Andrea Rodriguez Vial -artist in residence at Calle Mayor 54- having a video conference with Giulia Gelmini in Italy.
As
Andrea Rodriguez Vial arrived and was leaving earlier -to link her residence at
Calle Mayor 54 with another one at EKWC, in the Netherlands-, we set a
videoconference with Italian curator Giulia Gelmini.
Giulia
is the first curator at Calle Mayor 54.
The purpose of this encounters is to connect artists with curators. It seems
-at least to me-, curators work with institutions and artists too. But, mostly apart,
not together; like two parallel roads.
The
common thread of their conversation was:
1)
The artist statement coherence. Sometimes, artists don't say all it could be
said about their work. Another times,
there is not a real match between the artwork and what the artist says. The
purpose of sort out this topic, it is just for the artist benefit and own
knowledge, and the exercise of re-thinking her/his own concepts and ideas.
2)
Having a review of her/his work here, a feedback; plus an article, that later the
artist could use to accompany his/her work.
Giulia's
approach to artist work it is based on the interview. She made some key
questions to have a better understanding and know Andrea's line of work.
Andrea's previous work
Here
some notes I took from their conversation:
-Giulia
suggested Andrea to research further about "anthropocentrism" (one of
her recurrent themes), look for authors, to enrich her artist statement, making
it more solid.
-In
reference to another Andrea's subject, "extinction", she also
suggested to reflect further in the role of nature, the exploitation, and how
to enclose this topics in the artwork. Giulia suggested some ideas to develop
further a theme on "anthropocentrism", "extinction", as
representing the human being control over the animals, as maybe, a political
act; or a scene of man and animal together, and so on... But Andrea disagreed,
she doesn't like the idea of a narrative art, she prefers to suggest, or just present
the sculpture for a freer interpretation. She summarized: "The more I know the human being, the more I love my dog".
Andrea's previous work
-Giulia
asked for her technique choice, why ceramics and not other media. Andrea is very
enthusiastic about ceramics. For her, clay has no limits, the whole Universe
can be represented with it, she said.
Part of Andrea's production at Calle Mayor 54
-About
her other geometrical works, Andrea was saying how its production relaxes her,
like a mandala, the repetition, looking for shapes, patterns...
Part of Andrea's production at Calle Mayor 54
Andrea
already left Calle Mayor 54. Some
weeks later Giulia send her a file with some questions. Now, she is working
writing an article.
Thank you both Andrea and Giulia for sharing your work process.
Giulia Gelmini is contributor in:
