Alexandre Arrechea

Contemporary Cuban visual artist. Native of Trinidad in the province of Sancti Spiritus. He graduated from the "Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA)" in Havana in 1994.

He was a member of the group Los Carpinteros for 12 years until July 4, 2003, when he continued his work independently.

His public art involves the concepts of power and its network of hierarchies, surveillance, control, prohibitions and subjugation. The spectator's participation in the work adds to its contemplation. The work arises from human actions and reactions in the face of contemporary versions of the world already described by Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century.

The eye of power watches everything and everyone, and everyone watches everyone else and themselves.

The quality of interdisciplinarity of Alexandre Arrechea reveals a profound interest in exploring both public and domestic spaces. This search has led him to produce several monumental projects such as "Ciudad Transportable" (2000), "The Garden of Mistrust" (2003-2005) and "Perpetual Free Entrance" (2006).

He has exhibited in the most important museums in the United States, as well as in Germany, Spain, South Africa, Mexico, Italy, Brazil, Canada, Finland, Holland, United Kingdom and, of course, Cuba. The work of Alexandre Arrechea explores public and domestic spaces. This search has led him to produce several monumental projects such as "Ciudad Transportable" (2000), "The Garden of Mistrust" (2003-2005) and "Perpetual Free Entrance" (2006).

1994. Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), Havana, Cuba.

Solo Exhibitions
2010
Architecture of perception, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
Casado Santapau Gallery, Spain.
Magnan Projects Gallery, New York, USA.
Savannah College Art and Design, USA.
2009
One Day After the Future. Galería Villa Manuela, Havana, Cuba.
Everything, something, nothing. CAB Centro de Arte Caja Burgos, Spain.
[[ARCO 2009.
2008
Mistrust, American University Museum at the Katzen, Washington DC, USA.
Suicide landscape, Casado-Santa-Pau Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
2007
What could happen if I lie. Magnan Projects Gallery, New York, USA.
Defeated Space. Casado-Santa-Pau Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
Scalpel and cotton. Contemporary links / San Diego Museum of Art. USA.
2006
Perpetual free entrance. Patio Herreriano, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Español, Valladolid, Spain.
The limit. Mary Goldman Gallery, LA, California, USA.
2005
Dust. Magnan Projects Gallery, New York, USA.
Dust. Miramar Trade Center, Havana, Cuba.
Nada Art Fair. Mary Goldman Gallery, LA, California, USA.
Pulse. Magnan Projects Gallery, New York, USA.
Nowhere. Alonso Fine Arte, Miami, USA.
Raúl Cordero, Felipe Dulzaides, Alexandre Arrechea at Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba.

Group Exhibitions
2010
Museum of Art and Design, New York, USA.
2009
Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art, Russia.
Latin Americas. The Fatigues of Wanting. Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy.
X Havana Biennial, Cuba.
Tasaloniki]] Biennial, Greece.
Pulse. New York, USA.
Arteamericas. Miami, USA.
2008
Prisoner´s Dilemma: Selection from the Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection. Miami, USA.
Pinta Air Fair. Metropolitan Pavilion and The Altman Art Building, New York, USA.
Prospect 1. New Orleans, USA.
ARCO, 2008.
Black Elephant. Museo Diego Rivera, Mexico City, Mexico.
2007
Perspectives in Latin American Art. MoMA, New York, USA.
Tomorrow. Artsonje Center. Seoul, Korea.
2006
Fatamorgana Illusion and Deception in Contemporary Art. Haifa Museum of Art, Israel.
Stop and Forward. Galería Habana, Cuba.
2005
53rd Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy.
Out of place- works on paper. Mary Goldman Gallery. Los Angeles, USA.
Contemporary Art Salon. Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba.

Fellowships and Residencies
2005. Braziers International. Oxfordshire, England.
2002. Artist in residence, The Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, New Castle, England.
2000. Art Promotion Award. UNESCO, 7th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba.
1997. First Prize. Contemporary Art, El Mundo Magazine.
1995-96. Endowment. Department of Exhibitions and Collections. Spanish Ministry of Culture, Madrid, Spain.

Collections
Arizona State University. ASU Art Museum, Arizona, USA.
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain.
Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
Daros Collection Zurich, Switzerland.
Museo Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo, Spain.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), USA.
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany.
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Los Angeles, USA.
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA.
[[Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba.
Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain.
San Diego Art Museum, San Diego, USA.
Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art Foundation, Vienna, Austria.
Ulrich Museum. Wichita State University, Kansas, USA.
University of California at Santa Barbara Museum, Santa Barbara, USA.
Fredrick Weissman Foundation. Beverly Hills, USA.
Cincinnati Museum of Contemporary Art, Ohio, USA.

The most important New York public sculpture award, Sculpture on Park Avenue, will allow him to exhibit 10 of his sculptures in New York starting next February. For five months, the pieces of this artist who was part of the Los Carpinteros collective for 15 years and who has been doing individual work since 2005, will be integrated into the life of the city and can be appreciated by passersby.

The gigantic pieces planned by Arrechea play with 10 iconic buildings in New York. Four workshops, in Brooklyn and in Madrid, are working on their fabrication. "It's a kind of pharaonic project," the artist commented to Cuban Art News.

During the recently held Art Miami fair, Arrechea showed these works at a smaller scale.