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| Every day a creative day. |
31 December 2010
28 December 2010
27 December 2010
Temporary (empty) museum
The Temporary Stedelijk until 9 January 2011.
Interesting works mixed with empty rooms, probably to make us feel "the space" of the renovated museum. Well, I don't now if I need that. I feel I know the museum well, the changes are not so radical on how it was, and all that waiting... Just go ahead and open it, have exhibitions and let us visit it.
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| Yael Bartana |
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| Vintage posters, normally they were next to the cafe. |
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| Karel Appel, the cafe is probably the biggest change of all. |
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| Lawrence Weiner Cusped: an ornamental pointed projection formed by or arising from the intersection of two arcs or foils |
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| Cleaning the finger prints. |
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| Ooops, even with the guards next to it there was an accident. |
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| Barbara Visser, the copy of the copy of the copy |
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| Lucia Nimcova |
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| Barbara Kruger, Verleden / Heden / Toekomst, 2010. |
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| Louise Lawler |
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| On Kawara |
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| Roman Ondak, |
I thought I could be a part of the work, but I was not allowed to mark my height and name, so I only took the photo.
24 December 2010
Drugs culture kidnaps the fine arts
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| El Economista, image El Jefe by M.Polin |
This article talks about the influence of the Mexican Drugs War in the arts, days after the "official" release of the ex-presidential candidate and lawyer Diego Fernandez de Cevallos. He was kidnapped for 7 months. This information is in part what the title of the article by Vicente Gutierrez from El Economista is refering to. The image of the article is my painting El Jefe based on the photo made of Fernandez de Cevallos by his kidnappers.
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The narco kidnaps the fine arts
Vicente Gutiérrez / El Economista, Mexico / 22 December 2010
Film, theater, art installations, music, novels, art and television series are inspired by drug trafficking and violence in Mexico to create works of art. But the narco goes beyond the social phenomenon that causes the lifestyles of drug dealers, that many that many young people copy in their dream to be rich like them. Increasingly, the artists take the drugs world as a theme to create.
"It is impossible to ignore the horror that exists in many cities, borders and roads of the country and this affects all activities or people," said the writer Martin Solares.
"In Mexico's artists have begun to reflect on their creations the increasing daily violence or the presence of drug traffickers. Even in the Mexican poems and novels occasionally appears a testament to the violence! "He said. After the federal government declared war on drug trafficking, the issue has been more present than ever in the Fine Arts and has become the "tough" face of Mexico in the world. Just remember that for the 53 Venice Biennale, the artist Teresa Margolles showed an installation of a room soaked with blood and debris of various murders and had jewelry made with scrap from the drugs war.
The art curator Cuauhtémoc Medina explained that "jewelry made from fragments of windshield glass, embroidered in gold on blood and sound recordings of the landscapes of death aphorisms murderers, they all converge to produce a space for reflection, physical threat and anxiety."
Or what the artist Marisa Polin did in The Netherlands, who intervened a picture of Diego Fernandez de Cevallos blindfolded. Although this was the most innocent part of the exhibition where executions, beheaded, tortured and kidnapped were shown in her drawings and paintings that raised a lot of noise.
What about El Infierno / The Hell, Luis Estrada film which grossed 83 million 82 thousand 542 pesos to register as the second highest grossing film in Mexican cinema in 2010 which tells the story of an ordinary man who ends up as a drug trafficker.
etcetera...
"It is impossible to ignore the horror that exists in many cities, borders and roads of the country and this affects all activities or people," said the writer Martin Solares.
"In Mexico's artists have begun to reflect on their creations the increasing daily violence or the presence of drug traffickers. Even in the Mexican poems and novels occasionally appears a testament to the violence! "He said. After the federal government declared war on drug trafficking, the issue has been more present than ever in the Fine Arts and has become the "tough" face of Mexico in the world. Just remember that for the 53 Venice Biennale, the artist Teresa Margolles showed an installation of a room soaked with blood and debris of various murders and had jewelry made with scrap from the drugs war.
The art curator Cuauhtémoc Medina explained that "jewelry made from fragments of windshield glass, embroidered in gold on blood and sound recordings of the landscapes of death aphorisms murderers, they all converge to produce a space for reflection, physical threat and anxiety."
Or what the artist Marisa Polin did in The Netherlands, who intervened a picture of Diego Fernandez de Cevallos blindfolded. Although this was the most innocent part of the exhibition where executions, beheaded, tortured and kidnapped were shown in her drawings and paintings that raised a lot of noise.
