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justforbooks · 4 months ago

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Marina Núñez del Prado (17 October 1910 – 9 September 1995) was a celebrated Bolivian sculptor.

Marina Núñez del Prado was one of the most respected sculptors from Latin America. Núñez del Prado based many of her sculptures off of the female form as well as taking inspiration from animals and landscapes native to Bolivia. Her work is highly sensuous, with rolling curves. She carved from native Bolivian woods, as well as black granite, alabaster, basalt and white onyx. Perhaps one of her most famous works is "White Venus" (1960), a stylized female body in white onyx. Another celebrated work is "Mother and Child," sculpted in white onyx. Indigenous Bolivian cultures inspired much of her work.

Marina Nunez del Prado died in Lima, Peru on September 9, 1995, where she had spent the last twenty-five years of her life working. She left behind a legacy that significantly enriched Bolivian art and culture but was also a significant contribution to the practice of sculpture and Latin-American art. In her lifetime, she had traveled and accomplished so much and became as well known as the artist she was inspired by like Picasso or Gabriel Mistral.

Her physical legacy is the Museo de Nunez del Prado which was her family home. It now houses over 1000 of her works including drawings and sketches. The museum preserves the work of Nunez del Prado as well as contributions made by her sister who was a gifted goldsmith and painter and her father. Located in the center of the El Olivar Forest, the museum is a National Cultural Heritage site. Admission to the museum is free, but international visitors require personal identification such as a passport. Visits are guided by the curator.

Nunez del Prado’s non-physical legacy far extends beyond the borders of Peru. Her work has significantly impacted the field of sculpture both in Latin America and internationally. Her work has been a great influence in the collective identity of South American art. She has also been a subject in literature like work by the Argentine poet Alfonsina Storni, Uruguayan narrator Juana de Ibarbourou and Spanish poet Raphael Alberti. Since 1930 her work has impacted and been the source of admiration in countries such as Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Germany, USA, Brazil, Spain, Italy, France, Cuba and Mexico.

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artparks-sculpture · 2 years ago

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A sculpture titled 'Hunting (Cheetah Carved Wood Running statue)' by sculptor Sergey Chechenov. In a medium of wood:ash Bolivian and in an edition of 1/1.

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1upm · 1 month ago

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Time flows like glaciers or like rapids. Over moments, over memories.

I feel like so much life has passed me by.

I haven’t fought off sharks in the ocean but I’ve raced down Death Roads. I’ve rafted down the Amazon River. I’ve churned sugar cane with tribespeople. I’ve hiked a pilgrimage on the trail of the Incan Sun Gods, surrounded by ruins and the highest altitude lake in the world.

I've ridden donkeys across the pampas and drank and sang with gauchos by firelight. Gotten trapped in blizzards hiking into the Andes.

I’ve had magic happen to me and around me in Paris, living under a windmill, in secret gardens with Alan Watts’ old friends, in secret bars, at secret performances by the river. I’ve watched a wall of fireworks off rooftops in Hong Kong. I’ve sat for dinner and private piano recitals in Havana with leaders of the Cuban government, and swam in the ocean, sleepless, with the first rays of sunlight, godly.

I’ve driven across America, meeting cowboys and drinking with rickshaw drivers, hiking out of darkness and by starlight from atop mountains and out of canyons. I’ve slept and dreamt at the palace from The Sound of Music, watching performances on the same piano Beethoven's father played, while firewood crackled and echoed.

I’ve danced in ancient cellars, and explored abandoned manors by violet twilight. I’ve been chased by fire-breathing demons in a small Spanish village, lay down with an entire crowd to watch them on high wires.

I’ve had the most popular show in South Korea dedicate an episode to me. I’ve fallen in love in a speakeasy in Seoul, and had old fortune-telling machines tell us about it. I’ve ridden waves just below the surface of The Mediterranean. Hiked with Old World sculptors named after Greek philosophers, slept in the studio of an artist-saint in Vienna, and had him tell me about his secret conversations with Rembrandt, and the meaning of chasing the sun.

