Mexican art conglomerate Signa deliver a 21st Century approach to an age old tradition mixing art with nature and spirituality....and now digital technology.
Exhibition of new media artists from Mexico
Part of the Mexican Cultural Festival
Exhibition: 20th Nov - 20th Dec 2002.
Private View: 20th Nov, 6-9pm
Special evenings also on 29th Nov, 5th Dec & 12th Dec.
Open: 11-6 Mon-Fri, Sat:12-5.
This project is been sponsored by:
-Visiting arts
-Anglo Mexicano de Cultura
-British Council
-Mexican Tourist Board
-CONACULTA
-Grupo Vale
-Mexican Embassy
-ArteZ
-Deluxe Gallery
-Down Mexico Way
EARTH ART REVISITED : MEXICO'S NEW MEDIA
Mexican art conglomerate SIGNA deliver a 21st Century approach to an age
old tradition mixing art with nature and spirituality....and now digital
technology.
As part of the Mexican Cultural Festival, new media artist SIGNA will be
arriving to Hoxton Square's Deluxe Gallery. The show will open on
November 20th with a private view and will continue until the 20th of
December. A show marked by many facets of visual art's new medias, it is
composed of stunning, large format, dramatic photography while boasting
unusual sculpture, video, music, and CD Rom.
The project itself is concerned with "lines of energy" and "centres of
spiritual power" often based on the pre-colombian ideals which hold fast
in Mexico's parted past. Invariably, the places hold an aesthetic
beauty, but perhaps more importantly they hold a presence to a
historical core which the project wishes to expose through the use of
new technologies. Once a "Centre" has been found, the artists construct
sculptures within the found parameters and then document the creation
through photography and video.
The exhibition is involved with the observation of our social, cultural,
geographic, planetary, and even cosmic environment and the construction
of a symbolic network relating us within this realm. The project intends
to understand through a natural history the truth about our "reality"
and it's working
Further information:
A sign is a concentrated character that contains and expresses
attributes, which in itself, represents the codification of a fragment
of reality, Signa is the action of recognizing, creating and recreating
signs in a contemporary visual art language. This site-specific work is
a process of self-enlightenment, reflection, and a meditation of the
relationship between Humanity, the Earth, and the Universe
This is a project combining Land Art and Process Art, where artistic
processes result in the reaction of outdoor pieces made from materials
and experiences that have a direct relation to the environment. Sites
are chosen that contain a high significative voltage insofar as it's
characteristics and qualities, especially electromagnetic ones. These
being geographical, aesthetic, symbolic, historical, volcanic, social,
ecological, cultural, ceremonial, energetic, archeological, and
especially, visual. The work process in the creation of these pieces
begins with the actions of searching for, and the observation of, places
or sensitive points. Then, interconnecting these points to form lines
and these lines to form networks, thus creating a weave or web. These
pieces are created with the elements at each site, the actual site
serves as the inspiration for their designs, dimensions and solutions of
the pieces. The development and results of each piece are photographed
and videotaped, as well as it's exact position recorded with a GPS
(Global Positioning Satellite). Using a GPS, images and the precise
co-ordinates of each site are obtained, thus converting it's location
into an action on the graph of time and space, where each action becomes
a point. In this way with each point established on this global map, the
skeleton of the piece is built. The finished pieces remain completely
integrated into the landscape and left exposed to the changes wrought by
climate and environment.
The starting point of the concept of Geopuncture, is that the whole
planet Earth is one big living organism in which all parts are
interconnected to function as a whole. The same as with our own bodies,
the terrestrial body functions with, among other things, electromagnetic
energy, whose presence is perceivable in the magnetosphere, in the
gravitational pull, in the magnetic poles, in the electromagnetic energy
flows along meridian. The channels need to be running well for the
organism to function properly. The science of acupuncture acts precisely
on points or nerve centres located along these channels of
electromagnetic energy. In Geopuncture, these natural energy centres are
located precisely and are activated by the physical relationship formed
and through the pieces created, ourselves being the acupuncture needles
and the receiving body; the Earth. Connecting these points opens up
electromagnetic channels in the Earth.
Through this project we prove our conviction that the Earth is a living
organism and therefore to enjoy good health it needs to be energetically
balanced.
The observation of our social, cultural, geographic, planetary, and even
cosmic environment and the construction of a symbolic network capable of
reflecting, expressing, and relating us with the rest and with
everything else, is and has been an essential part of a historical
intent to understand the truth about reality and it's workings.
This necessity has repeated itself in many different eras and cultures,
resulting in diverse interpretations of a vision that encompasses the
Earth, the Cosmos, and us.
However this immense machinery that is in itself the Universe, and of
which we are only a very small part, is a complex auto-sufficient system
whose total comprehension will always be beyond our grasp. Nevertheless
a partial understanding of nature's manifestations has been the arduous
task taken on by all the world's civilisations.
Through the observation of the terrestrial and celestial phenomenons,
legacies such as the pyramids and calendars were created, that like
others, through their internal structures and external shapes symbolised
the entire cosmic organisation.
In their times these were beheld as elements manifested by the forces of
nature; such as the sun, rain, or the cardinal points.
Temples were architectural constructions and observations, fortresses or
centres of power, sacred places, or symbolic expressions of the gods,
but also were fractured fragments of the cosmos themselves. The modern
theory on this is that on any given scale, the understanding of a
fraction of something provides sufficient information to understand the
whole. It's like imagining a tree, or even the entire forest, starting
with only a branch.
COMING UP
January: 'Site Soundings' Jan 21st - Jan 31st
DELUXE-ARTS
Gallery and Creative Space
2-4 Hoxton Square
London N1 6NU
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