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Tampiquito

Tampiquito, Monterrey, México
Abril – Mayo 2009

Proyecto comisariado por Nrmal y El Narval

Proyecto de residencia:
Del 1 de abril al 26 de mayo 2009
Exposición en La galería en el Taller Mecánico:
Del 21 de mayo al 7 de julio, Calle Plutarco Elias Calles #419, Colonia Tampiquito,
San Pedro, NL

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I’ve been invited by Nrmal and El Narval to be the first artist to participate in Residencia Tampiquito, an artistic residency in a popular neighbourhood in San Pedro (Monterrey, Nuevo León, México). I lived and painted for two months in Tampiquito and at the end we opened an exhibition in a gallery to show the result of the residency.

I painted around 50 pieces on people’s houses, had a 10 years old best friend and assistant (because of the flu, the schools were closed so Javi my neighbors’ son was helping me to paint almost everyday!), had an incredible crew working with me sorting out photos, videos, press and BBQ’s and felt very sad when I had to go back home!

If by chance you are in Monterrey, download the map of the paintings here, print it and have a walk in the awesome Tampiquito neighbourhood!

One day while I was painting, an amazing cumbia was played from a huge pick-up parked next to me. I met the owner of the car, Raúl el Tamborín, and after offering me a couple of beers, he gave me the tape as a gift! Nrmal made a mixtape out of it so everybody can enjoy it: https://nrmal.net/blog/nrmal/residencia-tampiquito-mixtape!

The project had an incredible press coverage, you can check it here:
https://nrmal.net/arte/prensa-generada-por-residencia-tampiquito

Thanks to: Lucas (Nrmal) and Luis (El Narval), Lalo, Samuel Catherine, Screw, Huizar, Maf, Malo, Angel, Lara, Telma, Paco, the Briones Morales family, Ofimodul, all my friends that helped and all Tampiquito residents!

Direct links to the picture galleries:

1 – Paintings pictures
2 – Exhibition pictures
3 – Opening pictures
4 – Extra pictures

Pictures of the street paintings:

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Pictures of the exhibition at La Galería en el Taller Mecánico:

For the inside part of the residency, I worked on an installation, some prints and 4 wood replicas of paintings originally done in the street. With the great help of Screw, Huizar and Paco we built up the installation inspired in Tampiquito “do it yourself” architecture with typical elements we found around the neighborhood.
The replicas were made of wood and are life-size reproductions of paintings number 5, 28, 36 and 46.

More pictures on the Nrmal website:
Expo Residencia Tampiquito : Eltono

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Pictures of the opening at La Galería en el Taller Mecánico:

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Extra pictures:

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Y así nació la CUADRIMETRÍA!

Pictures are from Eduardo Hernandez (Nrmal.net), Samuel Catherine, Lucas, Luis, Telma and Eltono.

Coriandoli

Cripta 747
Galleria Umberto I, int. 29 Porta Palazzo, Turin, Italia
2 de febrero – 15 de marzo 2009

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The Cripta747 space is quite big, I was really impressed when I arrived there. I had some ideas for the show but they didn’t fit in that huge place (one room on the ground floor and five in the basement). I had the idea tu use confetti (“coriandoli” in Italian) when I saw a pack in the window of a paper shop in Porta Palazzo promoted with other material for the carnival. I decided to make different experiments putting together graffiti and confetti, illegal aggression and harmless party pieces of paper. For the opening I made two interactive pieces inside the gallery. To organize the space and present the works in a proper way, I made a path with plastic fruit boxes, the gallery is situated on the square where the Porta Palazzo market happens every day and it is the biggest outdoor market in Europe. Tons of material to re-use.

No use to say that during two weeks, the guys from Cripta747 and me had a lot of fun working on this project.

http://cripta747.blogspot.com

I made six experiments:

(As there is a lot of documentation, it’s better to click on the list below to see video and pictures of each one, then “back to top” to come back here)

1 – Biadesivo Installation
2 – Confetti Graffiti
3 – Train Tunel Mission
4 – Vitrina Action
5 – Kit Wall
6 – The BONUS Video!

