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Showing posts with label sculpture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sculpture. Show all posts

ART AND MUSIC AT THE HIGHLINE, NYC

Posted by LATINO EVENTS Y TESPIS MAGAZINE on Wednesday, June 18, 2014 , under , , , , , , , , , , , , | comments (0)




Along the Highline Park you will always encounter plenty of art al fresco, mainly sculpture, video installations and murals. 

And of course, plenty of beauty and art provided by the Highline itself. I am a neighbor and I try to walk along its path every time I can. 


Sure I always find something new to ponder about or take a picture.  Here is a look at what I've seen lately: Works by Ed Ruscha, Isabelle Cornaro, Josh Kline, Marianne Vitale, and more.
You can also time your visit with the ¡Arriba! Dance Parties at the HighLine. Get into some Latin Dancing on June 25, July 23 and/or August 27.
Enjoy the slide show below or follow the link > HIGHLINE.
For more info on the art you see here and the highline, visit > TheHighline.org

ARTE: BERNARDI ROIG'S THE MIRROR in NYC.

Posted by LATINO EVENTS Y TESPIS MAGAZINE on Monday, January 13, 2014 , under , , , , , , , , , , | comments (0)





Spanish artist Bernardi Roig's solo exhibition: THE MIRROR (exercises to be another), has just ended at Claire Oliver Gallery in NYC. If you couldn't make it to the gallery, here are some shots I took several days ago. 
With a series of new sculptures and charcoal drawings, the artist continues the exploration of man's anxiety to belong, unfolding for the viewer an unsettling experience with his obsessions.


Roig confronts the actions we take based on outside pressures and influences, and those images in our heads which we are unable to explain to others through our known human faculties. The Artist's new works labor under a shadow of two key queries: how does one confront iconic imagery which is still relevant, and how is it possible in a world overflowing with images, to create a new and lasting image, an image that pushes us to the edge of what is possible. 


Deeply influenced by literature and film, Roig’s work has followed a path swayed by narrative and a theatrical concept of plastic space. See the slideshow below or follow the link > Roig.

All pictures by Alex Guerrero ®2013

ARTE: KAWS IN CHELSEA

Posted by LATINO EVENTS Y TESPIS MAGAZINE on Wednesday, December 18, 2013 , under , , , , , , , , , , | comments (0)





No se olviden de pasar por la magnífica muestra de esculturas del artista KAWS que les espera en la Galería Mary Boone de Chelsea. Su ya famosa serie COMPANION añade tres nuevos gigantes de madera que les dará pausa y seguro un par de fotos estupendas. Visita la galería > KAWS.

Vean más fotos debajo a sigan el enlace > KAWS.




 About:
KAWS’s signature COMPANION figure appears in two new sculptures fabricated in wood – each over eighteen feet high – that rise to the ceiling of the soaring skylit space. In ALONG THE WAY, a pair of the figures, heads lowered and one arm on each other’s back, embrace in a pose of gentle solace. The other work, AT THIS TIME, presents Companion standing alone with head arched back and hands covering the eyes. The posture at once conveys a reluctance to face the world and a withdrawal from what has already been witnessed.
Three eight-foot tondo paintings that complete the exhibition reveal KAWS’s distinctive mode of advancing the bold colors and streamlined iconography of Pop art. While the dynamic shapes suggest close-ups of the plump hands, X’d eyes, and crossbone ears the figures, the close cropping of the images allows the paintings to vacillate between figuration and abstraction.

EL MUNDO DE RICHARD SERRA EN LA GALERIA GAGOSIAN DE NYC

Posted by LATINO EVENTS Y TESPIS MAGAZINE on Friday, November 8, 2013 , under , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | comments (0)





Photo by Alex Guerrero ®2013
Reconocido mundialmente por sus ondulantes gigantes de acero, el artista Richard Serra acaba de abrir al público una serie de nuevas esculturas en la Galería Gagosian de Chelsea (W21st y W24th). Esta muestra continúa esa tradición ondulante pero también inicia un nuevo derrotero.
Photo by Alex Guerrero ®2013
En la calle 21 se presenta Inside Out, en donde el acero se moldea fluidamente como un lazo y crea pasajes y salones por donde perderse. En la calle 24, el nuevo experimento creativo de Serra: 7 Plates, 6 Angles; Intervals; y Grief and Reason (for Walter) en donde las lineas, los ángulos rectos y los volúmenes cuadrados y rectangulares dominan, como una versión moderna de los monolitos de otrora. 
Photo by Alex Guerrero ®2013
Tuve el placer de entrevistar a Richard Serra brevemente durante la apertura de su Retrospectiva de Dibujos en el Museo Metropolitano de Nueva York hace un par de años. 
Photo by Alex Guerrero ®2013
Era la primera vez que exhibía sus dibujos y fue mi primer acercamiento a la persona del artista. Aunque en ese momento Richard Serra fue enfático al declarar que consideraba su obra como dibujante y como escultor dos cuerpos de trabajo totalmente independientes, al ver las nuevas esculturas y ver sus dibujos en el Metropolitano, no puedo sino ver extrapolaciones. (Vean la entrevista aqui. En inglés). 
Photo by Alex Guerrero ®2013
Desde el Met, la fascinación con la inmensidad y lo directo de sus gigantes de acero me han maravillado. Esta no es la excepción.
Photo by Alex Guerrero ®2013
Las esculturas de Richard Serra están en exhibición hasta el 25 de Enero del 2014 en los dos locales de la Galería Gagosian en Chelsea. Más info > Serra.
All Pictures by Alex Guerrero ®2013

THE BUCKYBALL > BY LEO VILLAREAL

Posted by LATINO EVENTS Y TESPIS MAGAZINE on Sunday, January 13, 2013 , under , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | comments (0)






A great piece of Art that has brought me several times to Madison Square Park, Leo Villareal's BUCKYBALL is inspired but the work of Buckminster Fuller and will be on display until February 1, 2013. You can sit and contemplate as the sculpture changes colors, intensity and patterns surrounded by some of the most iconic buildings in New York and inside one of my favorites places in town. 


Madison Square Park has positioned itself as a platform to exhibit some of the most provocative and inspired works of contemporary art. This time is New Mexico's Leo Villareal and his Buckyball. Stop by and enjoy! (All pictures by Alex Guerrero ®2012)
Here is a video as well for a closer experience or follow this link to see it on TespisTV > Buckyball video.

 

You can see the slideshow below or follow this link for more pictures > Buckyball.

More about the piece: Villareal's BUCKYBALL applies concepts of geometry and mathematical relationships within a towering 30-foot tall, illuminated sculpture. A commission of the Mad. Sq. Art program, Villareal's BUCKYBALL features two nested, geodesic sculptural spheres comprised of 180 LED tubes arranged in a series of pentagons and hexagons, known as a "Fullerene," referring to the form's discovery by Buckminster Fuller. Individual pixels located every 1.2 inches along the tubes are each capable of displaying 16 million distinct colors and will be specifically tuned by the artist's own software, creating a subtle and sophisticated palette to enliven the Park. Relying on LED technologies driven by chance, BUCKYBALL's light sequences will create exuberant, random compositions of varied speed, color, opacity, and scale. BUCKYBALL will trigger neurological processes within the brain, calling on our natural impulse to identify patterns and gather meaning from our external environment.


Through basic elements such as pixels and binary codes, Villareal allows for a better understanding of the underlying structures and systems that govern everyday function. As he builds these simple elements into a full-scale sculptural installation that moves, changes, and interacts, this work ultimately grows into a complex, dynamic form that questions common notions of space, time, and sensorial pleasure.

ESCULTURAS DE MANOLO VALDES EN EL JARDIN BOTANICO de NYC

Posted by LATINO EVENTS Y TESPIS MAGAZINE on Monday, October 22, 2012 , under , , , , , , , , , , , | comments (0)





Drawing inspiration from the natural landscape of the Botanical Garden, seven towering sculptures by acclaimed Spanish artist Manolo Valdés showcase the relationship between art and nature. 

ARCHIVO: MANOLO VALDES EN COLUMBUS CIRCLE, NYC. POTHO BY ALEX GUERRERO ®2012
The sculptures have been sited to take maximum advantage of the Garden's dramatic views with special attention given to the visual impact of the changing seasons. The artist has designed the installation to include surprising changes in the visual character of the sculptures throughout the seasons.

* Manolo Valdés : Monumental Sculptures > Septiembre 22 - Mayo 23, 2013 >> The New York Botanical Garden > VALDES.