Category: - Mapanare.us Constantly.Consuming.Culture.

Expo Chicago's "In Situ" Program Features Large Installation Pieces Including Postcommodity's "Repellent Fence" And Oscar Murillo's "Collective Conscience"

10/3/2018

Expo Chicago's In Situ program features large installation pieces throughout the fair.

The two pieces here are Postcommodity's Repellent Fence and Oscar Murillo's collective conscience.

The Repellent Fence is more than this one balloon. It was a two mile long land-art installation of 26 tethered balloons that are ten feet in diameter and floated 100 feet above the ground. The balloons floated above Douglas, Arizona and Aqua Prieta, Sonora. The balloons, themselves, are based on an ineffective bird repellent. The project was a collaborative project among a variety of individuals and organizations and was a symbolic attempt to suture together the people of this continent.

Collective conscience continues Morillo's exploration of labor in our capitalist world. He uses Mateos, effigies used in New Year's celebrations in Columbia. He has employed these effigies as symbols of the proletariat. These workers, when you look close, are partly dismembered and indeed, digested, by the system that both consumes them and in which they are consumers.

Sculptor Dimitar Lukanov's "Mother And Child At The Mohawk River" To Be Unveiled At 6 p.m., May 17, 2018 In Amsterdam, New York

5/11/2018

Sculptor Dimitar Lukanov's Mother and Child at The Mohawk River to be unveiled at 6 p.m., May 17, 2018. The scuplture is located at the entrance to Riverlink Park on the South Overlook landing in Amsterdam, New York. This is one of three public pieces commissioned by the City of Amsterdam from Lukanov.

The sculpture is bronze and 12 feet tall. It is finished with a light patina and depicts a mother and child surrounded by fish, plants and birds that live in the Mohawk River Valley. The piece appears to rise from the river and seems to be in motion. This is the sort of piece that will be a destination.

For more on the City of Amsterdam head HERE.

SCAD Museum Of Art Presents The Unveiling of "Chaos Concepción" A Permanent, Monumental Sculpture By Jedd Novatt, Friday April 28, 2017

4/13/2017

SCAD Museum of Art presents the unveiling of Chaos Concepción a permanent, monumental sculpture by Jedd Novatt at
5:30 p.m., Friday, April 28, 2017. The unveiling takes place at the Alex Townsend Memorial Courtyard.

This unveiling takes place at the same time as an exhibition of monotypes by Novatt at Chaos Pacific, on exhibit until June 4.

Novatt has been working on his "Chaos" series for over ten years. Pieces have been installed at the Guggenheim in Bilbao and at the Pérez Art Museum in Miami (among others).

Traffic Jam An Artistic Installation ALL OVER Downtown Miami, November 30 To December 3, 2016

11/23/2016

Traffic Jam, an artistic installation takes place all over Miami from Novemebr 30 to December 3, 2016. Keep an eye out. The grand finale, ALL OVER Downtown Miami, Saturday, December 3, 2016. The event culminates at 4 p.m. at MDC's Wolfson Campus Parking Lot (Lot 1, Biscayne Boulevard between 5 & 6th Streets). If you live in Miami, hell if you live anywhere, the topic of traffic jams is probably not a topic of whimsy.

Miami Dad College's Live Arts, however, approach the topic from a new angle. Steve Parker, a musician takes on the traffic (always horrific during Art Week) with a variety of performances. Included are;

- A mixed ability performance w/live musical score created amplified and processed components of the wheelchairs from Karen Peterson & Dancers,
- A gang of skateboarding ukulele players from Inlets Ensembles; choreographed musical bicycles by Kunstwaffen 1916,
- A large scale interactive xylophone made from automobile hoods and parts by Manita Brug & Randy Burman,
- A car orchestra where the community is invited to vent their frustrations in this vehicular flash mob by participating: honking their horns, playing their windshield wipers, & tapping their headlights.

@EARTH#HOME, An Installation By Laura Kimpton, To Be Shown At Burning Man, August 28 To September 5, 2016

7/25/2016

@EARTH#HOME, an Installation by Laura Kimpton, at Burning Man, August 28 to September 5, 2016. The piece is the artist's tenth at the festival and aims to remind attendees that this planet is their home and the event itself is a sort of homecoming. Inspired by the Italian Renaissance, the piece is part of the artist's Monumental Word Series.

