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Deambular<\/em> (Wandering)<\/strong>
\nArtium, Basque Museum of Contemporary Art<\/strong>
\nVitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
\nJuly 6th – September 2nd 2012<\/p>\n

Praxis<\/em> Project:<\/strong> Curated by Blanca de la Torre – Production coordination by Yolanda de Egoscozabal<\/p>\n

Deambular<\/em><\/strong> – Actions in the public space of Vitoria-Gasteiz and in the exhibition space
\nControl center and exhibition space: Praxis, North Gallery, ARTIUM
\nCurators: Sergio Garc\u00eda<\/a> and Javier Abarca<\/a><\/p>\n

\"eltono-deambular-artium\"<\/p>\n

For <\/em>Deambular<\/strong> (Wandering), Eltono has devised a series of formulas to produce work based on the everyday action of walking through the city, the ebbs and flows of the street and pedestrian interaction, formulas that will run for seven days prior to the exhibition\u2019s inauguration and for seven days after. The artist uses these games to outline direct connections between the exhibition space and the public space, links that invite the viewer to stroll through the city and thus form part of the creative process. The Praxis exhibition hall will serve as a workshop and control centre, and at the same time as a space to display the documentation arising from the various experiments.<\/em> (Abstract taken from the Museum website)<\/p>\n

Deambular<\/em><\/strong> was my first solo show in a museum. As usual now when I have to show public space art in a private space, I created artworks in the street that were related with other pieces presented in the museum. Over the years, I have realized that in every project I do, I end-up walking a lot throughout the city; consequently, for the Artium project I decided to use this action of walking to generate my artworks. To do this, I developed two types of actions outside the museum:<\/p>\n

1 \u2013 The Thumbtacks installation (Chinchetas<\/em>):<\/strong> I installed compositions made with colored paper strips held together with thumbtacks on wooden surfaces. As the day passed, the pedestrians started tearing the papers and removing the thumbtacks. I registered every change until the pieces completely disappeared.
\n2 \u2013 Illegal street paintings:<\/strong> during five nights, I went out to paint in the street of Victoria.<\/p>\n

These night actions generated a lot of movements: from observation, localization and exploration to action and documentation; including all the movements of everyday life such as going from the museum to the hotel, eating, buying material, doing an interview, having a drink… At the beginning of the project, I chose a color code (red: Monday; blue: Tuesday; yellow: Wednesday; green: Thursday; orange: Friday; violet: Saturday and white: Sunday) and I started to register all of my movements on a map; at the same time, while I was walking in the city, I stuck small round stickers<\/strong> in each corner I passed using this color code. This way, I recorded my paths on a paper and also marked them in the city so people could transit through or follow them.<\/p>\n

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\nBetween the street and the museum, I produced 6 types of works:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1 \u2013 Thumbtacks<\/a>, installations with paper strips and thumbstacks \u2013 in the street (10)
\n2 \u2013 Paintings in the street<\/a> (6)
\n3 \u2013 Colored circular stickers<\/a> marking the daily path \u2013 in the street (approx. 150 per day, total approx.: 1650)
\n4 \u2013 Paths Mural Painting<\/a> (in the museum)
\n5 \u2013 Drawing generated by the Thumbtacks installations<\/a> (in the museum) (25; 5 sets of 4 and 1 set of 5)
\n6 \u2013 Photographic enlargements<\/a> of the street paintings (in the museum) (2)<\/p>\n

Finally, as a testimony of the 12 days of work I spent in the museum room, we decided to leave my workspace in the same state as it was the last day.<\/p>\n

Pictures below…<\/p>\n

Two fanzines were edited by the museum:<\/strong> 1st Fanzine (English)<\/a> and Final Fanzine (Euskadi, English, Castellano)<\/a>
\n(Text and design by Javier Abarca, photos by Irene Moratinos)<\/p>\n

An extended version of the final fanzine has been edited by Javier Abarca for Urbanario:<\/strong> Urbanario Fanzine (English)<\/a>
\n(Text and design by Javier Abarca, photos by Irene Moratinos)<\/p>\n

Links:<\/strong>
\nArtium Museum press release: np120706-exhib-praxis-eltono<\/a>
\nARTIUM presents Strolling, an urban art project by Eltono for the Praxis programme<\/a>
\nwww.artium.org\/English\/Exhibitions\/Exhibition\/tabid\/336<\/a><\/p>\n

The artworks generated by the Chinchetas<\/em> installation are available for purchase through SC Gallery<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Chinchetas<\/em> (Thumbtacks) Installation:<\/h2>\n

I installed simple compositions made of colored paper held by thumbtacks on wood surface around the city. The installations were slowly altered by the pedestrians. After observing their evolution, I generated 1\/1 scale drawings that documented the different steps that we were able to register. It resulted in a series of six each containing four or five drawings depending on how many changes were recorded. The first drawing of each series is showing the composition in its first step, just like I installed it in the street. The last drawing shows the last step, an empty paper, symbolizing the total disappearance of the piece. On each drawing is written the place, date and hour of the registered changes.<\/p>\n