For this exhibition, Amore has invited Mario Kreuzberg to curate a special project. Founded in 2016 in Berlin by Chilean artist Manuela Morales Délano, Mario Kreuzberg is an interdisciplinary, artist-run offspace dedicated to projects that involve gestures and actions. Constantly evolving, the initiative seeks to move, transform, and at times, disappear.

Since December 2022, Mario Kreuzberg has been based in Basel, Switzerland, under the direction of artists Charles Benjamin and Manuela Morales Délano. Until 2024, they were hosted by the nonprofit project space Salts. In addition to curating and organizing exhibitions, they also work as an artistic duo and have presented their work on various occasions.

For their exhibition at Amore, they have invited Javier González Pesce for a solo exhibition, accompanied by a performance by Jorge Raka.

"In my work, I reflect on how bodies and matter move through space by reacting to attractive or repellent substances and energies. Through research on entities such as love, politics, and economics, as well as simple physical phenomena such as gravity, I perceive how all matter is entangled in a network of attractive forces that define its material, spiritual, or ideological position.

My work connects sculpture to movement with a performative intent. I use my work as a device to extend creative thinking into various spaces. I conceive of my production as a deployed system of dispersed, sensitive situations that establish connections, much like a constellation.

I believe in artistic practice as a form of human activity that sometimes takes on tangible existence— a form of sensitive thinking linked to doing and acting, a complex and multifaceted way of interacting with the world and its phenomena. Art is a means of generating knowledge, where the intellectual, the experiential, and the tangible converge, producing new situations. I believe that artistic work allows us to visualize the interactions between our thoughts and reality— a type of human activity that manifests as an object, a situation, or another form of sensory expression. Through artistic practice, we extend our thinking and embed it into spaces of reality, enabling us to reflect and engage in new experiences."

— Javier González Pesce

Javier González Pesce is a visual artist that lives and works in Santiago, Chile. Javier González Pesce graduated from ARCIS University (Chile, 2008) and holds a Master of Arts in Public Spheres from ECAV (now EDHEA, Switzerland, 2017). He has participated in several group exhibitions in South, Central and North America, in Europe and Asia. His solo exhibitions include Telstar at the Instituto Telearte (Chile, 2024), Rostro Humano at the Sala Emilfork, Valparaiso Catholic University (Chile, 2004), Lo que se de mi cuerpo; lo que mi cuerpo sabe de mi, Paijan (Perou, 2023), Two Ways to disappear without losing the physical form, The Darling Foundry (Canada, 2019), Satelites and Wanderers, Points Center for Contemporary Art (China, 2019), Esta Tierra es tal, que para vivir en ella y perpetuarse no hay mejor, à la Galería Gabriela Mistral (Chile, 2017), Ciels, au Musée d'Art du Valais (Switzerland, 2017), and El ser tan bella no da derecho to destroy, at the Museo de Artes Visuales (Chile, 2014).

Since 2011, he has co-directed the local Arte Contemporáneo art space (Santiago, Chile), where artists such as Gonzalo Díaz or Tris Vonna-Michell have exhibited their works. Local Arte Contemporáneo has participated in international art fairs in Chile, Argentina, the United States, Sweden and Spain.

He won the MAVI Young Art Award (Chile, 2012), the Curatorial Award of the Council of Culture (Chile, 2013), the Americas Residence of the Council of the Arts of Montreal (Canada, 2014) and the Juan Downey Prize (2020).

Javier has been a curator of exhibitions such as Mundo, TOKAS (Japan, 2024), Museo en Campaña, Galería Gabriela Mistral (Chile, 2022), The Syness of Things, EAC (Uruguay, 2014).

www.mariokreuzberg.com

For this exhibition, Amore has invited Mario Kreuzberg to curate a special project. Founded in 2016 in Berlin by Chilean artist Manuela Morales Délano, Mario Kreuzberg is an interdisciplinary, artist-run offspace dedicated to projects that involve gestures and actions. Constantly evolving, the initiative seeks to move, transform, and at times, disappear.

Since December 2022, Mario Kreuzberg has been based in Basel, Switzerland, under the direction of artists Charles Benjamin and Manuela Morales Délano. Until 2024, they were hosted by the nonprofit project space Salts. In addition to curating and organizing exhibitions, they also work as an artistic duo and have presented their work on various occasions.

For their exhibition at Amore, they have invited Javier González Pesce for a solo exhibition, accompanied by a performance by Jorge Raka.

"In my work, I reflect on how bodies and matter move through space by reacting to attractive or repellent substances and energies. Through research on entities such as love, politics, and economics, as well as simple physical phenomena such as gravity, I perceive how all matter is entangled in a network of attractive forces that define its material, spiritual, or ideological position.

My work connects sculpture to movement with a performative intent. I use my work as a device to extend creative thinking into various spaces. I conceive of my production as a deployed system of dispersed, sensitive situations that establish connections, much like a constellation.

I believe in artistic practice as a form of human activity that sometimes takes on tangible existence— a form of sensitive thinking linked to doing and acting, a complex and multifaceted way of interacting with the world and its phenomena. Art is a means of generating knowledge, where the intellectual, the experiential, and the tangible converge, producing new situations. I believe that artistic work allows us to visualize the interactions between our thoughts and reality— a type of human activity that manifests as an object, a situation, or another form of sensory expression. Through artistic practice, we extend our thinking and embed it into spaces of reality, enabling us to reflect and engage in new experiences."

— Javier González Pesce

Javier González Pesce is a visual artist that lives and works in Santiago, Chile. Javier González Pesce graduated from ARCIS University (Chile, 2008) and holds a Master of Arts in Public Spheres from ECAV (now EDHEA, Switzerland, 2017). He has participated in several group exhibitions in South, Central and North America, in Europe and Asia. His solo exhibitions include Telstar at the Instituto Telearte (Chile, 2024), Rostro Humano at the Sala Emilfork, Valparaiso Catholic University (Chile, 2004), Lo que se de mi cuerpo; lo que mi cuerpo sabe de mi, Paijan (Perou, 2023), Two Ways to disappear without losing the physical form, The Darling Foundry (Canada, 2019), Satelites and Wanderers, Points Center for Contemporary Art (China, 2019), Esta Tierra es tal, que para vivir en ella y perpetuarse no hay mejor, à la Galería Gabriela Mistral (Chile, 2017), Ciels, au Musée d'Art du Valais (Switzerland, 2017), and El ser tan bella no da derecho to destroy, at the Museo de Artes Visuales (Chile, 2014).

Since 2011, he has co-directed the local Arte Contemporáneo art space (Santiago, Chile), where artists such as Gonzalo Díaz or Tris Vonna-Michell have exhibited their works. Local Arte Contemporáneo has participated in international art fairs in Chile, Argentina, the United States, Sweden and Spain.

He won the MAVI Young Art Award (Chile, 2012), the Curatorial Award of the Council of Culture (Chile, 2013), the Americas Residence of the Council of the Arts of Montreal (Canada, 2014) and the Juan Downey Prize (2020).

Javier has been a curator of exhibitions such as Mundo, TOKAS (Japan, 2024), Museo en Campaña, Galería Gabriela Mistral (Chile, 2022), The Syness of Things, EAC (Uruguay, 2014).

www.mariokreuzberg.com

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