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THE book (magazine nickname) and our art projects are a testimony to our unique angle, which fosters the interaction between us and many other communities and nationalities all over the world. IRREVERSIBLE programs (International Cultural exchanges, Art Fairs participation, Videos/ Documenta, Exhibits, Special Projects and THE book) over the past years have gone through an evolution towards becoming an innovative, international venue for young contemporary art and towards a way of thinking that tasks the audience to look beyond assumptions about art and stereotypes.
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Much of today’s IRREVERSIBLE content expresses art to embody something meaningful enough to be relevant beyond time. IRREVERSIBLE, like Professor John Baldessari said, celebrates the motto,“ Art Comes out of failure” ….“You have to try things out. You can’t sit around, terrified of being incorrect… !
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There is always so much to see, and there is always so much to feel. There is so much we don’t talk about, so much we have trouble believing in. The connections between people, things to admire in people, trust that goes unnoticed, small kindnesses, shared silences. I deeply thank the artists who contributed original ideas, essays, statements, struggles, critics and stories, making another IRREVERSIBLE book possible. They challenge us by stretching and bending reality and thereby keep pushing the boundaries of perception. At the same time we deeply appreciate our readers, whose curiosity and interest keep us rolling.
I am grateful to all (Alejandro Mendoza, Alex Heria, Andreas Kreienbuehl, Edouard Duval-Carrié, Lucinda Linderman, Luisa Elena Betancourt, Laura Jamieson, Sandra Gonzalez, Alexis W, Alberto Garcia-Alix) who support the independence of IRREVERSIBLE as an International Art Project. Last but not least to Nathaniel Jones, my daily inspiration. Just use your imagination and tremendous things will happen. Imagine you have the ability to see the world with different eyes, whenever you choose. Each time you open your eyes, You see the world around you in a different way... Irreversible Way.
See you at the fair. Noor At a time when cultural institutions are suffering restrictive budget cuts and scaling back programs, and when publications are disappearing due to a lack of advertising dollars, what Norelkys Blazekovic is accomplishing with Irreversible Magazine is simply astonishing. Practically single-handedly, and with an admirable determination of purpose that miraculously trumps her scant financial resources, she has succeeded in transforming her dream into a cultural portal joining creative voices from Miami to Tokyo, from Spain to Switzerland and beyond. She has become a catalyst for linking artists of diverse vision in her publication. Whether she meets an artist in her travels to art fairs and creative forums in the United States, Latin America, Europe or Asia, Blazekovic has a knack for attracting those she encounters in the spirit of collaboration. In this edition of Irreversible you will discover varied voices and artists ranging from Edouard Duval-Carrie to Alberto Garcia-Alix, Antonia Wright, Lucinda Linderman and Alex Heria.
She is also spotlighting the Jumex Collection at the Bass Museum of Art during Art Basel Miami Beach. “Where Do We Go From Here? Selections from La Coleccion Jumex” marks the first time that the largest private collection of international contemporary art in Latin America is being shown outside its home base in Mexico City. This exhibition includes a selection of international figures of contemporary art such as Mike Kelley, Urs Fisher, Jenny Holzer, Louise Lawler, and Rirkrit Tiravanija, alongside Mexican conceptual artists Damian Ortega, Inaki Bonillas, Gabriel Kuri and Stephan Bruggeman. And, unlike the show at the Bass, her magazine serves as a portable exhibit because she approaches the publication with the eye of a curator.
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FILM & VIDEO Alfonso Vasquez
Special Thanks to: Zakarin Public Relations Destiny Spang Miami, FL CONTRIBUTORS
Babacar MBow International Programs & Exhibits Coordinator for the Broward County Libraries Division in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Donald J. Cosentino Ph.D Professor UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures Professor of Culture and Performance (Folklore, Literature, Visual and Material Arts, Popular Culture, African and Afro-Caribbean Studies).
Bernardo J. Canteñs, Ph.D Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA His areas of competency are Medieval Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, American Pragmatism, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Latin American Philosophy and Hispanic/ Latino Issues. Victor Zamudio-Taylor Jumex Collection Art Advisor to Mr. Eugenio Lopez, & La Colección Jumex Victor Zamudio Taylor is an independent researcher, curator critic & film co-producer who is currently based in Mexico City. He has worked for Public Progams at MoMA, and been a curator & researcher for the Photography Collection formed by Manuel Alvarez Bravo & the Televisa Collection.
