Anthony McCall

This artist I was lucky enough to discover at the exhibition which you can view in the video, in Berlin. When I was there I remember feeling a great thing, I just felt there nowhere else. I am not sure if it was the darkness in the room, with the which I thought no one could precede me, or the game if the lights/projections/sculptures that gave me a sort of hope or path to it. Just standing near to it and observing the untouchable, although visible, made me experience in a great way the moment.

THE MORE PEOPLE I MEET THE MORE I LIKE MY DOG

LALA CIFUENTES

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Wonford St.James

He is an artist which I discovered through researching. I found very interesting one of his web pages which is him doing photos of himself in different points of the world. (http://thedeadphotos.com)

Furthermore started to look into him even more I found his web page which is (http://www.wonfordstjames.com/). What I liked most was how he wrote. Here is his biography:

´I was born in London. I don’t remember it. My mother is from Accrington. My father is from Bromley. I grew up in Cullompton. I remember the light and the color, the greens and the browns, the fields and the cows, the M5 and the cricket club, the cider and the hash. It is all still there, largely unchanged, slightly bigger. If you cut the earth in Devon it bleeds a deep red clay.

´I once lived on my own in a five bedroom Georgian townhouse in Ravenscourt Park. When everybody else had gone the landlord forgot I was still there. The wysteria grew into the windows at the front of the house and there were mice in the kitchen. The lounge was flooded with a uniquely English wash of light as it gently lent towards the road. The television glowed pink. Whilst I was at my grandmother’s funeral I was burgled. They took a Technics stereo, a Canon Super-8 camera and a black waterproof Helly Hansen jacket.

On arrival I lived in a hotel on Sunset Strip for about a month. You are struck by the immense potential of it all. It no longer need be in confinement. I kept the white hotel robe that I had always wanted and had a small telephone with just 3 numbers on it for a wonderfully brief moment. The 101 slices through the flatlands like the sash on a Crystal Palace kit. The 10 is foreboding and resolute. Sunset Boulevard is everything one could ever need from a road. We sat and watched it all develop from the top of that rock.`

I liked in general his style, which I found very clean and original. At the same time he does experimental music, which has been the other part of him that I found very interesting.

JACQUES DEMY

He was one of the most approachable filmmakers to appear in the wake of the French New Wave. Uninterested in the formal experimentation of Alain Resnais, or the political agitation of Jean-Luc Godard, Demy instead created a self-contained fantasy world closer to that of François Truffaut, drawing on musicals, fairytales and the golden age of Hollywood. 

I really like from his work the elegance, although with cheekiness at the same time. Very sophisticated!

KLARA HOBZA

This is an artist which I was able to discover in an improvised lecture festival in Berlin (at the old milatery airport). It s an artist that in-between many crazy stuff done, now she decides to dive through Europe. Her plan is to enter the Rhine from the North Sea, proceed through the Rhine to the Main, then through the Main-Danube-Channel, down through the Danube, and all the way to the Black Sea. Hobza estimates that this endeavor will require the next 20-30 years.After telling us all this story she does a live performance, which is something new she had learnt,'Eat a banana under water!'. You may try it at home by putting your head into a tank of water, really difficut but true!

More of her work:

http://klarahobza.com/work/diving/

ANSELM KIEFER

This artist I saw in London 1 year ago, I extract from him his way of playing with the balance of texture, within the perspective of the painting. Not using very bright colours.  With his neutral tones he is able to make the painting stand out.

Dans Paris (Film)

One of the most inspiring movies about now dependence on other humans in a damaging and inspiring, as you become part of that person and YES you see the good and the bad, but you still accept or lie to yourself saying that you love ALL of it. You just lost a part of yourself, which can be substituted in so many ways......Although all of this is said it doesn t mean that all those moments in which you are part of somebody are bad. It means that although that great satisfaction there are not so amazing ways of returning to that part They can be replaced in other little small ways.......Maybe...

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MIKA ROTTENBERG

Mika rottenberg inspired me in a different way, which is the way that we are now inspired by, breaking the what might be sometimes the limits. What mainly attracted me about her is her way of showing her work, that is more singular or new with the combined diversity of styles. Through her work I can also see humour and pleasure for what she is doing which I might think it is the main component.

Here I leave you some videos explaining her projects...

Algia Mae Hinton

Piedmont blues performer Algia Mae Hinton was born in 1929 in Johnston County, NC; the daughter of Ollie O'Neal (a local legend whose musical skills were so extraordinary that many believed she'd made a pact with the devil), she began playing guitar at age nine, and as a teen was a fixture at area dances and house parties. A gifted back dancer as well as musician, Hinton spent the better part of her life enduring seasonal farm work; after the tragically premature death of her husband, she was left to raise their seven children alone. She did not make her professional début until 1978, appearing at the North Carolina Folklife Festival; from there, she went on to take the stage at the National Folk Festival, the Chicago University Folk Festival, and even Carnegie Hall, and in 1992 was honoured with the North Carolina Folk Heritage Award. In 1997, Hinton finally released her début LP, Honey Babe.

MARY TEMPLE

 I found very interesting in such an  discrete and elegant way she embraced the lights and played within the space. I enjoy the secret cleanness that the work has.

The video explains the piece which I am talking about...

http://marytemple.com/artwork/

William S. Burroughs




Set in William S. Burrough's New York City apartment, the Bunker, this experimental film mixes images and audio of the nuclear holocaust from Hiroshima, Burroughs, and real confessions.

 This is a demostration of how by using the redicoulos, and the sence of humour, many diffrent meanings can come out from a piece of art.

The video is just a few cut outs made by Burroghs , using them repetetly, giving this work diffrent perspective to look at it.

WHAT COULD THE POINT BE?,
FOR THERE TO NO POINT.

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Juan Muñoz

Juan Munoz was a famous Spanish sculpture which I admire through it s sense of humour and capacity of telling a story through his art. I believe that through his works are special in a humours way, by using different paths of sarcasm.

Here I leave a very interesting documentary about him:

http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/imprescindibles/imprescindibles-juan-munoz-poeta-del-espacio/1144975/