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Manuel
Abreu

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Manuel

Object 2

Manuel
Abreu (1991, Santo Domingo) is an artist who works in a
Abreu
variety of media. By demonstrating the omnipresent lingering of a
1991
Santo Transformed
Domingo
corporate
world, Abreu tries
to grasp
language.
into art,
Date of
birth:
Birthplace
City:
language becomes an ornament. At that moment, lots of ambiguities
Country
Country:
and indistinctnesses, which are inherent to the phenomenon, come to
the surface.Portland
Surname:

Workplace City:

their artworks focus on the inability of communication which is used to

2. Media
visualise
reality, the attempt of dialogue, the dissonance between form
I mainly
work with:
I also work with:
(select
1
medium)
and content and the dysfunctions
of language. In short, the lack of clear
(not required, select
Painting
references are key elements
in
the
work. With the use of appropriated
multiple)
materials which are borrowed
from a day-to-day context, they presents
Photography
Painting
everyday
Drawing

objects as well
as references to texts, painting and
Photography
architecture. Pompous writings
and Utopian constructivist designs are
Sculpture
Drawing
juxtaposed
with
trivial
objects.
Categories
are subtly reversed.
Performance

Sculpture

Media
art
their works demonstrate Performance
how life extends beyond its own subjective
Installation
art often tells a Media
limits and
story art
about the effects of global cultural
Film
interaction over the latterInstallation
half of the
arttwentieth century. It challenges
Mixed
the media
binaries we continually
Film reconstruct between Self and Other,
Conceptual
between our own cannibal
civilized selves. By investigating
Mixedand
media

I work
language
in a variety
on a meta-level,
of
their works references post-colonial theory as
Conceptual
mediawell as the avant-garde or the post-modern and the left-wing

3. Mydemocratic
main themes
are . . .as a form of resistance against the logic of the
movement
pick three
(eachmarket
theme system.
generates 100 words or 500 letters)
capitalist
Abstraction
Form
Post-modern
they creates situations
in which
everyday objects are altered or
Aesthetics
Interpretati
Presentation
detached from their natural function. By applying specific
on
Alienation
Referential

combinations and certain manipulations, different functions and/or

Irony
Appropriatio
contexts are created. ManuelRepresentatio
Abreu currently lives and works in
Landscape n

Portland.

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Language

Romanticism

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Chance

Memory

Concept

Minimalism

Confusion

Movement

Craftsmanshi

Poetics

Semiotics
Situation

Social
criticism

Pop-culture
Everyday

Strategy
Urbanity
Utopia

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