Her goal at Irreversible has always been to “strive to broaden the global understanding of contemporary art and to foster cultural exchange by creating new paradigms through creative initiatives.”
In these pages you will not only find some provocative art, but perhaps more importantly, an equal measure of Blazekovic’s clarity, boldness and independence, not to mention a resolute and unwavering passion for doing what she loves.
Carlos Suarez de Jesus, Art Critic
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Alexandre Arrechea, Arena, 2007, Espumacor fiber, Courtesy of the artist
Courtesy of Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery
Betty Rosado, from the Identity series, 2001, Silver gelatin print
Jorge Pineda, Afro Fight, 2007-09, Mixed media policromed wood, boxing gloves, drawing
Blue Curry, (detail) Untitled, 2009, Mixed media, steel and plastic
Curator EDOUARD DUVAL-CARRIE ARRECHEA ALEXANDRE Cuba
Global Caribbean Focus on the Contemporary Caribbean Visual Art Landscape December 4, 2009-March 30, 2010 260 NE 59th Terrace Miami FL 33137
Little Haiti Cultural Center
AWAI NICOLE Trinidad BOCLE JEAN-FRANCOIS Martinique BURKE ALEX Martinique CAMPBELL CHARLES Jamaica CASTELLO KEISHA Jamaica COZIER CHRISTOPHER Trinidad CURRY BLUE Bahamas DAMOISON DAVID Martinique DENIS MAKSAENS Haiti DIAGO ROBERTO Cuba EUGENE ANDRE Haiti FERLY JOELLE Guadeloupe FRORUP KENDRA Bahamas GARDNER JOSCELYN Barbados GRIFFITH MARLON Trinidad LOCKE HEW Guyana MARTINEZ MELVIN Puerto Rico PAIEWONSKY RAQUEL Dominican Republic PEÑA GUSTAVO Dominican Republic PIERRE VICKIE Haiti PINEDA JORGE Dominican Republic ROSADO BETTY Puerto Rico SIMMS ARTHUR Jamaica
The exhibit, curated by Edouard Duval-Carrié, an internationally
renowned artist living and working in Little Haiti in the heart
of Miami, is a major project launched by Caraibes en Creation,
a new program of Culturesfrance, the French Government agency for international cultural exchanges.
The exhibit will showcase contemporary artists from throughout the Caribbean.
“Whatever the artistic experiences might be and however
varied they are, when analyzing the Caribbean region’s production, the underlying notion is that our history is fraught with serious social and economic fragility,” said Duval-Carrié.
“One can add to this picture a racial construct that is closer to
the patchwork than a large brushstroke, and an evolution that is rather short in span.”
Duval-Carrié added that the region’s history, as a colonial/
plantation backwater of European powers, interested only
in a systematic exploitation of their colonies, has not been conducive to artistic expressions worthy of that name. Some
Caribbean nations, breaking with their respective colonizing
nations have created the need to assert their independence with some sort of affirmation of their cultural prerogatives,
he said. He went on to say that this affirmation was done
in some cases as a conscious effort by the governing elites, as in the case of Cuba, to promote and nurture the national
cultural expressions, through institutions such as art schools,
museums. At the other end of this cultural assertion program is the case-model of Haiti, which imposed its cultural identity
by the sheer will and ingenuity of its peasantry, in the total absence of any elitist guidance, Duval-Carrié said.
