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ArtTable NY and APAA Afterhours Event at the Bronx Museum
Antonio Sergio Bessa, Bronx Museum Director of Curatorial and Education Programs, will lead members through the political and pivotal work of Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect.
This retrospective highlights Matta-Clarks short but highly influential career, his fusion of art and anarchy, and his groundbreaking use of New York City as his medium.
Sergio Bessa
Director of Curatorial
Sergio Bessa was appointed in 2003. He has over 20 years of experience as an educator and has created a variety of initiatives targeting Bronx youth, such as Teen Council. He has designed programs and curricula and taught art and design, art criticism, and art history at such institutions as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The School of Visual Arts, Scandinavia House, and New York City Board of Education. Also a distinguished curator, he has organized several critically acclaimed exhibitions throughout Europe, in New York, and at the Bronx Museum. His essays and articles appear in such publications as, Öyvind Fahlström: The Art of Writing, 2008; Architectures of Poetry, 2005; and Zingmagazine1998-2000. Mr. Bessa completed his PhD in Art Education from New York University and earned an MFA from Pratt Institute.
Guests will also have the change to view Angel Otero: Elegies, and hear directly from Otero, whose fascinating process unites modern styles and memory, making historical artist influences his own.
Angel Otero
Angel Otero (b. 1981, Santurce, Puerto Rico) is a visual artist best known for his process-based paintings. While much of his works have been influenced by memories based in photographs and other family memorabilia combined with the gestures of 20th century painting, his latest works highlight the artist's unique process as a form of narrative in itself. Through his innovative process of oil paint scraping, Otero venerates historical oil painting while confronting it head-on. Otero's 'deformation' approach to painting his works, first across glass and then once dry, flaying the dried paint and reconstructing the composition anew across large canvasses, is representative of how the artist perceives the process of reconfiguring both personal and historical narratives. Oteros work sometimes uses process as a way of confronting deep, personal memories. Instead of representing his life through art, he archives moments within it by creating opportunities of surprise and discovery. His work is a constant negotiation between the individual and art history.
Reception to follow the program.
These exhibitions were the final curatorial projects of Holly Block (1958-2017), former Director of the Bronx Museum. To donate to the Directors Fund in Honor of Holly Block, please see here.
Thank you to Carol Morgan and Carole Server for organizing this program.
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LocationThe Bronx Museum of the Arts (View)
1040 Grand Concourse
Bronx, NY 10456
United States
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