FAIVOVICH & GOLDBERG
Since 2006, Guillermo Faivovich (b. 1977, Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Nicolás Goldberg (b. 1978, Paris, France) have been engaged in an intensive and wide-ranging research project—A Guide to El Campo del Cielo—that forms the basis of their practice. El Campo del Cielo is located in northern Argentina and was the site of a meteor shower an estimated 4,000 years ago. Faivovich & Goldberg combine the roles of scientist, historian, and anthropologist to realize projects that offer new ways of seeing and experiencing the terrestrial results of a long-ago cosmic event, as well as thinking about its historical and cultural significance. Over more than a decade, the duo has produced a diverse body of work that includes installations, sculptures, publications, as well as videos and photographs. In 2010, the artists created an exhibition that brought together two halves of El Taco, a meteorite from El Campo del Cielo, that had been separated for nearly 45 years, allowing visitors to walk through and around the reunited masses. More recently, they have used microphotography to produce images of thinly sliced sections of a meteorite that reveal dazzling, multi-colored silicate inclusions. Laboriously mining the particularities of a singular event, Faivovich & Goldberg illuminate broadly resonant themes—the dynamics between an object and its documentation, the inherent complexities of institutional histories, and the complicated personal, cultural, and national relationships that develop with artifacts. Faivovich and Goldberg currently live and work in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
CURRENT AND UPCOMING
Researchers in residence. Museo Rosa Galisteo de Rodríguez, Santa Fe, Argentina
2018 – 2019
Solo exhibition
Mesón de Fierro: Towards the XXII Century, United Nations, Vienna, Austria
March 14 – September 12, 2019
Group exhibition
Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas, Queens Museum, NY, USA
April 7 – August 18, 2019
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND COMMISSIONS
2019
Mesón de Fierro: Towards the XXII Century, United Nations, Vienna, Austria
2018
In search of Mesón de Fierro, Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
Decomiso, ASU Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
arteBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2017
Bienal Sur, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2016
Faivovich & Goldberg: Decomiso, SlyZmud, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
2015
The Tower of Knowledge, Páramo, Guadalajara, Mexico
2014
Campo del Cielo at Colección Guerrico, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2013
Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil
A guide to Campo del Cielo, Nusser & Baumgart Gallery, Munich, Germany
2012
documenta (13), Kassel, Germany
2010
Meteorite “El Taco”, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
2006
Retrato de La Sorpresa y los meteoritos que ya no están en Campo del Cielo, Piguem ´Onaxa Provincial Park, Campo del Cielo, Chaco, Argentina
GROUP EXHIBITIONS, SEMINARS AND PERFORMANCES
2019
Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas, Queens Museum, NY, USA
Páramo| GNP ArteCareyes Film & Art Festival, Careyes, Mexico
2018
Soon Enough: Art in Action, Tensta konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Prima Materia, LACASAPARK, NY, USA
2017
Parte 11: Homenaje a Baigorria, Malba Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ephemeropterae #9, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
Mundos Alternos, Pacific Standard Time, California Museum of Photography, UCR, US
Working for the Commons, Casco Art Institute, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Sesión Extraordinaria, Antiguo Congreso de la Nación, ArteBA Dixit, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2015
Faivovich & Goldberg: recent work, PAOS y Casa Taller José Clemente Orozco, Guadalajara, Mexico
UTOPIEdocumenta, Stadtmuseum Kassel, Germany
Under Construction, Páramo, Guadalajara, Mexico
Arte, Justamente, Simposio Internacional de Teoría sobre Arte Contemporáneo (SITAC XII), Mexico City, Mexico
2014
tc: temporary contemporary, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, USA
Numero, Art Basel: Positions, Miami Beach, USA
Territorio del Chaco, Art Basel: Public, Miami Beach, USA
On The Road, Palacio de Xelmirez, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Traces, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, USA
2013
Faivovich & Goldberg on Walter De Maria, Artists on Artists lecture series, DIA: Chelsea, New York, USA
Una guía a Campo del Cielo, lecture at Sanberg Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2012
Resonance, Goethe-Institute, New York, USA
Presentación de Vol.II: Chaco, lecture at El Fogón de los Arrieros, Resistencia, Chaco, Argentina
Ultimas Tendencias II, Museo de Arte de Buenos Aires, Argentina
2011
The Inaccessible Poem, Fondazione Mario Merz, Torino, Italy
Estación Experimental, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, and LABoral, Gijón, Spain
Collision 2: When Artistic and Scientific Research Meet, MIT, Cambridge, USA
2010
Presentación de Vol.I: El Taco, lecture at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2009
Reading and Composing A Guide to Campo del Cielo, CCS Bard College, NY, USA
Proyecto secundario, Colegio Goethe, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2008
When Kittens become Cats, conference at Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
2007
Sello postal “Chaco”: First Day Issue, Correo Central, Buenos Aires; Postal Palace,
Rosario; Fiesta Nacional del Meteorito, Gancedo, Chaco, Argentina
2006
Fotografía Contemporánea, Ruth Benzacar Galería de Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina
RESIDENCIES
2018-2019
Research residency. Museo Rosa Galisteo de Rodríguez, Santa Fe, Argentina
2015
ASU, Arizona State University, USA
COLLECTIONS
Jumex Collection, Mexico
ASU Art Museum Collection, USA
BESart Collection, Portugal
Caraffa Museum Collection, Argentina
GAIA Collection, Mexico
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019
Keats, Jonathon,
From Puerto Rican Coconauts To Illegal Alien Crossings, A New Exhibit Exposes The Politics Of Sci-Fi, Forbes, April 8, 2019.