“The case for the rest of the island-nations of the Caribbean can be said to vacillate between those two models,’’ Duval-Carrié
added. “Some have programs, others don’t. But what they all Hew Locke, Kingdom of the Blind #5-6-7, 2009, Courtesy of Hales Gallery
have are artists, and the thrust of my effort is to prove that
whatever the case, these artists are alive and well. Whether they are part of well-intentioned cultural directives or are solo
acts whose productions are in defiance of all odds, I want to honor their efforts by presenting them and their works in a
pristine new facility that will only enhance the quality and strength of their visuals.”
photo by Thierry Bal
IANTS IN THE CITY G 1234567891011121314 INFLATABLE SCULPTURE PUBLIC ART PROJECT CURATOR ALEJANDRO MENDOZA guest artist Maki Hashizume
Image courtesy Miguel Fleitas
japan special prize winner kobe biennale 2009
Gustavo Acosta Jose Bedia Noor Blazekovic Tomas Esson Miguel Fleitas Karen starosta gilinski Frank Hyder maitejosune tony kapel anakin koenig Angel Ricardo Rios Federico Uribe
2008 Knight Arts Challenge Winner
DECEMBER 2 –7 09 Bayfront Park Miami
The Entrance of the Vodou Gods into Miami The lwa,---as Haitians call their living gods---have been on the move for five hundred years. And Haitian-American artist Edouard Duval-Carrié has tracked their every step from the idyllic
forests of Dahomey, to the slave plantations of St. Domingue, to their new hangouts in sexy
Miami. No other artist has ever chronicled so much of Haiti’s extravagant history, nor done so
by creating such over-the-top imagery. His paintings, sculptures and altar assemblages re-script
the progress of Haitian history as if were all some post-modern production of a Jean Genet play: surreal stage sets whose grotesque actors---Gods, Slaves, Caciques, Generals, Mermaids,
Courtesans, Dandies---jostle each other amid suffocating lianas or in flimsy boats. From what vantage point does Edouard want us to observe his divine riff-raff? Has he cast us inside the
privacy of his nightmares? Or on the ceiling of some campy whore house where we look down on the shop-worn goddesses doing double time as working girls? Are we in ancient Africa?
Colonial St. Domingue? Some temple in downtown Port-au-Prince? Or are we washed up with the human flotsam in Florida, near Edouard’s studio in Little Haiti?
Edouard Duval-CarriĂŠ Boussu, 2009, Tinted resin and fiberglass sculpture
Nature Vivante, 2005 Mixed Media on Aluminum Sheet Collection of Brandon Fradd, New York, NY
While no other Haitian paints or sculpts in his idiom, Edouard inherits his penchant for recoding
the lwa from an artistic lineage which stretches from Hector Hyppolite (1894-1948), the first Haitian painter with an international audience, through such successors as Rigaud Benoit,
Celestin Faustin and Andre Pierre. These and many other artists have re-imagined the lwa in
the shapes and colors of their own time. Each has given new expression to the critical role the lwa play in the daily life and endless drama of Haitian history. Without that divine reckoning, very little of Haitian art or culture can be truly understood.
Vodou priests sometimes observe, “Each serves the lwa in his own way.” For the early masters of the “Haitian Renaissance”---that near miraculous fluorescence that began after World War II—art was their service to the divinities. Paintings, sculptures, flags and other devotional
objects, now avidly collected by museums and connoisseurs, were directly inspired through personal encounters with the lwa, and reflected their real presence in the secular world. But
Edouard did not grow up in such a world. He was born into a middle class family that fled Haiti during the Duvalier years. He grew up in Puerto Rico, New York and Miami. He was formally
trained as an artist in Paris and Montreal. His Miami studio is full of art books, arcana and bibelots from Paris, Dahomey, Tibet, Machu Pichu and the hundred other places he visits and dreams about.
Edouard’s lwa reflect all these cosmopolitan places and things. They are twenty-first century gods, and like the artist who made them, they are always on the move. They are global nomads,
like many of those who serve them. Ten percent of the Haitian population now lives in the United States. They’ve arrived here by any and all available means. On airplanes to JFK, or in
flimsy boats from the Haitian coast to wherever the Gulf Stream might carry them (if La Sirene and Admiral Agwe, co-divinities of the Sea, don’t claim them first). As Haitians have moved on,
they’ve brought their raffish and savvy pantheon of gods with them. In their painted and sculpted
manifestations, we appreciate how cosmopolitan the Black Atlantic world is (and always has Erzulie Freda, 2009, Tinted resin and fiberglass sculpture Boussu, 2009, Tinted resin and fiberglass sculpture
La Societé des Jens de Couleurs (The Society of Colored People series) Dame Jaune, 2001, Mixed media on artist frame, Private collection, David Wallack
been) and how central Haiti is (and always has been) to its expressive culture.
