OPENART Biennale 2015
OPENART Biennale, Orebro Lan, Örebro, 06/14/2015 - 09/06/2015
ABOUT
Conciencia [awareness]
Books, metal frame
Alicia Martins giant book sculpture depicts a cavalcade of over 5000 books seemingly defying gravity as they are frozen in motion. By constructing the sculpture with a sturdy core and leaving the exterior rather free, the books’ loose pages are free to blow and rustle in the wind. These objects filled with knowledge receive a new life.
Artist Statement
My creative process stems from a conceptual concern and intuition; that is, the desire to produce a powerful visual effect, which provoke reflections and questions about our social and cultural environment, and our relationship with the past, the present and the future.
Books represent consumption objects with a universal anthropological load that conveys knowledge – the book is, thus, the symbolic mirror of human culture. Books are so much more for me. They are also raw plastic materials – sculptural objects with an important symbolic value.
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MORE EXHIBITIONS
Solo exhibition
Tensta Konsthall
Solo exhibition
Nationalmuseum
Group exhibition
Galerie Nordenhake AB, Stockholm
Solo exhibition
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Group exhibition
Marabouparken
Solo exhibition
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Solo exhibition
Bonniers Konsthall
Solo exhibition
Bonniers Konsthall
Group exhibition
Bonniers Konsthall
Solo exhibition
Galleri Magnus Karlsson
Group exhibition
Malmö Konsthall
Solo exhibition
Marabouparken
Solo exhibition
Kulturhuset Stockholm
Group exhibition
Bonniers Konsthall
Solo exhibition
Galleri Magnus Karlsson
Group exhibition
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall
Group exhibition
Andréhn-Schiptjenko
Solo exhibition
Malmö Konsthall
Solo exhibition
Malmö Konsthall
Solo exhibition
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Conciencia [awareness]
Books, metal frame
Alicia Martins giant book sculpture depicts a cavalcade of over 5000 books seemingly defying gravity as they are frozen in motion. By constructing the sculpture with a sturdy core and leaving the exterior rather free, the books’ loose pages are free to blow and rustle in the wind. These objects filled with knowledge receive a new life.
Artist Statement
My creative process stems from a conceptual concern and intuition; that is, the desire to produce a powerful visual effect, which provoke reflections and questions about our social and cultural environment, and our relationship with the past, the present and the future.
Books represent consumption objects with a universal anthropological load that conveys knowledge – the book is, thus, the symbolic mirror of human culture. Books are so much more for me. They are also raw plastic materials – sculptural objects with an important symbolic value.
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