Tag: 2012

Untitled Installation (Enveloped Objects).

Found objects, fabric.

11 objects of various sizes from 38.5 x 16 x 14.5 in / 98 x 41 x 37 cm, the largest to 3 x 6 x 5 in / 8 x 15 x 13 cm, the smallest.

Made in Colombia in 2012.

Envelopment is a means of creating distance, it is often used for protection, preservation or aesthetic enhancement but it inevitably involves concealment. The color purple is chosen here for its connotations to status and wealth, cosmetics, penitence, death, and mourning.
This installation is composed of a collection of terracotta objects from different sources in Medellin. Here, envelopment functions as devise for mystification and unification. Fabric is stretched (and in some cases worn or torn) enough to reveal some of the material underneath.

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Untitled Icon (Vicente).

Installation with black light, ultraviolet paint and an oil-on-canvas painting.

The size of the painting is 36 x 23-1/2 in / 91 x 58 cm.

Made in Colombia in 2012.

An installation made impromptu at the now-defunct Centro Cultural Plazarte. The acrylic-based ultraviolet paint clumsily covered walls and floors of the heritage building while a faceless depiction of Mexican singer Vicente Fernandez in full mariachi attire hangs from one of the walls.

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Maledetta Primavera. Artist Book.

Published by Booklet Press in Tokyo in 2012.

Reformatting and versioning, like memory, transforms by means of iteration. The images in this booklet are drawings based on the music videos of a popular song from the nineteen eighties called La Maldita Primavera, interpreted by the Mexican singer Yuri. It was this song that made Yuri famous, yet the original version was the Italian Maledetta Primavera by Loretta Goggi. The video was first formatted for the square television screen and eventually uploaded to YouTube. Each version, including the manual rendering on paper adds artifacts and distorts the image further.

The technique devised for these drawings makes use of the hydrophobic quality of charcoal in order to create noise on the surface when it is exposed to a mixture of liquid medium and calcium carbonate. The drawings were compounded by Evita Yumul into a risograph perfect bound booklet made of 52 unopened pages. Every page must be torn in order to reveal the image and in this way the consumer completes the book. It was published as an open edition by Booklet Press in Tokyo in 2012.

Selection of Untitled Drawings for the Maledetta Primavera Booklet.

Charcoal and calcium carbonate on paper.

Each drawing is 8.5 x 11 in / 22 x 28 cm.

Made in Colombia in 2012.

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