Abstraction in Action Barbarita Cardozo https://abstractioninaction.com/artists/barbarita-cardozo/
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Since 2009, my work has focused on the study of Op and geometric art, mainly how haute couture houses and readymade brands appropriated these avant-gardes for the creation of fashion trends. My works begin with the appropriation of patterns found in magazines, books, and websites about fashion. These appropriations are presented in installations, paintings and collages, using not only art techniques but also materials and techniques from fashion design and graphic design, such as studs, leather, and cutting plotter.

Optical Power is a project, developed in black and white, in which I focused on Op Art, recontextualizing designs by Rudi Gernreich, Rei Kawakuro, and Pucci, among others.  In Geometría Pura Mente Consumista (Pure Geometry Consumerist Mind) I wanted to include geometric patterns designed by haute couture brands and multinational corporations, but as collages in die-cut leather, with studs or cut and sewn pieces. I am developing the most recent work with polyurethane paint and polyester, and continue to appropriate geometric patterns—but in this case, the patterns are combined as diptychs and polyptychs that are loaded with color and content.

 

Desde el 2009 mi trabajo se ha enfocado en estudiar el arte óptico y geométrico, principalmente como las casas de alta costura y las marcas readymade se apropian de estas vanguardias para la creación de tendencias de moda.  La creación de mis trabajos parte de la apropiación de patrones encontrados en revistas, libros y páginas web sobre moda.  Estas apropiaciones son presentadas en instalaciones, pinturas y collages, utilizando no solamente las técnicas propias del arte sino a su vez materiales y técnicas del diseño de moda y el diseño gráfico como taches, cueros y plotter de corte.

Optical Power es un proyecto que se desarrollo en blanco y negro y donde me enfoque en el arte óptico, recontextualizando diseños de Rudi Gernreich, Rei Kawakuro y Pucci entre otros.  En Geometría Pura Mente Consumista quise abarcar los patrones geométricos diseñados por casas de alta costura y marcas multinacionales pero trabajados a manera de collage en cueros troquelados, con taches o piezas recortadas y cosidas.  El trabajo más reciente lo estoy desarrollando con pinturas en poliuretano y poliéster donde sigo apropiándome de patrones geométricos pero esta vez estos patrones son conjugados a manera de dípticos y polípticos tomando una fuerza de color y contenido.

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February 19, 2014 Jaime Tarazona https://abstractioninaction.com/artists/jaime-tarazona/

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My interest on abstraction began approximately in 2006, as a result of a refusal to keep representing problems and situations linked to Colombian identity within my individual artistic process—thematic axis that I explored in my works since 1999 and from which I proposed various mediums such as installation, printing and painting. Since 2007 I began a series of projects in which I decided to produce works about the relevance of the international style, i.e., the great boom that the modern architecture movement has had since its origins in the second decade of last century in Europe, aiming to develop post-colonial and transcultural positions from the proposals in which I juxtapose different historical urban periods around the world, with the purpose of highlighting the overwhelming aspect of the modernist movement and vice versa.

 

Mi interés por la abstracción vino a darse hacia 2006 a raíz de un rechazo a seguir representando problemas y situaciones vinculadas a temas de identidad colombiana dentro de mi proceso individual como artista, eje temático que identificó mis trabajos desde 1999 y el cual planteé desde varios medios como la instalación, el grabado y la pintura. A partir de 2007 inicié una serie de proyectos en los que me propuse elaborar trabajos sobre la relevancia del estilo internacional, es decir, el gran auge que ha vivido el movimiento moderno de arquitectura desde que se inició en la segunda década del siglo pasado en Europa, buscando de esa manera desarrollar posiciones poscoloniales y transculturales desde propuestas en las que yuxtapongo  diferentes periodos históricos urbanos alrededor del mundo con el fin de resaltar el carácter avasallador del movimiento moderno y viceversa.

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October 9, 2013 Ricardo Rendón https://abstractioninaction.com/artists/ricardo-rendon/

In the work process, in the process of shaping and changing the nature exterior to him, man is shaped and changes himself: My work is presented as a system of questioning of the creative practice, of the execution, productive realization and notion of work. A search of meaning in the activity that makes possible not only locate its motive, the why of creating, but that would also allow to establish a critical vision of the role that the subject plays in the work environment.  Revalue the creative practice and find meaning in the work through the experience in the continuous making: To determine my reality through the experience and practice of my creative abilities, whose activation allows the emergence of forms of subjectivity and one’s own knowledge. Therefore, experience, comprised of the development and accumulation of moments of execution and site-specific plastic exercise, allows me to establish a strategic and perspective relation from where to position facing that which surrounds us.

I recognize from the creative making my position as subject result of the possibilities, events, dialogue and interpretation. Place of continuous transformation, determined by the creative activity within the physical limitations of space and the materials. A scenario of action and experience.

My work is designed as a system of inquiry into creative practice. It is a search for meaning that not only uncovers motivation, answering the question of why to create, but also permits a critical appraisal of the role of the subject who performs personal work. Reassessing the creative process allows me to make sense of making art through experiencing its continual realization.

It consists of determining my subjective reality and setting in motion my creative faculties, which enable the emergence of new understandings. In this way, experience, consisting of the development and accumulation of moments of creation, informs my strategic orientation towards my surroundings.

Accordingly, I recognize that as the subject of creative doing, I am shaped by possibilities, events, dialogues and interpretations in a place of continual transformation, a setting of action and experience in which creative activity is restricted only by the physical limits of workspace and materials.

 

En el proceso del trabajo, en el proceso de moldear y cambiar la naturaleza exterior a él, el hombre se moldea y se cambia a sí mismo: Mi obra se presenta como un sistema de cuestionamiento de la práctica y del quehacer creativo, de la ejecución, realización productiva y la noción del trabajo. Una búsqueda de sentido en la actividad que posibilite no solo ubicar su motivación, el por qué crear, sino que también permita establecer una visión crítica del papel que desempeña el sujeto en el ambiente laboral.

Revalorizar la práctica creativa y encontrar sentido en el trabajo por medio de la experiencia en el hecho continuo de su realización: Determinar mi realidad por medio de la experiencia y puesta en marcha de mis facultades creativas, cuyo accionar permiten la emergencia de formas de subjetividad y conocimientos propios. Es así que la experiencia, constituida por el desarrollo y acumulación de momentos de ejecución y ejercicio plástico in situ, me permite el establecimiento de una relación estratégica y perspectiva desde donde situarse frente aquello que me rodea.

Reconozco desde el hacer creativo mi posición como sujeto fruto de lo eventual, el acontecimiento, el dialogo y la interpretación. Lugar de continua transformación, determinado por la actividad creativa dentro de los límites físicos del espacio y los materiales de trabajo. Un escenario de acción y experiencia.

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