Paul de Guzman: Digger | available works

MAA - Museum for the Administration of Aesthetics presents Digger, ephemera assembled by Paul de Guzman

Museum for the Administration of Aesthetics, or MAA, under the frenzied auspices of it sdirector, Paul de Guzman, and in conjunction with Galerie Transit, launches Digger in the Flemish city of Mechelen, Belgium. Digger is an installation that proposes to evaluate the pedagogical potential of the act of removal or excision through an historical and archaeological context. Taking its cue from architectural excavations of ruins and abandoned construction sites, the research was initiated during a recent three month artistic residency in 2010 at Stichting Duende in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. This exhibition of ephemeral works employs notions of conceptual craft, situational aesthetics and the archive. Using various artistic strategies involving a projection, mixed media altered bookworks, interactive mobile structures and a limited edition self-published artist book, the ephemera cumulatively works toward the involvement of language and architecture as experiential models within social dynamics.
Digger recognizes the role of education and pedagogy as strategies in attempting to connect
architecture with the vernacular experience of physical and virtual space.

Born in Manila, The Philippines where he studied Engineering, Paul de Guzman immigrated to Canada in 1986 and currently lives and works in Vancouver. He founded MAA – Museum for the Administration of Aesthetics in 2009 and currently acts as its Director. MAA is a service oriented virtual entity, an architectural avatar that collaborates with other artistic organizations in collecting and disseminating information about contemporary issues involving art and related media. De Guzman’s self-education in art was achieved through reading art and architecture texts. His work has been shown extensively in Canada, and exhibited internationally in New York at apexart and Kinz + Tillou Fine Art, in San Francisco at Hosfelt Gallery, in Paris at Galerie Dominique Fiat, and at No Soul for Sale at the Tate Modern in London. This is de Guzman’s second collaboration with Galerie Transit in Mechelen, Belgium.

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