Magdalena Fernández, 1i011, 2011
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UPRROTING ARCHITECTURE- CLIMAS
The Exhibition Series Uprooting Architecture reaches its end after a three-year program, with the site-specific project devised by Venezuelan artist Magdalena Fernández, who will present her installation 1i011 at Saludarte Foundation / Ideobox Artspace, along with a selection of her moving drawings and paintings, staging an environment that discusses the way thru which natural and artificial landscapes are perceived.
Since its origin, the series has envisioned a permanent flux of readings, participations, encounters and debates in the form of exhibitions, workshops and panels to contribute a new critical education on topography and the future architecture for the city, made possible in collaboration with Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia), University of Miami, National Media Museum of England, and the galleries that represent the featuring artists.
Uprooting Architectures is the first on-going exhibition series shown in Miami for a three-year long period and has allowed to activate new co-production strategies to evaluate the impact of the city growth.
ABOUT 1i011, BY MAGDALENA FERNÁNDEZ
In words of Magdalena Fernández: "1i011 (Forest) is a penetrable installation, made of light aluminum rods of various sizes hinged together, which transforms, breaks and become alive when visitors enter it and run through it. It appears, then, as a vibrant, unstable and mobile "Forest", formed from a metal structure in unstable equilibrium that agitates, shakes and trembles, interacting with the bodies and other elements found in the space it occupies. This webbing of branches takes over the place in which is located, and it is virtually transformed into a vibrant piece of unpredictable changes and movements. Thus, each viewer makes this landscape in a proper place that is constantly redrawing, in a spatial grid with which he interacts and plays, in a jungle of memories where he can circulate reflectively. In short, this "Forest", this structure in precarious equilibrium, this exploration through our ways of apprehending and experiencing nature, arises as the possibility of a journey of sensations, in which the occurring mutations, due to the exchange between bodies and spatial intervention device, vitalize the geometric rigor of the structure and the coldness of the materials impregnating them with vibrations, reverberations, waves and resonances".
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION SERIES
Saludarte Foundation / Ideobox Artspace is pleased to announce the second iteration of its Exhibition Series, that was launched in 2014 with the first city commissions by Juan Fernando Herrán (Colimbia), Marcius Galan (Brazil), Carlos Garaicoa (Cuba) and Andrés Michelena (Venezuela), making possible a cluster of public programs comprised of workshops on urbanism and soft territories along with scholar exchanges with architecture foundations from Mexico, Colombia and US.
For this second iteration, directed as well by curator Roc Laseca, Saludarte Foundation / Ideobox Artspace will commission the works of three women artists: Ana Mazzei (Brazil, 1980), Lydia Okumura (Brazil, 1948) and Magdalena Fernández (Venezuela, 1965) intended to articulate the gallery space through the disruptive experiences of the body, and the critical relationships between cultural artifacts and natural environments.
From the very beginning, the curatorial program took the reference of victorian photographer Francis Bedford (1816-1894) to rethink the transformation of the new city imaginary. Bedford’s exotic, boucolic and cosmopolitan photography deploys a new architectural and topographical analysis upon an openly imperial and dominant English society that is presented in an impulsive and optimistic mid-nineteenth century.
The 120 years of the death of Bedford is also the celebration of the end of a playful image, that is architecturally and socially proud-hearted, and that seems to have led to a self-absorbed circular non-place difficult to escape from. Miami presents the crucial stage for a visual cross-conversation that allows us to deepen both into the first progressive capitalist references, and the late current depressive ones. This uprooting architecture necessarily refers to an informed apparatus of its utopian and delocalizing image.
As the city grows through the architectural commissions by Herzog & Meuron, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid or Rem Koolhaas, the urban landscape of Miami describes a deficit of contextual reflection preventing a critical analysis of its rapidly changing topography.
Uprooting Architecture is so, and ultimately, a reading exercise of the city itself, an analytical parenthesis to evaluate Miami’s performing complex biography and modernity.
Saludarte Foundation / Ideobox Artspace se complace en anunciar la segunda edición de su ciclo expositivo Arquitectura del Desarraigo, que arrancó en 2014 con los primeros proyectos comisionados en la ciudad de Juan Fernando Herrán (Colimbia), Marcius Galan (Brazil), Carlos Garaicoa (Cuba) y Andrés Michelena (Venezuela), y haciendo posible un programa paralelo integrado por Mesas de Trabajo sobre urbanismo y territorios blandos, junto a intercambios académicos con fundaciones de arquitectura y diseño de México, Colombia y Estados Unidos.
