Terence Gower

– Casa Wabi 2021

Community Project

20C
Terence Gower made a mosaic of burnt clay pieces, which portray the bust in low and high relief, of Rosario Castellanos, a twentieth-century Mexican writer. This mosaic was installed on the façade of the public library “Barco de papel”, in the community of Hidalgo and welcomes all users of the site.
This project is part of a series of investigations that the resident has been developing prior to his arrival at Casa Wabi. This research consists of the elaboration of portraits in relief of outstanding women in academic, cultural, artistic and social spheres who lived during the 20th century. (20th century). Most of these pieces are made of plaster, but this time he chose to use local clay in conjunction with the traditional burning techniques of the coastal region.

Log-Piece

  • 20C (Castellanos) (2021) Pieza de barro cocido en alto y bajo relieve

20C (Castellanos) (2021)
Pieza de barro cocido en alto y bajo relieve
20 x 30 x 3 cm

Canada

Lives and works between Nueva York, Ciudad de México Y Francia

Terence Gower lives and works between New York, Mexico City, and France and is represented by LABOR, Mexico City.
In May, 2021, Americas Society, New York will present Terence Gower: The Good Neighbour, a monographic study of Gower’s decades-long practice in Mexico. Gower has shown in many museums and galleries internationally, including National Art Gallery, Canada; CAPC, Bordeaux, Institut d’Art Contemporain Villeurbanne, Lyon; Witte de With, Rotterdam; Museo Tamayo, Museo Jumex and El Eco, Mexico City; MARCO, Monterrey; Tensta Konsthal, Stockholm; MACBA, Barcelona; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC; and the New Museum, MoMA PS1, Queens, and Bronx Museums, New York.
Recent large-scale commissions include Project Etere, Bali; Six Formes, Geneva; SuperPuesto, and Noguchi Galaxy, New York; Workshop Pavilion, Léon, Spain; and Bicycle Pavilion, Mexico City. He has participated in the Gwangju, Porto Alegre, Curitiba, Chicago (Architecture), Canadian (National Gallery), and Havana Biennials.
His video works have been screened at many museums including the Grazer Kunstverein, Austria; Stedelijk Museum SMBA, Amsterdam; Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid; Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló, Spain; Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal; Fundación Telefonica and the Architecture Biennial in Buenos Aires; and film festivals in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Florence, Palermo, Paris, Gijón, Rotterdam, Vladivostok, and Melbourne.
Gower has been invited to curate exhibitions and screenings at the New Museum, New York, Hammer Museum, LA (Modern Shorts), Smithsonian American Art Museum (Spans); Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (Public Practice / Private Lives), and the San Francisco Art Institute (Tendencies) and has created exhibition architecture for ICA Philadelphia, CAPC, Bordeaux and MUSAC, León, Spain.
Books on Gower’s work include Terence Gower: The Good Neighbour (New York, 2021), Havana Case Study (Chicago, 2017), Display Architecture: Terence Gower Pavilions (Berlin, 2008), Ciudad Moderna: Terence Gower Videos (Madrid, 2006), and Appendices, Illustrations and Notes (coauthored with Monica de la Torre, Los Angeles, 1999), and he has published his writing in Mario Pani: Arquitectura en processo, Bomb, InSite, Roulotte, Domus Mexico, Modern Painters, Cabinet and the Archives of American Art Journal.
Gower has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship, University of Gothenburg Research Fellowship, Smithsonian Artists Research Fellowship, Canada Council Fellowship, Graham Foundation Fellowship, Peter Norton Family Foundation Grant, Cité des Arts Fellowship (Paris), ParaSite Fellowship (Hong Kong), among others.
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