MY MEMORY LAND (one of my paintings)

Hi, I present you one of my paintings called MY MEMORY LAND and its phrases!
Hope you like it !

...my memory land...
eternity had a past • the hungry then the moral • if the past taught you to kiss like this, thanks for the ones before me • always the same white sun • keep legs and mouth shut • did this life really exist or did I make it up? • your glory is smoke • a good thing is shower • heal me from being old • there is only one truth and only one lie • is the dark hard or soft? • to forget you is more difficult then to stand you • your little was good • the experience killed the idea • to get lost is a way • where does the time I lost go? • or I am a saint or I am a wacko • I found out that each one of us is diverse • a long time ago, I used to turn into an angel in May • you are more defenseless than a fat naked lady • come to the table or it will get cold • is there bread in the sky, mom? • it is the life of the things • the insconscience is the fundament of life • is the heart could think it would stop • the stars lie light • who gives love looses love? • the trip is the traveler • what we see is what we are • scribble your eyes (expression for: go date!) • I got a music box as a gift • it is not a question of calendar, it is a question of breathing • my words work for my reality, your words work for your reality, se we decide to exchange words they will loose their value • likes and dislikes are arguable • end a period with an exclamation • I would love so much if I didn’t fear • you are where you are most missed • I love you the size of this whole world • I decided to be happy and I became • the solution is the ménage • cry, my eyes • I wet my brushes in my soul´s water • do not bargain with an artist • we kill time and it kills us • have they say sorry for you? • did you live the years you have? • craziness • I believe in smurfs • Is it so difficult to understand me? • soul swings • when it hurts I scream “ai” • sometimes I cry smiling • I am just like a sweeper in the fall • I wanted to eat your desire • I like hot brownies with vanilla ice cream • I just pray in the shower • look at the person beside you and observe his strangeness • how is the dwarfs´ life? • how long does the night last? • give me a true answer and I could love you • if I was asked about the beauty of life, I would talk about a little flower I once saw • I can clearly live without knowing me • I like wet hair •yes, this handwriting is mine • to comprehend is difficult, to accept is impossible • I just had to say • it must be hard be poor • high hill kills • I farted specially for you • tell me sky, do you know my half? • turn off the stars and let me sleep • everything seems so untied • I returned my entrance ticket • I don’t know what else I can do • have I said I love you in this canvas? • I wonder if I know how to go back home from here • it’s late to say goodbye • no one knows a pleasure of an elevator’s love • they say that teen is the best time • I always say I am ok • I don’t know about the dangerous of the streets • no, I don’t have a cigarette • how much is worth your hour of work? • i know its hard to pray, but i just do it • you know I think you’re cute • half of the people are divided • there is no way you can know someone’s real intentions • amen • I don’t know why every day needs to end, does everything have to? • my nails grow • I have no ideas what I am writing so far • I wanted to suspend my head • today was not worth • I know I am one, but they want me to be more, always more • and that’s how my Sunday ended • sixteenth of September ___________________________________

"Waiting" by Anupong Chantorn. One of the top young Thai artists. Anupong works with acrylic on saffron robes.

ESCHER, til next time!

    

It is 3:41am now in Rio de Janeiro. I am just back from a get together and I cant sleep. So, I decided to post abot my day. Today, I decided to spend the day at Center. Center is Rio's Downtown, where everyone works during the week and no one goes during the weekends. For my surprise, I met more than 300 people there, like me, trying to attend to the ESCHER's exhibition. The guard told me that I would have to wait for 1 hour and 30 minutes in line in order to go inside. Hum! Soon enough, I met some co-workers that pulled the Brazilian way, the jeitinho brasileiro as we can here. She pretented she was pregnant and he pretended he was a happy father to be. Well done! The couple skiped the huge line and I stood there with my flat belly.