And extra pictures…

Biadesivo installation:

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Confetti graffiti:

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Pictures:

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Train tunel mission:

This experiment was based on the idea to do something quite innocent (playing with confetti and wind) in a very hostile environment. It was nothing easy and we had to come back five times into the tunnel to achieve the plan. We could have done it more easily anywhere else but the idea was to do it a mission, to do it illegally and observe how all those factors which made it more difficult influenced the result of the experiment.

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Kit wall:

On the wall at the entrance of the basement, I nailed 50 Kit-Coriandoli to be sure that everyone had his own bag of confetti!
In the kit we of course put confetti and a little card with a simple “Eltono” design made with double face tape and with instructions on its back.

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Vitrina action:

The ground floor of the gallery looks just like a pretty normal gallery with a big window-shop. That’s why I decided to present a “normal looking” work on that room so it could look like the exhibition is just there and nothing else, it was quite funny when people discovered that there were five more rooms downstairs with not so “normal looking” things happening down there!
The pieces shown in the room were made at the same time we did the sign on the window-shop, using the confettis that were falling and glue. I was totally stocked by this random result!

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Pictures:

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Bonus video:

This video was hidden in the gallery somewhere at the end of the fruit boxes path.

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Extra pictures:

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I actually found one confetti in my bed in Madrid yesterday morning, two weeks after the opening!!! I can imagine that the same thing is happening to all the people who came to the opening, fantastic!

Pictures are from: Renato, Eugenio Grosso, Alex Tripo, Elisa, Walter and Eltono.

Grazie mille: Renato, Walter, Elisa, Tripoli, Toni, Giulia, Fran, CT, Kurz, Dem, Laure, Pier, B&B…

Pubblico

Rojo Art Space
Via Tortona, Milán, Italia
15 de enero – 28 de febrero 2009

En el proyecto Pubblico, el espectador es el protagonista de la obra. El resultado final depende del público. El experimento juega con la interactividad que existe en la calle y pretende estudiar cómo factores exteriores, fuera del control del artista, pueden afectar las obras instaladas en la calle. De esa manera, el artista reflexiona sobre el aspecto sagrado del arte dejando sus creaciones evolucionar solas y generar un resultado inseguro.

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Fotos:

Gracias a Lorenzo, Lucia y Lucía

PLAF

PLAF – Autonomous Mechanisms
Nueva York, EE.UU.
Agosto – Septiembre 2008

Proyecto en colaboración con MOMO
www.eltono.com/plaf

Durante el verano de 2008, en colaboración con el artista estadounidense MOMO, estuvimos instalando esculturas kinéticas, de forma independiente y sin ningún tipo de permiso, en las aguas alrededor de la ciudad de Nueva York.

Utilizamos la onomatopeya Plaf para llamar ese proyecto donde construimos y colocamos esculturas en diferentes localizaciones en las aguas de Nueva York. Construidas con material de recuperación, la obras fueron dejadas en manos de los elementos como para medir su fuerza y su potencia. Fuerza que, en la mayoría de la ciudades, nunca se aprovecha. Utilizamos el agua de los ríos, el viento, las olas, la marea y las corrientes para animar los mecanismos de las esculturas. Una vez instaladas, las dejamos a su suerte y observamos como se iban cambiando y deteriorando, sin dar más explicaciones.

Montamos una exposición (en interior) para documentar los avances del proyecto en tiempo real en la galería Anonymous Gallery.

Puedes ver la documentación completa en el blog del proyecto: www.eltono.com/plaf

Lista de las instalaciones que construimos durante el proyecto:

