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LandEscape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
Ivan Juarez lives and works in Mexico
Marie Rioux lives and works in Canada
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Lamberto Leszek Piotrowski Acyatan Lesstro 96 |
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Ivan Juarez
Mexico
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Tali Navon
USA
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Deanna Lee
USA
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Chung Nguyen Van
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As a practicing architect and artist with specialization in landscape architecture , my main field of interest lies in the relationship between art and function and how this connection can be expressed on the built and natural environment ; I am interested on integrating the disciplines of public art , architecture , design , and landscape . The projects created in my studio explore new ways of relating space with society ; projects which I have conceived them in reason and function of its physical context and could not be generated in other place than in the one of their conception and realization . Since its conception , my artistic process is closely joined to the surroundings that lodged it , in which I develop a daily connection with the context in which I involve local people , applying local concepts , materials and techniques . For me every art work has always been a constant search , in each new project I want to be able to discover and experiment new possibilities . In this way each project has a special character that gives me diverse options as a window that opens and drives me to another . |
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My video works connect moments in time . The works connect the abstract and the concrete I test / check memories of the past in light of contemporary moments . ete : the abstract rules the domains where memories or dreams appear , relying upon sensations and feelings ; the concrete contains various objects , such as an old book or a Snow White doll . I relate to this environment – an environment for growing ( girls ) – along with the realistic , contemporary , day-today environment . The works create a sort of “ encompassing format ” or space in which I choose to present “ my world .” Observations happen from it – from inside out and from outside in . The 8 mm films that my father shot when I was a child ( in the 1970s ) are my raw material . The act of drawing ( I draw ) connected figures is a recurring motif in the works . The figures are from the world of childhood , but there is no doubt of their presence in the present . They rule the past , present , and future .
My work stems from patterns and traces of growth and decay in the natural world and the built environment . At an early age I saw electron micrographs and lab specimens , and I am still engaged by abstracted images of nature . I am invested in the hand-drawn line for its conveyance of individualism , imperfection , and frailty , and I see my use of line as a tenuous analogy to traditional Asian ink painting . As a whole , my workin the form of paintings , drawings , and site-specific installations — addresses the subjective experience of forms made by natural forces . In some works , I draw masses of lines that evoke various influences : organic forms like hair , muscles , and fungi ; natural systems such as waves and wind currents ; geological strata ; and topographical maps . In other works , I use hand-drawn lines to interpret records of physical effects of nature in my immediate surroundings — like a bent window plane , or the decaying walls in my former studio . My process includes making tracings and rubbings of surfaces like plywood and cracking plaster , and I think of these marks as the calligraphic and quotidian signatures of the effects of nature .
Mally Elbaz Almandine 146 lives and works in Tel Aviv , Israel
Deanna Lee lives and works in the USA
Stefanie Wolfson lives and works in New York City , USA
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Special thanks to Haylee Lenkey , Martin Gantman , Krzysztof Kaczmar , Joshua White , Nicolas Vionnet , Genevieve Favre Petroff , Sandra Hunter , MyLoan Dinh , John Moran , Marya Vyrra , Gemma Pepper , Michael Nelson , Hannah Hiaseen and Scarlett Bowman , Yelena York Tonoyan , Haylee Lenkey , Martin Gantman , Krzysztof Kaczmar and Robyn Ellenbogen .
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