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Branco de España

MUAU
Fundación Caixa Galicia, A Coruña, España
15 de abril – 27 de junio 2010

Presenté por primera vez el proyecto Branco de España para la exposición Postgraffiti, Geometría y Abstracción comisariada por Javier Abarca en la Fundación Caixa Galicia durante el MUAU en A Coruña.

Branco de España es un experimento donde, al igual que en Pubblico, Coriandoli o El Autotono, el resultado final de la obra depende completamente de la interacción con el viandante. Este proyecto está basado en la idea de combinar dibujos aleatorios y orgánicos con mis diseños limpios y calculados. La gente va dibujando con sus dedos, dejando aparecer poco a poco mis diseños escondidos.

Puedes ver el vídeo del proyecto aquí.

Este es el vídeo que proyectamos en la galería. Fue grabado y editado por M.A. Barrigüete.

Gracias a toda la gente del MUAU, a Javier Abarca por darme la oportunidad de participar en la exposición y a Henry Chalfant por sus amenas charlas, sus cautivantes puntos de vista y su agradable compañía.

Fotos por Elba Fernández, M.A. Barrigüete y Eltono

Entre la Silla y la Madre

Festival Nrmal
Alianza Francesa de Monterrey
Ignacio Morones Prieto 502, San Pedro, Nuevo León, México
Del 13 de marzo al 13 de abril 2010

Con los mismos ojos y de la misma manera que concebimos, unos meses antes, nuestra exposición en Perú, llegamos a Monterrey planteándonos el proyecto sin otro punto de partida que la propia ciudad. Fuimos generando ideas escultóricos e instalaciones a partir de estímulos visuales, recursos locales y tradicionales. Elaboramos todas la piezas partiendo siempre del punto de vista de cuatro personas ajenas a la ciudad y visitándola en un espacio de tiempo determinado.

Nuestra actividad se desarrolló dentro del marco del Festival Nrmal teniendo como base el espacio de exposición de la Alianza Francesa y de allí extendimos nuestra actividad a distintos rincones de la ciudad.

La documentación completa del proyecto está publicada en la web oficial del Equipo Plástico: www.equipoplastico.com/projects/entre-la-silla-y-la-madre

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La Cuadrada

“Visión caleidoscópica en la ciudad de Lima”

Centro Cultural de España
Natalio Sánchez 181, Lima, Perú.
Del 5 al 27 de noviembre de 2009

Lima como punto de partida y, como único estimulo, el contacto directo con la propia cuidad.
Sin ideas preconcebidas ni estudios previos generamos proyectos audiovisuales e instalaciones a través de la experiencia vivida en sus calles, el dialogo con sus gentes o la apropiación y descontextualización de recursos locales.
La exposición consta de dos partes bien definidas. Lo primero, una documentación fotográfica de todo aquello que captó nuestra atención durante las cuatro semanas que estuvimos en Perú, estímulos visuales que nos sirven de materia prima para producir las piezas en si y por otra parte, la síntesis de esta experiencia materializada en forma de instalación escultórica y mural en los espacios expositivos del Centro Cultural de España.

Muchas gracias a: Jules Bay y su equipo; Alvaro García Vilches, David Flores-Hora y todo el equipo del CCE en Lima.

La documentación completa del proyecto está publicada en la web oficial del Equipo Plástico: www.equipoplastico.com/projects/la-cuadrada

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Rojo Out

Proyecto de pintura mural para ROJO®out
Av. Pres. Juscelino Kubitschek – Marginal Pinheiros, Sao Paulo, Brasil
28, 29 y 30 de agosto de 2009

Proyecto en colaboración con Nuria Mora

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Tampiquito

Tampiquito, Monterrey, México
Abril – Mayo 2009

Proyecto comisariado por Nrmal y El Narval

Proyecto de residencia:
Del 1 de abril al 26 de mayo 2009
Exposición en La galería en el Taller Mecánico:
Del 21 de mayo al 7 de julio, Calle Plutarco Elias Calles #419, Colonia Tampiquito,
San Pedro, NL

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I’ve been invited by Nrmal and El Narval to be the first artist to participate in Residencia Tampiquito, an artistic residency in a popular neighbourhood in San Pedro (Monterrey, Nuevo León, México). I lived and painted for two months in Tampiquito and at the end we opened an exhibition in a gallery to show the result of the residency.

I painted around 50 pieces on people’s houses, had a 10 years old best friend and assistant (because of the flu, the schools were closed so Javi my neighbors’ son was helping me to paint almost everyday!), had an incredible crew working with me sorting out photos, videos, press and BBQ’s and felt very sad when I had to go back home!

If by chance you are in Monterrey, download the map of the paintings here, print it and have a walk in the awesome Tampiquito neighbourhood!

One day while I was painting, an amazing cumbia was played from a huge pick-up parked next to me. I met the owner of the car, Raúl el Tamborín, and after offering me a couple of beers, he gave me the tape as a gift! Nrmal made a mixtape out of it so everybody can enjoy it: https://nrmal.net/blog/nrmal/residencia-tampiquito-mixtape!

The project had an incredible press coverage, you can check it here:
https://nrmal.net/arte/prensa-generada-por-residencia-tampiquito

Thanks to: Lucas (Nrmal) and Luis (El Narval), Lalo, Samuel Catherine, Screw, Huizar, Maf, Malo, Angel, Lara, Telma, Paco, the Briones Morales family, Ofimodul, all my friends that helped and all Tampiquito residents!

