4 september - 25 september 2004
Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas
Wednesday - Saturday 12.30-5.30 pm
Sunday 5 September 2-5 pm
From Cardena to Cárdenas: 40 years in art.
"Not so bad for an Indian, straight out of the Colombian jungle" (his own quote).
"The Netherlands had hardly ever heard of Pop Art, New Realism or Duchamp when Michel Cardena came here from Colombia, with a terriffic load of knowledge about these new developments. And that was in 1962."
(Wim Beeren of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in the catalogue "Momentopname No 5", 1989).
After his arrival in the Netherlands Michel Cardena (his name as an artist) participated in the major exhibition "Pop Art and New Realism", which toured Museums in The Hague, Brussels, Vienna and Berlin.
In 1969 he was one of 10 avant-garde artists who were invited for a series of cultural soirées at Drakesteyn Castle, organised by Princess Beatrix and her husband. There he carried out one of the first performances in The Netherlands, with the assistance of Prince Claus.
He was one of the initiators in 1972 of the first Dutch artists' association to have its own gallery, the In-Out Center, at the Reguliersgracht in Amsterdam, with a.o. Sigurdur Gudmundsson from Iceland, Ulyses Carrión from Mexico and Dutch artist Pieter Laurens Mol.
Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas is one of the pioneers of video art and his video's have been shown a.o. in the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1981).
In The Netherlands his work was presented in most of the major Museums, with a retrospective exhibition in Museum Boijmans in Rotterdam (1981).
After 20 years of teaching at AKI in Enschede and Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam he has since 1986 gone back to his original discipline of painting.
At the occasion of his seventieth birthday, Wetering Galerie is happy to show a selection of his two-dimensional works from various periods, ranging from 1963 to 2004.
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