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Claudia Martínez Garay Caminos de Liberación October 1 - November 13, 2021 Van Baerlestraat 80, Amsterdam


Claudia Martínez Garay Caminos de Liberación October 1 - November 13, 2021 Van Baerlestraat 80, Amsterdam

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GRIMM is proud to announce an exhibition of new works by Claudia Martínez Garay (b. 1983, Ayacucho, PE) at GRIMM Van Baerlestraat in Amsterdam. “(...) del control de las almas al control de los cuerpos (...), al control de los bolsilllos (...)” “(...) from the control of souls to control the bodies (...) to control the pockets (...)” Walter Mignolo Martínez Garay’s new works create a dialogue encompassing ideas of oppression and indoctrination in modern day Peru. In the artist’s second solo show in Amsterdam, she addresses the contemporary effects of neocolonial infrastructures; from genocidal acts perpetrated by the teachings of the Catholic Church, the violence of the communist party and terrorist organization Shining Path, and detrimental Peruvian government policies towards native populations. Since the Spanish invasion, Catholic ideologies have driven the eradication of native cultural and religious practices. During the civil war, the development and imposition of racial categories led to enforced community displacement, ethnic cleansing, and involuntary sterilization. Martínez Garay’s work animates this history - in marked contrast to the museum displays where one typically encounters remains of the past - the intimate scale of the ceramics gives a viewer a sense that they are looking into a living diorama where multiple dimensions exist simultaneously.

Much like the cultural history she references, the artist’s narration contains fragmented motifs and imagery and is infused with an evaluation of her own identity. Clay has long been an important material for Martínez Garay’s practice which is also emulated through the earth tones she uses in her paintings. During the past years, Martínez Garay has found herself revisiting family albums, where Andean traditions survived inside Catholic celebrations, in a place hunted by violence. Their inclusion in the paintings presented in the show link historical and personal moments, portraying how brown bodies and minds have become a battleground that ideologies and beliefs are forced upon. The exhibition is titled after Grupo Chaski’s short film Caminos de Liberación (Pathways of Liberation). In the film, Peruvian priest and philosopher Gustavo Gutiérrez, openly critiques the Catholic Church’s indifference and contempt towards socially discriminated members of society. Gutiérrez denounces the power structures that perpetuated these abuses in Theology of Liberation, a publication that he co-founded. The publication brings to light the persecution and deaths caused by Shining Path and the military. Both of whom enabled the persecution and killing of members of religious organizations who helped orphans, families, and political prisoners, due to their socialist or even neutral tendencies and practices.


Claudia Martínez Garay Claudia Martínez Garay lives and works between Amsterdam (NL) and Lima (PE). Martínez Garay studied at the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Peru (PE) and was a resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam (NL) from 2016 to 2017. Recently, the artist’s work has been exhibited at Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing (CN); Museum Albertinum, Dresden (DE); SAVVY, Berlin (DE); Kunstverein, Braunschweig (DE); El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY (US); 21st Contemporary Art Biennial Sesc_ Videobrasil, São Paulo (BR); 16th Istanbul Biennal: the Seventh Continent, Istanbul (TR); Taming Y/Our Passion, Aichi Triennale, Aichi (JP); Immortality, 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ekatherinburg (RU); 12th Shanghai Biennale: Proregress, Shanghai, (CN); and Songs for Sabotage - New Museum Triennial, New Museum, NY (US). Forthcoming group exhibitions include All Eyes | We are the collection, Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL); B.A.K., basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht (NL); Denver Art Museum, CO (US). In 2022 she will be part of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi (IN) and her work will be on view in the opening exhibition of Museum Arnhem (NL).

Selected collections include: Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL); AMC Art Collection, Amsterdam (NL); Central Reserve Bank of Peru, Lima (PE); Cisnero Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Miami, FL (US); Fundación Studie e Richerche Benetton, Treviso (IT); Graeme Briggs Collection (SG); KADIST Collection (FR); KPMG Art Collection, Amsterdam (NL); Hochschild Collection (PE); Lima Art Museum (MALI) (PE); LOOP Collection, MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona (ES); Micromuseo al fondo hay sitio, Lima (PE); Museu Olho Latino, Atibaia (BR) and Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing (CN).