I've watched, incredulous, as the creator of the Midnight in Paris soundtrack showed up unannounced and played it for us in a small room — at midnight, near the steps themselves. I’ve pulled into Las Vegas on a Friday night, blinding lights rising out of darkness, surrounded by glamour, covered head to toe in desert dust.

I’ve skated the Rideau Canal at 3am, path freshly cleaned and reflecting every dim lantern light, with old friends and no another soul in sight, just our wide swooping strides, blades crackling against ice. I’ve watched triumphant, arms-raised gold medal finishes front row at the Olympics. I’ve been caught in black sky thunderstorms riding the world’s largest tidal bore, and ducked into active lithium mines in the world’s highest city. I’ve gotten stuck in the Bolivian salt flats and slept in a salt hotel. On another continent I’ve played soccer with locals in the world’s most cavernous former communist salt mines 30 stories underground.

I’ve helped paint old cottages on Lake Como, and partied with Paloma Faith and the xx in a rooftop loft in London. I’ve had Keira Knightley stare into my soul. I’ve controlled the lights on top of the Empire State Building, and stood alone on top of the Eiffel tower. Listened to jazz front row in the living room of a Harlem music legend. I’ve hosted five weddings, and been a Best Man twice. I've been in the right place at the right time to wander euphoric, swarming, celebrating streets the night they became NBA, MLB, and World Cup champions, high-fiving strangers. I've schemed with space hotel architects and TED speakers in a 250 year old victorian mansion on Halloween. I've been caught between coyotes and LA riot police, circled by the spotlight of news copters. I created technology and filed a patent to fix the Internet and try to save the world. I raised a million dollars from the first investors in Twitter, media barons — the ones Succession was based on — and White House deputies.

I’ve eaten enough for 5 people just to reveal an old myth in Provence, with a chef literally out of the pages of Peter Mayle. I was a student council president orchestrated through a battle of the bands. I won a national competition not intended for me by predicting the future of work in the year 2040.

I did pushups to save a groom at a Majorcan estate, and closed the dance floor with fire breathers and belly dancers in Marrakech. I’ve heard thunder echo for a whole minute while walls shook. I’ve arrived at an international airport 45 minutes to departure and made it after racing through traffic from a Studio Ghibli island.

I’ve developed black and white film in dark rooms. I’ve been invited to convince one of North America’s top design studios to recreate the metaverse. I’ve been chased by police during G20 riots and hidden in the attic of a pet shop, while an earthquake happened and the caged birds sensed it before we did. I had a ghost touch me. In sleep paralysis a woman quietly and calmly told to me how the rest of my life will go — and when I moved she became static like a radio. I’ve had movie scripts and short stories appear in my mind, fully-formed. I've seen planes float like boats.

I’ve stood in top secret ephemeral factory hangars to critique full scale clay models of cars 5 years before the world knew they existed, stood in towering noise isolation chambers, and hitched a ride with strangers to get home. I've seen machines taken apart piece by piece like a real-world exploded diagram spread over 50 metres in underground halls where phones weren’t allowed, and walked along cavernous factory floors as fully formed vehicles rolled off.

I’ve found myself presenting to Germany’s leading news anchor, and being served a secret pasta recipe by the godmother of the German news service, and touring the New Yorker's headquarters. I’ve packed rooms at the world’s top journalism conferences and had Google executives spy on me.

I’ve had the founder of Second Life make me tell the story of Canadian engineering rings in the Stanford faculty lounge. I’ve had a world class circus juggler, from a touring circus family, try to teach me in MIT’s infinite corridor, and send pins flying millimeters from either side of my head.

I’ve been threatened with jail by crooked State Troopers. I’ve had absinthe out of an ornate crystal fountain in one of Paris’ oldest bars, just as Hemingway did, while the grandmotherly owners sang La Vie En Rose, waltzing with patrons around us — and then watched a drummer transcend in an old dungeon near Notre Dame.

