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Ishmael Randall Weeks MACRO, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma
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Ishmael Randall Weeks Untitled, 2012
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Ishmael Randall Weeks Parquet, 2012
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Ishmael Randall Weeks Palestra, 2012
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Ishmael Randall Weeks Trinità Dei Monti, 2012
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Ishmael Randall Weeks Eur, 2012
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Ishmael Randall Weeks Campo De’ Fiori, 2012
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Ishmael Randall Weeks Morsetto, Seghetto, Martello, 2012
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Ishmael Randall Weeks Mapping, 2012
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Ishmael Randall Weeks Atlas, 2012
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Ishmael Randall Weeks Tlateloco, 2011
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Ishmael Randall Weeks Plano, 2012
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Ishmael Randall Weeks Frame 1, 2012
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Ishmael Randall Weeks Mostrario, 2012
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Ishmael Randall Weeks Modern Vernacular, 1, 2, 3, 4, 2011
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Ishmael Randall Weeks Wall, 2012
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Ishmael Randall Weeks Manuale, 2012
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OPEN STUDIO, THURSDAY 15 MARCH 2012, 7.00 - 10.00 PM
MACRO, VIA NIZZA, ROME
For his residency at Macro, Ishmael Randall Weeks plans to extend his exploration of spatial concepts and quotidian perspectives integrating thoughts on landscape, architecture, roof design and erosion as a way of entering a formal, conceptual and visual dialogue, centred on and around fragility and structure.
The foundation of Randall Weeks’ work is the alteration of found and recycled materials and environmental debris, often on site, and includes such source materials to create site-specific installations, sculptures, and works on paper that probe issues of urbanization, development, travel, mobility, and exchange in a globalized world. By creating works that take the visual form of functional objects while stripping them of their productivity, the artist addresses notions of labour and utility, forcing an examination of our understanding of culturally specific forms. Further, his use of abandoned objects and detritus as sculptural material forces an acknowledgement of the constituent elements, simultaneously exploiting and adapting their particular codes and associations. Ishmael uses his deep knowledge of modernist language (Modernism found some of its most fertile ground in South and Latin America) to define his strong sense of his hand-hewn aesthetic and of materials, which seems to stem as much from Robert Smithson’s vocabulary and the Minimalism of early Richard Serra and Robert Morris as anything else.
Ishmael Randall Weeks, born 1976 in Cusco, Peru, was educated at Bard College, NY, and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He has received fellowships, residencies, and awards from a range of institutions, including the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, New York; the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York; The Art Matters Foundation, New York; the Vermont Studio Art Center, Johnson, Vermont; Sculpture Space, New York; Kiosko Art Residency, Santa Cruz, Bolivia; La Curtiduria art center in Oaxaca, Mexico; and Jumex Foundation, Mexico, among others. Solo exhibitions include: Maquette For Landscape, Federica Schiavo Gallery, Roma (2010); Aún sin Título, Revolver Galeria, Lima (2010); Eleven Rivington Gallery, New York (2009). Recent group exhibitions include: The Drawing Room in London, Dublin Contemporary and The Kitchen New York in 2011; in 2010 his work is at MoMa PS1 as part of Greater New York, and in 2009 at the New Museum for Younger Than Jesus.