Arte y pulpos -Tim Hawkinson-


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Se inagura hoy la exposición del artista norteamericano Tim Hawkinson en el Museo J.Paul Getty de Los Angeles, consta de dos instalaciones, una que lleva el nombre de “Überorgan” en la cual hay una especie de gigante túnel orgánico que tiene unos apéndices que se iluminan en coordinación con sonidos musicales.

La otra instalación es la que me interesa especialmente, y lleva el nombre de “Zoopsia” y consta de cuatro obras, un murciélago hecho con material reutilizado, una columna vertebral de un extraño animal, que imita los huesos colocados en los museos naturales de historia, un dragón hecho a tinta con reminiscencias de la caligrafía china y la última obra, un gran pulpo que destaca bellamente su color rosado sobre un fondo de tela negra.

La obra Octopus (evidentemente :-) pulpo), es un gran pulpo cuyas formas morfológicas se relacionan con la anatomía humana. Fotografías del artista de sus dedos, manos, labios sirven para definar las formas del pulpo tentacular. El artista pretende así conceptualizar los conceptos de la propia energía unido a la reinvención y la transformación.

En el detalle de la segunda fotografía, podemos ver como las ventosas del pulpo están hechos con fotografías de la boca del artista.

Tim HawkinsonTim Hawkinson

Vía Art 21

Tim Hawkinson was born in San Francisco, California in 1960. A graduate of San Jose State University, he later earned his MFA at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1989. Hawkinson is renowned for creating complex sculptural systems through surprisingly simple means. His installation "Überorgan"—a stadium-size, fully automated bagpipe—was pieced together from bits of electrical hardware and several miles of inflated plastic sheeting. Hawkinson’s fascination with music and notation can also be seen in "Pentecost", a work in which the artist tuned cardboard tubes and assembled them in the shape of a giant tree. On this tree the artist placed twelve life-size robotic replicas of himself, and programmed them to beat out religious hymns at humorously irregular intervals. The source of inspiration for many of Hawkinson’s pieces has been the re-imagining of his own body and what it means to make a self-portrait of this new or fictionalized body. In 1997 the artist created an exacting, two-inch tall skeleton of a bird from his own fingernail parings, and later made a feather and egg from his own hair. Believable even at a close distance, these works reveal Hawkinson’s attention to detail as well as his obsession with life, death, and the passage of time. Hawkinson has participated in numerous exhibitions in the United States and abroad, including the Venice Biennale (1999), the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, (2000), the Power Plant in Toronto, Canada (2000), the Whitney Biennial (2002), and the 2003 Corcoran Biennial in Washington, D.C. Tim Hawkinson resides in Los Angeles with his wife.

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