Intervenciones Urbanas Iberoamericanas
CCEBA, Centro Cultural de España en Buenos Aires
Sede Balcarce 1150, San Telmo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Abril 2010
“Intervenciones Urbanas Iberoamericanas se define como muestra de acción usualmente exterior, en un interior, tomando provecho de los muros aún en construcción, del edificio de la nueva sede CCEBA San Telmo.” www.cceba.org.ar
El proyecto SCRIPTconsiste en pintar murales ejecutando reglas predefinidas por el artista. Así el desarrollo de la obra se hace de forma descontrolada y el resultado final es inesperado. De esa forma, el propio artista puede ser sorprendido y se encuentra en la posición de espectador de su propia obra.
Fue invitado por la embajada española para participar en la muestra donde me dieron una sala vacía para desarrollar mi intervención. A partir de allí, pensé en hacer mi primer experimento SCRIPT o de “pintura descontrolada”. La idea era de pintar líneas que daban la vuelta a la habitación de forma automática. Antes de empezar a pintar, establecí unas normas que iban a dirigir el desarrollo de la pintura:
1- Cada línea empieza en la primera pared a la izquierda y acaba cuando vuelve al ese mismo sitio.
2- La altura donde empieza cada línea depende de la hora a la que se empieza a pintarla (gráfico 1).
3- La inclinación con la que empieza cada línea es definida según los minutos que indica el reloj a la hora de empezar a trazarla (gráfico 2).
4- Cada línea rebota contra el suelo y el techo con un angulo a 90 grados.
5- Al encontrarse con un cambio de plano, la línea sigue con la misma inclinación pero cambia de color.
6- La última cifra de la hora define el color que hay que usar (gráfico 3).
Una vez el script escrito y los gráficos y tablas correspondientes dibujados, solo faltó ejecutarlo.
El experimento duró cinco días y se logró pintar cinco líneas.
Video:
Fotos:
Checking dead patterns in the making of the rules for the script.
The empty room
12 colors
Mate y tarta de ricota!
Done!
I photocopied the graphics I used to execute the script and put them on the wall at the entrance of the room.
Graph 2
Graphs 3 and 1
The opening
Muchas gracias a Magda, Barbara y Martín por la preciada ayuda y a todo el equipo del CCEBA.
Fundació Joan Miró
Parc de Montjuïc, Barcelona, Spain
February 19th – June 6th 2010
Curated by Martina Millá
Mural painting in collaboration with Nuria Mora
“Murals” represents a meeting point and a creative space for mural painters of our time. The Foundation invited ten artists who come from as far as West Africa, Mexico and the United States as well as Europe to work on the walls of the temporary exhibition area.
Centro Cultural de España
Natalio Sanchez 181, Lima, Peru.
From the 5th to the 27th of November, 2009
Lima as a departure point, the only stimulus, direct contact with the city. Without preconceived ideas or previous studies we generated audio-visual projects and installations through real life street experiences, dialogue with it’s people and the appropriation and decontextualization of local resources. The exhibition consists of two well defined parts. First a photographic documentation of everything that caught our attention during the four weeks that we were in Peru. A visual stimuli that served as raw material to produce the pieces. Second, a synthesis of this experience materialized in the form of sculptural installations and a mural in the exhibition space of the prestigious Spanish Cultural Center in Lima.
A big thank you to: Jules Bay and her team; Alvaro García Vilches, David Flores-Hora and all the staff at CCE in Lima.
10th International Artistic Investigation Festival of Valencia Museu de les Drassanes
Valencia, Spain
June 4th – June 27th 2009
I’ve been invited to participate in the 10th issue of Observatori festival with my interactive installation Coriandoli (I did this installation for the first time at Cripta747 in Turin in 2009: www.eltono.com/en/exhibitions/coriandoli)
Tate Modern
London, U.K.
May 23rd – August 25th 2008
Curated by Cedar Lewisohn and Rafael Schacter
The Street Art Walking Tour:
An urban tour of site-specific art from a group of five Madrid-based street artists: 3TTMan, Spok, Nano 4814, Eltono and Nuria Mora.
For the Walking Tour, I painted four pieces in the streets around the Tate and did the Public/Private signboards installation in collaboration with Nuria Mora.
Especially for the event, I designed a 9 colours silkscreen print, edited by the Tate Modern, you can see it in the Boutique here: www.eltono.com/en/boutique/patchwork-print
Preparing the “Public/Private” signboard project with Nuria Mora.
“Dear Visitor,
This signboard is part of Eltono and Nuria’s artwork presented with the Tate Modern.
If you want to actively participate in the installation and keep the placard, please bring it to the Tate Modern during “The Long Weekend” on the 24th, 25th and 26th of May between 14.00 and 18.00.
It will be signed and numbered by the
artists and given back to you with its certificate at the end of the weekend.
We kindly ask you to leave the signboard in its place in case you are not interested in this project, allowing someone else the possibility to participate.
Thank you,
Eltono and Nuria”
The McAulay Studio B, in the basement of the Tate, headquarter of the Madrid crew
50 signboards were assembled.
Ready to invade the streets around the Tate Modern.
Mint Park
Our desk at the Tate, where we were waiting for the people to come back with the signboards to get them signed and numbered. A certificate of authenticity was delivered and the signboard was given back to its finder.
At the end of the third day, 47 signboards out of 50 came back to be signed.