What about El Infierno / The Hell, Luis Estrada film which grossed 83 million 82 thousand 542 pesos to register as the second highest grossing film in Mexican cinema in 2010 which tells the story of an ordinary man who ends up as a drug trafficker.
etcetera...
Excerpto en Español de: La narcocultura secuestra las bellas artes
Vicente Gutiérrez / El Economista, Mexico / 22 December 2010
Vicente Gutiérrez / El Economista, Mexico / 22 December 2010
Cine, obras de teatro, instalaciones de arte, música, novelas, artes plásticas y series de televisión se inspiran en el narcotráfico y la violencia en México para crear obras artísticas.
Pero la narcocultura va más allá del fenómeno social que provoca el estilo de vida de los narcotraficantes, ése que muchos jóvenes copian en su sueño por ser ricos como ellos.
Cada vez más, los artistas toman el narco como materia para crear.
“Es imposible ignorar el horror que se vive en tantas ciudades, fronteras o carreteras del país y esto afecta a todas las actividades o personas”, explicó el escritor Martín Solares.
“En México los artistas más exquisitos y solipsistas han comenzado a reflejar en sus creaciones el aumento de la violencia cotidiana o la presencia de los narcotraficantes. ¡Hasta en los poemas y en las novelas de ciencia ficción mexicanas aparece de vez en cuando un testimonio de la violencia!”, agregó. Después de que el gobierno federal declaró la guerra al narcotráfico, el tema ha estado más presente que nunca en las Bellas Artes y se ha convertido en el rostro “duro” de México en el mundo. Basta recordar que para la 53 Bienal de Venecia, la artista Teresa Margolles presentó instalaciones sobre el narco con una habitación empapada con sangre, residuos de distintos asesinatos y joyas hechas con desechos de la guerra del narcotráfico.
El curador de arte Cuauhtémoc Medina explicó que “joyas hechas con fragmentos de parabrisas, aforismos asesinos bordados en oro sobre sangre, sonidos grabados en los paisajes de la muerte, todos ellos convergen para producir un espacio de reflexión, amenaza corporal y ansiedad”.
O lo que hizo en Holanda la artista plástica Marisa Polin quien intervino una foto de Diego Fernández de Cevallos con los ojos vendados, aunque es la pieza más inocente de la exposición ante los ejecutados, decapitados, torturados y secuestrados que aparecen en sus dibujos y pinturas que levantaron mucho ruido.
Qué decir de El Infierno, película de Luis Estrada que recaudó 83 millones 82 mil 542 pesos para colocarse como la segunda cinta más taquillera del cine mexicano en el 2010 donde relata la historia de un hombre común que acaba como narcotraficante.
18 December 2010
A sea of seeds
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| Ai Wei Wei's infinite sea of porcelain sun seeds at the Tate Modern in London. |
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| They look very much like the real seeds but they were all made and painted by hand in China in one town where all of a sudden every body had this temporary job. As you know we are not allowed to walk on them as it was first possible, but now we can't even touch the work and there is a person checking you don't get nearer than a meter. Well, what can I say, at least I could take pictures of the seemingly dirty seeds. |
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| The most interesting part of this work is possibly the metaphor on China, its inhabitants, the way of working, the "made in China" concept. It amazes to know there are so many millions of seed reproductions, one by one they are imitating nature, and probably a seed that we had never paid that much attention before. The total work is not an extremely beautiful work, it is just a sea of seeds. |
16 December 2010
15 December 2010
Nelson's ship
Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle by Yinka Shonibare. A huge 'poetic' translation for the 4th plinth on Trafalgar Square.
Absurd. On this photograph also on Trafalgar Square, 8 photographers excluding me, taking a snap of two pigeons as if they were film stars. They were not a group but rather one person started attracting the other photographer ans so on.
13 December 2010
12 December 2010
30 works in 30 days
Demián Ortega takes The Curve of the Barbican by surprise. 30 works made on a selection of news in the month September 2010. He selected and reacted to the newspaper news with one installation or sculpture per day.
The chairs photo comes from the facebook page of the Barbican as half way the exhibition I was asked not to take photographs. Why not?
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| as soon as you see the photo from Barbican FB page. |
11 December 2010
10 December 2010
Titles and covers
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| To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. There are books that the title doesn't attract you, and because of that you don't read them. Other books you feel the desire of reading them because of the cover. Those two are reasons that are partly true in my case, I realize now, after I've read To Kill a Mockingbird. Words like 'chillun' (for children) ans 'suh' (for sir) really transport you to the Alabama world of the 1930's. |
09 December 2010
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