Alejandro Cesarco

A.rt R.esources T.ransfer is thrilled to announce Joseph Grigely as our twelfth annual artist honoree. In 2026, A.R.T. is honoring Joseph Grigely by distributing 25,000 free art books to 625 public libraries, schools, and prisons in his name. A.R.T. will also produce an online teaching guide in our Reading Resources series that shares his methods and ideas among students and readers. Joseph Grigely’s practice transforms material traces of communication—handwritten notes, documents, and publications—into installations probing how language, memory, and social exchange are shaped through their physical supports, especially in the absence of hearing. His sustained engagement with books, publications, and archival collections activates the library as a living site of artistic inquiry, where literacy becomes not only a mode of reading but a way of assembling memory and public life. As A.R.T.’s 2026 honoree, Joseph Grigely follows Adrian Piper, Julie Ault, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Luis Camnitzer, Walid Raad, Studio K.O.S., Kara Walker, Roni Horn, Lawrence Weiner, Glenn Ligon, and Martha Rosler. We are proud to create more egalitarian access to the arts by collaborating with artists whose work is committed to reading and the printed book. Please consider adding your support to theirs by making a tax-deductible contribution today. @josephgrigely @art_resources_transfer #literacythroughthearts #equalaccess #publiclibraries Image: Joseph Grigely, “Songs without Words (Andrea Bocelli),” 2012, framed digital pigment print 70 × 90 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston.

Last few days of “Friends and Family” at Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan. “Friends and Family” brings together works by Alejandro Cesarco that examine portraiture as a structure of affinity, influence, and chosen genealogy. Through photographs, text works, and videos, Cesarco traces the ways in which we assemble ourselves through others—teachers, peers, relatives, mentors, even fictional characters—constructing a network of relations that both precedes and exceeds the self. The exhibition stages portraits that are less about likenesses than about echoes and reverberations: borrowed sentences, repeated gestures, dedications, and recurring motifs. In doing so, “Friends and Family” suggests that identity is always relational, composite and ongoing. @galleriaraffaellacortese

Ulises Carrión, “Remitente”, 26 febrero – 25 abril. La exposición inaugural de Lawrence esboza un programa y parte de uno de sus posibles principios: Ulises Carrión. Carrión (México, 1941–Holanda, 1989) practicó múltiples formas de concebir el libro y los sistemas de distribución. Desarrolló una serie de teorías en relación al objeto libro y a sus posibles desprendimientos. Fundó Other Books and So (Ámsterdam, 1975–1979), una de las primeras librerías del mundo dedicadas exclusivamente a libros de artista. Tras su cierre por falta de fondos estableció Other Books and So Archive (Ámsterdam, 1979–1989), espacio activo hasta su fallecimiento por complicaciones derivadas del sida. Figura clave del arte conceptual, Carrión exploró, entre otros asuntos, las posibilidades y los límites de la escritura, el libro, la correspondencia y el rumor como formas artísticas. Su práctica — tanto teórica, expositiva, editorial, de diseminación y de archivo— cuestiona las estructuras tradicionales de la comunicación y pone en tensión la relación entre emisor y receptor. Esta pequeña selección de obras, publicaciones y otros materiales impresos se centra en Carrión como emisor o remitente: gestos que tienen como objetivo difundir, promover, hacer llegar, recordar, señalar y ampliar una comunidad. . . . #ulisescarrión #lawrencemadrid #libreríamadrid #libreríadearte #artemadrid

¡Hoy inauguramos, los esperamos! Lawrence es una librería y un proyecto de artista que explora la relación entre las publicaciones y sus públicos. Lawrence organiza exhibiciones con foco en lo editorial, a la vez que promueve libros de arte sin amplia distribución en España. Entendemos que publicar es un verbo y, por lo tanto, no encuentra forma predeterminada o única en el objeto libro, sino en el espacio de interacción entre diferentes públicos. Habrá que (re) “aprender a leer el arte”. . . . #lawrencemadrid #libreríamadrid #libreríadearte #ulisescarrión #artemadrid @lawrenceweinertribute

A.R.T. Press is thrilled to announce the publication of “Between Artists: Paul Chan / Devin Kenny.” In this spirited conversation, Paul Chan and Devin Kenny engage bootlegging as a lens to unpack wide-ranging concerns around technology, access, and power. Probing its entanglements with copyright, racialized dynamics of data extraction, and large language models, they ask, among other things, what it means to appropriate our means of production in a moment when, as they suggest, “the tools we use also, very much, use us.” The title is the first in A.R.T.’s re-initiated “Between Artists” series, featuring conversation-based books that document different positions and strategies in contemporary critical visual practices. “Between Artists” provides an opportunity for artists to speak clearly about their practice and give readers a better understanding of the power and relevance of the artists’ voice in the discussion of larger social issues. Series edited by: Alejandro Cesarco and Kylie Gilchrist Design supervised by: Stoodio Santiago da Silva, Ana Cecilia Breña Published by A.R.T. Press 2026, 5 × 7 inches (12.7 × 17.8 cm), 56 pgs. Softcover, ISBN 978-0-923183-22-6 Price: $12 #paulchan #devinkenny #betweenartists #artresourcestransfer @stooooooodio @ceciliabrev @kylie_y_g @alejandrocesarco

