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Exposition:
Space, Past and Present in Galera51, Mexico City
Versión
en español
Mexico
City, 1st May (© AVS/MAV & Fotos AVS/MAV: Enkidu): At the same
time as it is being shown in MACO, Ana Julia Aguado & Ronald Mallory
relocate the exhibition Space, Past and Present to Galera51 (Regina 51) in
the Historical Centre of Downtown Mexico City. Among digital art,
sculptures in mercury, video, holograms & automated mobiles, we found
this 26th of April these two artists who shared with us, in exclusive,
friend of Enkidu, some words. Here is the Enkidu Interview:
Ronald
told us that he comes from New York and he still has his studio in the Big
Apple. He is currently working in Mexico and “habla un poco español”.
When
I asked who are his influences behind his creation, he mentioned
“perhaps Paul Bouri (CHECK) and Art (Marc?) Takis (CHECK) from Paris –Connetic
artists ¿?–. I’ve lived in Paris but these works we are watching now
were done in 1966. I was a young man. The mercury sculpture was done in
1966 too and it is shown in the Museum of Modern art of New York.
“You
have to turn the mercury ball and when you do it the mercury makes a
cycle. It takes five hours to make the cycle and then it is never the
same, ever. You will never see the same image.
AVS:
How hard was it to work with Mercury?
Ronald
Mallory: For me, easy...[we both laugh as it seems an irony]... it took 20
years... It’s only 20 years to perfect it. And by accident I found
mercury and I thought it was magic and I made it into a work of art. I
injected the mercury with an hypodermic needle, like a doctor, and it is
in a fluid, a medical fluid –fluid medicala- that was experimental to
combat cancer, so with that fluid the work is protected forever and it
never changes. That took 10 years to find.
Then
of course, after lots of attempts –as one out of five works-, says
Ronald, it took him a week to do the work we are watching with mercury.
Now we spoke with Ana Julia Aguado, Mexican, whom told us some things
about her works.
AVS:
Tell me about your work.
Ana
Julia Aguado: I am working with automated mobiles. We are using steel,
crystal and a light based in phosphorus, that we are importing from Israel
and it is high tech, so it is not that common to find it in this country
(Mexico), as we want to use new materials and apply them in contemporary
art. These work is also connected to a software that coordinates the
movements and intensity of the light. I have been working in this project
for the last two years but we decided first to have the conceptualization,
then the sketches and it is this year that we are doing the work as we
needed to find the right atmosphere.
–Now
we go towards the painting–
“What
we worked on was the space, one of the works is named “Cosmic Particles
Bombarding Us”, and the other is called “Distance Between Galaxies”.
We have been working with a NASA engineer, with whom I have chat about the
expansion of the Universe, the intergalactic space and so on.
“In
fact, we have a painting that Ronald and myself did together. We are
working in more projects together, painting and holograms. We have a plan
to go to Czechoslovakia and do holograms.
“We
did this painting while working about the concept of mercury and the
figure. Its called “Space, Past and Present” and it is the work that
gives name to the exhibition. It is the first work that we did together,
Ronald and me, last year. When we were working on the proposal, we also
spoke with a NASA engineer, whom told us that the Theory of the Universe
could no give an explanation, not even from NASA, as how the Universe is
so perfect, as well as the Roman disc thrower, by Mairon. It is such a
perfect work of art, just as it is the expansion of the Universe; so
perfect that you cannot explain it. We can see the perfection of the
movement of the mercury, which is organic, combined with a Greek piece of
art and we did it in the space, getting together the past and the present
and it was our first project.
Agustin
Villalpando: How is it to work together with Ronald?
Ana
Julia Aguado: It is such a special chemistry that neither of us exist, it
is as if we would transport into the studio, to a different space
where whether he nor I exist. There is his art and there is my art,
there is his intellect and there is mine, but when we are in the studio,
painting, the self disappears... we become one.
Ana
Julia Aguado & Ronald Mallory, a couple of creators that, with
different backgrounds, achieve a perfect match based in their experience
and so develop a fresh, youth and, at the same time, eternal art work. In
this exhibition the public could appreciate the modern, the contemporary,
but above all, we had the unique opportunity of getting a little bit
closer, even for a moment to get in touch, with the timeless of this, our three-dimensional
Universe.
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