Alexandre Arrechea was born in Cuba, in 1970. He graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana in 1994. Arrechea was a member of the art collective Los Carpinteros, until he left the group in 2003 to pursue his career as a solo artist.

Recent solo exhibitions have been held for his work at:

• Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Caja de Burgos, Spain, 2009
• Katzen Arts Center of American University in Washington, D.C., 2008
• Casado-Santa-Pau Gallery, Madrid, 2008
• Magnan Projects, N.Y., 2008
• Patio Herreriano Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Español, Valladolid, Spain, 2007
• Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles, Calif., 2007

In addition to the SCAD exhibitions upcoming projects in 2010 include an outdoor sculpture at the Ice Box at the Crane Arts Center in Philadelphia as part of the Philagrafika 2010; a two person show at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdale Park, CA; a projection of the video piece “Black Sun”, previously featured in the 2009 Thessaloniki Biennial, shown on the façade of the NASDAQ building in Time Square in New York this March; and a group exhibition at the Museum of Art and Design, New York.

Arrechea has participated in numerous groups exhibitions including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Shanghai Art Museum, China; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Art in General, New York; Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany; Arizona State University; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; as well as the Havana Biennial 2009 and 2000; the 2005 Braziers International, Oxfordshire, England; the Venice Biennale 2005; Liverpool Biennial 2004; Shangai Biennial 2002; and the Sao Paulo Biennial 2002.

His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; and Museo de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba, to name a few.

Thursday, June 3, 6-7 p.m.
ACA Gallery of SCAD, Woodruff Arts Center
1280 Peachtree St., Atlanta, Georgia

SCAD Senior Curator Melissa Messina will lead a curatorial walk-through of "The Rules of Play," the first solo show in the Southeast by Cuban-born artist Alexandre Arrechea. The exhibition, on display in the ACA Gallery of SCAD, showcases the artist’s prolific interdisciplinary practice, featuring recent drawings, sculpture and video. Messina will discuss how the artist uses references from architecture, design, games and sport in his meticulously crafted pieces to convey complex, thought-provoking and clever observations on the constructs of power in our ever-globalizing society.

Lecture is free and open to the public. Held in conjunction with Modern Atlanta.

Modern Atlanta is a weeklong citywide program which focuses on design excellence in many areas of life: architecture, communication arts, fashion, interior design, visual arts and social responsibility. MA10 ranges from an opening night reception to a multi-layered fundraiser party for CARE, along with lectures, unique activities and visual art experiences at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art. Again this year, June 5-6, MA10 presents a tour of selected modern homes throughout Atlanta.

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