When we look into the surreal mirror that is Edouard’s art, we say, ‘Oh, that’s what Vodou looks like now.’ A religious culture whose gods have become refugees. Shopping cart divinities dressed
in tatters and hand-me-downs. What a motley crew of washed up revelers. This is where their
migration (without green cards) from Africa to Haiti to Miami has finally landed them. But before we shed too many tears for their tawdry fate, consider the ironies in the Haitian proverb,
‘Nou led men nou la.” (We’re ugly, but we’re here!) That’s the joking response Haitians give to
all the natural and social forces forever threatening to crush them. And from Edouard’s art, we know these red-haired, purple-lipped goddesses are indeed here. And suddenly Miami---and the United States---look a whole lot sexier because they’ve decided to stick around. Donald J. Cosentino
Professor, Department of World Arts and Cultures University of California-Los Angeles.
13 “In this way (that is, by reading the text of Fa), do men discover their destiny and conduct its worship. What is in store for a
man is foreordained. Yet,... a ‘way out’ is not
denied to man. This power that permits man to scape his destiny – philosophically the
personification of Accident in a world where
Destiny is inexorable - is found in the character of Legba”
Papa Legba, 2002, Mixed media on artist frame
-Melville Herskovits, Anthropologist
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Alejandro Mendoza creates intellectually provocative sculptures and drawings, and a prominent theme of his work is the cross. The cross is
a universal symbol of humanity; it transcends all cultures, nationalities, religions and ethnicities. The cross is a basic and profound symbol that represents the essence of our being and the complex socialpolitical world that we have created.
While Mendoza’s creative works insightfully explore our common
nature, they also resplendently embody his particular experiences as a Cuban exile living in the US. His art offers for contemplation abstract intellectual themes such as freedom, courage, trepidation, time, evolution, friendship, trust, humility, human rights, human
dignity, good, evil, strength, weakness, and mystery. What is most alluring about Mendoza’s art is its power to usher one to a boundless
creative-horizon of interpretations, where one’s intellect exhilarates among the ideas.
Bernardo J. Canteñs, Ph.D
Associate Professor and Chair Department of Philosophy
Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
Alejandro Mendoza (Detail) Mas Fuerte que Nunca, 2009, Mixed media wall sculpture, acrylic and resin on wood, Courtesy of the artist
La Revancha, 2009, Mixed media wall sculpture, acrylic on wood
Mas Fuerte Nunca, 2009, Mixed media wall sculpture Mas fuerte que nunca, 2009, Mixed que media wall sculpture, acrylic and resin on wood
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I am, by default, the illustrator of my ideas, even though I seem to
lie to myself constantly. Creating is the most “bestial� process of my
conclusions. It is the energy of starting something without exactly knowing the actual outcome.
My environments are constants on my aesthetic proposal which is tied to the parallel need to understand common sense and making my interpretation of it more or less acceptable or understandable.
Limiting me to an immutable idea or a permanent line of reasoning
would be to deny the logical possibility of responding to my rising impulses.
Creating is the experience of being constantly unsatisfied. When this happens, I should redo and lie to myself again. Alejandro Mendoza.
Previous Page Enormous, 2009, Mixed media color drawing on clear polyurethane
This Page Arrival, 2009, Mixed media wall sculpture, acrylic and resin on wood
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Identity in an Era of Globalization
Caribbean Canvas
Featuring Alejandro Mendoza Genevieve Lahens (IRIS) Philippe Dodard Guy Syllien Turgo Bastien Peter Wayne Lewis Franklin Sinanan Marie Therese Dupoux
5570 NE 54 Street Miami FL 305-759-5959 www.Teleamerica.com/gallery
Luisa Elena Betancourt seeks beauty through visual whispers in
small intimate images, with writings and drawings transferred to handmade papers and books. Photographs, as memories of life,
become digital collages creating an equilibrium between craft and
technology. She guards each page inside boxes that repress any sensorial contact. These Huellas de Vida pages become a metaphor for memory resurrection through the power of art. Eduardo Planchart Ph.D., Curator,
Museum Centro de Arte de Maracaibo Lia Bermudez (CAMLB) Series Huellas de Vida
Exhibit CAMLB Museum LiaBermudez, Maracaibo Venezuela 2008.