Direct links to the picture galleries:

1 – Paintings pictures
2 – Exhibition pictures
3 – Opening pictures
4 – Extra pictures

Pictures of the street paintings:

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Pictures of the exhibition at La Galería en el Taller Mecánico:

For the inside part of the residency, I worked on an installation, some prints and 4 wood replicas of paintings originally done in the street. With the great help of Screw, Huizar and Paco we built up the installation inspired in Tampiquito “do it yourself” architecture with typical elements we found around the neighborhood.
The replicas were made of wood and are life-size reproductions of paintings number 5, 28, 36 and 46.

More pictures on the Nrmal website:
Expo Residencia Tampiquito : Eltono

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Pictures of the opening at La Galería en el Taller Mecánico:

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Extra pictures:

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Y así nació la CUADRIMETRÍA!

Pictures are from Eduardo Hernandez (Nrmal.net), Samuel Catherine, Lucas, Luis, Telma and Eltono.

Coriandoli

Cripta 747
Galleria Umberto I, int. 29 Porta Palazzo, Turin, Italia
2 de febrero – 15 de marzo 2009

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The Cripta747 space is quite big, I was really impressed when I arrived there. I had some ideas for the show but they didn’t fit in that huge place (one room on the ground floor and five in the basement). I had the idea tu use confetti (“coriandoli” in Italian) when I saw a pack in the window of a paper shop in Porta Palazzo promoted with other material for the carnival. I decided to make different experiments putting together graffiti and confetti, illegal aggression and harmless party pieces of paper. For the opening I made two interactive pieces inside the gallery. To organize the space and present the works in a proper way, I made a path with plastic fruit boxes, the gallery is situated on the square where the Porta Palazzo market happens every day and it is the biggest outdoor market in Europe. Tons of material to re-use.

No use to say that during two weeks, the guys from Cripta747 and me had a lot of fun working on this project.

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I made six experiments:

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1 – Biadesivo Installation
2 – Confetti Graffiti
3 – Train Tunel Mission
4 – Vitrina Action
5 – Kit Wall
6 – The BONUS Video!

And extra pictures…

Biadesivo installation:

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Confetti graffiti:

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Train tunel mission:

This experiment was based on the idea to do something quite innocent (playing with confetti and wind) in a very hostile environment. It was nothing easy and we had to come back five times into the tunnel to achieve the plan. We could have done it more easily anywhere else but the idea was to do it a mission, to do it illegally and observe how all those factors which made it more difficult influenced the result of the experiment.

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Kit wall:

On the wall at the entrance of the basement, I nailed 50 Kit-Coriandoli to be sure that everyone had his own bag of confetti!
In the kit we of course put confetti and a little card with a simple “Eltono” design made with double face tape and with instructions on its back.

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Vitrina action:

The ground floor of the gallery looks just like a pretty normal gallery with a big window-shop. That’s why I decided to present a “normal looking” work on that room so it could look like the exhibition is just there and nothing else, it was quite funny when people discovered that there were five more rooms downstairs with not so “normal looking” things happening down there!
The pieces shown in the room were made at the same time we did the sign on the window-shop, using the confettis that were falling and glue. I was totally stocked by this random result!

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Bonus video:

This video was hidden in the gallery somewhere at the end of the fruit boxes path.

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Extra pictures:

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I actually found one confetti in my bed in Madrid yesterday morning, two weeks after the opening!!! I can imagine that the same thing is happening to all the people who came to the opening, fantastic!

Pictures are from: Renato, Eugenio Grosso, Alex Tripo, Elisa, Walter and Eltono.

Grazie mille: Renato, Walter, Elisa, Tripoli, Toni, Giulia, Fran, CT, Kurz, Dem, Laure, Pier, B&B…

Pubblico

Rojo Art Space
Via Tortona, Milán, Italia
15 de enero – 28 de febrero 2009

En el proyecto Pubblico, el espectador es el protagonista de la obra. El resultado final depende del público. El experimento juega con la interactividad que existe en la calle y pretende estudiar cómo factores exteriores, fuera del control del artista, pueden afectar las obras instaladas en la calle. De esa manera, el artista reflexiona sobre el aspecto sagrado del arte dejando sus creaciones evolucionar solas y generar un resultado inseguro.

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Gracias a Lorenzo, Lucia y Lucía

El Autotono

Disculpa, pero esta entrada sólo está disponible en English.

Mexico City and Monterrey, Mexico
October – November 2008

Project produced with the great help of Nrmal
It was first presented during the Mutek Festival in Mexico City.

The Autotono is a mobile installation built in order to explore how people can interact with an artwork in a public space. My idea was to create a kind of puzzle with 3 designs mixed-up and observe how the people can change them trying to find the original designs (or not!). What I was interested in was not to see people completing the puzzle but to register all the intermediate compositions that were created without my control during the process. My idea with this experiment was essentially to observe and learn.

I was interested in observing the results of the Autotono in different situations, so we build it with wheels to be able to move it easily. We installed it, in busy streets, touristic squares, in parties, in a design fair, in a park, in a school…

The name “Autotono” states for automobile (“un auto” is “a car” in Spanish) and automatic (automaticly created compositions, without the intervention of the artist).

Thanks a lot to Ofimodul for letting us use their spare wood, their installation and for the great help of their workers. Pictures by Rafa, Lalo, Nrmal and Eltono.

Direct links to the picture galleries:

1 – Building pictures
2 – Mexico City pictures
3 – Monterrey pictures
4 – States pictures
5 – Simulation video

Building the Autotono:

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The Autotono in Mexico City, during the Mutek festival:

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The Autotono in Monterrey:

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The different states the Autotono passed through:

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Simulation video:

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Check that small interview from the Design Week Monterrey (in Spanish).