I've found myself partying elbow to elbow with the President of Microsoft at a personal set by Kaskade at a Chalet in Davos, while being served truffle pasta on the dance floor, with a Prince Harry doppelgänger. I’ve read poems from this blog, on stage, at one of New York City’s most revered open mic music and poetry nights — and danced through the streets of Manhattan for hours as part of a silent disco flash mob pub crawl.

I’ve lost a game of Werewolf to the founder of Wikipedia. I’ve had drinks with 3 of the Five Guys. I’ve played a tennis tournament final on the next court over from Federer. I’ve taken a colour sensitivity test at Renault’s design studios. I’ve danced, unprepared, in front of an amphitheater of people wearing a king’s outfit at a historic Korean folk village. I’ve jogged for 10 minutes with wires attached to my chest and then had to hold my breath for a minute while my heart was scanned — and told it was beautiful.

I tried to convince NBA players to give me money. I’ve acted as a tour guide in 3 cities, including for one of America’s dynastic families — because a stranger invited me to their executive box at an NHL game in another city the next day. I’ve had lightning strike the highway in front of me. I had waves crash around me at dusk at Giant’s Causeway, and listened to Enya float over real Irish cheddar while rain battered the windows in Galway. I’ve seen iconic MC rap battles in chip shops in London and partied in hidden rooms behind a sandwich shop in DC.

I’ve hidden postcards from the universe all over the world.

I’m 35. A New year is almost here.

There is so, so, so much more to see and do.

Heartstrings vibrating, eyes smiling.

#journal #the secret life of walter mitty #jose gonzalez #Youtube

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importantwomensbirthdays · 7 years ago

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Marina Núñez del Prado

Marina Núñez del Prado was born on October 17, 1910 in La Paz, Bolivia. Del Prado became a renowned sculptor not only in her native Bolivia, but throughout Latin America as well as in North America and Europe. Her work was marked by the use of black onyx, white granite, and native Bolivian woods, and was inspired heavily by the culture of her country’s indigenous people. In 1952, she became the first artist to represent Bolivia at the Venice Biennial, and in which she was given a special hall to display twenty-four of her sculptures. Today, the Casa Museo Marina Núñez del Prado in Lima, Peru preserves her artistic legacy.

Marina Nuñez del Prado died in 1995.

#art #art history #sculptors #artists #woman artists #women in art history #bolivian art #latina artists #latina #latinx #bolivia #bolivian #culture #bolivian culture

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tasksweekly · 7 years ago

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[TASK 090: BOLIVIA]

There’s a masterlist below compiled of over 130+ Bolivian faceclaims categorised by gender with their occupation and ethnicity denoted if there was a reliable source. If you want an extra challenge use random.org to pick a random number! Of course everything listed below are just suggestions and you can pick whichever character or whichever project you desire.

Any questions can be sent here and all tutorials have been linked below the cut for ease of access! REMEMBER to tag your resources with #TASKSWEEKLY and we will reblog them onto the main! This task can be tagged with whatever you want but if you want us to see it please be sure that our tag is the first five tags, @ mention us or send us a messaging linking us to your post!

THE TASK - scroll down for FC’s!

STEP 1: Decide on a FC you wish to create resources for! You can always do more than one but who are you starting with? There are links to masterlists you can use in order to find them and if you want help, just send us a message and we can pick one for you at random!

STEP 2: Pick what you want to create! You can obviously do more than one thing, but what do you want to start off with? Screencaps, RP icons, GIF packs, masterlists, PNG’s, fancasts, alternative FC’s - LITERALLY anything you desire!

STEP 3: Look back on tasks that we have created previously for tutorials on the thing you are creating unless you have whatever it is you are doing mastered - then of course feel free to just get on and do it. :)

STEP 4: Upload and tag with #TASKSWEEKLY! If you didn’t use your own screencaps/images make sure to credit where you got them from as we will not reblog packs which do not credit caps or original gifs from the original maker.