Detail | Bajada de Reyes (Wise Men Celebration), 2021


Bajada de Reyes (Wise Men Celebration), 2021 Acrylic, clay, and casein on linen 140 x 160 cm | 55 1/8 x 63 in



Installation view | Caminos de Liberación | GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL), 2021



Campaña gratuita, 2021 Ceramic including plinth: 111 x 40 x 40 cm 43 3/4 x 15 3/4 x 15 3/4 in



Campaña gratuita, 2021 Ceramic including plinth: 111 x 40 x 40 cm 43 3/4 x 15 3/4 x 15 3/4 in



Una promesa y una amenaza (A promise and a threat), 2021 Acrylic, clay, and casein on linen 150 x 150 cm | 59 1/8 x 59 1/8 in




Installation view | Caminos de Liberación | GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL), 2021


Nacer aquí (To be born here), 2021 Ceramic including plinth: 112.5 x 40 x 40 cm 44 1/4 x 15 3/4 x 15 3/4 in



Detail | Nacer aquí (To be born here), 2021



Corongo, 2021 Acrylic, clay, and casein on linen 90 x 90 cm | 35 3/8 x 35 3/8 in




Los caminos del viento (The windy roads), 2021 Acrylic, clay, and casein on linen 140 x 160 cm | 55 1/8 x 63 in


Installation view | Caminos de Liberación | GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL), 2021



Te están buscando (They’re looking for you), 2021 Ceramic including plinth: 113 x 40 x 40 cm 44 1/2 x 15 3/4 x 15 3/4 in



Perspective view | Te están buscando (They’re looking for you), 2021




Turno de día (Day shift), 2021 Acrylic, clay, and casein on linen 90 x 90 cm | 35 3/8 x 35 3/8 in


Las hermanitas (The little sisters), 2021 Acrylic, clay, and casein on linen 70 x 70 cm | 27 1/2 x 27 1/2 in




Installation view | Caminos de Liberación | GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL), 2021


El retorno (The return), 2021 Ceramic including plinth: 113 x 40 x 40 cm 44 1/2 x 15 3/4 x 15 3/4 in



Detail | El retorno (The return), 2021




Todo el mundo ya sabe tu historia (Everyone already knows your history), 2021 Ceramic Acrylic, clay and casein on linen 40 x 30 cm | 15 3/4 x 11 3/4 in


La huida (The escape), 2021 Ceramic including plinth: 112.5 x 40 x 40 cm 44 1/4 x 15 3/4 x 15 3/4 in



Installation view | Caminos de Liberación | GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL), 2021



Hombre que vas a la Luna sin conocer bien la Tierra (You, who goes to the moon without knowing the Earth well), 2021 Acrylic, clay, and casein on linen 50 x 70 cm | 19 3/4 x 27 1/2 in



Per


rspective view | Hombre que vas a la Luna sin conocer bien la Tierra (You, who goes to the moon without knowing the Earth well), 2021


Turno de noche (Night shift), 2021 Ceramic including plinth: 112.5 x 40 x 40 cm 44 1/4 x 15 3/4 x 15 3/4 in



Turno de noche (Night shift), 2021 Ceramic including plinth: 112.5 x 40 x 40 cm 44 1/4 x 15 3/4 x 15 3/4 in



...y habitó entre nosotros (...and he dwelt among us), 2021 Acrylic, clay, and casein on linen 90 x 110 cm | 35 3/8 x 43 1/4 in



Claudia Martínez Garay b. 1983 in Ayacucho (PE)

2018 ¡Kachkaniraqkun! / ¡Somos aún! / ¡We are, still!, Nova Section, Art Basel, Miami Beach, FL (US)

Lives and works in Amsterdam (NL) and Lima (PE)

I WILL OUTLIVE YOU, GRIMM, New York, NY (US)

EDUCATION & RESIDENCIES

2022 Artpace, San Antonio, TX (US) [forthcoming] 2017 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (NL) 2012 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (FR) 2007 BA in Fine Arts with mention in Printmaking, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima (PE) RECOGNITIONS & AWARDS 2021 NN Art Award, Rotterdam (NL) [nominee] 2019 Emerging Artist Award, Cisnero Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, FL (US) 2018 3Package Deal. AFK Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst and Bureau Broedplaatsen. Presented by the Coalition: Stedelijk Museum, Rijksakademie and Kunstverein (NL) 2017 Van Bijlevelt Fellowship, Van Bijleveltstichting (NL) 2016 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (NL) 2015 Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development - Travel Grant. Prince Claus Fund (NL) 2005 Adolfo Winternitz Prize, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP)