Assamblage, handmade paper book, wood from Gabante RainForest, digital image, leather, beads, mother-pearl, metal and clay. www.luisaelenabetancourt.com
Luisa E. Betancourt
Alberto GarcĂa-Alix
Autorretrato, 2007, Images courtesy of artist
“Con veinte años me fui de casa de mis padres a vivir con un amigo que tenía mis mismas inquietudes. Ambos éramos aficionados a la fotografía y montamos en nuestro departamento, un pequeño laboratorio. Allí mismo, nos pusimos nuestro primer chute y salieron estas fotos. Fotos que el mismo mejunje y el mismo narcótico han hecho visibles. Ves. Aquí, en la oscuridad de los limites hay un horizonte donde se destruye toda ambición de ser. Las fotografías traen un sin fin de resonancias a mis ojos. Hoy, miro aquellos días congelados en las cucharillas, con dolor. El dolor que da la ausencia y el fracaso. También con nostalgia y no lo hago porque fueran buenos, sino porque fui joven.“ Alberto García-Alix
“At the age of twenty, I left my parent’s home to live with a friend who shared my
restlessness. We were both aficionados of photography and set up a small lab in our apartment. There we arranged our first shoot and these photos were the results of those efforts. These photos were made visible by the same concoctions and narcotics
of the subject matter.
You see, here in the darkness of what limits one, there is a horizon where all ambition
of being is destroyed. The photos bring with them a limitless resonance to my eyes.
Today I observe bygone days frozen in those spoons, with pain. That pain of absence
and failure. I also look upon them with nostalgia, yet not because they were good rather because I was young.”
Master Spanish lens man Garcia-Alix is recognized as one of the finest contemporary
photographers of Europe. He is the best known photographer to emerge from La Movida, the post-Franco era of free expression.
His documentary approach vividly captures the atmosphere of 1980’s Madrid and its
seedy underbelly. His portraits and still lifes are provocative, erotic and highly personal.
The artist was honored with Spain’s National Photography Award in 1999.
La Gata, 2001
Jorge y Siomara, 1978
Paul McCarthy, Propo-Miracle Whip, 1992, C-Print
Where Do We Go From Here?
Selections from La Colección Jumex December 3, 2009 – March 14, 2010
Paul McCarthy, Untitled (Jack), 2002, Silicon
The exhibition of selected Works of La Colección Jumex is its first in the United States, various exhibitions
of its holdings organized around themes have been on view in Buenos Aires, Bogota, Glasgow. Currently there is an exhibition hosted by the MUMOK in Vienna, Austria´s most important museum of modern and contemporary art.
Where do Where do we we go go from from here? here?like likeall allother othertravelling travelling exhibition exhibition projects projects is is a collaboration between the Bass Museum, CAC, Cincinnati, and La Colección Jumex. Partnerships are key in our era, they respond to the global character of the art scene, and art as an important part of our ofcultural our cultural life. life.
The selections for the exhibition was based on the research of La Colección Jumex strengths, the three
co-curators seek to highlight key aspects aspects of of the the art art and and present present its its complexity complexity through throughan an attractive show that will have a broad public appeal. “Art about art”, “Urban Culture or Anthropology”, and “Text
in Art” are the three nuclei around which the show is organized. There are also “Profiles” of artists that
La Colección Jumex collects indepth and has followed over time such as Rudolf Stingel; the Swiss duo,
Fischli & Weiss; Loiuse Lawler –La Colección Jumex has the most important holding of her art; Ugo Rondinone; Gabriel Orozco; and Paul McCarthy.
Through these themes we address key issues in contemporary art, and convey the concept of a collection
as a cultural practice. For Mr. Eugenio Lopez art, and in particular his collection is a cultural index, it is a barometer of our times; through formal investigation and thematic endeavors, a collection sums up the issues and concerns of a given moment of society at large.