THINGS YOU CAN MAKE FOR THIS TASK - examples are linked!

Stumped for ideas? Maybe make a masterlist or graphic of your favourite faceclaims. A masterlist of names. Plot ideas or screencaps from a music video preformed by an artist. Masterlist of quotes and lyrics that can be used for starters, thread titles or tags. Guides on culture and customs.

Screencaps

RP icons [of all sizes]

Gif Pack [maybe gif icons if you wish]

PNG packs

Manips

Dash Icons

Character Aesthetics

PSD’s

XCF’s

Graphic Templates - can be chara header, promo, border or background PSD’s!

FC Masterlists - underused, with resources, without resources!

FC Help - could be related, family templates, alternatives.

Written Guides.

and whatever else you can think of / make!

MASTERLIST!

Encarnación Lazarte (1938) Bolivian [Quechua] - singer and composer.

Raquel Welch (1940) Bolivian / English - actress and singer.

Matilde Casazola (1943) Bolivian - poet and songwriter,

María Tirado (1945) Bolivian - singer.

Enriqueta Ulloa (1952) Bolivian - singer.

Zulma Yugar (1952) Bolivian - singer.

Emma Junaro (1953) BOlivian - singer and musician.

Luzmila Carpio (1954) Bolivian [Quechua] - singer.

Nena Zeballos (1959) Bolivian / Peruvian - singer.

Betty Veizaga (1957) Bolivian - musician.

Tahnee Welch (1961) Bolivian, English / Unspecified - actress and model.

Ana Cristina Céspedes (1962) Bolivian - singer.

Julieta Paredes (1967) Bolivia - poet, singer, writer and artist.

Beatriz Méndez Leclere (1967) Bolivian - mezzosoprano.

Verona Feldbusch (1968) Bolivian - TV personality, beauty pageant winner, and actress.

Verona Pooth (1968) Bolivian - beauty pageant contestant.

Giovana Chávez (1969) Bolivian - actress, model and presenter.

Erika Andia (1972) Bolivian - actress, director and journalist.

Verónica Larrieu (1974) Bolivian - model.

Beby Aponte (1974) Bolivian - singer.

Guide Santa Cruz (1975) Bolivian - singer and folklorist.

Nina Uma (1975) Bolivian [Aymara / Quechua] - singer, activist, radio and television host.

Tanya Callau (1976) Bolivian - actress and model.

Esther Marisol (1976) Bolivian - singer.

Monica Ergueta (1977) Bolivian - singer.

Paola Zeballos (1977) Bolivian - singer.

Carla Ortiz (1978) Bolivian - actress.

Soledad Ardaya Morales (1978) Bolivian - actress..

Ximena Herrera (1979) Bolivian - actress and singer.

Stephanie Beatriz (1981) Bolivian [Unspecified Indigenous, Spanish, Basque, possibly other] / Colombian [German, 1/4 Sephardi Jewish, Dutch, Spanish, Basque, possibly other] - actress.

Rocío Moreira Troche (1981) Bolivian - singer.

Susana Renjel Encinas (1981) Bolivian - singer.

Vanessa Alfaro (1983) Bolivian - model, actress, singer, and fashion designer.

Olivia Pinheiro (1983) Bolivian / Brazilian - model and Miss Bolivia 2010.

Jessica Jordan (1984) Bolivian / English - model and beauty pageant titleholder.

Dominique Peltier (1986) Bolivian - Miss Bolivia Universo 2008.

Desiree Durán (1985) Bolivian - actress, TV presenter, model and beauty pageant contestant.

Sandra Hernández (1985) Bolivian - Miss Bolivia World 2007.

Yéssica Mouton (1988) Bolivian - model and Miss Bolivia 2012.

Yovana O'Brien (1988) Bolivian [Irish] - Miss Bolivia Earth 2010 and Miss Bicentenario.

