FIRST — IF YOU ARE IN LOVE — THAT’S A GOOD THING — THAT’S ABOUT THE BEST THING THAT CAN HAPPEN TO ANYONE. DON’T LET ANYONE MAKE IT SMALL OR LIGHT TO ...
One of my most recent problems has been how to transform the art-space into a positive space. This is what I call a challenging task because its starting point is the assumption that makes the art-space a negative space or better to say a non-positive space. I am still working on this one nevertheless I have found at the end of Concierto Barroco (by Alejo Carpentier, 1974) the first answer: "I Can't Give You Anything but Love, ...
Living abroad is a very particular experience, something that certainly has many degrees of complications. In which distance plays a very important role, this distance can be physical and/or cultural as well.The more distant you are the more attracted you become to this original source of energy that is the place in which we were ...
Yes, I am Cuban by birth and I feel Cuban, what means that I am emotionally tied to all I saw and felt in the island. This is something tremendously immense that would be absurd to ...
I am now just a visitor, a random viewer and what I see has the power of reminding me of something, maybe a place. I cannot precisely tell you what or where it is, but what I can tell you is that I would love to be there and not ...
Maybe the best way to understand “Eugene” is to see a heart in motion, the heart contracts (systole) and relaxes (diastole). One complete sequence is called a heartbeat. The exhibition “Eugene” as a heartbeat, is a model of motion that interest me deeply. There is not only distance between departure and arrival, there is emotional ...
By now my imagination of Cuba is certainly larger and richer that my actual memories of it. Cuba in my work is a fabrication, a 'poetic truth.' I wouldn't say that any of this has anything to do with national identity in itself but rather with fictional ...
Gerhard Obermüller: In your art you often confront us with historical upheavals. These upheavals are omnipresent and leave behind traces even after events seemed to have passed over them. For you these traces specifically include processes of memory, overwriting, but also official omissions in the process of memory. Socialist Nature here in Linz is your latest experimental artistic set-up with which you set out to remodulate processes of ...
A natural cataclysm is by itself not related with any form of ideology; it happens due to natural forces and can only be predicted up to a certain extent. Besides all the calamities brought on by events like hurricanes, they can also produce positive outcomes — one important one is how they bring people together. Under their devastating influences, people understand each other’s circumstances and problems and are willing to contribute and help out without asking for remuneration. The spirit that a natural catastrophe sparks is unique and transcends people’s political or ideological differences. For a few days after the passing of a hurricane, living in a city makes sense again; after those few days are gone is when “the real hurricane” called ordinary life hits us ...
Los cuentos son una especie de antesala, el anuncio de lo material, de lo que será más tarde una escultura o simplemente un dibujo. Estos cuentos me permiten articular ideas y memoria. Normalmente antes de ir al estudio y comenzar a trabajar en un cuerpo nuevo de obras, me dedico a compilar ...