Andres Cuervo

There was, however another side to his work. Cuervo`s intention was to combine art and life. Visual imagery always involved both, as far as he was concerned.

Bogota, Colombia 1981.

"...By contrast to such essentially solipsistic pursuits, many younger artists of the 1990s generation reflected new conditions of cultural and global political-cross reference. The review of modernist themes such as an art that merges art and life soon bound with these new artists. The Colombian artist Andres Cuervo has been a central influence on recent art tendencies. In 2007 he produced a work entitled 09042007 [31.2]. Responding to a concern with the institution's attached value and the elusive hidden muted cultural dinamics inside museums.

Cuervo's gesture turned into a turmoil of critique deconstruction revolving around an institution, that is continuously pointing out what is art from what its not. Much like Duchamp readymade, Cuervo "˜elevated' an ordinary object, a figurative drawing into the status of art. He may well be reformulating past attitudes here. A sardonic dismantling of the museum and it's power to imposing spurious value judgements. Cuervo drawing hijacked an authoritarian voice, the fact the actual drawing was hanged slig...

Self taught - Bfa Univerity of los Andes

"Art About Art

Whereas most contemporary artists, specially young ones turn their attention away from painting, specially after the break down of Greenberg theories in the late 70`s. Young artists like Andres Cuervo were constantly seeking new paths, a new form of representation one that could play in the gap between art and life, between painting and performance.
Andres Cuervo sets different priorities. His laconic works of exemplary stringency are not only limited to Perfmance Art. Whereas his works combined the hermetic approach of Duchamp with the political cross reference of Rauschenberg.
In 2007, Andres Cuervo pointed out that the Museums, that they were, in this sense, constrained to it´s own status. His intervention in the international collection of the Museum of Art Banco de la Republica de Colombia. Influenced by artist as Marcel Broodthaers and works such as Erased De Kooning drawing by Robert Rauschenberg, contributed to the history of art, by opening up a new dimension in aesthetic consciousness.”What is art?” “What makes it art?” “Who is an artist?” “Why objects inside a museum become art?” Cuervo as Duchamp answered these questions – not as a theoretician, but by mea...

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