Ana María Ortiz (1989) Bolivian - model and Miss World 2006.

Claudia Tavel (1989) Bolivian - model and Miss Bolivia 2013.

Jackelin Arias (1990) Bolivian - beauty pageant contestant.

Anabel Angus (1990) Bolivian - model and tv host.

Stephanie Herela (1990) Bolivian - model and actress.

Claudia Arce (1991) Bolivian - actress, singer, model and beauty pageant titleholder.

Dayanna Grageda (1992) Bolivian - model.

Romina Rocamonje (1992) Bolivian - model and Miss Bolivia 2014.

Andrea Roman (1994) Bolivian - blogger.

Jazmin Duran (1994) Bolivian - Miss Earth Bolivia 2015.

Alexia Viruez (1994) Bolivian - model and Miss Bolivia 2012.

Luciel Izumi (1994) Bolivian - musician.

Megamy Bowles (1995) Bolivian - singer.

María Renée Carmona (1995) Bolivian - Miss Earth 2013 and Miss United Continent.

Gleisy Noguer (1996) Bolivian - Miss Universe 2017.

Camila Paz Chavez (1999) Bolivian - Instagrammer.

Elysia Crampton (?) Bolivian [Aymara] - musician.

Alexia Dabdoub (?) Bolivian - actress.

Erika Pitstick (?) Bolivian / American - actress.

Natalie Conneely (?) Bolivian [Incan] / Irish - actress.

Elisabeth Salazar (?) Bolivian, Belgian - actress.

Katia Escalera (?) Bolivian - soprano.

Eloísa Gutiérrez (?) Bolivian - Miss Earth Bolivia 2014.

Brenda Lowe (?) Bolivian / Chinese - cheerleader and beauty pageant contestant.

Stella Fernandez (?) Bolivian - model.

Rosa Rivers (?) Bolivian - actress.

Liliana Castellanos (?) Bolivian - fashion designer.

Rosita Hurtado (?) Bolivian - fashion designer.

Carla Morón (?) Bolivian - model.

Arminda Alba (?) Bolivian - singer.

Jenny Cárdenas (?) Bolivian - singer.

Gina Gil (?) Bolivian - singer.

Luisa Molina (?) Bolivian - singer.

Katia Ladder (?) Bolivian - singer.

Neyza (?) Bolivian - singer, television presenter and radio announcer.

Atiliano Auza León (1928) Bolivian - singer and musician.

Omar Duranboger (1937) Bolivian, German - artist, sculptor, painter, and actor.

Jaime Torres (1938) Argentinian [Bolivian] - musician.

David Santalla (1939) Bolivian - actor and comedian.

Ernesto Cavour (1940) Bolivian - singer, musician, artist, inventor of musical instruments and author.

Luis Rico (1945) Bolivian - singer-songwriter.

Luis Carrion (1945) Bolivian - singer.

Erwin Vaca Pereyra (1947) Bolivian - musician.

Pepe Murillo (1947) Bolivian - singer and presenter.

Hernando Irahola (1948) Bolivian - singer.

Eddy Navia (1949) Bolivian - singer-songwriter, composer and musician.

Arturo Lora (1950) Bolivian - actor.

Aldo Peña (1950) Bolivian - singer.

Gonzalo Hermosa González (1950) Bolivian - singer and composer.

César Junaro (1951) Bolivian - musician.

Porfirio Conde Ramírez (1955) Bolivian - singer-songwriter.

Pato Hoffmann (1956) Bolivian [Aymara, Quechua, Spanish, German] - actor.

Jorge Ortiz Sánchez (1956) Bolivian - actor and poet.

Damon Welch (1959) Bolivian, English / Unspecified - actor.

Beautiful Elmer (1960) Bolivian - singer and composer.

Rodrigo Uriarte Stottuth (1960) Bolivian - musician.

Manuel Monroy Chazarreta (1961) Bolivian - singer-songwriter and guitarist

Willy Claure (1962) Bolivian - composer and guitarist.

