou
Tayou's sculptural installations and drawings, often divided into chambers and anti-chambers, are revolving meditations on how the African continent c...LEARN MORESam Taylor-Wood
Sam Taylor-Johnson started working in photography and film in the 1990s, alongside fellow Young British Artists, Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin. She exh...LEARN MOREJaan Toomik
Born in 1961 in Tartu, raised in Haapsalu, lives and works in Tallinn. Studied painting and graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts in 1991. Curre...LEARN MOREEulàlia Valldosera
Eulàlia Valldosera developed a body of work demystifying the status of the artist as a unique creator, conceiving herself, in her own words, as a prod...LEARN MOREsubREAL (Cãlin Dan & Josif Király)
The end of the Ceaucescu regime in Romania may be one of the most virulent events broadcast by the media in the past decade; the trial and execution w...LEARN MOREFrancesco Bonami
Francesco Bonami was born in Florence in 1955. He directed the Venice Biennale Dreams and Conflicts in 2003. In 1997 he curated SITE SANTA FE Biennial...LEARN MORE