I decided to buy a chocolate bread and talked to the cashier. He told I should have known it would be crowed coz "Its Escher". Ok, I am sorry! I did not kow. I gave up and take some pictures in front of the murals and have random fun, as the one below:

Maurits Cornelis Escher (17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972), usually referred to as M.C. Escher was a Dutch graphic artist. He is known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. These feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture, and tessellations.

In front of the CCBB, Brazilian's Bank Cultural Center, there were some musicians making crazy stuff.

I love celo, but I could stand only for 20 minutes. No more. Too crazy, alternative, non-sense sound for me. The cool stuff was the video which had a imagetic movimentation according to the notes played.

Afterwards, I went to the Post Office Cultural Center and checked out the pictures below.

I did not think they were too good, but it is a nice moviment. The theme was "Rio through my window". The center incentivates artists to paint and expose a piece with an especific theme: 

 

4am now. I will call it a day!

Next time, ESCHER!

Istanbul Biennial

It has being one year since the Brazilian Curator, Adriano Pedrosa, goes to Istambul (Turkey) for a week every month. From Istanbul, he goes to Jerusalem, Beirute, Chile, Peru, Callamallah, Buenos Aires, Ramallah and, sometimes, he comes to Sao Paulo (Brazil). Adriano works as the 12 Istambul Biennial curator which will take place from 17th of September until 13th of Novmber 2011.

One curious fact is that, since 1997, the Istanbul Biennial does not incorporates the regional quota structure being one of the first Biennials to abolish the representations by nations. The quota was also abolished by the Sao Paulo Bianniel in 2006, but Venice's still adopts it. A second fun fact is that the Istanbul Biennial was the first to invite a non-european professional to its command in 2001, the Japonese Yuko Haseqawa. And for the first time, in 2011, it also invited latin-americans curators: Adriano Pedrosa (Brazil) and Jens Hoffmann (Costa Rica).

As installed for The Museum of Modern Art, New York
"Projects 34: Felix Gonzalez-Torres"

May 16 - June 30, 1992, in 24 locations throughout New York City

The 12 Istanbul Biennial called Untitled will be inspired in the Cuban artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres, who used not to give name to his pieces (like the one above). Pedrosa and Hoffmann's objetive is to rescue the conceptual and formal aspects of the political art. The Biennial will have 5 sections inspired in Gonzalez-Torres's pieces (notice that the pieces will not be physically at the exhibition), 5 small collective and 45 individual exhibitions carefully thought and disposed by the Japanese architecture Ryue Nishizawa - winner of the Pritzer Prize 2010.

Pedrosa and Hoffmann want to erase any connection the Biennal has with an especifc theme, that way the names of the exhibitors / artists will only be announced when the event starts. According to Pedrosa there is a pervese number of Biennials taking place nowadays which are consumed by its name, its artists and curators. His intention now is for the Istanbul Biennial not to be consumed, but only appreciated and seen.

Pedrosa does not announce the participants' names, but he does tell us the Brazilian artists that will participate in the 12 Biennial: Leonilson, Jonathas de Andrade, Rosangela Renno and Renata Lucas.

During his visits to Latin-America, Adriano tries to raise funds to finance the artists' participation in the Biennals. The Sao Paulo Biennal had 30 million reais (1 dollar is currently 1.7 reais) in funds. He mentions that his next stop is Brasilia, Brazil's capital. Adriano notices that the Peruan Govern never financed his artists and he hopes it finances Flavia Gandolfo this time.


Pedrosa says that the biennial does not have a lot of money, but it is giving the curators lots of time and freedom, allowing them to pick the frames and take the artists by their hands.


I bet it will be a good event!

