{"id":3018,"date":"2011-05-23T11:33:09","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T16:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmcontemporaneo.com\/?p=3018"},"modified":"2025-06-20T01:02:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T07:02:37","slug":"alfredo-gisholt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmcontemporaneo.com\/en\/alfredo-gisholt-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div id=\"vlightbox\">\n<table width=\"575\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"280\"><a class=\"vlightbox\" title=\"El Aquelarre\nOil on canvas\n183 X 214 cm\" href=\"http:\/\/nmcontemporaneo.com\/images\/catalogo\/alfredogisholt\/ElAquelarre.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nmcontemporaneo.com\/images\/catalogo\/alfredogisholt\/Thumbs\/ElAquelarre.jpg\" alt=\"entierro\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEl Aquelarre<br \/>\nOil on canvas<br \/>\n183 X 214 cm<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"280\"><a class=\"vlightbox\" title=\"Silbo de Gigantes\nOil on canvas\n214 X 245 cm\" href=\"http:\/\/nmcontemporaneo.com\/images\/catalogo\/alfredogisholt\/silbodegigantes.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nmcontemporaneo.com\/images\/catalogo\/alfredogisholt\/Thumbs\/silbodegigantes.jpg\" alt=\"silbodegigantes\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSilbo de Gigantes<br \/>\nOil on canvas<br \/>\n214 X 245 cm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"280\"><a class=\"vlightbox\" title=\"Lamento\nOil on canvas\n214 X 183 cm\" href=\"http:\/\/nmcontemporaneo.com\/images\/catalogo\/alfredogisholt\/lamento.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nmcontemporaneo.com\/images\/catalogo\/alfredogisholt\/Thumbs\/lamento.jpg\" alt=\"lamento\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLamento<br \/>\nOil on canvas<br \/>\n214 X 183 cm<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"280\"><a class=\"vlightbox\" title=\"Barrancos de escaleras III\nOil on canvas\n120 X 150 cm\" href=\"http:\/\/nmcontemporaneo.com\/images\/catalogo\/alfredogisholt\/barrancosdeescaleras.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nmcontemporaneo.com\/images\/catalogo\/alfredogisholt\/Thumbs\/barrancosdeescaleras.jpg\" alt=\"barrancosdeescaleras\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBarrancos de escaleras III<br \/>\nOil on canvas<br \/>\n120 X 150 cm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a id=\"vlb-3columnas\" href=\"http:\/\/visuallightbox.com\">Photo Gallery Webpage by VisualLightBox.com v3.1m<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/nmcontemporaneo.com\/images\/galerias\/abelardofavela\/engine\/js\/visuallightbox.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"> In this show the artist visualizes a reality of Mexico painted from a distant place through a re-signification of western painting symbols, creating a particular fiction. In the midst of the twenty-first century, Gisholt evokes historic references with his paintings: he remembers Goya by painting the same themes, he inserts the light bulb from Picasso&#8217;s Guernica using it as a symbol of the symbol.  By these means, Gisholt activates the viewer&#8217;s memory, causing a fantasy. Although his work draws inspiration from Mexico&#8217;s reality, his pictorial language is not folkloristic; he re-signifies each symbol into a new context to visualize a human reality that he finds in his country. His vision is anything but conservative. He uses painting to question the limits of painting itself. He summons its possibilities; extending his realm of expression, with clustered compositions, with strident and tropical colors next to grey and urban hues, with re-interpreted topics and symbols, with contrasting pictorial trends within the same work. <\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"xcollapse('X1244');return false;\" href=\"#\">Curriculum<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"X1244\" style=\"display: none; background: transparent;\">EDUCATION<br \/>\n2000 MFA: Painting \/ Bastan University, Bastan, MA<br \/>\n1996 