Underwater Museum (MUSA), Isla Mujeres, MX
October 28th, 2011 § 3 Comments
The process and evolution of the underwater installation off the coast of Isla Mujeres, Mexico, created by British sculptor and diver, Jason deCaires Taylor.
More than 400 hand crafted sculptures stand on the ocean floor and depict everyday people going about their normal lives. Men, women, children are all present, all frozen in time. The installation, part of an environmental conservation project, is constructed as an artifical reef; corals grow and marine creatures feed, continuing the life cycle.
Jason de Caires Taylor’s underwater sculptures create a unique, absorbing and expansive visual seascape. Highlighting natural ecological processes Taylor’s interventions explore the intricate relationships that exist between art and environment. His works become artificial reefs, attracting marine life, while offering the viewer privileged temporal encounters, as the shifting sand of the ocean floor, and the works change from moment to moment. – Formele Capricioase ale Artei
Taylor’s website: http://www.underwatersculpture.com/
Related articles
- Cancun’s Underwater Museum (aquaworldcancun.wordpress.com)
Ron Mueck’s sculptures on view for the first time in Mexico City
September 21st, 2011 § 4 Comments
The College San Idelfonso information on Ronald Mueck does not have an English translation and there have been many visits to my first post, so I have decided to publish a translation of the exhibition and gallery information. This is not an “official” translation, but it will help readers not fluent in Spanish.
Information about the artist:
Distinguished among contemporary artists for the fascinating credibility and amazing realism that characterizes his work, Ron Mueck explores figurative sculpture as a resource that, reducing and enlarging the scale of his models according to the requirements of his theme, give’s life to his creations.
The exhibition, Ron Mueck: High Impact Hyperrealism, presents sculptures of mixed media using materials like silicone, fiberglass and acrylic from the years 2000 through 2009. Mueck exploits his mastery of anatomy and his ability to set off, by means of these impassive beings, declarations as well as reflections about the limits between reality and artifice, between what is revealed and what is hidden, the palpable union between presence and absence.
With his works of unconventional size, Mueck seeks to recreate the magnitude of emotions related to the body, highlighting the most minute details, skins pigmentation, the most subtle wrinkle, hairs, and facial expressions, so that without difficulty he immediately creates a link with “reality”.
When Ron Mueck visited College San Idelfonso at the beginning of this year, he studied the galleries to establish the layout of the exhibition in order to ensure observers advantageous positions to study expressions and analyze his sculptures’ body language and the shocking, meticulous attention to detail.
The artist questions if a modern sculpture, in the mundane surroundings of a gallery, allows for understanding themes like death, that have been traditionally approached through sacred and religious art. He presents this enigma through one of his most recent sculptures, Adrift, 2009; of a man, slightly tanned, in an inflatable raft floating on a blue background. Mounted on the wall by Mueck, it reminds us of 17th century crucifixes that hang in churches. Here, we are offered a contemporary variation: a crucifixion that appears out of the material world of the 21st century.
Museum hours
Tuesday (general admission free): 10:00 – 20:0; Wednesday through Sunday: 10:00 – 18:00
High impact hyperrealism in Mexico City: Ron Mueck
September 20th, 2011 § 1 Comment
The first exhibition in Mexico City of Ron Mueck, Australian hyperrealist sculptor, opens tomorrow at the Antiguo Colegio de San Idelfonso/San Idelfonso College. The collection arrives in the capital after its show at the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo/Museum of Contemporary Art (MARCO) in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon. Visit the College’s website for more information about gallery hours and admission.
For more information about San Idelfonso College, now a museum and cultural center, visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Ildefonso_College
