martes, 30 de abril de 2013

Javier Requejo

Javier Requejo



Galicia-based artist and designer Javier Requejo created a life-sized orange garden elephant by using polypropylene bound to a metal skeleton. It took Requejo, who usually favours wire for his sculptures, over eight months and about 150,000 knots of this material mostly used for more industrial or agricultural projects. Quite a contrast against the traditional setting.






miércoles, 24 de abril de 2013

Ana Parra Villalba

Ana Parra Villalba

Ana is a spanish artist, that works in various fields, after being able to see some of her projects, I have been mainly attracted to her installation in the which sometimes she incorporates and works with sound in a very personal and unique way.
''Working on our environments. Both the visible and the invisible.I speak of the limitations we found between time and space in our context and play with both concepts, modifying and altering them.
My projects are a study of the material reality that surrounds us, but also speak of the presence of  intangibles, we determine. As the knowledge acquired through or human experiences that are based on scientific grounds.''
'Limits'









This is one of the installations which I have chosen fron Ana Parra's  work which plays with the space in an elegant and simple way. I find very interesting the simplicity of the expression through this piece.:
''It's a space without the perceivable presence of the limits. The only guides are the filaments of some bulbs that illuminate various paths.The different paths shown, are the horizons that we can observe from our world. I am trying to ponder about the limits of the natural borders.''
The work is done in collaboration with Cotte Montero.

'Cuando China'


Is one of Ana's sound tracks, this was my favourite one but she has other which through the sound she is able to reflect an inspiration.
here is the link for the sound tracks:





lunes, 22 de abril de 2013

Michel Auder

Michel Auder


I was able to discover Michel Auder in an exhibition in Lisbon  It was more his past work that attracted me, although at the same time his new work reflectes him in the 21st century. It is his way of working in a realistic atmosphere, by creating an unusual and abstract moments in his films. Every film although it doesn't seem like it has a sequence or an order, has a perfect reflection of the title and a logical side towards the project.
My favorite works:
  • blooding angels:Brooding Angels, Made for R.L.1988, 6 minutes
From its fiery outset, Brooding Angles is decidedly gothic and the mood anxious. It is a dark rumination on the specter of authority, resistance and paranoia marking the close of Reagan's second term in office.
Born in 1945, Auder came of age during the 1960s, a decade as tumultuous in France as it was in the United States. The decade culminated in the student/worker strikes of May 1968 that shut down the city of Paris. Auder's value system was in many respects shaped by this anti-authoritarian milieu.
Its remnants are to be found in his preponderance with issues violence and conflict as they serve to question moral progress. The soundtrack's ominous melody is recycled from footage of cellist David Soyer that can be seen in A Portrait of Alice Neel.


  • polaroid cocaine:Polaroid Cocaine,1993, 5 minutes
The thrill of cocaine becomes a metaphor for the consumption of images in this short montage. The title and lyrics come from Auder´s friend and 2001 Prix Goncourt winner Jean-Jacques Shuhl. The piece is composed entirely of still photographs from a variety of books and magazines that simultaneously reveal and feed an addiction to spectacle.

With a source that is once removed, Auder's scopophilia is symptomatic of society at large. The song is performed by legendary chanteuse Ingrid Caven. Suffused with a bittersweet melancholy, Canven's seasoned voice compliments Auder's selection of images which dwell on the themes of death, destruction and desire.
The melody is classic cabaret performed by a piano/violin duo who dramatically heighten the works already dark eroticism.









viernes, 19 de abril de 2013

Theresa Hechtbauer

Theresa Hechtbauer

Theresa uses her art in a very ironic and humorous way which I find specially amusing.


 Through this work I admire the way she works with the content, and what she transmit the A,B,C of our conversations. Theses conversation are just based on erasmus students, but these same situation occur with everything...

Realisation of a dream:
















Fantastic description...

Her work is expressed  at her blog as she has a special way of positioning her work and you may appreciate her work much better :

jueves, 18 de abril de 2013

Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust


      

If I was a curator I would use Proust's quotes and philosophy:
'Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.'
'Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.'

'Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.'

'We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.'

'We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.'
'People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.'