La Colección Jumex is inter-generational, and inter-national. For Mr. Eugenio Lopez, the support of emerging artists is fundamental. Through his critical eye, he has identified key young talent and
acquired the very early work of artists who are now well established and respected and whose works have tremendously increased in value. In all of La Colección Jumex exhibitions, established artists and young talent are juxtaposed. Victor Zamudio Taylor
Art Advisor to Mr. Eugenio Lopez, and La Colección Jumex
The Bass Museum continually interprets art from the past to discover what contemporary art is today.
The Bass With creativity, Museum excitement continually and interprets scholarship, art from our the exhibitions past to discover programwhat willcontemporary reflect this ever-shifting art is today. With creativity, perspective, as will excitement our collection. and Our scholarship, educationour program exhibitions is focused program on creativity will reflect and depth this of ever-shifting experience. perspective, as will IDEA@theBass, developed our collection. in conjunction Our education withprogram StanfordisUniversity, focused on takes creativity place and indepth the classroom of experience. and IDEA@theBass, uses art as a catalyst developed to learnincritical conjunction thinking with skills. Stanford Later, school University, children takes are place invited in the withclassroom their families and
uses to Family art asFun a catalyst Day, a free, to learn monthly critical art thinking afternoon skills. at the Later, Museum. school children The Bassare Museum invitedactively with their engages families its to Family Fun community in Day, many a free, othermonthly ways asart well: afternoon concerts, atjazz the Museum. nights, artThe history Basscourses, Museumlectures, actively docent engagesand its communityprograms, internship in many other and special ways asevents. well: concerts, jazz nights, art history courses, lectures, docent and internship programs, and special events. Silvia Karman Cubina Executive Director/ Chief Curator
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“Art about Art”: Robert Gober; Louise Lawler, Sherrie Levine, Jonathan Monk “Art about Art”: Robert Gober; Louise Lawler, Sherrie Levine, Jonathan Monk “Urban Culture or Anthropology”: Carlos Amorales, Maurizio Cattelan, “Urban Culture or Anthropology”: Maurizio Cattelan, Abraham Cruzvillegas, On Kawara,Carlos ‘Moris’Amorales, Israel Moreno, Damian Ortega Abraham Cruzvillegas, On Kawara, ‘Moris’ Israel Moreno, Damian Ortega “Text in Art” : John Baldessari, Monica Bonvicini, Douglas Gordon, “Text in Art” : John Baldessari, Monica Jonathan Hernández, Sarah Morris, Ed Bonvicini, Ruscha Douglas Gordon, Jonathan Hernández, Sarah Morris, Ed Ruscha
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Site Memory, 2009, detail of ink installation
Philippe Dodard engages a re-formulation of transnational ties. Africa, Europe, Asia and the New World fuse into an aesthetic tool for repairing the bridge to our humanity. We know “a bridge that
has been repaired may in fact be stronger that the original”; this, the work of Philippe Dodard
Phillipe Dodard
articulates in form, style and sensibility and this is what makes it compelling.
The kinetics of his brushes are truly contributions to the twenty first century aesthetics with a strong bridge to the pasts through a dynamic of re-membering. Crossing this bridge of connections,
interconnections and passages of peoples, places, memories and histories, we emerge onto an artistic landscape where our diversity in equal footing allows the seeing of all that is best in the enduring “spirit work” of our humanity.
Through the art of Philippe Dodard, “men of profoundly diverse cultural, historical, religious,
and racial backgrounds can discover something of their own fate on earth, something of their own persisting strivings to make a more humanistically meaningful experience.”
This art is a blossoming of creative thought, methodology, criticism, theory and articulation. It cuts the “Basel” for the leaves to yield their aromatic scent. Honneur, Respet!
Babacar M’Bow is the International Programs and Exhibits coordinator for the Broward County Libraries Division in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Site Memory, 2009, detail of ink installation
Antonia Wright The Nature of Things is a project that attempts to question and disrupt
our idea of ‘environment’ and what it means today. By using the body as a tool, I set up scenes that aim to change the landscape by introducing the unnatural into the natural, or the natural into the unnatural.
Through performance and photography, the reactions of the passerby’s
are captured, highlighting the bizarre within the everyday façade of the ‘normal’. This project, like all my work, investigates interpersonal
connections to our surroundings to ultimately question both collectively and individually, why we do the things we do.