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Curators

Adriano Pedrosa

Adriano Pedrosa, born in 1965 in Rio de Janeiro, is an independent curator, editor and writer based in São Paulo. He has published in Artforum (New York), Art Nexus (Bogota), Art+Text (Sydney), Tate etc (London), Exit (Madrid), and Frieze (London), among others. Pedrosa curated F[r]icciones (with Ivo Mesquita, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2000), was adjunct curator and editor of publications of the XXIV Bienal de São Paulo (1998), co-curator and co-editor of publications of the 27th Bienal de São Paulo (2006), curator of Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte (2001-2003), curator of InSite_05, San Diego/Tijuana (2005), curator of 31st Panorama da Arte Brasileira (Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, 2009), and artistic director of the 2nd Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan (2009). He was a juror of the UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts (Istanbul Biennial, 2001), of the Prêmio EDP Novos Artistas (Museu Serralves, Porto, 2003), and of the Hugo Boss Prize (Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2004). Pedrosa is on the editorial board of The Exhibitionist: A Journal for Exhibition Making and is the founding director of Programa Independente da Escola São Paulo—PIESP.

Jens Hoffmann

Jens Hoffmann, born in 1974 in San José, Costa Rica, is a writer and curator of exhibitions based in San Francisco where he is the Director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. Hoffmann has worked for a number of art institutions including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; KIASMA -- Museum for Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; The Hugh Lane Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; DIA Center for the Arts, New York, Kunstverein in Hamburg; Kunst-Werke, Berlin; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles; Museum Kunst-Palast, Düsseldorf as well as for exhibitions such as Documenta X (1997), the 1st Berlin Biennial (1998), and the 9th Lyon Biennial (2007). He was the Director of Exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London (2003--2007) and co-curator of the 2nd Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan (2009). He is currently co-curating, with Harrell Fletcher, the 1st People's Biennial, taking place in five US museums in 2010. Hoffmann is senior lecturer at the Curatorial Practice Program of the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, a guest professor at the Nova Academia di Bella Arti in Milan and an adjunct faculty member of the Curatorial Studies Program of Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is the founding editor of The Exhibitionist: A Journal on Exhibition Making.

The curators of the 12th International Istanbul Biennial were appointed by the Advisory Board of the International Istanbul Biennial. The advisory board consists of the artistic director of dOCUMENTA (13) Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, contemporary artist Ayşe Erkmen, art consultant Melih Fereli, director of Exhibitions and Public Programs and chair of the Exhibitions and Museum Studies Program at San Francisco Art Institute Hou Hanru and director of the Sharjah Art Foundation and Al-Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem Jack Persekian.

The conceptual framework of the 12th International Istanbul Biennial will be announced by a press conference to be held in autumn 2010 by the curators; Adriano Pedrosa and Jens Hoffmann.

Phil Hansen - Twin City Based Artist

Phil Hansen's art is amazing and instigating. He knows how to argument the current social and political moment in his art. Hansen is also doing one of the recent trends in the art world, document his art making in a performance video and post it in Youtube. I have compiled his great videos here along with some interviews to Axioms and CNN.

"He now works as an X-ray technician but spends all of his spare time and money on his art. His work and the way it is presented has given him a large following.

His breakthrough piece was a time-lapse video of a two-day project called Influences. He painted thirty pictures on his torso, one over the other, each picture representing an influence in his life. After it was completed, he peeled the layer off and cut a silhouette of his own profile. The uploaded video was streamed more than a million times on the Web, with process and final piece clearly revealed"

Wikipedia

The time stand still


A Moment

He has broadcasted his phone number via the internet and asked people to call him and tell a moment that changed their life. All of these moments were written over the course of 136 hours of
which he didn't leave the work space except for restroom breaks.

Does Paint really need a brush?


Worms


Michael Jackson Dance Painting


Daily Axioms (Axiom Marketing Communication)

Twin Cities based artist Phil Hansen stopped by Daily Axioms' Phone Booth to discuss how social media has taken his art from his studio to global audiences. Charlie Hobart interviews this unique artisan about his style, motivations and what's next.

Phil Hansen at CNN



Phil Hasen LINK

Fernando Botero - Colombian Artists

If you dont know Botero´s corpulent figures and work yet, you should!

With this post, I will try to show you a little bit of this artist´s impacting work.

