Alejandro Cesarco
»Scrabble« (2001)
Video, colour, silent, 15 min
Courtesy Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin

APRIL 8 – APRIL 28, 2009

Alejandro Cesarco was invited by Ellen Blumenstein (freelance curator, Berlin)

»Scrabble« (2001)

Alejandro Cesarco (*1975) is an Urugayan artist based in New York, who works within the tradition of Conceptual Art. His practice draws from popular culture, art history, and literature and manifests in diverse artistic media.Scrabble is a video registry of a scripted game – the artist plays scrabble with three friends. A fixed camera shows the board where names of Cesarco’s personal references are composed according to script. The names accumulate on top of each other in a sculptural manner. As this occurs, the traces of the names become unrecognizable, they lose specificity and become intertwined as something other; a web of influences that becomes illegible, and together outline a sense of portraiture.Although Scrabble does not spell out a narrative, in the sense that there is no sense of time nor hierarchy in the names alluded to, there is still a sense of mystery and expectation and prediction that occurs. Which name will be next? Do I know this reference? How does it work in relation to the previous ones? Can I guess which name would further the construction of this very personal canon? Who is this collection of references describing?

Ellen Blumenstein

Website of the artist: www.cesarco.info