Exhibition
Hyundai Commission 2015: Abraham Cruzvillegas
13 Oct 2015 – 20 Mar 2016
Regular hours
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- Bankside
- London
- SE1 9TG
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Bus: 45, 63, 100, 344, 381, RV1
- Tube: Southwark/Blackfriars
- Train: London Bridge
Abraham Cruzvillegas will undertake the inaugural Hyundai Commission for the Turbine Hall in 2015. This will be the first in a new series of annual site-specific commissions by renowned international artists.
About
Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas is best known for creating sculptural works from local found objects and materials. During the 1990s and 2000s, Cruzvillegas was among the key figures of a new wave of emerging conceptual artistsin Mexico.
For the past few years, Cruzvillegas has created a body of work under the title autoconstrucción or ‘self-construction’, a term which usually refers to the way Mexicans of his parents’ generation arriving in the capital from rural areas in the 1960s, built their own houses in stages, improvising with whatever materials they could source.