Claudia Martínez Garay / Arturo Kameya, Ginsberg Gallery, Lima (PE)

2014 Land at the End of the Sea, Claudia Martínez Garay / Arturo Kameya, Peruvian-British Cultural Center, Lima (PE) 2013 Todos los perros van al cielo / All Dogs go to Heaven, IV International Printmaking Biennial ICPNA, Inca Garcilaso Cultural Center of the Foreign Affair’s Ministry of Peru, Lima (PE) 2012 El Otro, el Mismo / The Other, The Same, French Alliance Gallery of Miraflores, Lima (PE)

La Última Frontera, Claudia Martínez Garay / Arturo Kameya / Stefania Polo, Gianfranco Piazzini collaborative project, Corriente Alterna Design Gallery, Lima (PE)

2011

El Imperio del Sol / Empire of the Sun. 80m2 Livia Benavides Gallery, Lima (PE)

2008

El Cielo Puede Esperar / Heaven Can Wait, Claudia Martínez Garay / Arturo Kameya, 80mts2 Arte & debates Gallery, Lima (PE)

2007 Invisible, 80mts2 Arte & debates Gallery, Lima (PE) SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2022 Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi (IN) [forthcoming] Museum Arnhem, Arnhem (NL) [forthcoming]

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021 Denver Art Museum, CO (US) [forthcoming]

2022 GRIMM, New York, NY (US) [forthcoming]

2021 Caminos de Liberación, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL) 2020 Ten Thousand Things, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing (CN)

B.A.K., basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht (NL) [forthcoming]

All Eyes | We are the collection, AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL) [forthcoming]

2019

A Las Revoluciones, Como A Los Árboles, Se Les Reconoce Por Sus Frutos / Revolutions, Like Trees, Are Recognized By Their Fruits, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)

Plural Domains, Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL (US)

Fragments of Sphere, Project Space on the Inside, Amsterdam (NL)

LOOP Barcelona (ES)

The Faculty of Sensing: Anton Wilhelm Amo, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin (DE)

2020 1 Million Roses for Angela Davis, Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden (DE)


A Fair Share of Utopia, NEST, The Hague (NL) & CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam (NL)

The Faculty of Sensing: Anton Wilhelm Amo, Kunstverein, Braunschweig (DE)

2015 Trienal Poligráfica de San Juan, 4th Poligraphic Triennial of San Juan, San Juan (PR)

2019 New Commissions of CIFO, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY (US)

Diplomacy, Yeh Art Gallery, St. John’s University, Queens, NY (US)

Away in the Hill, GRIMM New York, NY (US)

Imagined Communities, 21st Contemporary Art Biennial Sesc_ Videobrasil, São Paulo (BR) 16th Istanbul Biennal: the Seventh Continent, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, Istanbul (TR)

Ilaciones, curated by Danny Baez, Timothy Taylor, New York, NY (US)

Taning Y/Our Passion, Aichi Triennale, Aichi (JP) SinCrónicas. Horizons of Peruvian Contemporary Art from the Collecting Perspective, El Instante Fundación, Madrid (ES) Immortality, 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ekatherinburg (RU) 2018 In-house exhibition, curated by Jorg Grimm, Manifesta, Amsterdam (NL) 12th Shanghai Biennale: Progress - Art in an Age of Historical Ambivalence, Shanghai (CN)

I Will Outlive You, Ghost Stories, Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn (NL)

Drifting and Dreaming, Tegenboschvanvreden Gallery, Amsterdam (NL) 2018 Triennial: Songs for Sabotage, New Museum, New York, NY (US)

You Me and Everyone we Know, Morning! Milieu, Bern (CH)

2017

RijksakademieOPEN 2017, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (NL)

Criminalidad y Criminalización / Criminality and Criminalization, Lima University’s Cultural Center, Lima (PE)

Meta Perspective, Dapiran Art Project Space, Urecht (NL)

2016 8th International Printmaking Biennial, Douro (PT)

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RijksakademieOPEN 2016, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (NL)

Centro / Lima, Corriente Alterna Gallery, Lima (PE)

Analogías Temporales / Temporal Analogies, Wu Gallery, Lima (PE)

2014 12° International Cuenca Biennial, Cuenca (EC)

¿Y Qué Diría el Mar? / And what will the Sea Say? Asia Golf Club, SURA, Lima (PE)

