ThreeWalls SOLO Announces: Cayetano Ferrer: Eight Corners September 7, 2007

Opening Reception: Friday, September 7, 2007, 6:00 – 9:00 PM
On View: September 7, 2007 – October 13, 2007

CHICAGO: ThreeWalls announces the launch of their new program, the SOLO project, opening in conjunction with their new season of residency and group exhibitions. On view in Gallery 2D: ThreeWalls’ summer resident, painter Chris Millar (Calgary, Alberta), and in Gallery 2A, SOLO: Cayetano Ferrer (Chicago).

SOLO artist Cayetano Ferrer uses existing forms in order to engage in a dialog about the constant flux of the built, contemporary environment. Using inkjet prints on existing objects/architecture that reveal what these objects ultimately obscure, Ferrer exposes the relationship between the built and the rebuilt, surface and hidden, as well the delicate matter of history and memory as the present paves over the recent past in a bid to enrich economies. Ferrer’s work is a gentle push/pull between permanence and obsolescence, inviting consideration of evolution, mutation and modification in our relationship to our immediate environment.

Cayetano Ferrer is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Select exhibitions include “FAST – Future of Art, Science and Technology,” in Daejeon, Korea, at the Daejon Museum of Art, in Brooklyn, NY, at 78 Dikeman Street, in London, England, at i-cabin, in Chicago, IL at The Plaines Project and in Oakland, CA at Lobot where he completed a residency in 2006. Ferrer was the recipient of the The Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Visual Arts Award in 2006, a Worldstudio Foundation scholarship in 2004 and the merit scholarship at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003.

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