Exhibitions: Undisciplined V: Raul Marroquin
Undisciplined V: Raul Marroquin
26 Jan 2010 - 31 Jan 0010
opening: 26 Jan 2010 - 6 to 9 p.m. - Witzenhausen Gallery - Amsterdam
Born: Bogota 1948.
Studies: Escuela de Bellas Artes de La Universidad Nacional Bogota, Jan van Eijck Akademie Maastricht.
Working with video since 1968. One of the pioneers of European video art, his work has been exhibited in ICA London, MOMA New York, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Centre Pompidou Paris, Moderna Museet Stocholm, Museo Reina Sofia Madrid, etc. His single channel works, objects, composites and installations are part of many private and public collections in Europe, the Americas, Australia and the Far East.
From 1971 to 1978 Marroquin published Fandangos, an artist magazine. This was followed by other initiatives like the Kremlin Mole published in Amsterdam during the 1980s. After a series of experiments with Belgium, British, Dutch and German national television stations, Raul Marroquin began to explore the possibilities of cable in Amsterdam (1977). In 1990 he co-authored Time Based Arts Television, later that year he created De Hoeksteen Live Television with stage actor / director Titus Muizelaar, De Hoeksteen is a political, financial, cultural program transmitted live every last Saturday of the month 23:00 - 03:00 C.E.T.
He lectures and conducts workshops on a regular basis: Center for Advanced Visual Studies Massachussets Institue of Technology, London School of Economics and Political Sciences, Universidad Nacional & Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam) Jan van Eijck Akademie (Maastricht) Minerva (Groningen) Aki Enschede in the Netherlands, Alternative Media Studies New York University and others.
Marroquin writes for his own blog and contributes with articles and essays for scientific and special interest publications.
