Name: Jariya Phongsai
Prof. Valerie Mendelson
Class: HUN195.6046
Date: 04/04/09
Assignment: “Research on one of the artists in P.S 1 MoMA exhibition”
Last exhibition in P.S 1 MoMA by Leandro Elrich is a stunning work among the others.
Leandro Elrich is an artist originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was born on 1973.
Leandro Erlich is an artist that builds ideas and creates the works based on the objects in
everyday’s life. He pursued his study in 1991 in Escuela de Bellas Artes Pridiliano Pueyrredón.
In 1990, he moved to USA and joined with the sculpture and installation workshop under the
direction of Luis F. Benedit and Pablo Suárez. Between 1998 and 1999 he took part in the Core
Program, an artist-in-residence program in Houston, Texas, U.S. In 1999 he moved to New York
and presented his first exhibition in a commercial New York gallery. Over the next two years he
participated in the Whitney Biennial and represented Argentina at the 49th Venice Biennale
(2001). He participated in several group exhibitions and art biennials from 1997- 2006. His
exhibitions are all over the world including Korea, Japan, Brazil, and France. His exhibitions
including all of his amazing works are displayed in several museums in Brazil, Italy, England
and USA. Erlich's works are in several private and public collections including the Museum of
Modern Art, Buenos Aires; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Tate Modern, London; Musee
d'Art moderne, Paris; 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; MACRO,
Rome; and The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Fonds national d'art contemporain (FNAC), Paris.
Erlich has had solo exhibitions at venues such as the Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona
(2003), MACRO Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma (2006), Le Grand Café - Centre D'art
Contemporain de Saint-Nazaire, France (2005), and Albion Gallery, London (2005). In 2001,
Erlich presented a major architectural installation entitled "Neighbors: An Installation by
Leandro Erlich" at the El Museo del Barrio, New York. He has won a number of awards as well.
In 1992, he won the Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1997, he won the
Core Program, Pan-American Cultural Exchange-Fundacion Antorchal, Houston, Texas. Until
2006, he won Nomination, ArtesMundi Prize, Wales and also Nomination, Prix Marcel
Duchamp, Paris, France. He also has had a lot of groups exhibitions from 1995-2008. The
examples of his works are the Hair Salon, 2008, Window and Ladder, 2008, The Glass Shop in
2005 and “The Swimming Pool”, 1999. The Swimming Pool is an amazing artwork that is
created by building a small swimming pool with a clear plastic puts in the middle of the pool so
the viewer can see other people from the top to the bottom and also from the bottom to the top as
well. Leandro Erlich applies a relationship of every day icons that are used inside and outside
trapped spaces that surround us. All of his works are based on the objects that people see in
everyday’s life. He has made his works for people to experience the other part of the objects.
Obviously, he put in the arts and other view in the objects, so that they are simply the objects that
in everyday icons but people will see them in different way. Leandro’s artwork clearly related to
people lives that he wants the viewer to see other people from the inside and judge people from
many different aspects. His artwork has an idea of modern art and it enables the viewer to see in
the different aspects that they never seen before. The work is represented though his experiences
that he has passed and participated with people all over the places.
WORK CITED
LatinArt.com, an online journal of art and culture. Leandro Elrich biography. April 3, 2009.
Online. http://www.latinart.com/faview.cfm?id=643
Leandro Elrich website. Online. April 3, 2009.
http://www.leandroerlich.com.ar/works.php?id=17