The Exhibition Series Uprooting Architecture reaches its end after a three-year program, with the site-specific project devised by Venezuelan artist Magdalena Fernández, who will present her installation 1i011 at Saludarte Foundation / Ideobox Artspace, along with a selection of her moving drawings and paintings, staging an environment that discusses the way thru which natural and artificial landscapes are perceived.
Since its origin, the series has envisioned a permanent flux of readings, participations, encounters and debates in the form of exhibitions, workshops and panels to contribute a new critical education on topography and the future architecture for the city, made possible in collaboration with Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia), University of Miami, National Media Museum of England, and the galleries that represent the featuring artists.
Uprooting Architectures is the first on-going exhibition series shown in Miami for a three-year long period and has allowed to activate new co-production strategies to evaluate the impact of the city growth.
ABOUT 1i011, BY MAGDALENA FERNÁNDEZ
In words of Magdalena Fernández: "1i011 (Forest) is a penetrable installation, made of light aluminum rods of various sizes hinged together, which transforms, breaks and become alive when visitors enter it and run through it. It appears, then, as a vibrant, unstable and mobile "Forest", formed from a metal structure in unstable equilibrium that agitates, shakes and trembles, interacting with the bodies and other elements found in the space it occupies. This webbing of branches takes over the place in which is located, and it is virtually transformed into a vibrant piece of unpredictable changes and movements. Thus, each viewer makes this landscape in a proper place that is constantly redrawing, in a spatial grid with which he interacts and plays, in a jungle of memories where he can circulate reflectively. In short, this "Forest", this structure in precarious equilibrium, this exploration through our ways of apprehending and experiencing nature, arises as the possibility of a journey of sensations, in which the occurring mutations, due to the exchange between bodies and spatial intervention device, vitalize the geometric rigor of the structure and the coldness of the materials impregnating them with vibrations, reverberations, waves and resonances".
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION SERIES
Saludarte Foundation / Ideobox Artspace is pleased to announce the second iteration of its Exhibition Series, that was launched in 2014 with the first city commissions by Juan Fernando Herrán (Colimbia), Marcius Galan (Brazil), Carlos Garaicoa (Cuba) and Andrés Michelena (Venezuela), making possible a cluster of public programs comprised of workshops on urbanism and soft territories along with scholar exchanges with architecture foundations from Mexico, Colombia and US.
For this second iteration, directed as well by curator Roc Laseca, Saludarte Foundation / Ideobox Artspace will commission the works of three women artists: Ana Mazzei (Brazil, 1980), Lydia Okumura (Brazil, 1948) and Magdalena Fernández (Venezuela, 1965) intended to articulate the gallery space through the disruptive experiences of the body, and the critical relationships between cultural artifacts and natural environments.
From the very beginning, the curatorial program took the reference of victorian photographer Francis Bedford (1816-1894) to rethink the transformation of the new city imaginary. Bedford’s exotic, boucolic and cosmopolitan photography deploys a new architectural and topographical analysis upon an openly imperial and dominant English society that is presented in an impulsive and optimistic mid-nineteenth century.
The 120 years of the death of Bedford is also the celebration of the end of a playful image, that is architecturally and socially proud-hearted, and that seems to have led to a self-absorbed circular non-place difficult to escape from. Miami presents the crucial stage for a visual cross-conversation that allows us to deepen both into the first progressive capitalist references, and the late current depressive ones. This uprooting architecture necessarily refers to an informed apparatus of its utopian and delocalizing image.
As the city grows through the architectural commissions by Herzog & Meuron, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid or Rem Koolhaas, the urban landscape of Miami describes a deficit of contextual reflection preventing a critical analysis of its rapidly changing topography.
Uprooting Architecture is so, and ultimately, a reading exercise of the city itself, an analytical parenthesis to evaluate Miami’s performing complex biography and modernity.
Saludarte Foundation / Ideobox Artspace se complace en anunciar la segunda edición de su ciclo expositivo Arquitectura del Desarraigo, que arrancó en 2014 con los primeros proyectos comisionados en la ciudad de Juan Fernando Herrán (Colimbia), Marcius Galan (Brazil), Carlos Garaicoa (Cuba) y Andrés Michelena (Venezuela), y haciendo posible un programa paralelo integrado por Mesas de Trabajo sobre urbanismo y territorios blandos, junto a intercambios académicos con fundaciones de arquitectura y diseño de México, Colombia y Estados Unidos.
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