BFA: Painting \/ Florida International University, Miami. Fl<br \/>\n1991 \u2013 1994 Academia de San Carlos \/ Mexico CitySOLO EXHIBITIONS<br \/>\n2010 Ravines of Stairs \/ RECINTO PROJECT-ROOM, Mexico City<br \/>\n2010 Ceremonies of Mud \/ University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME<br \/>\n2008 The Pilgrimage \/ The Lincoln Building, Waltham, MA<br \/>\n2004 Monks, Warriors and Revolutions \/ The Richard and Dolly Moas Gallery, Purchase, NY<br \/>\n2003 From the Moon to the People \/ Espacio Arte Contempor\u00e1neo CBM, Mexico City<br \/>\n2002 Flowers for a Revolution \/ George Shermon Gallery, Boston, MA<br \/>\nConversations in the Studio \/ Fort Point Art Gallery, Boston, MA<br \/>\n2001 Storms and interiors \/ Galer\u00eda Mano, Mexico City<br \/>\n1994 Recent Work \/ Centro Cultural Taj\u00edn. Mexico City<\/p>\n<p>GROUP EXHIBITlONS<br \/>\n2010 Reunited \/ Denis Bibro Fine Art, New York. NY<br \/>\n2010 Modern and Contemporary Art \/ Galer\u00eda Navarra-Valdez, Valle de Bravo, Mexico<br \/>\n2009 Tradition-Invenlion: 5 Emerging Artists \/ Morist College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY<br \/>\n2008 Winter Solstice \/ The Lincoln Building. Waltham. MA<br \/>\n2007 Summer Invitational \/ Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA<br \/>\nThe South Press Print Show \/ The Corillon Gallery, Farth Warth TX<br \/>\nOn Paper \/ Northern Essex Community College, Hoverhill, MA<br \/>\n2006 Spot On \/ Rose Ad Museum, Wolthom, MA<br \/>\n2005 Boston Printmakers Biennale \/ 808 Gallery, Boston, MA<br \/>\n2003 Summer Surprise \/ Nielsen Gollery, Boston, MA<br \/>\nSmall Paintings \/ Groton Public library, Groton, MA<br \/>\n2002 Award Winning Alumni \/ George Sherman Gallery, Boston University, MA<br \/>\nFaculty Exhibition \/ Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA<br \/>\n2000 New Talent \/ Glassmountain Gollery, Bantom, C T<br \/>\nMFA Thesis Exhibition \/ 808 Gallery, Boston, MA<br \/>\nSeries de Arte Nuevo \/ Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA<br \/>\n1999 Bon Fire \/ Boston Universlty, MA<br \/>\nThe New Romantics \/ Boston University, Boston, MA<\/p>\n<p>ACADEMIC AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE<br \/>\n2007\u20132008 Visiting Critic \/ Boston University Graduate Program. Boston. MA<br \/>\n2006\u20132010 Visiting Critic \/ Boston University Graduate Program. Boston, MA<br \/>\n2004\u20132006 Artist-Residence: Printmaking, Pointing, Drawing \/ Brandeis University MA<br \/>\n2005 Visiting Critic \/ Purchase College (SUNY) Purchase, NY<br \/>\nVisiting Critic \/ Boston University Graduate Program, Boston, MA<br \/>\n2002\u20132004 Artist-in-Residence \/ Brandeis University, Waltham. MA<br \/>\n2001\u20132004 Teaching Associate \/ Graduate Painting Program, University Boston, MA<br \/>\n2001 Intern \/ Peggy Guggenheim Collection \/ Venice, Italy<\/p>\n<p>PUBLICATIONS<br \/>\n2010 Ravines of Stairs \/ Federico M\u00e1rquez Padilla \/ Exhibition catalogue, REClNTO EDITORIAL, Mexico City.<br \/>\n2010 The grey Skeleton \/ Dushko Petrovich \/ Exhibition colologue, RECINTO EDITORIAl. Mexico City<br \/>\n2010 Ceremonies of Mud \/ George Kinghorn \/ Exhibition essay, University of Maine, Museum of Art, Bangor, ME<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paiinting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmcontemporaneo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmcontemporaneo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmcontemporaneo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmcontemporaneo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmcontemporaneo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nmcontemporaneo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14184,"href":"https:\/\/nmcontemporaneo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018\/revisions\/14184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmcontemporaneo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmcontemporaneo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmcontemporaneo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}