Hallet’s Cove

Momo Eltono - PLAF Hallets Cove - NY

www.eltono.com/plaf/hallets-cove

Thrash Islands

Momo Eltono - PLAF Trash Island - NY

www.eltono.com/plaf/thrash-islands

Broadway Beach

www.eltono.com/plaf/broadway-beach

East River Park

Momo Eltono - PLAF East River Park - NY

www.eltono.com/plaf/east-river-state-park

Gantry Plaza

Momo Eltono - PLAF Gantry Plaza - NY

www.eltono.com/plaf/gantry-plaza-state-park

Plaf Maker

Momo Eltono - PLAF Maker - NY

www.eltono.com/plaf/plaf-maker

The Plaf Exhibition

Momo Eltono - PLAF Exhibition - NY

www.eltono.com/plaf/the-plaf-exhibition

Mapa del proyecto con localización de las esculturas: maps.google.com/maps/plaf

Bermellón

ROJO-Artspace
Barcelona, España
7 de julio – 8 de agosto 2008

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To expose street art in a gallery is always delicate. Without the surrounding elements, the work usually loses its sense. In order to solve this problem, Eltono always tries to create a relation between the street and the gallery. For the exhibition Bermellón, the artist presents/displays collages of wood found in the streets of Barcelona which will use as the support to paint his Invertidos inspired by art originally made in the streets. The Invertidos paintings are inverted interpretations of original works that are in the public space, thus, the artist, works with the emptiness makes the reference to the original ones, without reproducing or falsifying them and simultaneously questioning the limits of outdoor and indoor exhibitions.

Very special thanks to Sixe, to let me work in his studio!

Astillas

La Culpable
Sucre 101, Barranco, Lima, Perú
Junio 2008

Proyecto realizado con la ayuda de la Ambassade de france au Pérou y comisariado por Jules Bay.

Astillas se pretende como una experiencia creativa compartida entre Eltono y el espectador. La instalación irá adquiriendo las formas que el público desee darle al mover las piezas de lugar y establecer todas las combinaciones posibles e imaginables, la instalación irá adquiriendo también la forma de los deseos de todos los participantes. Y a través de ese sencillo modelo de armado y desarmado permanente, la obra dejará de pertenecer a una sola persona, se hará literalmente astillas y será parte de todos. Empiece a mover las piezas y déle rienda suelta a su voluntad.

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Nomadaz

A Mediterranean Art Connection

SCION Installation L.A.
3521 Helms Ave. Culver City, CA, E.E.U.U.
8 de marzo – 29 de marzo 2008
Comisariado por Pablo Aravena

Artistas participantes:
108 (Italia), Bo130 (Italia), Dem (Italia), Eltono (España), Microbo (Italia), Nano 4814 (España), Nuria Mora (España), y Sixe (España).

Planet Prozess

Disculpa, pero esta entrada sólo está disponible en English.

Public/Private – Signboards installation
Senatsreservenspeicher, Berlin, Germany
July 20th – August 19th 2007

Project in collaboration with Nuria Mora

About the Exhibition:

In the beginning, the city was without form and void. Then the streets became a gallery, the gaps filled up with art and life: Over 21 days we will create an exhibition about Street Art which will develop along with the city itself. Planet Prozess invites everybody to take part in this dynamic exhibition and to celebrate the finale.

About our artwork:

The project consists in place out around 50 painted signs on public places around the exhibition space. The audience is invited to take a walk, find and bring the artworks back to the gallery. With this work we are reflecting on the limit between public and private space. Each placard that came back to the gallery was signed and numbered by the artists and at the end of the show it was given back to its finder.

This practice questions ownership and authenticity and uses a kind of artistic guerrilla warfare which seeps through cracks where value and ownership crumbles in the busy and gentrified city centers around the world. It also raises questions to the significance and value of artwork depending on the context that it is presented in (gallery – virtual space – public space).

The signs were made one by one in the work and exhibition space and everyday new signs were planted in the streets around the space. The signs were manufactured everyday during the show and all the action was documented. The space faced the same artworks in two different phases: Before and after its installation in public space. This meeting will highlight the thin line between public and private and will try to indicate where is the limit that defines if an artwork is public or private. The public created the indoor exhibition; its evolution depended on the public response.

Text on the signs:

Hello!
This placard is from Nuria and Eltono and part of their artwork at “Planet Prozess”.
If you want to participate actively in the exhibition and afterwards keep this placard please bring it to the Senatsreservenspeicher in Kreuzberg as soon as possible. Your placard will be signed and numbered by the artists and it will be given back to you at the end of the show.

Planet Prozess, Senatsreservenspeicher, Cuvrystrasse 3-4, Berlin, KreuzbergJuly, 20th till August, 19th 2007 – 14h to 22h

If you’re not interested in participating, we kindly ask you to leave the placard in its place giving someone else the opportunity to take part.

Eltono and Nuria

– This text was silk screen printed on the back of each sign in German and English.

www.urbangrassroots.net
www.urbangrassroots.net/downloads/pressemappeEngl.pdf

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