Categoría: Intervention for site specific

artistic site-specific interventions (public and private) that subvert typical tensions of colonial thought inscribed in the culture and nature relation, through fieldwork in communities and their territories.

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Resident teaching park

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Created at the Enrique Olaya Herrera National Park in Bogotá, Colombia, the work questions the relationship of man’s dominion over nature in that territory. Resident educational park proposes a dialogue with the Park through practices of cleansing, offerings, and meditation, to compose the verses of a bolero that personify the Park in which common behaviors are proposed as an alternative to the ecological tensions that are generated within it. The bolero, which is characterized by using metaphors allusive to nature, points directly to the Park and recalls practices of the place, where concerts were held and boleros were common to hear broadcasted from loudspeakers until a few years ago.

Site-specific intervention in the Bogotá National Park during an artistic residency at the Idartes Pedagogical Block, within the framework of the 45th National Hall of Artists of Colombia.

Video and sound piece 4:16 minutes, informative prints, intervention in the Kiosk and tours of the Park.

Mauricio Rivera Henao: General direction, composition, sound piece, video and intervention.

Manuel Narváez: Sound engineering, editing and mixing. Daniel Cardona: Musical arrangement. Lorena Parada: Production assistant.

Acknowledgements: Gabriela Pinilla (Residential tutor at Block IDARTES). Catalina Rodríguez (IDARTES Plastic Arts Manager). Ángel Alejandro Banguero Guzmán (National Park Administration). Christian Leonardo Bello Pérez (Auxiliary Administrator). Daniel Rodríguez and Vicente Garzón (Mediators).

Exhibitions

  • The longlest path, contemporary art in Antioquia. Medellin Modern Art Museum, 2021.
  • 45th National Artists’ Salon: The reverse of the plot. Curated by Lenguajes de la Injuria, Olaya Herrera National Park, Bogotá, Colombia. 2019.

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Plant on pavement

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Gardener - Resident

Residence for artists Lugar a dudas. (achitectural heritage)

100 tabloid format posters

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Plant on pavement was developed as an artistic residency in «lugar a dudas» of the city of Cali, -a national artistic residency grant from the Ministry of Culture of Colombia- in which I worked as a resident gardener for six weeks. During this time I was in charge of the external and internal gardens of the residence located in the Granada neighborhood, which involved the transition from highly toxic chemical insecticides to organic and traditional methods to control pests, pruning, fertilizing, strengthening growth and stabilizing the natural order of the plants, subverting the role of «gardener» to dominate the wild for domestic benefits and aesthetic judgments.

During the weeks of residence, the relationship with the plants determined the type of ideal practices for their well-being, at the same time as it nourished the work of creation that was proposed from a summons to the place of residence, -Colombian biennial architecture prize, intervention in the heritage-, by questioning the place –lugar a dudas-, from the decisions made by civil engineering and architecture for the existence of the gardens in the configuration of the place. At the end of the six weeks, the installation work built with what was collected, stored and pruned from the gardens, returned as fertilizer to the Earth.

Exhibitions

  • Artistic Residency. lugar a dudas. Cali, Colombia. 2018.

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The world of museums

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There is a trajectory in which the earth remains further than the epistemes of time as art and culture are born from the earth to return to it as dust and sediment. Going down the spiral stairs to the Museum’s basement brings back the memory of the historic quote of La Caverna (The Cavern). On its entrance wall the black ink handwriting registers the World’s nature and our passing through it: Inside fire occupies the whole space in intervals and latency. Underneath the dark night’s reflection and in its void, a circular light.

Nature regulates itself in the space-time we have come to. Earth, Fire and Water aquire sense when they summon themselves as a metaimage:The World of Museums-, is a commemoration through the architecural characteristics of the Pereira Museum of Art, the presence of fire in the sound of the fire detector and the baked clay floor tiles. Here, the aesthetic regimes are materialized, in its infrastructures and in its Works, in its walls and its Stone and minerals floor.

Exhibitions

  • Museo de Arte de Pereira (Pereira’s Museum of Art), Colombia. 2017.

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A stones´sculptor river

Intervention for site specific

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The Otún River, located in Colombia’s Coffee Cultural Landscape (a World Heritage Site), was renamed the stone sculpting river by the composer Luis Carlos González in a line of the bambuco titled Pereira. From the line, a new bambuco was composed to vindicate the autonomy of the river as a creative subject and draw attention to its proximity to the center of Pereira. The work is thus presented as a creative result of the river, highlighting its value as heritage, the conditions of the river and its neighbors, and questioning the responsibility of public and private entities and citizens.

Site-specific intervention in the Community Action Board Hall in Barrio Zea in Pereira during the 44th National Artists’ Salon.

Otún Group.
Martín Abab Abad (R.I.P.)
Álvaro Hoyos Baena
Mauricio Rivera Henao

About Martín Abad

Thanks to

  • Gloria Milena Villegas, President of the Zea Neighborhood. Mediator

Sound Piece

  • Manuel Narváez: (La Guacharaca Estéreo). Recording, edition and mix.
  • Paula Arcila: Voice.
  • Daniel Cardona: Composition, mandolines, twelve-stringed treble guitar and guitar.

Exhibitions

  • El camino más largo, Arte contemporáneo en Antioquia, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, 2021.
  • Aún 44 Salón Nacional de Artistas. Pereira, Colombia. 2016.

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