Faivovich & Goldberg
Nombramiento en Cráter 13, 2006. C-Print, engraved bronze plaque. 140 x 106 x 5 cm. Ed of 3
Meteorit “El Taco”, 2010. Two meteorite halves, iron and nickel. Installation view. Portikus, Frankfurt
El Taco & Theodore, circa 1965, 2010. Archival pigmented print. 56 x 70 cm. Ed of 7
Los hoyos del Campo del Cielo y el Meteorito, 2011. 25 framed silver gelatin contact prints, inkjet wallpaper, silk-screen print. Variable dimensions. Ed of 1. Installation view. Fondazione Merz, Turin
Los hoyos del Campo del Cielo y el Meteorito, 2011. 25 framed silver gelatin contact prints, inkjet wallpaper, silk-screen print. Variable dimensions. Installation view (detail). Fondazione Merz, Turin
The weight of uncertainty, 2012. Iron, 3544 kg. Installation view. Documenta 13, Kassel
The San Juan Mass of Campo del Cielo en la Colección Guerrico, 2014. Iron meteorite, plinth. Installation view. MNBA, Buenos Aires
Número, 2015. Installation view. Galeria Paramo, Guadalajara
Número 27 and 29, 2015. Micrograph. Pigment print on cotton rag paper. 104 x 104 cm. Unique print
Decomiso, 2016. 405 sealed and numbered digital c-prints, 258 file folders with notarized documents. File cabinet, storage racks. Dimensions variable. Installation view. ASU Art Museum, Arizona
Patio Santiagueño, 2016. Audio, 12 min 42 seg., Video 49 min 39 seg., on loop. Installation view ASU Art Museum, Arizona
Ouf der suche nach Mesón de Fierro, 2018. Installation view. Naturhistorisches Museum Wein, Viena Austria
Ouf der suche nach Mesón de Fierro. Sample A-18 “Tucuman”, Naturhistorisches Museum Wein
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Since 2006, Guillermo Faivovich (1977, Buenos Aires) and Nicolás Goldberg (1978, Paris) have been engaged in an intensive and wide-ranging research project—A Guide to Campo del Cielo—that forms the basis of their practice. Campo del Cielo is located in northern Argentina and was the site of a meteor shower about 4,000 years ago. Faivovich & Goldberg combine the roles of scientist, historian, anthropologist, and even bureaucrat, to conduct projects that suggest 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. For over a decade, the duo has produced a diverse body of work, 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.
Some of Faivovich & Goldberg’s latest projects are El Mataco (Museo Histórico Provincial de Rosario Julio Marc, 2019), Mesón de fierro: Towards the XXII Century (Naciones Unidas, Viena, 2019), In search of Mesón de Fierro (Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, 2018), Decomiso (ASU Art Museum, Arizona, 2018), Un meteorito para la Sociedad Científica del año 2105 (U-Turn, ArteBA, Buenos Aires, 2018), Número 11 Gwangju Biennal (Korea, 2016), The San Juan Mass of Campo del Cielo en la Colección Guerrico (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, 2014), The weight of uncertainty (Documenta 13, Kassel, 2012), Los hoyos del Campo del Cielo y el meteorito (Fondazione Merz, Turin, 2011), Meteorit "El Taco” (Portikus, Frankfurt, 2010). They have also developed presentations and presented conferences in University Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires (2018), Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna (2017), Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (2017), Dia Art Foundation, New York (2013), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (2011). They live and work in Buenos Aires.
exhibitions
¡Saxa loquuntur!
02.12.2022
Having moved on from the administrative aesthetic and their flirtation with the bureaucracy of classification and organization of meteorite materials, ¡Saxa loquuntur! finds Faivovich & Goldberg taking the concept of the archive to an esoterically suggestive extreme.
news
02.02.2021 The Backroom / Faivovich & Goldberg
publications
Creo haber contestado a todo lo que has preguntado. Faivovich & Goldberg. Spiral Jetty, Buenos Aires. 2016
La caza del Snark. Faivovich & Goldberg. Polígrafa, Barcelona. 2014
Artists on Walter De Maria. Aldrich, Dunning, Faivovich & Goldberg, Winters. Dia Art Foundation, New York. 2017
The Campo del Cielo Meteorites - Vol. 1: El Taco. Faivovich & Goldberg. Hatje Cantz, documenta (13), Alemania. 2010
The Campo del Cielo Meteorites - Vol. 2: Chaco. Faivovich & Goldberg. Walther Koenig & documenta (13), Alemania. 2012
links
Faivovich & Goldberg. En Búsqueda del Mesón de Fierro. TBA21, septiembre 2017
Florencia Böhtlingk. Revista Jennifer, junio 2017
Himali Singh Soin on Faivovich & Goldberg. Artforum, verano 2017
Julia Villaro. Revista Ñ Clarín, febrero 2017
Sara Demeuse. Farewell to Nature. Art in America, marzo 2015
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. Press release. documenta(13), 2012
Graciela Speranza. El Chaco en Kassel, 2012
Claudio Iglesias. Suplemento Radar, Pagina/12, febrero 2011
Catrin Lorch on Guillermo Faivovich & Nicolás Goldberg. Artforum, febrero 2011
Portikus “Meteorit El Taco”. E-flux, septiembre 2010
