BORN: MONTRÉAL
LIVES AND WORKS: MIAMI
"Cerj Lalonde moves smoothly from the canvas to the camera, from computers to installations, producing and showcasing an extraordinarily rich and complex body of work created during the last 20 years. His purpose is to pursue a direct and, in each case, a different communication with the spectator...
His paintings, installations, photographs and web pages are intended to function each in its own way, as an overt revision and critique of the contemporary art system, as they establish parallel dialogues between the artist, the public, and the curatorial values..."
Amalia Caputo *
*Amalia Caputo is a contributor to the publications Extracamara Magazine, Caracas and Arte Al Dia International, Miami. She holds a Bachelor of Art and Art History from the Universidad Central de Venezuela, where she graduated with honors in 1988. In 1995 she received a Master of Arts in Photography at New York University and the International Center of Photography. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in Caracas, Barcelona, Mexico City, New York and Miami. She lives and works in Miami, Florida.
"Although a diligent experimenter that also applies a complex assortment of mediums (photography, video, installation, performance, digital work), Cerj Lalonde remains above all an extraordinary painter.
We can also view his splendid multimedia presentations of the nineteen-eighties that persistently summons the primitivism-alchemy of a Beuys as much as the “black hole” of electronic images by Nam June Paik."
*Antonina Zaru is an Italian curator and art critic who has organized several exhibitions and retrospectives (from Miro and Magritte to Richard Serra and Nam June Paik) in Museums around the world (New York, Washington, Tokyo, Basel, Austria, Spain, Korea, Rome, Milan, Venice). She is a regulator contributor on art for several art journals and catalogues.