Faivovich & Goldberg: In search of Mesón de Fierro, Naturhistorisches Museum: Vienna, Austria, 2019 (catalogue)
Faivovich & Goldberg Exponen en Viena los artistas argentinos que hacen obras inspiradas en meteoritos, El Litoral, February 18, 2019.
2018
Hill, Troy.
Argentine meteorite art crashes into the ASU Art Museum, The State Press, October 15, 2018.
Villaro, Julia.
Sobre “Un meteorito para la Sociedad Científica Argentina de 2105” de Nicolás Goldberg y Guillermo Faivovich”, Otra Parte, June 7, 2018.
Faivovich & Goldberg Activan la Muestra Museo Tomado. Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Rosa Galisteo de Rodríguez, August 15, 2018.
2017
Faivovich & Goldberg.
You are here, contribution for Artists on Walter De Maria. Dia Art Foundation, September 2017: 44-72.
Lange-Berndts, Petra.
Cosmic Debris, Steine. Kulturelle Praktiken des Steintransfers, September 2017: 134-136.
Singh Soin, Himali.
Faivovich & Goldberg. Artforum, Summer Issue, 2017: 384.
Fernandez, Juan Maria.
El arte que cayó del cielo. Revista Viva, August 2017: 38-42.
Villa, Javier.
Decomisados. ArteBA: Memoria Semestral de Arte Contemporáneo Argentino, July 2017: 106-107.
Schanton, Pablo.
El país donde un zapallo puede hacerse Cosmos. Catalogue Argentina Plataforma, Arco 2017: 94-99.
Villaro, Julia.
Poesía caída de otros cielos. Revista Ñ, February 2017: pp 21.
2016
Speranza, Graciela.
Decomiso, Otra Parte: (http://revistaotraparte.com/semanal/arte/decomiso/)
Faivovich & Goldberg.
Creo haber contestado á todo lo que me has preguntado. Spiral Jetty, Buenos, Aires Argentina.
2015
UTOPIE documenta: Unrealized Projects from the History of the World Art Exhibition, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Kassel, 2015.
Demeuse, Sarah.
Farewell To Nature. Art in America, April 2015: 86-93.
2014
Weir, Andy.
Cosmic Alreadymades: Exhibiting Indifference at dOCUMENTA (13), Journal of Curatorial Studies 3: 1, pp. 98-116.
2013
Puhringer, A.
Museale Galerieausstellung: Faivovich & Goldberg bei Nusser & Baumgart, München. Artnews, May 15, 2013.
Hermann J. Galerietipp.
Faivovich & Goldberg, A Guide to Campo del Cielo bei Nusser & Baumgart. Sueddeutsche Zeitung, May 8, 2013. Iglesias, C. A*Desk, February 2013.
Faivovich & Goldberg. El Mesón de Fierro y la máquina de hacer llover. 9 Bienal Mercosul.
2012
Faivovich & Goldberg. The Campo del Cielo Meteorites – Vol. II: Chaco. dOCUMENTA (13). Cologne: Walther König, 2012.
Schwerfel, Heinz Peter.
Die Himmelsstürmer. Das Kunstmagazin, 2012: 44-47.
Mayerle, Astrid.
Watchlist. Künstler, die uns aufgefallen sind: Faivovich & Goldberg. Monopol Magazin, June 2012: 32-33.
Rabottini, Alessandro.
Alreadymade. Faivovich & Goldberg. Mousse 14, Summer 2012: 72-75.
Werneburg, B.
dOCUMENTA (13): sechs. Faivovich & Goldberg. Interview Magazine, June 2012.
Hubl, Michael.
Eine Omnipotenzphantasie. Kunstforum Vol. 217, August 2012: 26-28.
Christov-Bagarkiev, Carolyn.
The dance was very frenetic, lively, rattling, clanging, rolling, contorted, and lasted for a long time. dOCUMENTA (13), The Books of Books 1/3 2012: 30.
Puhringer, Alexander.
Der Fall der Dinge. Untitled. The State of the Art No. 4, Autumn 2012.
2011
Starling, Simon.
The Inaccessible Poem. Torino: Fondazione Merz, 2011.
Faivovich & Goldberg.
Meteorite ‘El Taco’. AGMA Magazine, Winter 2011: 16-21. Bomb Magazine No. 116, Summer 2011: 79-83.
Lorch, Catrin.
Faivovich & Goldberg. Artforum, February 2011: 243-4.
En Guide Til Campo del Cielo del 1: El Taco. Smug Magazine, 2011.
Estación Experimental. Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, 2011.
Pauls, Alan.
Meteorito. Otra Parte, 2011.
Iglesias, Claudio.
A través del universo. Radar, Página/12 2011.
2010
Faivovich & Goldberg.
The Campo del Cielo Meteorites – Vol. I: El Taco. dOCUMENTA(13). Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2010.
Lundh, Johan.
Part of the Process. Mousse Magazine, 2010.
Coulson, Amanda. ArtReview Issue 64, December 2010.
Es regnet Meteoriten. Frankfurter Allgemeine, September 2010.
Hohmann, Silke.
Kosmisches Readymade. Der Weg nach Kassel führt durchs All und Argentinien. Ein Buch von Guillermo Faivovich und Nicolás Goldberg erzählt Davon, wie der Meteorite El taco die Kunstelt verändert. Monopol, December 2010.
2009
Transacciones Filosóficas. Uqbar Foundation-Sepia.
2008
Discovery of a Multiton Meteorite. Revista Script.
Villa, Javier.
Una Guía a Campo del Cielo. ADN, La Nación.
