Juan Cruz
Forma published Juan Cruz’s bookwork, a translation of Niebla (fog) by Miguel de Unamuno, as part of Other Plans, a project commissioned by Forma and curated by Simon Morrissey.
Juan Cruz is an artist whose practice has explored translation as a means of constructing identity and as a process that dwells on the relationship between narrative and physical space.
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Cruz engages with the art of storytelling and translating through a wide range of media, including text, performance, drawing, sculpture and slide projection. Often Cruz’s text translation works take place within the context of the gallery, although he also produces works in distributable text forms: for Cruz the act of change and exchange is as important as the format of these translations.
Juan Cruz lectures in Visual Arts at Goldsmiths College, London and is represented by Matt’s Gallery, London and Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid. Cruz has exhibited extensively in the UK and internationally, including Melbourne International Arts Festival (2001), National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow (2002) and Peer, London (2005). In 1999, he received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists.
Photos: Adam Laycock
Productions
Juan Cruz - a translation of Niebla (fog)
Other Plans: bookworks by Juan Cruz and Michael Dean
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