His work is shown in 46 museums throughtout the world.

Mona Lisa (1963)

Fernando Botero Angulo (born April 19, 1932) is a Colombian figurative artist, self-titled "the most Colombian of Colombian artists" early on. He came to national prominence when he won the first prize at the Salón de Artistas Colombianos in 1958. Working most of the year in Paris, in the last three decades he has achieved international recognition for his paintings, drawings and sculpture, with exhibitions across the world.

In 1948, at the age of 16, Botero published his first illustrations in the Sunday supplement of the El Colombiano daily paper. He used the money he was paid to attend high school at the Liceo de Marinilla de Antioquia. From 1949 to 1950, Botero worked as a set designer, before moving to Bogotá in 1951. His first one-man show was held at the Galería Leo Matiz in Bogotá, a few months after his arrival. In 1952, Botero travelled with a group of artists to Barcelona, where he stayed briefly before moving on to Madrid. In Madrid, Botero studied at the Academia de San Fernando. In 1952, he traveled to Bogotá, where he had a solo exhibit at the Leo Matiz gallery. Later that year, he won the ninth edition of the Salón de Artistas Colombianos. He has had more than 50 exhibits in major cities worldwide, and his work commands selling prices in the millions of dollars.

Una familia

Mano Grande (1981)

Style

Botero is an abstract artist in the most fundamental sense, choosing colors, shapes, and proportions based on intuitive aesthetic thinking.While his work includes still-lifes and landscapes, Botero has concentrated on situational portraiture. His paintings and sculptures are united by their proportionally exaggerated, or "fat" figures, as he once referred to them.

"I create my subjects somehow visualizing them in my style. I start as a poet, put the colors and composition down on canvas as a painter, but finish my work as a sculptor taking delight in caressing the forms." -- Fernando Botero

So, why large figures?

Botero explains his use of these "large people", as they are often called by critics, in the following way: "An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it."

In a series of paintings and drawings, artist Fernando Botero reflects

on the 2004 prisoner abuse scandal at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.

Abu Ghraib´s Series

 

When we think about the Colombian artist Fernando Botero, most of us visualize his roly-poly people flaunting their fat, their fashionable headgear, their cigarettes and cigarette holders, their excess. I never thought of these as political images until I saw Botero's Abu Ghraib series in which hooded men dangle, upside down, and hideous dogs claw and growl at manacled prisoners arranged into pyramids and bleeding on each other.

 

Check out a conversation between Fernando Botero and Robert Hass, Professor of English and Poet, UC Berkeley:

 

 

This is an one hour conversation in Berkeley with Botero and Robert. You will enjoy to listen to them talking about art !! This is a must listen!

                                                                 Colombiana (1991)

I Musicisti

Museo Botero in Bogotá

It has also been said that the pictorial language of Botero evokes the musical language of Mozart. This is especially evident in his paintings of musicians. It is a subject that, along with gay scenes of couples dancing, the artist returned to often. Indeed, these pictures, full of life and movement, provide an ideal opportunity for Botero to create dynamic compositions in which his characters play, dance, and sing, usually within a defined environment that gives context and frames their activity.

Paintings and drawings of guitar players, flutists, violinists, singers are scattered throughout the artist's oeuvre. One also finds still lives of musical instruments: a guitar placed on a table, with the musical sheet peeking below; or a cello in a corner, waiting to be played. In these paintings the instrument becomes the primary subject for the artist. Botero recognizes that the beauty of music is due as much to the instrument as it is to the musician. In fact, as the artist himself has said, "If I went to a remote place, in a short time I would get used to the silence and, most probably, would stop painting."

A cat on a Roof (1978)

Fernando Botero portrayed Pablo Escobar's death in one

of his paintings about violence in Colombia

A parody with Botero´s Colombian Family (1999) including Quentin Tarantino

   

Check the Museum Syndicate for his paintings (LINK) 

Google Images of Fernando Botero (LINK)