Arturo Hernandez Alcazar lives and works between Mexico City, Paris, Madrid, and Berlin.  

 

Alcazar works in installations, drawings, and photographic interventions. Interested in the accumulated remains of everyday life, he recycles discarded products and materials. Alcazar’s work places these objects in unusual locations that transform and reinterpret their economic and symbolic value; his process destroys, vaporizes, cancels, dissolves, and returns these objects to the world of economic circulation. Using copper, white and black smoke, iron, archives, newspapers, coins, rocks, and building remains - the practice of Arturo Hernandez Alcazar is one of constant transformation, circulation, and investigation.

 

Alcazar attended Mexico’s prestigious art school La Esmeralda, but also participated in philosophy seminars at Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico) and Centro de la Imagen (Mexico City, Mexico). He has collaborated and exhibited at various independent and alternative spaces such as Ignacio Mejía in Paris, France; Temporary Home in Kassel, Germany; Archivo en Proceso in Mexico City, Mexico; Dusseldorf Academy in Dusseldorf and  Am_Phoenix in Berlin, both in Germany. His work has been shown in international museums and galleries such as the 5th edition of the Moscow Biennial; the 10th edition of the Istanbul Biennial; the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, France; Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) in Mexico City, Mexico; Museo Amparo in Puebla, México; Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City, Mexico; and in the United States at the San Francisco Art Institute and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

 

In 2006 he was awarded a grant through Mexico’s Jóvenes Creadores program and was invited to Noordkaap’s (Dordrecht, Holland) first artist-in-residency program in collaboration with FONCA’s Special Project Fund. In 2012, Alcazar became a member of the Sommerakademie, a program founded by the Paul Klee Center in Bern, Switzerland. That same year he completed a residency at Cité des Arts in París and received Mexico’s FONCA-Conaculta fellowship for Individual Projects for his site-specific work, Bauschut in Berlin, Germany. Arturo is part of Meteorito Magazine and Ocaso Publishing’s editorial board. His book Escombro will soon be released by El Mojado publishers.  

 

He currently shows with Vadehra Art Gallery in New Delhi, India and with Le Laboratoire (where he had his solo show Horizonte Roto) and Marso Gallery, both in Mexico City, Mexico.