Alexander Pilis
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Alexander Pilis is an architectural investigator, working under the aegis of "Architecture Parallax"[1].
Pilis was born in Rio de Janeiro and now lives in Barcelona. Pilis has both Brazilian and Canadian citizenships. Trained as an architect, he has taught at the University of Toronto in the School of Architecture and the Department of Fine Arts.
The Blind Architect: Visual Crisis[2] is an extension, and a summation of his quarter-century of exploration into the nature and meaning of what he calls "Architecture Parallax". It is a research praxis that poses questions, how to think, articulate, and represent an ordering system that is not dependent upon a visual singularity.
[edit] Works of Alexander Pilis
- Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 2006 La Panera, Lleida, Spain.
- 2006 Koldo, San Sebastian, Spain.
- 2006 Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, SP Brazil.
- 2006 Peak Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
- 2005 ADN, Barcelona Spain.
- 2003 Museum of Installation, The Modern Tate, Sir John Soane Museum, London Eye, The Old Operating Theater, Laban, Old Greenwich Royal Observatory and in Collaboration with The Metropolitan University of London, Fine Arts department, London UK.
- 1999 Box 23, Barcelona Spain.
- 1998 Institut fur Auslandsbeziehungen (I.F.A.), Stuttgart Germany.
- 1998 The Gallery at Grange House, Guernsey College of Art and Design, Channel Islands.
- 1996 Akademie Schloss Solitude, Schloss Halle, Stuttgart Germany.
- 1995 Chopo Museum, Mexico DF, Mexico.
- 1994 Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg Canada.
- 1993 YYZ Gallery, Toronto Canada.
- 1993 Contemporary Museum of Art, São Paulo Brazil.
- 1992 Western Front Gallery, Vancouver Canada.
- 1990 Museu de Arte Contemporanea, São Paulo Brazil.
- 1988 The Power Plant Art Gallery Toronto Canada.
- Guest Artist In Residence
- 2005 The Banff Centre For The Arts, Banff Canada
- 2004 The Banff Centre For The Arts, Banff Canada.
- 1998 Guernsey College of Art & Design, UK.
- 1996-07 Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart Germany.
- 1994 The Banff Centre For The Arts, Banff Canada.
- International Biennial
- 2002 25Th. International Art-Architecture Biennial, São Paulo Brazil. In cooperation with The University of São Paulo and University Alves Penteado, Film/Video/Audio Departments. Canada Council.
- 1987 19Th. International Art-Architecture Biennial, São Paulo Brazil.
- Curatorial
- 2003 La Caixa Fundació Forum, Barcelona Spain.
- 1996 Crises of Abstraction, co-curator with Ihor Holubizky, S.S.: Stuttgart Germany
- 1996 Architecture Parallax SnackLunch, St. Norbert Arts & Cultural Centre, Winnipeg Canada.
- 1995 Parallax Workshop, St. Norbert Arts & Cultural Centre, Winnipeg Canada.
- 1989 The Institute for Architects of Brazil, A 5th year architectural students thesis, traveling Brazil, Co-Curator with Larry Richards. University of Waterloo: Co-op Laboratory
- 1986 Archimemoria, SESC Fabrica da Pompeia Art Gallery, São Paulo.
- Between Here & There: The Memory of Disruption
- Selected Recent Group Exhibitions
- 2006 Centro Cultural Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastian, Spain.
- 2006 Centre d’Art La Panera, Lleida, Spain.
- 2003 Alucine, Toronto, Canada
- 2003 Fundació Tapies, Barcelona Spain.
- 2002 The Mendel Public Art Gallery, Saskatoon Canada.
- 2001 SESC Fabrica da Pompeia, São Paulo Brazil.
- Publications
- 2006 "São Paulo, Memory of Disruption", an edition of 80 issues. (published by Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo with a Canada Council Grant.)
- 2004 "What you See is not What you are Thinking you are Seeing", Tàpies Fundació, Barcelona Spain.
- 1998 Architektur - Parallaxe : Turm Tisch Ture, I.F.A., Stuttgart Germany.
- 1998 Architecture Parallax : Scopic Flash Guernsey Gallery G. Britain.
- 1996 "Parallax History, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart Germany.
- 1995 Architecture-Parallax : SnackLunch, St. Norbert Cultural & Art Centre Winnipeg.
- 1995 Parallax : The Legacy of the Future is the Burden of the Past, Museo del Chopo Mexico DF, Mexico.
- 1995 View - Bi Occulus, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart Germany.
- 1994 Architecture Body Parallax, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg.
- 1990 Architecture Ultra Mundane, published by the Museo de Arte Moderna S.P.
- 1989 G-7: Architecture Snack Lunch, The Power Plant Art Gallery, Toronto.
- 1988 Architecture X-ray, New Observations, VOL. 55, N.Y.
- 1986 Entre Espaço : A Memoria da Disruptura, Archimemoria Canada.
