The Rules of Play

The exhibitions department presents "The Rules of Play," the first solo show in the Southeast by Cuban-born artist Alexandre Arrechea. The exhibition showcases the artist's prolific interdisciplinary practice featuring recent drawings, sculpture and video.

Using metaphorical references from architecture and design, games and sport, Arrechea meticulously crafts impractical pieces that belie complex, thought-provoking and clever observations on the constructs of power in our ever-globalizing society.

The exhibition is free and open to the public.

Alexandre Arrechea

was born in Cuba, in 1970. He graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana in 1994. Arrechea was a member of the art collective Los Carpinteros, until he left the group in 2003 to pursue his career as a solo artist.

Recent solo exhibitions have been held for his work at:
Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Caja de Burgos, Spain, 2009
Katzen Arts Center of American University in Washington, D.C., 2008
Casado-Santa-Pau Gallery, Madrid, 2008
Magnan Projects, N.Y., 2008
Patio Herreriano Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Español, Valladolid, Spain, 2007
Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles, Calif., 2007

In addition to the SCAD exhibitions upcoming projects in 2010 include an outdoor sculpture at the Ice Box at the Crane Arts Center in Philadelphia as part of the Philagrafika 2010; a two person show at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdale Park, CA; a projection of the video piece “Black Sun”, previously featured in the 2009 Thessaloniki Biennial, shown on the façade of the NASDAQ building in Time Square in New York this March; and a group exhibition at the Museum of Art and Design, New York.

Arrechea has participated in numerous groups exhibitions including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Shanghai Art Museum, China; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Art in General, New York; Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany; Arizona State University; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; as well as the Havana Biennial 2009 and 2000; the 2005 Braziers International, Oxfordshire, England; the Venice Biennale 2005; Liverpool Biennial 2004; Shangai Biennial 2002; and the Sao Paulo Biennial 2002.

His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; and Museo de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba, to name a few.