Abstraction in Action Abstraction in Action: ARCOmadrid 2014 https://abstractioninaction.com/happenings/abstraction-action-arcomadrid-2014/

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ARCOmadrid 2014
19–23 February 2014
Halls 7 & 9, Feria de Madrid
Booth 7H02
Madrid, Spain

Abstraction in Action presents its online platform at an institutional booth during the fair, allowing visitors to interact with the database while gaining a deeper understanding of the project and the artists involved. The website will launch a new “Projects” section during the fair, featuring exhibitions, site-specific installations, and events that AIA has produced. Along with that, AIA features new artists:

Leyla Cárdenas (Colombia, 1975), John Mario Ortiz (Colombia, 1973), G. T. Pellizzi (Mexico, 1978), Rosario López Parra (Colombia, 1970), Macaparana (Brazil, 1952), Fidel Sclavo (Uruguay, 1960), KIRIN (Argentina, 1953), Bernardo Corces (Argentina, 1988), Eduardo Santiere (Argentina, 1962), Georgina Santos (Mexico, 1988), Santiago Reyes Villaveces (Colombia, 1986), Rodrigo Sassi (Brazil, 1981), Nicolás Lamas (Peru, 1980), Nicolás Consuegra (Colombia, 1976), María Ezcurra (Argentina, 1973), Jorge Pedro Núñez (Venezuela, 1976), Jaime Ruiz Otis (RUIZCYCLE) (Mexico, 1976), Gabriel Acevedo Velarde (Peru, 1976), Edwin Monsalve (Colombia, 1984), Chiara Banfi (Brazil, 1979), Barbarita Cardozo (Colombia, 1975), Ana Belén Cantoni (Peru, 1983), Óscar Figueroa (Costa Rica, 1986), and Silvana Lacarra (Argentina, 1962)

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February 25, 2014 John Mario Ortiz https://abstractioninaction.com/artists/john-mario-ortiz/
Translated from Spanish

My work is inspired by the contradictions of urban development and the growth of the city. It reflects on how these phenomena influence the relationships we have with spaces. I am interested in examining the influences of the process of architectural modernization in the shaping of particular ways of spatial perception.

Through a variety of mediums including installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, and video, my recent projects explore the ways architecture is conceived and projected, paying especial attention to the tools and systems of representation that are used for this purpose, and which strongly determine  the configuration and nature of the constructions. In these works, the mechanisms of projection are compared to real physical spaces, proposing new relationships, and translating abstract codes of representation to concrete physical spaces to discover tensions and discrepancies between these two instances, as well as reveal ideological implications that lie beneath.

 

Mi trabajo se nutre de las contradicciones del desarrollo urbano y del crecimiento de la ciudad. Reflexiona acerca de cómo estos fenómenos inciden en las relaciones que establecemos con los espacios. Me intereso por examinar las influencias del proceso de modernización arquitectónica en el moldeamiento de formas particulares de percepción espacial.

A través de un variado repertorio de medios que incluyen instalación, escultura, fotografía, dibujo y video, mis proyectos recientes investigan las formas como se concibe y proyecta la arquitectura, prestando especial atención a los instrumentos y sistemas de representación que se emplean para este fin, que determinan poderosamente la configuración y la naturaleza las construcciones. En estas obras se confrontan los mecanismos de proyección con los espacios físicos reales, proponiendo nuevas relaciones, y se traducen los códigos abstractos de representación a los espacios físicos concretos, para descubrir tensiones y discrepancias entre estas dos instancias, así como para develar implicaciones ideológicas que allí subyacen.

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February 19, 2014