Let’s You and Me Get Lost In The Breath Of Trees, 2008, C-print (performance)
I am the Other Woman, 2008, C-print (performance)
Alex Heria
Blue Funk, 2009, C-print (Mixed media, resin sculpture, Swarovski crystal)
The luminous as a symbol of the infinite Contrary to how his work may appear, Alex Heria does not narrate about God, but rather speaks to aesthetics.
A multicultural stampede determines his condition as an artist. He avails himself of our residual symbols,
mixing and fusing them together before unleashing them on an unsuspecting world. The results are enriched
symbols, ready for the grand voyage of interpretations. Heria presents us novel pact between religion and aesthetics that form retooled alliances and lead to spontaneous philosophical musings. It’s an advanced formula of reconstructing our facades and the vernacular path of art as a tribute to the decorative.
For the artist it is not sufficient to recontextualize objects of adoration. On the contrary, it’s how he
begins his lengthy “Calvary,” revisiting and retransforming his imagery with appearances at times both contemporary and “divine”. But even after these Danteesque manipulations, his work is not yet completed.
The artist returns to his task yet again, revisiting the profaned object as a model for and end full of the effects and techniques of his photographic practice.
The completed work represents a state of crises and a strangled structure of consumerism hinting at a
kaleidoscopic oblivion, at once diffuse and blinding to our perception. In them the radiant dominates and sweeps us on a journey to a place of emptiness where cultural kitsch is infinite.
Right page, The Heaviest Burden, 2009, C-print (Mixed media, resin sculpture, Swarovski crystal) Left page, Freedom, 2009, C-print (Mixed media, resin sculpture, Swarovski crystal)
Lucinda Linderman Inspired by the discarded things around me, I transform something
thought of as waste into something desirable. Constantly frustrated
by my over-consumption and production of plastic waste from packaging of consumer goods, I upcycle my trash to create sculpture
resembling organs in the body, the digestive system in particular. The
intestines are the lifeline of the body. They filter ingested nutrients, helping the body use and store those nutrients. They then excrete excess food and wastes the body cannot use. These wastes, however,
can be used as fertilizer, fuel, or nutrients for other organisms in our ecosystem. In this cycle the nutrients are never lost. This is the same
approach used in my artwork. I model my process as an artist on
this system of renewal. The building blocks for my sculpture come from methodically separating my trash into compost, recyclable
bottles, cans and plastic; and unrecyclable packaging from consumer products. Material also comes from collecting plastic trash in my neighborhood like left over plastic wrap lying on the street and in dumpsters.
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Dry Cleaning Bag Labyrinth, 2009, Upcycled dry cleaning bags
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Image credit - Russell Young, Pig Portraits: Sid Vicious, 62” x 48”, 2001
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Seven Swiss artists presented by 9 6
Sonja Feldmeier, Jung-Yeun Jang Lori Hersberger, Kerim Seiler Loredana Sperini, Sue Irion Olaf Breuning
Sonja Feldmeier, Basel The End of the Rainbow„Sonja“, 1999 airbrushed acrylic and car varnish on MDF, ø 123 cm www.sonjafeldmeier.com photo: Donata Ettlin
Jung-Yeun Jang, Basel Plug in, 2004 oil on cotton, 100 cm x 80 cm www.fabian-claude-walter.com photo: Christian Schoch
Lori Hersberger, Zurich Horizons 003, 2009 c-print, 46 cm x 36 cm (edition 3) www.nicolavonsenger.com www.lorihersberger.com courtesy: Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zurich
Kerim Seiler, Zurich Schlaf, 2000–2004 lacquer, MDF, ø 150 cm, (edition 1/3) courtesy: Galerie Susanna Kulli, Zurich
Loredana Sperini, Zurich untitled, 2003 hand embroidery on cotton, 61 cm x 64 cm private collection photo: Mancia /Bodmer
Sue Irion, Basel Third Eye, 2008 photoemulsion on canvas, 50 cm x 70 cm www.sueirion.com www.ping-pong-basel.ch
Olaf Breuning, New York 120 x 150 cm (edition 6/6) i like japanese food very much, 2007 courtesy: Kodama Gallery, Tokyo / Olaf Breuning www.olafbreuning.com
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