Monument with lightness.
Sem Titutolo by Ivens Machado is a monument on legs. Which gives the monument the appropriate lightness. This is good.
A monument shows the heaviness of the occasion. It reminds us of the sad, the lonely, the painfull feeling. A good memorial allows us to have this experience ourselves again. Due to the revive of the moment we know what it could mean for the present time.
And then we feel lightness. By learning from the past we become wiser, more engaged, peaceful, loving, caring. In other words: lighter. With lightness we carry the experience with us.
So lightness is needed. We also need the past. Sem Titulo may be followed more frequently for monuments.
By Theo, www.artatsite.com
Vertaling
Monument met lichtheid.
Sem Titutolo van Ivens Machado is een monument op pootjes. Waardoor het monument de nodige lichtheid krijgt. Dit is goed.
Een monument laat de zwaarte zien van een gebeurtenis. Het herinnert ons aan het verdrietige, het eenzame, het pijnlijke gevoel. Een goed monument laat ons dat gevoel zelf weer voelen. Door het herleven van het moment weten wij ook wat het kan betekenen voor het huidige moment.
En dan voelen wij lichtheid. Door te leren van het verleden worden wij wijzer, meer betrokken, vredelievender, liefdevoller, zorgzamer. Ofwel: lichter. Met lichtheid dragen wij de ervaring met ons mee.
Dus lichtheid is nodig. Ook het verleden is nodig. Sem Titulo mag daarom vaker worden opgevolgd bij monumenten.
Door Theo, www.artatsite.com
www.esculturasemsaopaulo.blogspot.com:
Ivens Machado 'Sem Tàtulo' - escultura em concreto armado 2000 - Pinacoteca do Estado - Parque da Luz.
www.acervoivensmachado.com.br:
Construir o visàvel, ato nem sempre gratificante, exige um jogo de encobrimento e aparência elaborado em instâncias quase sempre inacessàveis. O corpo da obra em si nào contém arte, mas uma gestualidade que muitas vezes a afasta.
Translation:
Building the visible, an act that is not always rewarding, requires a game of concealment and appearance elaborated in instances that are almost always inaccessible. The body of the work itself does not contain art, but a gesture that often drives it away.
www.acervoivensmachado.com.br:
A imagem de si mesmo é irrealizável, exige uma observaçào distanciada do outro em paralelo, uma frustraçào anunciada que nos forma e excita, vestindo fantasias que parecem identidades. Sào contrariedades. Abordagens técnicas ou cientàficas deixam a nu um corpo misteel; a indumentária tem significações irreconhecàveis. Um cheiro. A biologia como a geometria vestem fantasias, transfigurando o desejo, tentam suplantar incompletudes sempre deixando de fora uma ponta do cabide. O corpo sem dono está solto. Disfunções.
A sexualidade é da ordem do mental e pouquàssimo sensual, a pulsào que subjaz aos comportamentos e formalismos desta reafirma uma verdade arcaica. Está radicalmente infiltrada aonde nào é manifesta e independe de representaçào. É.
Translation:
The image of oneself is unrealizable, it demands an observation distanced from the other in parallel, an announced frustration that shapes and excites us, wearing fantasies that look like identities. They are setbacks. Technical or scientific approaches reveal a mysterious, implausible body; the dress has unrecognizable meanings. A smell. Biology and geometry dress up fantasies, transfiguring desire, trying to overcome incompleteness by always leaving one end of the hanger out. The unowned bodynctions.
Sexuality is of the order of the mental and very little sensual, the drive that underlies this behavior and formalisms reaffirms an archaic truth. It is radically infiltrated where it is not manifest and does not depend on representation. It's.
www.arteforadomuseu.com.br:
Unnamed Road - Bom Retiro, Sào Paulo - SP, Brasil.
Escultura feita pelo artista Caciporé Torres em aço pintado localizada no Jardim da Luz.
O Parque da Luz, também conhecido como Jardim da Luz, conta com área de aproximadamente 113 mil m² . Foi criado como horto botânico por uma Ordem Régia da Coroa Portuguesa em 19 de novembro de 1798 foi aberto ao público em 1825 como Jardim Botânico já no peràodo do Brasil Imperial tornando-se o primeiro espaço de lazer da populaçào paulistana.
Em 1981, o parque foi tombado como patrimà´nio histórico e atualmente abriga cerca de 32 esculturas que integram o acervo da Pinacoteca do Estado. Entre os artistas apresentados estào Victor Brecheret, Leon Ferastro, José Resende, Marcelo Nietsche e muitos outros.
www.mercerunion.org:
Over the past month Brazilian artist Ivens Machado has fabricated new sculptural works using concrete and steel rods for the Artist Studio Projects. In keeping with artistic concerns that have developed since the early 1970's, Machado incorporates rich pigmentation and organic forms.
Ivens Machado: 'I do not aspire to the position of '˜reproducer'. A paternal relationship between art history and my work does not pre-occupy me, although I recognize its existence. Rather, it is in the realm of indistinct nocturnal pleasures that I live the process of artistic creation.'
Ivens Machado has exhibited internationally and within his native Brazil since 1966, creating installations, book works, video and sculpture. He resides for an extended period each year in Italy, exhibiting in Milan, Venice and Turin where he shows with Galeria Tucci Russo. Ivens Machado's work has received international critical acclaim in Bpublications as well as Artforum, Art in America and Flash Art.
