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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Fotos:

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).

PLAF

PLAF – Autonomous Mechanisms
Nueva York, EE.UU.
Agosto – Septiembre 2008

Proyecto en colaboración con MOMO
www.eltono.com/plaf

Durante el verano de 2008, en colaboración con el artista estadounidense MOMO, estuvimos instalando esculturas kinéticas, de forma independiente y sin ningún tipo de permiso, en las aguas alrededor de la ciudad de Nueva York.

Utilizamos la onomatopeya Plaf para llamar ese proyecto donde construimos y colocamos esculturas en diferentes localizaciones en las aguas de Nueva York. Construidas con material de recuperación, la obras fueron dejadas en manos de los elementos como para medir su fuerza y su potencia. Fuerza que, en la mayoría de la ciudades, nunca se aprovecha. Utilizamos el agua de los ríos, el viento, las olas, la marea y las corrientes para animar los mecanismos de las esculturas. Una vez instaladas, las dejamos a su suerte y observamos como se iban cambiando y deteriorando, sin dar más explicaciones.

Montamos una exposición (en interior) para documentar los avances del proyecto en tiempo real en la galería Anonymous Gallery.

Puedes ver la documentación completa en el blog del proyecto: www.eltono.com/plaf

Lista de las instalaciones que construimos durante el proyecto:

Hallet’s Cove

Momo Eltono - PLAF Hallets Cove - NY

www.eltono.com/plaf/hallets-cove

Thrash Islands

Momo Eltono - PLAF Trash Island - NY

www.eltono.com/plaf/thrash-islands

Broadway Beach

www.eltono.com/plaf/broadway-beach

East River Park

Momo Eltono - PLAF East River Park - NY

www.eltono.com/plaf/east-river-state-park

Gantry Plaza

Momo Eltono - PLAF Gantry Plaza - NY

www.eltono.com/plaf/gantry-plaza-state-park

Plaf Maker

Momo Eltono - PLAF Maker - NY

www.eltono.com/plaf/plaf-maker

The Plaf Exhibition

Momo Eltono - PLAF Exhibition - NY

www.eltono.com/plaf/the-plaf-exhibition

Mapa del proyecto con localización de las esculturas: maps.google.com/maps/plaf

Street Art

Tate Modern
Londres, Reino Unido
23 de mayo – 25 agosto 2008
Mural en colaboración con Nuria Mora
Comisariado por Cedar Lewisohn y Rafael Schacter

The Street Art Walking Tour: Un recorrido de arte site-specific alrededor del museo; parte de la exposición Street Art.

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Street Art

Tate Modern
Londres, Reino Unido
23 de mayo – 25 agosto 2008

Comisariado por Cedar Lewisohn y Rafael Schacter

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The Street Art Walking Tour:
An urban tour of site-specific art from a group of five Madrid-based street artists: 3TTMan, Spok, Nano 4814, Eltono and Nuria Mora.

For the Walking Tour, I painted four pieces in the streets around the Tate and did the Public/Private signboards installation in collaboration with Nuria Mora.

www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/street-art/street-art-walking-tour

Especially for the event, I designed a 9 colours silkscreen print, edited by the Tate Modern, you can see it in the Boutique here: www.eltono.com/en/boutique/patchwork-print

Eltono Tate Modern London

Download this map as your guide: www.tate.org.uk/file/street-art-exhibition-walking-tour

Intervención

La Noche en Blanco
Matadero Centro De Creación Contemporánea
Madrid, España
22 de Septiembre 2007

Proyecto en colaboración con Nuria Mora

Una escultura transitable construida para La Noche en Blanco en el patio de Matadero Madrid, el nuevo centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Madrid.

Madera y pintura, 40 m x 20 m

www.mataderomadrid.com

Fotos: Hoffamm

Planet Prozess

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Public/Private – Signboards installation
Senatsreservenspeicher, Berlin, Germany
July 20th – August 19th 2007

Project in collaboration with Nuria Mora

About the Exhibition:

In the beginning, the city was without form and void. Then the streets became a gallery, the gaps filled up with art and life: Over 21 days we will create an exhibition about Street Art which will develop along with the city itself. Planet Prozess invites everybody to take part in this dynamic exhibition and to celebrate the finale.

About our artwork:

The project consists in place out around 50 painted signs on public places around the exhibition space. The audience is invited to take a walk, find and bring the artworks back to the gallery. With this work we are reflecting on the limit between public and private space. Each placard that came back to the gallery was signed and numbered by the artists and at the end of the show it was given back to its finder.

This practice questions ownership and authenticity and uses a kind of artistic guerrilla warfare which seeps through cracks where value and ownership crumbles in the busy and gentrified city centers around the world. It also raises questions to the significance and value of artwork depending on the context that it is presented in (gallery – virtual space – public space).

The signs were made one by one in the work and exhibition space and everyday new signs were planted in the streets around the space. The signs were manufactured everyday during the show and all the action was documented. The space faced the same artworks in two different phases: Before and after its installation in public space. This meeting will highlight the thin line between public and private and will try to indicate where is the limit that defines if an artwork is public or private. The public created the indoor exhibition; its evolution depended on the public response.

Text on the signs:

Hello!
This placard is from Nuria and Eltono and part of their artwork at “Planet Prozess”.
If you want to participate actively in the exhibition and afterwards keep this placard please bring it to the Senatsreservenspeicher in Kreuzberg as soon as possible. Your placard will be signed and numbered by the artists and it will be given back to you at the end of the show.

Planet Prozess, Senatsreservenspeicher, Cuvrystrasse 3-4, Berlin, KreuzbergJuly, 20th till August, 19th 2007 – 14h to 22h

If you’re not interested in participating, we kindly ask you to leave the placard in its place giving someone else the opportunity to take part.

Eltono and Nuria

– This text was silk screen printed on the back of each sign in German and English.

www.urbangrassroots.net
www.urbangrassroots.net/downloads/pressemappeEngl.pdf

Documentation: