I incorporate the material function of my studio as a means of illustrating my artistic practice.
Traducido del inglés
Incorporo la función material de mi estudio como medio de ilustrar mi práctica artística.
Selected Biographical Information
Education / Training
- 2006-2008: Programe La Seine – Postgraduate program, Ecole Nationale Supérieure Des Beaux Arts Paris-ENSBA, Paris, France.
- 2002-2005: Master in Fine Arts, Universidade de São Paulo. ECA- Escola de Comunicações e artes-USP, São Paulo, Brazil.
- 1995-2001: Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture and Urbanism, Universidad Ricardo Palma, Lima, Peru.
Prizes / Fellowships
- 2011: artistic residence, SOART, Millstättersee, Austria.
- 2010: artistic residence, Malongen Nordic Guest Studio, Stockholm, Sweden.
- 2008: artistic residence, Microresidencia Parasit(i)o in collaboration with MeetFactory, Prague, Czech Republic.
- 2008: artistic residence, NID- National Institute of Design – in collaboration program La Seine , Ahmedabad, India.
- 2007: artistic residence, Mongin art studios-collaboration program Las Seine, Seoul, South Korea.
- 2006-2007: artistic residence, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France.
Solo Exhibitions
- 2015: “Do & Hope”, Gleichapel, Paris, France.
- 2014: “Elephant Island”, Galería Lucía de la Puente, Lima, Peru.
- 2013: “Time & Tide (Flow wide)”, Galeria Casado Santapau, Madrid, Spain.
- 2013: “Head On”, Lisabird Contemporary, Vienna, Austria.
- 2012: “Prismatic”, Casa Triangulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
- 2011: “USURPATION: Le Folklore”, Galería Lucía de la Puente, Lima, Peru.
- 2011: “INRI”, Casa Triangulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
- 2009: “God (and Le Corbusier) promises a safe landing (but not a calm voyage)”, Casado Santapau, Madrid, Spain.
- 2006: “Manimal”, De Vleeshal, Middleburg, Holland.
- 2005: “SantaCruz”, Casa Triangulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
- 2003: “Burocracia”, Paço Das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil.
Group Exhibitions
- 2015: “Idées Multiples”, Galerie Des Galeries, Paris, France.
- 2015: “A false Horizon“, Peana Projects, New York, USA.
- 2015: “Polivalencias “, Curated by Jorge Villacorta. Galería Lucía de la Puente, Lima, Peru.
- 2014: “Light/Color/Object”, Super Dakota, Brussels, Belgium.
- 2014: “Casa Triangulo No Pivò“, Casa Triangulo- Pivò, edificio Copan, São Paulo, Brazil.
- 2014: “UNTITLED miami Art Fair “, Rincón Projects, Miami, USA.
- 2011: “Choix de Paris”, Cité International des Arts curated by Elsy Lahner, Paris, France.
- 2010: “Everydays(s)“, Casino Luxembourg-Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
- 2010: “Now or Never”, Rincón Projects, New York, USA.
- 2008: “El Papel del artista”, Doméstico 08. Curated by Teodora Diamantopoulos, Joaquín García, Giulietta Speranza, Andrés Mengs y Virginia Torrente, Madrid, Spain.
- 2005: “AU-DELA DU COPAN: Beyond the Copan, Supernatural Urbanism“, Fondation d’Enterprise Ricard, Paris, France.
- 2004: “Artista-Personagem -curated by Daniela Labra”, Centro cultural Maria Antonia, São Paulo, Brazil.
Publications
- Pier Stockholm, The Weight of References (Paris: onestar press), 150.
Collections
- Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria.
- SBKM / De Vleeshal at MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium.
Links
August 19, 2015 Bernardo Ortiz https://abstractioninaction.com/artists/bernardo-ortiz/Translated from Spanish
Statement 5 of 12 (“Formalist”)
“My work aims to point out a fissure (or a void, or a distance) between the support—a page, a sheet of paper, a wall—and its content—a mark, two words, several stains, a color. From this viewpoint, the work seems like a snake that bites its own tail. If content affects the support, the latter returns to affect the content. As a general rule, the interventions on the support are always minimal—hard pencils that leave very delicate and almost invisible lines, very light papers, very thin layers of paint. In this sense, the “page” determines what can happen in it. It can be for example the contrast between the transparency of the paper and the opacity of gouache, the weight of oil or the density of enamel. At other times these can be slight differences between two identical drawings. For example, a drawing that says “He found happiness” next to one that says “He found A happiness.” The way in which some formal strategies can be used to say things. In this sense, they are literary drawings about paintings. Reproductions within pages.”
Statement No. 5 de 12 (“Formalista”)
“Mi trabajo busca señalar una grieta (o un vacío, o una distancia) entre un soporte –una página, una hoja de papel, una pared– y su contenido –un rayón, dos palabras, varias manchas, un color. Visto así, el trabajo parece una serpiente que se muerde la cola. Porque si el contenido afecta al soporte, este se devuelve afectando el contenido. Como regla general, las intervenciones sobre el soporte son casi siempre mínimas –Lápices muy duros que dejan líneas muy delgadas y casi invisibles, papeles muy livianos, capas muy delgadas de pintura. En ese sentido la “página” determina lo que pueda pasar en ella. Puede ser, por ejemplo, el contraste entre la transparencia del papel y la opacidad del gouache, el peso del óleo o la densidad del esmalte. Otras veces pueden ser pequeñas diferencias entre dos dibujos iguales. Por ejemplo: un dibujo que dice “He found happiness” (él encontró la felicidad) al lado de otro que dice “He found A happiness” (él encontró UNA felicidad). La manera en que ciertas estrategias formales pueden ser aprovechadas para decir cosas. En ese sentido son dibujos literarios acerca de pinturas. Reproducciones en páginas”.
Selected Biographical Information
Education / Training
- 2000-2002: MA in Philosophy, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia.
- 1990-1995: BFA in Art, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
Solo Exhibitions
- 2013: “Ensayo”, Casas Riegner, Bogotá, Colombia.
- 2013: “Game Piece (with Erick Beltrán)“, TBA 21-Augarten, Vienna, Austria.
- 2011: “Dibujos”, Casas Riegner, Bogotá , Colombia.
- 2003: “Dibujos”, Galeria Jenny Vilá, Cali, Colombia.
- 1995: “Dibujos”, Galería Jenny Vilá, Cali, Colombia.
Group Exhibitions
- 2013: “Imperfect Idler or When Things Dissapear. I Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo”, Fundación Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Cartagena, Cartagena , Colombia.
- 2013: “Secret Codes”, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil.
- 2013: “The Circle Walked Casually”, Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany.
- 2013: “Conferencia performativa: nuevos formatos, lugares, prácticas y comportamientos artísticos”, MUSAC, León, Spain.
- 2013: “Saber Desconocer, 43 Salón (Inter) Nacional de Artistas”, Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia, Medellín, Colombia.
- 2013: “Prix Canson Nominees Exhibition”, Petit Palais, Paris, France.
- 2013: “Música”, Casas Riegner, Bogotá, Colombia.
- 2013: “Marking Language”, Drawing Room, London, England.
- 2012: “30th São Paulo Bienal. The inminence of poetics”, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
- 2012: “Ficciones Modernas”, Camara de Comercio de Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia.
- 2012: “Empatía”, Casas Riegner, Bogota , Colombia.
- 2012: “Modelling Standard”, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain.
- 2012: “Air de Lyon”, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 2011: 11e Biennale de Lyon. “Une terrible beauté est née”, La Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France.
- 2011: “El ojo del coleccionista: la colección Maraloto”, Banco de la República, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia.
- 2011: “Boceto, trampa e instalación”, Banco de la República, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia.
- 2010: “Primera e ultima: Notas sobre o monumento”, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil.
- 2007: “Documenta Magazines”, Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany.
- 2007: “MDE07”, Museo de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia.
Publications
- Bernardo Ortiz, “A Pile of Orange Peels“, OEI # 60-61 Extra-disciplinary spaces and de-disciplinizing moments (in and out of the 30th Bienal de São Paulo), April.
- Bernardo Ortiz, “Criticism and Experience“, E-Flux Journal, February 2010.
Collections
- Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA.
- Centre National de Artes Plastiques, Paris, France.
- Deutsche Bank, Berlin, Germany.
- Kadist, San Francisco, Paris, USA, France.
- Colección Maraloto, Bogotá, Colombia.
- Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York, USA.
- Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia.
My work derives from the interest and mistrust in constructed perceptions, which are considered to belong to a “natural order” and constantly build our notion of truth through a systematized knowledge. Most of my questioning focuses on examining the models associated with scientific research and the constant pursuit of order, measure, and control of the laws that govern the perceptible world. Through different guidelines, I analyze the relationship established between knowledge and power, and how that bond ideologically determines the way we perceive, interpret, and interact with our environment. I am interested in the search for the gaps and cracks generated in specific relations between representation systems and the notion of an objective and indisputable reality. In order to exemplify the perceived inconsistencies, I carefully manipulate images, texts, sounds and other elements that are associated with capturing, interpreting and transmitting information. Through this, I attempt to somehow put into evidence relativity, malleability, and the level of indetermination in all of which we aim to comprehend by trying to search for an objective and definite truth.
Mi trabajo parte del interés y la desconfianza hacia las percepciones construidas de aquello que pertenece a un “orden natural” y modela nuestras certezas a través de un conocimiento sistematizado. Gran parte de mis cuestionamientos se centran en examinar los modelos asociados a la investigación científica y la constante búsqueda por ordenar, medir y controlar las leyes que gobiernan el mundo perceptible. A través de ciertas consideraciones, analizo la relación que se establece entre conocimiento y poder, y cómo ese vínculo determina ideológicamente nuestro modo de percibir, interpretar e interactuar con nuestro entorno. Busco brechas y fisuras en la relación que se genera entre distintos sistemas de representación y lo que intentamos definir como realidad. Como parte de este proceso, opto por la manipulación selectiva de imágenes, textos, sonidos y otros elementos asociados a la captura, interpretación y transmisión de información. Con ello, evidencio la relatividad, maleabilidad y grado de indeterminación en todo aquello que intentamos comprender al vincularnos racionalmente en busca de una verdad objetiva y definitiva.
Selected Biographical Information
Solo Exhibitions
- 2013: “Reference points”, Galería Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, Belgium.
- 2012: “La inconsistencia de lo visible”, Galería Lucía de la Puente, Lima, Perú.
- 2012: “Espacio de contingencia”, NNM.Studio, Lima, Perú.
- 2011: “Backlight: la naturaleza como espectáculo”, Galería L’imaginaire , Lima, Perú.
- 2011: “Desencuadre y superficie”, Galería Lucía de la Puente, Lima, Perú.
- 2009: “Denaturaciones: Cultura y fractura”, Galería Lucía de la Puente, Lima, Perú.
- 2006: “Desborde y contención”, Galería 80m2, Lima, Perú.
Group Exhibitions
- 2013: “La extensión del soporte”, Fundación Telefónica, Lima, Perú.
- 2013: “Bahuaja Sonene”, Centro de la imagen, Lima, Perú.
- 2013: Parc, International Contemporary Art Fair, Lima, Perú.
- 2013: Belfast Photo Festival 2013, Belfast, UK.
- 2013: Proyector13, International Videoart Festival, Madrid, Spain.
- 2013: “Sound In”, Matadero, Madrid, Spain.
- 2012: ” XIII Convocatoria Internacional”, Galería Luis Adelantado, Valencia, Spain.
- 2012: “Animalier: The animal in contemporary art”, Graceful art gallery and studios, Oklahoma, USA.
- 2012: “Dejar actuar al tiempo”, Fundación Telefónica, Lima, Perú.
- 2012: “Otra carne. Corporeidad, mutación y deterioro”, Centro Cultural ICPNA, Lima, Perú.
- 2012: “Poetas en tiempo de escasez”, Centro Cultural ICPNA, Lima, Perú.
- 2012: “Terra incognita: Cartografías de lugares inextistentes”, Centro Cultural de España, Lima, Perú.
- 2012: “Yo no me río de la muerte – Javier Heraud 1942-1963”, Sala Miró Quesada Garland, Lima, Perú.
- 2011: “Lima Photo 2011”, Centro de la Imagen, Lima, Perú.
- 2011: “NordArt 2011”, Kunstwerk Carlshütte, Büdelsdorf, Germnay.
- 2010: “Pasaporte para un Artista 2010”, Centro Cultural PUCP, Lima, Perú.
- 2010: “Mash up”, Centro Cultural del España, Lima, Perú.
- 2010: “ArteBo”, Bogotá, Colombia.
- 2010: “Quince años”, Galería Lucía de la Puente, Lima, Perú.
- 2008: “Visiones del arte contemporáneo en el Perú”, Galería Lucía de la Puente, Lima, Perú.
- 2008: “Tener lugar”, Fundación Telefónica, Lima, Perú.
- 2008: ” Fotografía peruana contemporánea”, Galería Animal, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
Links
Selected Biographical Information
Education / Training
- 1982-87: Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 1991-94: Hochschule der Künste Berlin, Graduates at the masterclass of Prof. Rebecca Horn.
Prizes / Fellowships
- 2010: Invited as guest at the artist residence Villa Aurora, Los Angeles, USA.
- 2008: Artist in residence at Civitella Ranieri Center, Italy. Grant from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, New York, USA.
- 2008: Grant of the Stiftung Kunstfonds.
- 2007: Artist in residence at Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf, grand from the Department for Economy, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg.
- 2005: Rosa de Luxe, Monument for Rosa Luxemburg, 2nd prize (with Maria Cecilia Barbetta), Senate for Science and Culture, Berlin.
- 2003: Grand from the Senate for Science and Culture, Berlin.
- 2001: Grand from the Kulturfond Foundation.
Solo Exhibitions
- 2012: “Happy Believers”, Galerie Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin, Germany.
- 2012: “Images de la Mélancolie”, Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France.
- 2012: “Felices los que creen sin haber visto”, Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 2010: “Als der Himmel Sterne sah”, Franke-von Oppen, Berlin, Germany.
- 2009: “The Messiah Fights Back”, Langage Plus, Montreal, Canada.
- 2009: “The Messiah Fights Back”, Kunstverein Hannover.
- 2008: “33 traurige Tragödien”, Kunstraum Potsdam.
- 2008: “Le ciel qui a vu des etoiles”, Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France.
- 2008: “Con penas ni gloria”, Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 2008: “Miguel Rothschild plays Miguel Rothschild”, Two tragic movies, 5533, Istanbul.
Group Exhibitions
- 2013: “825 days”, Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France.
- 2013: “Art & Entreprise#1”, Collection Géotec, Quetigny.
- 2012: “Paris Photo – one man show”, booth from Kuckei + Kuckei, Paris, France.
- 2012: “Religion und Riten”, DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt.
- 2012: “Dot.System. From Pointillism to Pixelation”, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen.
- 2012: “Palabras, imágenes y otros textos”, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 2012: “Examples to follow! Expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability”, Premchand Roychand Gallery, Mumbai.
- 2011: “How German is it? 30 Artists Notion of Home”, Jüdisches Museum Berlin, Germany.
- 2011: “Art of the 90s in Malba Collection. Works 1989 -2010”, Malba – Fundación Costantini, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 2011: “Examples to follow! Expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability”, Virginia Haus / Überseequartier / Hafencity, Hamburg.
- 2011: “Examples to follow! Expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability”, Schwankhalle and Wasserturm, Bremen.
- 2011: “Examples to follow! Expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability”, Bauhaus Dessau.
- 2011: “Examples to follow! Expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability”, Kunstverein Pfaffenhofen, Kunstverein Ingolstadt and Städtische Galerie Neuburg a.d. Donau.
- 2011: “Examples to follow! Expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability”, Westwendischer Kunstverein, Gartow.
- 2011: “Adquisiciones, donaciones y comodatos”, Malba – Fundación Costantini, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 2010: “Transatlantic Impulses”, Akademie der Künste Hanseatenweg, Berlin, Germany.
- 2010: “Ich Wicht”, Kunstraum Potsdam.
- 2010: “Realidad y Utopía, 200 Years of Argentine Art, A Vision from the Present”, Akademie der Künste am Brandenburger Tor, Berlin, Germany.
- 2010: “Examples to follow! Expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability”, Uferhallen, Berlin, Germany.
- 2010: “Aasan”, Ekici, Rothschild. Projects, Fraunhofer-Institut, Potsdam.
- 2010: “Berlin Transfer”, Berlinische Galerie, State Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture, Berlin, Germany.
Collections
- Berlinische Galerie, State Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture, Berlin, Germany.
- State Museums of Berlin (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin), Book and Media Collection, Berlin, Germany.
- Malba, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- MAMBA, Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- DZ Bank Collection, Frankfurt am Mainz, Germany.
- CGAC, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
- Jüdisches Museum, Berlin, Germany.
Translated from Spanish
I have recently developed an investigation that proposes various relationships among concepts of space, time, landscape, sound, silence, memory, and perception. The idea of variation is understood as the metamorphosis and interaction that occurs within this glossary of concepts, and which merges a series of projects where experimentation with different media and processes function as central axis of my artistic practice, and which allows a sense of dynamics during the process of the work itself.
Based on this outline, I began an interdisciplinary project in 2013, titled Ghost Variations, which states an analogy between the evolutionary phases of a hurricane and the movements of a symphony, giving to each one of its phases a selection of formal elements and collaborative practices for its production.
Recientemente, he desarrollado una investigación que propone diversas relaciones entre los conceptos de espacio, tiempo, paisaje, sonido, silencio, memoria y percepción. La idea de variación es entendida como la metamorfosis e interacción que acontece entre este glosario de conceptos y que integran una serie de proyectos donde la experimentación con diversos medios y procesos funciona como eje de mi práctica artística, los cuales otorgan un sentido dinámico durante el proceso mismo de la obra.
Basado en este esquema, inicié en 2013 un proyecto interdisciplinario titulado Ghost Variations, el cual articula una analogía entre las fases evolutivas de un huracán y los movimientos de una sinfonía, otorgando a cada una de sus fases una selección de elementos formales y estrategias colaborativas para su realización.
Selected Biographical Information
Education / Training
- Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado La Esmeralda, Mexico City, Mexico.
- 2001 – 2006: Licienciatura en Artes Plásticas, Mexico City, Mexico.
Prizes / Fellowships
- 2013: Residencia Artística en CASA TOMADA, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- 2009: Residencia Artística en CAPACETE, Río de Janerio, Brazil.
- 2009: Beca Arte Actual Bancomer – MACG 2009.
- 2008-09: Beca Jóvenes Creadores 2008 – 09, FONCA.
- 2004-05: Beca Jóvenes Creadores 2004 – 05, FONCA.
- 2003: Segundo lugar, Premio Philips Art Expression, X Edición, Museo de Imagen y Sonido, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- 2003: Primer lugar, Premio Philips Art Expression, X Edición, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico.
- 2002: Mención Honorífica, Un espacio de 35 mm, Televisa, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico.
- 2002-03: Beca Jóvenes Creadores 2002 – 03, FECAQROO.
- 2002-06: Beca Fundación Telmex.
Solo Exhibitions
- 2013: “1st Fugue”, Kunsthalle Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- 2012: “Half Day Closing”, Pinta Art Fair, NYC, USA. (Curator: Jacopo Crivelli)
- 2012: “Ghost Variations 1 (Prelude)”, Galería Arróniz, Mexico City, Mexico. (Curator: Christian Barragán)
- 2011: “Lapses”, Hermés Store, Mexico, DF. (Curator: Tobías Ostrander)
- 2010: “Reverb“, Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico DF. (Curator: Tobías Ostrander)
- 2010: “Pautas”, Dot Fifty One Gallery, Miami, USA.
- 2008: “Estudio”, Trolebús Galería, Mexico City, Mexico. (Curator: Ariadna Ramonetti)
- 2008: “Suspensión, alineación y balanceo”, Galería Arróniz, Mexico City, Mexico.
- 2007: “Axis”, Laboratorio Dzityá, Yucatan, Mexico.
Group Exhibitions
- 2013: “Emmathomasteca“, Galería Emma Thomas, Sao Paulo, Brazil (Curator: Marta Ramos Yzquierdo)
- 2013: “Materia Sensible“, Gabinete grafico, Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico. (Curator: Caroline Montenat)
- 2012: “XV Bienal de Pintura Rufino Tamayo“, Museo Tamayo, Mexico D.F. Colectiva Mexico, Galería Baró, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- 2011: “Re Cover”, Casa del Lago, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico.
- 2010: Hecho en Casa, Fundación Ex – Molino, Mexico City, Mexico.
- 2010: “Arte Actual, Programa Bancomer MACG”, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico. (Curatoras: Ruth Estévez y Sarah Demeuse)
- 2009: “Trabajo de espacio”, Galería Arróniz, Mexico City, Mexico.
Publications
- 2012: MPBA, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes.
- 2011: ABSTRACCION TEMPORAL, Museo Experimental El Eco / UNAM / 2011.
- 2011: MEMORIAS, Casa del Lago / UNAM / 2011 + 2007.
- 2010: PROGRAMA BBVA BANCOMER – MACG.
- 2005-2009: TROLEBUS.
- 2004-2005:MEMORIAS JOVENES CREADORES 2004- 205.
Collections
- Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Mexico.
- La Colección Júmex, Mexico.
- Jorge Pérez Collection, Miami, USA.
- Joahn Hickey Collection, NY, USA.
- Sayago & Pardon Collection, Los Angeles, USA.
Links
I explore the materiality of language, the phonetic, visual and poetic dimensions of a text or a word as a two-and three-dimensional entity in the context of human relations. I am drawn to what lies among the uttered and the suppressed. For thinking dictates form, a line, an accent, the cadence of silence, all form narratives both in drawing and language. I expose the intersection of the aural and the visual, one where words, text and involuntary sounds are transformed into a visible, physical form. Eventually words are muffled, subtracted, removed from speech, configuring blocks or silent pauses. In acoustic wall #1 what appears like voiceless theater notations (images 1-2) confronts the viewer with vinyl text phrases (“she whispers to herself,” “quite loud this time,” “faint pause,” “stops herself”) which stretch across a twenty-seven feet wall. In phonetic neon [aha], 2011,(image 3) I distill down the excess of language to make apparent an unintentional sound. Aha outlines a sonorous pause, an involuntary gap in between words. Four, thirty-three, 2011, (image 4) 1 minute=1 inch, evokes John Cage’s statement that silence is not acoustic, highlighting physically the activity of sound in an environment. Snippets (images 7-10) is a collection of videos of an average duration of 1 minute, of everyday situations that seem to have gone astray. An elevator stops between floors, a woman whispers to herself, a child fumbles for words. Disembodied characters are aware of their absurd fate, while they do not exist except in the viewer’s imagination. Yet at the end it is all the same, what we don’t see is just as important as what we perceive. Technically these silent subtitled narratives that derive from my writing fade—in and out—on a black slate devoid or other images. Drawn from the video’s discarded sound, recorded words vibrate in inaudible patterns, becoming the graphic representation of the cadence of my voice.
Traducido del inglés
Exploro la materialidad del lenguaje, las dimensiones fonéticas visuales y poéticas de un texto o de una palabra como entidad bidimensional y tridimensional en el contexto de las relaciones humanas. Me atrae aquello que se encuentra entre lo pronunciado y lo reprimido. Debido a que el pensamiento dicta la forma, una línea, un acento, la cadencia del silencio, todos conforman narrativas en el dibujo y en el lenguaje. Revelo la intersección de lo aural y lo visual; donde las palabras, el texto y los sonidos involuntarios se transforman en formas visibles y físicas. Eventualmente las palabras se reprimen, se substraen, se remueven del habla, configurando bloques de pausas silenciosas. En pared acustica #1(acoustic wall #1), lo que aparentan ser notaciones teatrales sin voz (imágenes 1-2), confrontan al espectador con frases de texto en vinilo (“susurra a sí misma”, “muy alto esta vez”, “tenue pausa”, “se detiene a si misma”), las cuales se extienden a lo largo de un muro de más de ocho metros. En neón fonético [aha] 2011 (phonetic neon[aha]) (imagen 3), depuro el exceso del lenguaje para revelar un sonido accidental. Aha destaca una pausa sonora, un espacio involuntario entre palabras. Cuatro, treinta y tres, 2011 (four thirty-three)(imagen 4), 1 minuto = 1 pulgada, evoca la declaración de John Cage de que el silencio no es acústico, enfatizando físicamente la actividad del sonido en un ambiente. Breves (snippets) (imagenes 7-10) es una colección de videos con una duración promedio de un minuto, de situaciones cotidianas que parecen estar fuera de control. Un elevador se para entre pisos, una mujer se susurra a sí misma, un niño balbucea en busca de palabras. Personajes incorpóreos se percatan de su destino absurdo, mientras que no existen excepto en la imaginación del espectador. Sin embargo al final todo es lo mismo, lo que no vemos es igual de importante de lo que percibimos. Técnicamente estas narrativas subtituladas silentes que provienen de mi escritura, se desvanecen (por dentro y por fuera) en un fondo negro, carente de otras imágenes. Procedentes del sonido descartado del video, palabras grabadas vibran visualmente en patrones inaudibles, convirtiéndose en representaciones gráficas de la cadencia de mi voz.
Selected Biographical Information
Education / Training
- MFA School of Visual Arts, NYC.
- BFA School of Visual Arts, NYC.
Prizes / Fellowships
- 2012: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Fellowship Residency, Amherst, VA.
- 2012: The Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL.
- 2010-2011: The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program, New York.
- 2011: Nominated for the Rema Hort Mann Foundation grant.
- 2002: The Banff Centre for the Arts Residency, Alberta, Canada.
- 2000: MFA Fellowship School of Visual Arts, New York, NY.
- 1994: AIM Program, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY.
Solo Exhibitions
- 2012: “On AIR”, RH Gallery, New York, NY.
- 2008: “Snippets”, Sonja Roesch Gallery, Houston, TX.
- 2007: “Like you I Forgot”, Alejandra von Hartz Gallery, Miami, FL.
- 2003: “who, what, where”, Galerie Articule, Montreal, Canada.
- 2002: “who, what, where”, Banff, Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada.
Group Exhibitions
- 2013: RH Gallery, NYC.
- 2012: Hunter College Time Square Art Gallery, New York, NY.
- 2011: RH Gallery, New York, NYC.
- 2010: Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand.
- 2009: RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
- 2008: PS1/MOMA Center for Contemporary Art, LIC, New York.
- 2007: Non Objective, Sydney, Australia.
- 2006: Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.
- 2005: Jersey City Museum, NJ.
- 2005: Alejandra von Hartz Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Publications
- Batet, Janet, “El Arte: Un lenguaje mas alla de la forma”, El Nuevo Herald, Miami, FL, September 10, 2013.
- Roniger, Taney, “On Air”, Soledad Arias, RH Gallery, New York, NY. On Verge, Alternative Art Criticism. July 6 2012.