Milton Cortez (1962) Bolivian - singer, composer and actor.

Yuri Ortuño (1963) Bolivian - singer and composer.

Juan Carlos Rodríguez Clavijo (1963) Bolivian - singer, musician, composer and folklorist.

Yalo Cuellar (1963) Bolivian - musician and composer.

Fernando Torrico (1964) Bolivian - singer and musician.

Miguel Orias (1965) Bolivian - singer.

Piraí Vaca (1967) Bolivian - guitarist.

Grillo Villegas (1968) Bolivian - songwriter, guitarist and singer.

Oscar Peñafiel Rodriguez (1968) Bolivian - guitarist.

Ariel Villazón Torrico (1969) Bolivian - singer-songwriter, charangoist, soundman and musician.

Omar González Onostre (1970) Bolivian - singer and musician.

David Kavlin (1971) Bolivian / Argentinian [German Jewish, Belgian Jewish, Ukrainian Jewish] - actor, singer, tv personality, and radio personality.

Miguel Valverde (1973) Bolivian - actor, director, screenwriter and filmmaker.

Hernán Ergueta (1974) Bolivian - author and composer multi-instrumentalist.

Wally Zeballos (1975) Bolivian - singer.

Juan Carlos Aduviri (1976) Bolivian - actor.

René Eduardo (1976) Bolivian - singer, composer, actor.

Christian Laguna (1976) Bolivian - bassist, composer, producer and musical director.

Jorge Vargas (1977) Bolivian / Argentinian - actor.

Dalmiro Cuéllar Ayala (1978) Bolivian - singer.

Nial Gandarilla (1979) Bolivian - musician.

Klovis Herboso (1979) Bolivian - singer.

Omar Ríos (1979) Bolivian - singer and musician.

Braulio Choque (1980) Bolivian [Aymara] - researcher , writer , painter and singer-songwriter.

Álvaro Velasco (1981) Bolivian - singer, composer and folklorist, vocalist and director.

Aníbal Guzmán Miranda (1985) Bolivian - musician and composer

Reynaldo Pacheco (1987) Bolivian - actor.

Diego Zegarra (1992) Bolivian - viner.

FwOmarr (1999) Bolivian - instagrammer and youtuber.

David Barrera (?) Bolivian - actor.

James T. Slater (?) Bolivian - singer-songwriter.

Desiderio Arce (?) Bolivian [Quechua] - singer.

Nicolas Jung (?) Bolivian, Hungarian - actor.

Cristian Mercado (?) Bolivian - actor.

Hugo Well (?) Bolivian - actor.

David Mondacca (?) Bolivian - actor.

Alvaro Alarcón (?) Bolivian - hair stylist and make-up artist.

Ingrid Hölters (?) Bolivian - fashion designer.

Jaime Junaro (?) Bolivian - singer-songwriter and guitarist.

#bolivian fc #latinx fc #poc fc #fc list #rph #task: 090 #task: bolivia

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joshuwacornwellfmp · 4 years ago

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INTRO

With my Final Major Project I began by giving myself an extremely broad brief so I could then become more specific and write a more focused brief. My Larger brief title was “Human Conflict and the Pursuit of Peace. I wanted to include both the conflict and the peace as I believe that m work inherently is about power and how I can subvert power. Within Body shapes I looked at the art of reclaiming power over gender and how Bolivian Women had reclaimed their culture. I then further looked at this idea of power play amongst Nursery Rhymes, Where I contrasted this idea of the desirable and the consequences of desire.

Recently, within my projects I have begun to look at this idea around mother and the role of a mother as well as the ideas surrounding shamanism and spirituality. At the start of Kingston Foundation I found myself in rotation gravitating toward the idea of Mythology and Ancient Fables, Especially in connection with themes of sexuality, gender expression as well as types of love and relationships.