  • If more curious about proust there is a very interesting documentary link below, called 'How proust can change your life'(perfect name):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9dwwVvGfVQ


After reading and learning about him it all reflected an image in my head, which I have tried to put together through media:
 

Lala Cifuentes







miércoles, 17 de abril de 2013

Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy



An artist, who is able to emerge art with nature. It's not really his work that I admire, but his love to where he makes art. If I was a curator I would only have his pieces where they are intended to be in nature, as it is through this how he expresses better. I find fascinating how by analysing and just combining two or three atmospheres of nature he creates a work.
 philosofy: 
For me looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another begins. Place is found by walking, direction determined by weather and season. I take the opportunity each day offers: if it is snowing, I work in snow, at leaf-fall it will be leaves; a blown over tree becomes a source of twigs and branches.
Movement, change, light growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work. I need the shock of touch, the resistance of place, materials and weather, the earth as my source. I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material itself, it is an opening into the processes of life within and around it. When I leave it, these processes continue.The energy and space around a material are as important as the energy and the space within. The weather—rain, sun, snow, hail, calm—is that external space made visible. When I touch a rock, I am touching and working the space around it. It is not independent of its surroundings and the way it sits tells how it came to be there. In an effort to understand why that rock is there and where it is going, I must work with it in the area in which I found it.I have become aware of raw nature is in a state of change and how that change is the key to understanding. I want my art to be sensitive and alert to changes in material, season and weather. Often I can only follow a train of thought while a particular weather condition persists. When a change comes, the idea must alter or it will, and often does, fail. I am sometimes left stranded by a change in the weather with half-understood feelings that have to travel with me until conditions are right for them to appear. All forms are to be found in nature, and there are many qualities within any material. By exploring them I hope to understand the whole. My work needs to include the loose and disordered within the nature of material as well as the tight and regular.At its most successful, my ‘touch’ looks into the heart of nature; most days I don’t even get close. These things are all part of the transient process that I cannot understand unless my touch is also transient—only in this way can the cycle remain unbroken and the process complete. I cannot explain the importance to me of being part of the place, its seasons and changes. Fourteen years ago I made a line of stones in Morecambe Bay. It is still there, buried under the sand, unseen. All my work still exists in some form.My approach to photograph is kept simple, almost routine. All work, good and bad, is documented. I use standard film, a standard lens and no filters. Each work grows, strays, decays—integral parts of a cycle which the photograph shows at its height, marking the moment when the work is most alive. There is an intensity about a work at its peak that I hope is expresses in the image. Process and decay are implicit.

 This is a great documentary about how Andy Goldsworthy works:


Andy Goldsworthy WEB

martes, 16 de abril de 2013

Yuni Kim Lang


Yuni Kim Lang



Yuni Kim Lang is fascinated by the power and meaning we give hair. She says, "I think about the intimate relationship we have with our hair and our fantasies around it. The cultural meaning and richness of hair has so much to tell us." Because no other part of the body seems to hold such a variety of symbolic power, this artist has focused a good part of her practice on hair, using it as a symbolic metaphor to express her cultural identity.






Clara Cebrian

Clara Cebrian

Clara from my point of view has a very special way of reflecting her vision. Through her work you may see her interest in life, showing us her perception of life through her illustrations. Her works show naivety in an intelligent way, causing intrigue through a very basic and straightforward media, which is what makes it outstanding and give most of her works a very personal touche. I chose the pieces which relate text and image, they where the ones that gave only a first step for the spectator to discover more....

Hope you enjoy.


Taking Desicions Machine:


summer is Gazpacho:


Untitled:
 
in bathing suit with her thick eyebrows she said “I’m looking for new hobbies, Im bored”
“you can be a great excuse inventor” he replied

INSIDE THE BRAIN:




lunes, 15 de abril de 2013

miércoles, 10 de abril de 2013







Semiconductor



If I was a curator I would with no daut choose the semiconductor group which is based of two people Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt. Through there work the main feeling I have is of travelling, as if in the moment watching it you could float through there work, without even realising you are observing or listening to...


Brilliant Noise takes us into the data vaults of solar astronomy. After sifting through hundreds of thousands of computer files, made accessible via open access archives, Semiconductor have brought together some of the sun's finest unseen moments. These images have been kept in their most raw form, revealing the energetic particles and solar wind as a rain of white noise. This grainy black and white quality is routinely cleaned up by NASA, hiding the processes and mechanics in action behind the capturing procedure. Most of the imagery has been collected as single snapshots containing additional information, by satellites orbiting the Earth. They are then reorganised into their spectral groups to create time-lapse sequences. The soundtrack highlights the hidden forces at play upon the solar surface, by directly translating areas of intensity within the image brightness into layers of audio manipulation and radio frequencies.