- Kartofel, Graciela, “Notations: The Cage Effect Today”, Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, Art Nexus Magazine, Issue # 85 pages, 115-117, June, 2012.
- Bardier, Laura, “Soledad Arias”, RH Gallery, Arte Al Dia International Magazine. Issue #139, page 106, June, 2012.
- Tschida, Anne Knight Arts. Text based show expresses more than what words can say. May 4, 2012.
- Miranda, Carolina A. Soledad Arias, ON AIR. “This Week: Must-See Arts in the City.” WNYC (May 2, 2012).
- “Notations: The Cage Effect Today”, Exhibition Catalogue. Hunter College/Time Square Gallery, February 2012.
- Index Issue No. 2, September 2011, Melbourne, Australia, Edition of 50. Published by Justin Andrews.
- Garland Fielder, Soledad Arias, Gallery Sonja Roesch. Artlies Contemporary Art Magazine, Issue 61, Spring 2009, Houston, Texas.
- Literal magazine, Latin American voices, Soledad arias,Words vibrate, Pages 14-16, Volume 16. Spring 2009.
- Garland Fielder, “Critics’s picks”, Artforum online, Accrochage, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, Texas, January 2009.
- When Art (or in what regard) a collaborative project initiated by Jannette Doyle. Socrates Sculpture Park, August 2007.
- Fontana, Lilia. Soledad Arias, Alejandra von Hartz Gallery, Arte al Dia International, Issue 119, page 119, june 2007.
- Edith Newhall, Traveling Show finds A World of Influences, ICA, Bartram’s Garden host works, The Philadelphia Inquirer.
- The Arts, p. 31 May 12, 2006.
- Reisman, Sara. Soft Sites, exhibition publication. Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadephia, April 2006.
- “Dynasty”, MC Gallery, New York, Essay for exhibition catalogue, 2006.
- Parish, Josh, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens Tribune, page 22, volume 35 #34, Queens Culture 2005.
- Queens Tribune. “Float” Over To LIC for Socrates Exhibit., Page 25, volume 35 #31. August 4, 2005.
- Triff, Alfredo. City Views and Latin News. Miami News Times, volume 20, issue 3, p.52 April, 2005.
- Arteamericas, Exhbition catalogue, 2005. Miami, Florida.
- Fischer, Berit, “Memento: Soledad Arias and Madeline Djerejian”, New York Arts, International Edition, Vol. 9 No 12, p.84 January/ February 2004.
- Balcaen, Jo-Anne, “Who what where”, annual programmation catalogue, 2003-2004, galerie articule, Montreal, Canada.
- Acimovic, Kathy, The Link, Art in the Open, Soledad Arias’ exhibit is strewn about Montreal. Volume 24, issue 08, p.08. September 7, 2003.
- Woodley, Mathew. Montreal Mirror Arts. Talking Pennants. Art Listings Selection, September, 2003.
- Voir, Art listings, September, 2003, Montreal, Canada.
- Gilmour, Brett. Banff Centre artist challenges self-perception through Art. Banff Crag & Canyon, page 6, September 4, 2002.
- Sirmans, Franklin. “The S-Files”. Time Out New York. Issue No. 255, p.61 August 10-17, 2000. “The S-Files”. Curated by Deborah Cullen and Yasmin Ramirez. El Museo del Barrio, NY. Exhibition catalogue, p. 12, 2000.
- Escallon, Ana Maria,” A Visual Dialogue Through the Americas”, The Hickory Museum of Art, North Carolina, 1999.
- Escallon, Ana Maria,” Landscapes”,The Art Museum of the Americas, Exhibition catalogue, p. 18, 1997.
- Time Capsule, “A Concise Encyclopedia by Women Artists”, Performers and Writers, Creative Time, NY, 1995.
- “Artists in the Marketplace”, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Exhibition catalogue, Essay by Marysol Nieves, 1994.
- Cotter, Holland, New York Times, A Showcase of Artists learning their Business, August 19, 1994.