I began my research by finding out more on a song that brings me calm. And I learnt about the connection to the Ancient language of sacred Sanskrit and kirtan yoga. I also began to look at the concept of being an outsider within an appealingly stagnant environment, and a way of delving into fantasy as a way to escape.

As I progressed within my initial research I found my areas of interest becoming broader. I think I would like either explore the idea of divine androgyne, or, The Essex Shaman.

Divine androgyne – an exploration of what is androgyne? Exploring it in both an ancient, astrological and spiritual sense as well as androgyne being defined by dismantling modern associations of gender binaries. I would look into Cultures which are prominently masculine or feminine and subvert ideas attaching gender to tropes, by Juxtaposing masculine and feminine and allowing the to communicate, conflict and come to peace through my work. For Example when I was working on the “You, Me, Them, Us” Project I looked into Postal and Football Industries and had in depth conversations with Andy about how he navigated these Male dominated spaces.

The Essex Shaman- in itself is a contradiction due to associations: a sacred and spiritual role that surpasses realms of consciousness, In Contrast to the lived experience of a mundane environment lived by many, not seeking bliss but seemingly unbothered by anything remotely magic, tainted by a static environment. – as a response I could look at a shaman as a form of transcendence. And how also Ancient fables talk about Androgyny being transcendent. I like the contradiction between these two opposing ideas and within my initial research I was looking at how Grayson Perry creates works surrounding both Essex Mundane and Different Cultural links. With this project I do not want to reduce the role of a Shaman but rather putting the essence of Shamanism into a contemporary environment, Joseph Campbell and Joseph Beuys Both came to the conclusion that the modern version of Shaman is the Artist, (Poet, Playwright, Musician, Painter, Sculptor and Designer)

Within my work I would like to develop strong narratives as well as looking at performance and dance as sources for communication. Within my work so far movement have been integral to my design process, however since the clown project the embodiment of an idea has come even more to the forefront of what I want to achieve. Dance and music have forever inspired me and I would really like to look into developing themes of dance, music and ritual surrounding my work to help inform world building.

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artfeminist · 7 years ago

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Bolivian sculptor. Marina Núñez del Prado (1910-1995) one of the most respected sculptors from Latin America #womensart

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abwwia · 4 months ago

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Marina Núñez del Prado, Toro, 1967 | Granito / 95 x 91 x 34 cm

Marina Núñez del Prado 17 Oct 1910 – 9 Sept 1995 was a celebrated Bolivian sculptor. via Wikipedia

#Marina Núñez del Prado #women sculptors #sculpture #bolivian art #bolivian artist

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rachaelburkeme2 · 6 years ago

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Kris Lemsalu...again! Because I have a massive art crush!

Meet Kris Lemsalu, the Eccentrically Costumed Artist Who Will ‘Give Birth to a World of Shamanic Force’ at the Venice Biennale

Lemsalu will team up with friends, including the artist Sarah Lucas, to create her own world on a Venetian island.

Kate Brown, January 16, 2019

The first time I meet artist Kris Lemsalu, she is wearing a Medusa-like piece of rubber headgear, makeup reminiscent of a Russian nesting doll, and a vibrantly-colored old pantsuit that once belonged to a Bolivian witch.

You might not know exactly what she looks like, because her likeness is constantly shifting. But you know her when you see her. The same goes for her practice, which is a meandering blend of performance, ceramic sculptures, and theatrical multimedia installations.

The Estonian artist’s introduction to American audiences came in the form of a performance at Frieze New York back in 2015, when she lay prone inside a 220-pound ceramic turtle shell for hours on end. Her limbs dangled out from the massive sculpture while she lay face down on a waterbed. It was a fitting debut: for Lemsalu, the lines between her own body and her art, found objects and performance, as well as fantasy and reality, are all extremely blurry.

Kris Lemsalu’s Whole Alone II performance and installation at Frieze New York 2015. Courtesy Temnikova & Kasela and Piibe Kolka.