Sem Titutolo by Ivens Machado is a monument on legs. Which gives the monument the appropriate lightness. This is good.
A monument shows the heaviness of the occasion. It reminds us of the sad, the lonely, the painfull feeling. A good memorial allows us to have this experience ourselves again. Due to the revive of the moment we know what it could mean for the present time.
And then we feel lightness. By learning from the past we become wiser, more engaged, peaceful, loving, caring. In other words: lighter. With lightness we carry the experience with us.
So lightness is needed. We also need the past. Sem Titulo may be followed more frequently for monuments.
By Theo, www.artatsite.com
Vertaling
Monument met lichtheid.
Sem Titutolo van Ivens Machado is een monument op pootjes. Waardoor het monument de nodige lichtheid krijgt. Dit is goed.
Een monument laat de zwaarte zien van een gebeurtenis. Het herinnert ons aan het verdrietige, het eenzame, het pijnlijke gevoel. Een goed monument laat ons dat gevoel zelf weer voelen. Door het herleven van het moment weten wij ook wat het kan betekenen voor het huidige moment.
En dan voelen wij lichtheid. Door te leren van het verleden worden wij wijzer, meer betrokken, vredelievender, liefdevoller, zorgzamer. Ofwel: lichter. Met lichtheid dragen wij de ervaring met ons mee.
Dus lichtheid is nodig. Ook het verleden is nodig. Sem Titulo mag daarom vaker worden opgevolgd bij monumenten.
Door Theo, www.artatsite.com
www.esculturasemsaopaulo.blogspot.com:
Ivens Machado 'Sem Tàtulo' - escultura em concreto armado 2000 - Pinacoteca do Estado - Parque da Luz.
www.acervoivensmachado.com.br:
Construir o visàvel, ato nem sempre gratificante, exige um jogo de encobrimento e aparência elaborado em instâncias quase sempre inacessàveis. O corpo da obra em si nào contém arte, mas uma gestualidade que muitas vezes a afasta.
Translation:
Building the visible, an act that is not always rewarding, requires a game of concealment and appearance elaborated in instances that are almost always inaccessible. The body of the work itself does not contain art, but a gesture that often drives it away.
www.acervoivensmachado.com.br:
A imagem de si mesmo é irrealizável, exige uma observaçào distanciada do outro em paralelo, uma frustraçào anunciada que nos forma e excita, vestindo fantasias que parecem identidades. Sào contrariedades. Abordagens técnicas ou cientàficas deixam a nu um corpo misteel; a indumentária tem significações irreconhecàveis. Um cheiro. A biologia como a geometria vestem fantasias, transfigurando o desejo, tentam suplantar incompletudes sempre deixando de fora uma ponta do cabide. O corpo sem dono está solto. Disfunções.
A sexualidade é da ordem do mental e pouquàssimo sensual, a pulsào que subjaz aos comportamentos e formalismos desta reafirma uma verdade arcaica. Está radicalmente infiltrada aonde nào é manifesta e independe de representaçào. É.
Translation:
The image of oneself is unrealizable, it demands an observation distanced from the other in parallel, an announced frustration that shapes and excites us, wearing fantasies that look like identities. They are setbacks. Technical or scientific approaches reveal a mysterious, implausible body; the dress has unrecognizable meanings. A smell. Biology and geometry dress up fantasies, transfiguring desire, trying to overcome incompleteness by always leaving one end of the hanger out. The unowned bodynctions.
Sexuality is of the order of the mental and very little sensual, the drive that underlies this behavior and formalisms reaffirms an archaic truth. It is radically infiltrated where it is not manifest and does not depend on representation. It's.
www.arteforadomuseu.com.br:
Unnamed Road - Bom Retiro, Sào Paulo - SP, Brasil.
Escultura feita pelo artista Caciporé Torres em aço pintado localizada no Jardim da Luz.
O Parque da Luz, também conhecido como Jardim da Luz, conta com área de aproximadamente 113 mil m² . Foi criado como horto botânico por uma Ordem Régia da Coroa Portuguesa em 19 de novembro de 1798 foi aberto ao público em 1825 como Jardim Botânico já no peràodo do Brasil Imperial tornando-se o primeiro espaço de lazer da populaçào paulistana.
Em 1981, o parque foi tombado como patrimà´nio histórico e atualmente abriga cerca de 32 esculturas que integram o acervo da Pinacoteca do Estado. Entre os artistas apresentados estào Victor Brecheret, Leon Ferastro, José Resende, Marcelo Nietsche e muitos outros.
www.mercerunion.org:
Over the past month Brazilian artist Ivens Machado has fabricated new sculptural works using concrete and steel rods for the Artist Studio Projects. In keeping with artistic concerns that have developed since the early 1970's, Machado incorporates rich pigmentation and organic forms.
Ivens Machado: 'I do not aspire to the position of '˜reproducer'. A paternal relationship between art history and my work does not pre-occupy me, although I recognize its existence. Rather, it is in the realm of indistinct nocturnal pleasures that I live the process of artistic creation.'
Ivens Machado has exhibited internationally and within his native Brazil since 1966, creating installations, book works, video and sculpture. He resides for an extended period each year in Italy, exhibiting in Milan, Venice and Turin where he shows with Galeria Tucci Russo. Ivens Machado's work has received international critical acclaim in Bpublications as well as Artforum, Art in America and Flash Art.