2013

Arte al Paso, Colección contemporánea del Museo de Arte de Lima – MALI / Art on the Go, Contemporary Collection of the Lima Art Museum MALI, Republic of Colombia´s Bank Art Museum, Bogotá (CO)

XXXIV National Printmaking Salon ICPNA, ICPNA Gallery, Lima (PE)

2012

Anamnesia, Claudia Martínez Garay / Rudolph Castro / Santiago Quintanilla, Micromuseo Alfondohaysitio, Petro Perú Gallery, Lima (PE)

Noche en blanco / White Night, Lima (PE)

2011

Finalistas Concurso Pasaporte para un Artista / Finalists of Art Contest Passport for an Artist, PUCP, Lima (PE)

Arte al Paso, Colección contemporánea del MALI / Art on the Go, Contemporary Collection of the Lima Art Museum MALI, Estaçao Pinacoteca, São Paulo (BR)

Miradas sin Coordenadas, 80m2 Arte & debates Gallery, Lima (PE)

The Last 5 Years, Sala Luis Miro Quesada Garland, Lima (PE)

Licencias Para Narrar, 80m2 Livia Benavides Gallery, Lima (PE)

2010 Dialogs in the Contemporary Art Collection of MALI, Lima Art Museum MALI, Lima (PE)

Planos Divididos: Nuevas Lecturas a Antiguos Problemas / Divided Views: New Lectures to Old Problems, III International Biennial of Printmaking, ICPNA, 80mts2 Arte & debates Gallery, Lima (PE)

Serigrafía Urgente, III International Biennial of printmaking ICPNA, ICPNA San Miguel, Lima (PE)

P/A Pruebas de Artista, III International Biennial of Printmaking ICPNA, ICPNA , Lima (PE)

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XXXIII National Printmaking Salon ICPNA, SELECTED COLLECTIONS ICPNA Gallery, Lima (PE) Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL) II National Painting Contest, Museum of the AMC Art Collection, Amsterdam (NL) Central Reserve Bank of Perú, Lima (PE) Fundación Studie e Richerche Benetton, Treviso Espacios Liberados, ICPNA Gallery San (IT) Miguel / Museo Olho Latino, São Paulo (BR) Central Reserve Bank of Peru, Lima (PE) 2009 Lo impuro y lo contaminado III: pulsiones Cisnero Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, FL (US) (neo)barrocas en las rutas del Micromuseo, Micromuseo alfondohaysitio, Chile THE EKARD COLLECTION Triennial, Contemporary art Museum, Graeme Briggs Collection (SG) Santiago (CL) Imaginería de Kiosko y esquina, 80mts2 Arte Hochschild Collection (PE) & debates Gallery, Lima (PE) KADIST Collection (FR)

40 Lotes, ICPNA Gallery San Miguel, Lima KPMG Art Collection, Amsterdam (NL) (PE) Lima Art Museum (MALI) (PE) I National Painting Contest, Museum of the LOOP Collection, MACBA Museu d’Art Central Reserve Bank of Perú, Lima (PE) Contemporani, Barcelona (ES) Fronteras Nómadas, Printmaking in Perú, Chile and Brasil, Peruvian-Japanese Micromuseo al fondo hay sitio, Lima (PE) Cultural Center, Lima (PE) Museu Olho Latino, Atibaia (BR) 2008 A Glance at the Faculty of Arts, Centro Museum Arnhem (NL) Cultural PUCP, Lima (PE) Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing (CN) XXXII National Printmaking Salon ICPNA, ICPNA Gallery, Lima (PE)

Tribute to Luis Buñuel / The phantom of liberty, Spain Cultural Center, Lima (PE)

II Alfa Romeo’s Contest of Painting and Mixed Media finalists Works, ARTCOGallery, Lima (PE)

Latinamerican Printmaking, Museu Olho Latino, São Paulo (BR)

2005 XXXI National Printmaking Salon ICPNA, ICPNA Gallery, Lima (PE)

Other molds, other lectures, ICPNA Gallery San Miguel, Lima (PE)

2004 Printmaking Collective Exhibition, UNIFE Gallery, Lima (PE)

A Glance at the Faculty of Art, Centro Cultural PUCP, Lima (PE)


Portrait | Claudia Martínez Garay | Copyright Rutger de Vries


Detail | ...y habitó entre nosotros (...and he dwelt among us), 2021

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