Le Dédale, recorrido de arte en el espacio público
Belvès, Dordoña, Francia, 06/2016
Cuando me ofrecieron participar en el Dédale en Belvès, me fui directamente a caminar por las calles del pueblo para encontrar ideas de como intervenir en él. Acostumbrado a trabajar en ciudades, crear en la calles de un pueblo tan harmonioso y encantador representaba para mi un real desafío. Rápidamente, noté la presencia de una gran cantidad de casas desocupadas con las aperturas tapiadas por tablones de madera. Entonces es cuando tuve la idea de intervenir directamente en esas tablas y viejas contraventanas para poner en valor los edificios sin alterarles, sin tocar sus piedras. Pintar sobre esos soportes efímeros, testigos marginales de una actividad pasada interrumpida, les devuelve cierta dignidad y les da de nuevo un papel honorable en la ciudad: soporte de obra de arte.
Somerset House
Londres, Reino Unido
Exposición comisariada por A by P
3 marzo – 2 mayo 2016
Footpaths
Cuatro performances de 15 minutos caminando
Tinta negra sobre papel Fabriano Rosaspina 285 g. 100 x 70 cm, vídeo de 2 minutos
Reglas :
El participante selecciona un área en le espacio publico y define un periodo de tiempo.
Camina alrededor del perímetro del área predefinida en el sentido del reloj.
Cuando un intruso visible entra en el perímetro, el participante debe inmediatamente intentar alcanzar su punto de intrusión.
Si el perímetro es penetrado de nuevo durante un intento de alcanzar un punto de intrusión, ese nuevo punto de intrusión se convierte en el objetivo a alcanzar.
Una vez que un punto de intrusión ha sido alcanzado, el participante continua a caminar alrededor del perímetro hasta la próxima intrusión o hasta el final del limite de tiempo.
Para terminar, un dibujo es generado como testigo de la experiencia.
Pintura generativa y participativa
Cité Brûlard (las “408”)
Besançon, Francia 03/2016
9 días y 125 participantes – proyecto organizado por Juste Ici dentro del marco de un CLEA (contrato local de educación artistica) con las escuelas primarias de la Butte y de la Grette.
Gracias a todo el equipo de Juste Ici, a las voluntarias (Fany y Sandrine), a la MJC Grette-Butte, a los residentes de las 408, a los profes de las escuelas de la Grette y de la Butte y sobretodo a los 125 alumnos que han participado en la pintura.
I have been doing research around the idea of “creating while walking” for a long time now (see the Promenades Project I did in Beijing: www.eltono.com/en/projects/promenades), my last idea was to register friction during a walk and I came up with the idea of RUFO – RUFO is a typical dog name in French and also the name of a toy dog that was released in the 80´s. I decided the four letters would stand for “Rudimentary Unidentified Frictional Object”.
Basically, I wanted to drag an artwork along a defined path and register the way it decays. I was doing tests around this idea when I was asked to participate in Artmossphere Biennial in Moscow so I decided to do the first RUFO experiment in the street of the Russian capital. I painted 11 wood boards with bold colored graphics and one by one dragged them around the city on different paths I had selected earlier (around the exhibition space, in random neighborhood, around the Red Square, around the hotel…). Each walk was between one and two kilometers, except for RUFO #9 where I walked for 2,5 kilometers and the painting almost disappeared entirely. Having the artwork interacting with the outside was crucial – showing artworks in the state they came out of the studio doesn’t interest me – my idea was to “print” the city onto each board turning them into witnesses of a walk, an experience. On the back of each board I showed the map of the walk and all the data generated (date, time, duration, distance and name of the streets wandered) – note that during the biennial, I showed reproductions of the back of the boards on spare boards for the people to understand better the story.
Pictures by Natalia Solovieva – Thanks to everybody at Artmosspere and to the people from Codered.
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Ongoing project
November 2013 – today
The Promenades Project is about walking, observation and spontaneity. It’s about wandering in the city with no pressure, no time limit, no goal apart from walking and enjoying it. It’s about walking with total freedom of time and space to be able to do all that things that you always want to do but you don’t because you have no time. It’s about moving crosscurrent in the city with time for contemplation to be able to observe details that most people don’t notice.
Rules
Rule #1: Walk and, if possible, create something on the way. Rule #2: Only use material found during the walk – the only material I allow myself to bring is for
documentation (notebook, phone, camera) and a bag. Rule #3: Only execute ideas created during the walk – or a predecessor walk. Rule #4: Enjoy the walk.
This journal is a straight chronological transcription of what happened during each walk.
