Ellen Gallagher with Edgar Cleijne: A law … A blueprint … A scale

The book accompanies the exhibition at the Centro Botín in Santander by the internationally acclaimed American artist Ellen Gallagher. Ellen Gallagher with Edgar Cleijne: A law … a blueprint … a scale is the first exhibition in Spain by the internationally acclaimed American artist Ellen Gallagher. Spanning two decades of the artist’s career, it will include paintings, works on paper as well as three film installations created in collaboration with Dutch artist Edgar Cleijne. Curated by Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz, Centro Botín’s Director of Exhibitions and the Collection, and Benjamin Weil, Director of the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian’s centre for modern art, the exhibition will explore issues of race, identity and transformation, with reference to themes such as Modernist abstraction and marine biology.