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alexia medici

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Inspiration: ceramics

Inspiration: ceramics

I've just started a ceramics course and am loving it!! These are some cool ceramic artworks I found on internet to keep me inspired! Enjoy :)

alexia medici
27 October , 201316 November , 2015

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Inspiration: Henrique Oliveira’s recycled wood installations

Inspiration: Henrique Oliveira’s recycled wood installations

Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira’s powerful recycled wood installations snake through their exhibition spaces like massive living trees that burst out of walls and ceilings. Oliveira scours the streets of Sao Paulo to gather weathered plywood, which he then separates into layers and combines to create his massive “tridimensionals” sculptures. The stunning mixed media pieces … Continue reading Inspiration: Henrique Oliveira’s recycled wood installations →

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alexia medici
5 January , 20123 February , 2014

amorphous forms
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Brazilian
Henrique Oliveira
large-scale installations
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recycled wood installation
Sao Paulo
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weathered plywood

Inspiration: Jorge Rodriguez Gerada

Inspiration: Jorge Rodriguez Gerada

One of my favourites.. Jorge Rodriguez Gerada portraits people living in the neighbourhood in a huge scale. The portraits are done on beautiful old walls and drawn in charcoal. The charcoal eventually fades away, thus adding to the ephemeral issue of life in the 'hood. Artist's statement: "In 2002 I moved to Barcelona where I … Continue reading Inspiration: Jorge Rodriguez Gerada →

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alexia medici
4 January , 20123 February , 2014

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barcelona
Culture Jamming
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Identity Series
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Jorge Rodriguez Gerada
living in the neighbourhood
old walls
public space art

Inspiration: Arman

I love Arman.. below you'll find a collection of my favourites: Accumulation, Violin in Resin and other installations

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alexia medici
27 January , 201119 January , 2013

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Inspiration: Niki de Saint Phalle

Niki de Saint Phalle at the Centre Pompidou, Paris and Oldenburg

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alexia medici
12 January , 20113 February , 2014

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Niki de Saint Phalle

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Artwork 8/8: Lucy Costelloe “Palimpsesto” Photography, resin and clay sculptures The artistic journey through the Colònia Castells ends in an industrial container. In this improvised space Lucy Costelloe presents “Palimpsesto”. Lucy’s artwork started from an investigation researching an underground refuge of the Civil War of Colònia Castells. The existence of this refuge was only known because some neighbours referred to it. It had been forgotten in the history of the city and is not on the list of shelters in the area. This idea of a hidden space, almost forgotten, led the artist to explore other forgotten and disappeared places around Les Corts and to document them through a series of photographs and representations of the objects that now occupy them. The spaces she documents range from the ancient Roman villas to the disappeared streams of Magoria and Riera Blanca, concluding with the monuments of the Civil War, such as the sculpture of José Antonio Primo de Rivera and the women’s prison of Les Corts. Lucy’s investigation reveals how we are surrounded by the ghosts of the past, and that, even having been destroyed the physical spaces, these remain due to the lasting nature of the memory. The works exhibited here represent the remaining palimpsests: the banal objects that have been superimposed on others with the passage of time, presented through photographs and sculptures of resin and clay, representing the layers of the new, synthetic, seemingly disposable, about the ancient, immutable objects of “History”. ・・・ Photo credits: @lcostelloe @_99kid_ for #lultimpassatge2019 - a tribute to the community of Passatge de Piera & Colònia Castells. ・・・ #lucycostelloe #palimpsesto #palimpsest #forgottenmemories #lostneighbourhood #documentationart #memory #art #artcanchangetheworld #memoriahistorica #historicmemory #whatsleftbehind #historicalhouses #timespast #artandhistory #tobedemolished #memoriahistorica #coloniacastells #conceptualart #artinstallation #transition #historyoflescorts #exposiciondearte #historiadebarcelona #historyofbarcelona #artexhibition #interpretingatransition #alexiamedicicurates #artisttakeoverexpo

Guest Artwork 7/8: Colectivo Metromuster [NO-RES] vida y muerte de un espacio en tres actos (2011) Vídeo 90’(Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License) Winner of the 1st Prize of the national feature film section of Documenta Madrid 2012 [NO-RES] is the chronicle of the last days of life of Colònia Castells, one of the few factory colonies left in Barcelona. With the demolition of its low houses and its narrow streets, a very peculiar relational microworld will be buried, as well as a very human way of understanding the urban space, on the part of its beloved inhabitants. In an observational way, the film narrates three moments of this space that coincide with the end of a daily routine that has remained unchanged for a whole century. These moments are: 1. Life in the colony; 2. The dissection of the colony (taxidermy); and 3. The destruction of the colony It is a paradigmatic process of urban change that many cities of the West are experiencing. This audiovisual work shows us in a very graphic way the passage from the horizontal city to the vertical city. Inevitably, [NO-RES] also narrates the exodus of its protagonists who were evicted at the end of 2010 and were forced to adapt to an environment almost opposite to that which they have always known. The narrative culminates with the demolition of the houses in which many of the neighbors of the Colònia were born. [NO-RES] means NOTHING in Catalan. ・・・ Photo credits: @_99kid_ and screenshots from [NO-RES] an invited project used in #lultimpassatge2019 - a tribute to the community of Passatge de Piera & Colònia Castells. ・・・ #no-res #metromuster #evictedhomes #lostneighbourhood #documentarymovie #memory #lescorts #barcelona #history #art #artcanchangetheworld #memoriahistorica #historicmemory #whatsleftbehind #historicalhouses #timespast #aquietstyle #historylover #artandhistory #housesfromanothertime #tobedemolished #memoriahistorica #coloniacastells #lescorts #passatgedepiera #artisttakeoverexpo curated by @alexia.medici_curates during her #artistresidencyinmotherhood.

Artwork 6/8: Netai Halup “Transmuted” Installation In his artistic intervention Netai Halup @netaihalup uses and recreates objects found in some of the walled houses of the Piera Passage. Its structures are tense, fragile and work with balance, sensations that are relevant to this last stage in the life of the passage of Piera and what remains of the Colònia Castells. In his first intervention, the artist interacts with the inner courtyard of the walled house of the passage of Piera number 1. The visitors can only see the installation by peeling through holes in the wall. A performative act highlighting that we are peeping into the lives and current situation of these neighbours from the outside, from our comfort zone. In his second intervention the artist works with the concept of temporal and spatial connection. In this case, his installation connects the recently vacated houses of Mari and Encarna with the void left behind after the house that was just behind was demolished. Halup uses cement, the same material used to wall the houses, to extend the life of found objects, encapsulating and preserving what has been discarded and left in the intense moments during the transition from a known life to a new one. By creating a performative situation, viewers actively participate in the dialogue with physical and mental waste in a facility that pays tribute to a space that now shows only the traces of what it was. ・・・ Photo credits: @_99kid_ and @tonicolltort for #lultimpassatge2019 - a tribute to the community of Passatge de Piera & Colònia Castells. ・・・ #netaihalup #artinstallation #peepingin #balanceinstalation #evictedhome #contemporaryart #conceptualart #memory #lescorts #barcelona #history #art #artcanchangetheworld #memoriahistorica #historicmemory #whatsleftbehind #historicalhouses #timespast #aquietstyle #historylover #artandhistory #housesfromanothertime #tobedemolished #memoriahistorica #coloniacastells #lescorts #passatgedepiera #artisttakeoverexpo curated by @alexia.medici_curates during her #artistresidencyinmotherhood.

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