Here is there web page they have other works which are also intresting (20Hz): 

lunes, 8 de abril de 2013

Andrea Zittel


A woman that made art of her way of living. Just testing her perfect way of living. The inspiring about her work is the demonstration,  how you can live just with the fondamental values.



If want to see the complete video:

domingo, 7 de abril de 2013

Sung Hwan Kim







Last summer I was able to present myself to 'the tanks' at the tate modern where I spend a whole magnificentevening. There are many artists, all where video-art, but it was sung hwan kim who attracted me the most. It was mainly his sequence and calculative thinking what I found outstanding.
I was totally convinced by his last videos in the spiral setting, called 'dog video' in the one you can admire his irony and sarcasm.





jueves, 4 de abril de 2013


perspective |pəˈspɛktɪv|
on this new post I wanted to talk about perspective, how from different views  a variety of things can happen. The artists that I want to show I think that they have taken use of it very accurately. 
noun
1 [ mass noun ] the art of representing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other.• the appearance of viewed objects with regard to their relative position, distance from the viewer, etc.: a trick of perspective.• [ count noun ] a view or prospect.Geometry the relation of two figures in the same plane, such that pairs of corresponding points lie on concurrent lines, and corresponding lines meet in collinear points.

2 a particular attitude towards or way of regarding something; a point of view: most guidebook history is written from the editor's perspective.
• [ mass noun ] true understanding of the relative importance of things; a sense of proportion: we must keep a sense of perspective about what he's done | though these figures shock, they need to be put into perspective .

3 an apparent spatial distribution in perceived sound.

Utah architecture students

perspective arch 

Zac Stott | Drew Whitehead | Stephen Stewart
this colorful arch plays with our visual perception: when half of it stands 200 yards away from the other half, viewing it from a very specific point made it look like it was actually covering the whole distance, creating the strange vision of a giant gate standing in the middle of the Salt Flats.





perspective poles

Joshua Weber | Robert Tranter | Nate White
two series of black poles, carefully lined up on the Salt, create the illusion of going all the way to the horizon (or further?) when seen from the right angle. this impression fades out as people start walking in the middle of the two rows, leaving us totally helpless to figure out the scale of the installation, people and space around...




purple monster

Mike Atherton | Simmi Chahal | Hannah Maher

3 purple rectangles, all positioned on the same plane (perpendicular to the viewer) give the impression of being placed at different distances because of their varying dimensions, position in height and fading color... 


Pierre Pellegrini


through these images I feel you can see a black&white infinity...


Esther Stocker














miércoles, 3 de abril de 2013

Allan Kaprow



In the late 1950's, Allan Kaprow gave the name "Happening" to to his unique events that were shaped by audience participation. Body movements, recorded sounds, spoken texts, and even smells could be an artist's materials. A Happenings is an unfolding narrative, juxtaposing people, objects and events to create unexpected interactions. The Happening also stemed from John Cage's experiments. Cage, the most radical and influential native modernist in American music in the 1950's, was moving towardstheater where he believed could be found the most effective integration of art and "real" life. Precedents for Kaprow's happenings were the publicly staged absurdities of the post-World War I Dadaists, the theories of Antonin Artaud, and the performances of Yves Klein, the French New Realist.


"The action collages then became bigger, and I introduced flashing lights and thicker hunks of matter. These parts projected further and further from the wall into the room, and included more and more audible elements: sounds of ringing buzzers, bells, toys, etc., until I had accumulated nearly all the sensory elements I was to work with during the following years....I immediately saw that every visitor to the environment was part of it. And so I gave him opportunities like moving something, turning switches on -- just a few things. Increasingly during 1957 and 1958, this suggested a more 'scored' responsibility for the visitor. I offered him more and more to do until there developed the Happening.... The integration of all elements -- environment, constructed sections, time, space, and people -- has been my main technical problem ever since." Allan Kaprow 1965



Sophie Calle







Her curiosity made her art. 





lunes, 1 de abril de 2013

I LOVE NOT THE MAN LESS, BUT THE NATURE MORE...



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