Manuel Solano Preview Dundee Contemporary Arts

27 August - 20 November 2022

Manuel Solano
The Top of Each Ripple
Peres Projects is pleased to announce Manuel Solano's solo exhibition The Top of Each Ripple at Dundee Contemporary Arts in the UK, curated by Eoin Dara (Head of Exhibitions),. This exhibition will offer audiences a glimpse into different bodies of work that Solano has developed since 2014, focusing in a broad sense on an expanded idea of portraiture as a form of artistic expression that has driven the artist’s practice to date and continues to inform much of their newest work. Opening August 27, The Top of Each Ripple will run until November 20, 2022.
Exhibited Works
- Manuel Solano, Liverpool, 2020
Manuel Solano (b. 1987 in Mexico City, MX) studied at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Printmaking in Mexico City. In 2013 Solano went blind due to complications related to an HIV-related infection. Since then, Solano developed unique methodologies to continue an art practice which includes painting, video, and installation, and which explores memory and identity, as well as balances the autobiographical with pop cultural imagery. Recent solo presentations include Pivô, Sao Paulo, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon, ICA Miami, curated by Alex Gartenfeld and the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, curated by Guillermo Santamarina. Solano has also participated in group exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo, curated by Hugo Vitrani and Fabien Danesi and The New Museum Triennial in New York, co-curated by Gary Carrion-Murayari and Alex Gartenfeld. Solano has upcoming solo exhibitions at Dundee Contemporary Arts and Peres Projects. In addition, they will participate in a group exhibition at Mendes Wood in Sao Paulo.
ArtNet
4 Breakout Artists Who Collectors Would Be Wise to Watch

"IN THE YEARS SINCE SOLANO WENT BLIND, THEIR PAINTINGS HAVE ONLY BECOME MORE FORMALLY COMPLICATED, DELICATE AND DETAILED; WHEN TELLING ME THIS THEY STUMBLE FOR A MOMENT BEFORE POSING IT BACK AS A QUESTION TO THEMSELF. THEY ASK WHY THEY REMAIN SO COMMITTED TO REPRESENTATION, WHEN THEY COULD FAR MORE EASILY MAKE PAINTINGS THAT LOOK ANOTHER WAY. “I THINK BASICALLY I’M FEELING VERY LONELY,” THEY SAY, AND MAKING IMAGES IS THE WAY “I KNOW HOW TO COMMUNICATE MYSELF TO THE WORLD.”

- CULTURED MAGAZINE, 2022
The New York Times
A Trip Down Memory Lane With Manuel Solano

Following their standout contributions to this year’s New Museum Triennial, the queer Mexican artist Manuel Solano (who prefers the pronouns they and them) presents their first solo exhibition at the newly refurbished Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami.

“I Don’t Wanna Wait for Our Lives to Be Over” spans painting, photography, video and installation and explores themes of identity and perception. Solano lost their eyesight in 2014, following H.I.V.-related complications, and memory and figuration are central to their practice. In contrast to their previous work, the pieces here are more introspective — no allusions to Michael Jackson this time.

Benoît Loiseau, 2018
Previous Exhibitions

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New Museum Triennal, NYC