« Le lent demain » — Opening Saturday Feb 14 at Air de Paris. Une exposition collective réunissant des artistes latino et latino-américains de plusieurs générations, articulée autour d’un hommage au cinéaste français Guy Gilles et d’une réflexion sur la construction autofictionnelle de l’identité artistique. Avec des oeuvres de Nicolas Aguirre, Francisca Aninat, Devendra Banhart, Juliana Borinski, Facundo Cerain Vazquez, Alejandro Cesarco, Diego García Lara, Teo Hernández, Hudinilson Jr., Adriana Lara, Alexandre Nitzsche Cysne, Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza, Sebastián Quevedo Ramírez, Isadora Soares Belletti, Sergio Verástegui, Bruna Vettori & Leto William. Une exposition de Sebastián Quevedo Ramírez. @airdeparis @_queramis #guygilles Image: Alejandro Cesarco, "Musings", 2013, 16mm film transferred to video, black and white / sound, 15:30 minutes.

ONLY TWO WEEKS LEFT TO APPLY! JAI (Institute for Artistic Practices) is an eight week program of workshops and seminars designed by artists for artists. The program, dictated in English, takes place across three institutions in the Basque Country: Artium Museoa (Vitoria), Tabakalera (San Sebastián), and Museo Oteiza (Pamplona) from July 1 — August 28. As in previous editions, the guiding question is: “What practical knowledge that defines your artistic process are you able to share with others?” Main Tutors: Ibon Aranberri, Alejandro Cesarco, Itziar Okariz. Invited Professors for one week workshops: Mariana Castillo Deball, Louidgi Beltrame, Nora Aurrekoetxea, Maddi Barber, Debris Stevenson, Carla Filipe. Please apply through Artium or Tabakalera’s website. @artium_museoa @tabakalera_donostia @oteizamuseoa @ibon_aranberri @alejandrocesarco #itziarokariz #marianacastillodeball #louidgibeltrame @nora_aurreko @maddi.arce @debrisstevenson #carlafilipe

Alejandro Cesarco’s "Friends and Family" is now on view at Galleria Raffaella Cortese, unfolding across the two spaces on Via Stradella 1 and 7 in Milan. The exhibition presents portraits that move away from resemblance and toward networks of references, relationships, and lived moments. Intimate dedications, re-performed gestures, borrowed sentences, and recurring motifs form a constellation in which identity emerges as layered, relational, and perpetually in flux. Installation view: Andrea Rossetti / Héctor Chico

Now open — “Friends and Family” at Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan. “Friends and Family” brings together works by Alejandro Cesarco that examine portraiture as a structure of affinity, influence, and chosen genealogy. Through photographs, text works, and videos, Cesarco traces the ways in which we assemble ourselves through others—teachers, peers, relatives, mentors, even fictional characters—constructing a network of relations that both precedes and exceeds the self. The exhibition stages portraits that are less about likenesses than about echoes and reverberations: borrowed sentences, repeated gestures, dedications, and recurring motifs. In doing so, “Friends and Family” suggests that identity is always relational, composite and ongoing. @galleriaraffaellacortese

“Friends and Family” — Opening at Galleria Rafaella Cortese on 21 January. Conversation with Barbara Casavecchia, 6:30 pm. “Friends and Family” brings together works by Alejandro Cesarco that examine portraiture as a structure of affinity, influence, and chosen genealogy. Through photographs, text works, and videos, Cesarco traces the ways in which we assemble ourselves through others—teachers, peers, relatives, mentors, even fictional characters—constructing a network of relations that both precedes and exceeds the self. The exhibition stages portraits that are less about likenesses than about echoes and reverberations: borrowed sentences, repeated gestures, dedications, and recurring motifs. In doing so, “Friends and Family” suggests that identity is always relational, composite and ongoing. Image: Learning the Language (Present Continuous III), 2026, video, color, sound, continuous loop (7:56 min cycle). @galleriaraffaellacortese @barbara_casavecchia #alejandrocesarco #davidlamelas

Happy 2026! 🤍

A.R.T. needs your support — please help us create more egalitarian access to the arts. As the year comes to an end, we are immensely proud to have connected thousands of readers to the ideas, words, and images of hundreds of artists and publishers by distributing 21,488 books to 392 public institutions, free of charge. We are equally thrilled to have gifted these books in the name of our 2025 honoree Adrian Piper. Each of these books, as Adrian tells us, offers a “different world” that shows “you different Yous you can become, and different pathways for getting there.” At a time when fear and division narrow whose stories are told and which futures feel possible, the A.R.T. Library Program keeps those other worlds, and other futures, within reach. Please help us continue our work by making a tax-deductible contribution today. [Link in bio] “When you open a book, you step into a different world that the author offers you; a world full of surprises, insights and inspiration on every page. The more intently you read it, the more deeply that world becomes part of you – part of your range of dreams and plans, and part of the travel kit for your journey into possible futures. It shows you different Yous you can become, and different pathways for getting there. No matter how small your room, no matter how narrow the walls that surround you, you can leap out of them and beyond them by diving into a book, and letting it transform and enlarge your comprehension of the vast palette of options that in fact await you. Take the first step and open that book. Let the A.R.T. Library Program lead you there.” — Adrian Piper #artresourcestransfer #equalaccess #literacythroughthearts #adrianpiper