@EARTH#HOME is to be installed on the Playa, Black Rock, Nevada's dry desert lake. The 12 ft by 4 ft by 6 ft letters and symbols are made of steel and feature Kimpton's signature bird cutouts. The artist is base din California and, in addition to large sculptures, also does installation, painting and mixed media work.

"A Confounding Mimicry" A Sound Art Project By Jenny Kendler & Brian Kirkbride Runs July 24 To November 27, 2016 At Lincoln Park Conservatory (Chicago)

7/19/2016

In A Confounding Mimicry, a sound-art project, from Jenny Kendler and Brian Kirkbride, opens 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday, July 24, 2016 at the Lincoln Park Conservatory (2391 N. Stockton Dr., Chicago). The music is based on field recordings, some of birds in the Monteverde Cloud Forest. While these are natural they sound otherwise. The exhibit also includes fabricated birds, manipulated photographs. The real meets the unreal in this work.

The exhibit runs until November 27, 2016.

Find out more about this and the Florasonic sound installation series HERE.

The Gallery@Spring, An Exhibit Of Fashion Photographers From Life Photo Archives, Announces Public Access To Event At Spring Studios (New York)

7/7/2016

Photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt. © Time Inc. All rights reserved.

The Gallery@Spring, an exhibit of fashion photographers from LIFE Photo Archives, have announced public access. The exhibit features more than 50 exceptional fashion photographers from Life from the 1940s to 1970s at Spring Studios (6 St John’s Lane). Public access to the event takes place July 22,23,24 (Fri-Sat-Sun), 10am-6pm and July 29,30-,31 (Fri-Sat-Sun), 10am-6pm.

The exhibit is a rare look into 30 years of fashion history in New York City. Photographers include: Margaret Bourke-White, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Peter Stackpole, Yale Joel, Nina Leen and Gordon Parks. Fashion icons in these photos include Marlon Brando, Audrey Hepburn, Eartha Kitt, Jessica Tandy, Marilyn Monroe and Gloria Vanderbilt.

Spring Studios is a communication and production company in Tribeca that brings together experts in design, advertizing, events, digital, studio management and marketing. They also have an office in London.

Friedman Benda (New York) Showed Work By gt2P At Design Miami; Group Also Part Of "Airbnb/ Belong. Here. Now."

12/3/2015

Friedman Benda (New York) showed a piece by the Chilean design group, gt2P, at Design Miami 2015. I could tell you about the process? But really? Just watch the videos below. The first is about the group and process and the second about function.

The group will also be part of the Airnbnb/ Belong.Here. Now. during Miami Art Week. This monolithic structure functions as urban theater of an interactive sort. Belong there...NOW! It was designed by Design With Company. The space is over 5000 square feet and invites you to be part of the performance (follow @airbnb and share your experience with #BelongAnywhere)

Airbnb/ Belong. Here. Now.

Monica Jahan Bose's Debut In Philadelphia, "Rising" Takes Place Sunday October 25, 2015 At Drexel University

10/23/2015

Monica Jahan Bose's artistic debut in Philadelphia takes place beginning 5:30 p.m. Sunday, October 25, 2015 at the Urban Center Annex to the Westphal College of Media Arts and Design at Drexel University, 3401 Filbert St, Philadelphia.

The piece, Rising, is curated by Twelve Gates Gallery. The piece is about climate change and sea level rise. Bose will be assisted by Shaam-e-Ali Nayeem. The piece includes a 216 foot sari, water and video projections. The saris, and video, used are from the ongoing Storytelling With Saris, a long term collaboration with twelve woman from coastal Bangladesh who have been displaced by climate change.

Other artists will be presented including Shahzia Sikander, Sumit Baudh and Qasim Riza Shaheen.

"Golden Waters A Light Installation" by Grimanesa Amorós From June To September 2015 In Scottsdale, Arizona

6/24/2015

Golden Waters A Light Installation by Grimanesa Amorós From June To September 2015. The light sculpture installation extends from the Soleri Bridge in Scottsdale Arizona.

The installation is presented by Scottsdale Public Art and reflects the natural elegance of the Arizona canal. It is attached to the bridge which was designed by the visionary artist and philosopher, Paolo Soleri.

Amorós was born in Peru and currently lives and works in New York City. She works in differnt mediums and her work is steeped in a wide variety of interests" social history, critical theory and scientific research. All of these have influenced her work; she seems the perfect person to create art attached to the bridge designed by Soleri. Find out more about the artist HERE.