But whether in regalia or hiding under a tortoise shell, just a few years ago, Lemsalu was little known beyond a few privileged art circles in continental Europe. But in a tired-out art world, Lemsalu’s mixture of fantasy is like an imaginative antidote. To quote LA-based art critic and curator Andrew Berardini in his reflection on Lemsalu’s work: “In the middle of the thrum and cacophany of industry trading, of flashy luxury goods mixed with authentic heart songs all for a price, who wouldn’t want to turtle?”

Last year, the sculptor-as-performance-artist presented back-to-back solo shows at the historic Vienna Secession and at the new Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art in London. In 2017, she blew audiences away with a live performance that melded sculpture, video, and sound at Performa in New York and then at the David Roberts Foundation in London.

Soon, Lemsalu will welcome an ever wider audience into her fairytale storybook. She is currently preparing to represent Estonia at the Venice Biennale, which opens May 11.

Performa 2017. Photo: Paula Court

All in the Family

Lemsalu is keeping the particulars of her Venice project under wraps. But as usual, she will be doing things on her own time and in her own way. While her previous works’ major thematic was death, for “BIRTH V” in Italy, the inception of life will be the Lemsalu’s wide-open, awe-inducing topic for Lemsalu. (though her press release points out that death is never far away— it “wears a carnival mask in Venice anyway”).

She has dispensed with the tradition of inviting a local curator to organize the presentation, instead opting to assemble an international troupe of friends to help build the show, including artist Sarah Lucas and art critic Andrew Berardini. Irene Campolmi, a Copenhagen-based curator, and Tamara Luuk, an old friend and contemporary art curator at Tallinn Art Hall, will also be by her side, as well as musicians.

“It becomes more and more about the people I am working with, and about how we work together and build a family structure,” Lemsalu tells me over Skype from her home in Tallinn. She is sitting beside a fireplace, occasionally stoking it. Estonia, one of the more northern countries in Europe, experiences radical extremes of darkness and light. (Around the time we spoke this winter, the sun had risen just before 9:30 a.m. and was setting shortly after 3 p.m.)

Lemsalu’s global network of friends, whom she calls family, are something of a remedy to the remoteness of Tallinn. They also provide a tether for an artist whose work seems to exist in a fantasy world. A few times a year, she brings friends and members of her local production team to Hiiumaa, an Estonian island where she produces her impressive porcelain ceramics.

For Lemsalu, the sparse island is a special place. She fires her ceramics inside an old wood-fired kiln in a workshop that only operates during the spring and summer. Each person she brings along does an eight-hour shift, chopping wood and warming the kiln up from zero to around 2370 degrees Fahrenheit (that’s 1,300 Celcius).

Kris Lemsalu Keys Open Doors at Secession in Vienna. Photo: Maximilian Anelli-Monti. Courtesy of the artist and Temnikova & Kasela Gallery.

The time-intensive firing process is part of what keeps Lemsalu coming back to this place. “You are there alone mostly, and I always take the night shift from midnight to morning,” she says. “I experience the light changing, the time passing.”

Appropriately, her Venice presentation will also take place on an island—Giudecca, one of the remote masses that surrounds the floating city. This marks the first year the Estonian pavilion has been held there, inside an old woodworking shop that is still family-run. It’s a short boat ride away from Venice, but especially during the frenzied opening days, it feels like it is a world apart.

Goldsmiths CCA. Photo: Mark Blower.

Costume as Armor

Growing up in post-Soviet Tallinn, Lemsalu started dressing up at 15, in the early 2000s, when she began going to an Estonian factory rave, a kind of Eastern European twist on Studio 54.

“There was a secret upstairs room where often one or two artists would curate a topic, a dress code, fashion shows, or performances,” she recalls. “And I began developing a character there where I felt there was room to play. But I don’t take myself seriously. It’s much more fun to dress up. I can choose whatever character.”

She went on to study ceramics and design at the Estonian Academy of Arts, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine arts in Copenhagen, and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her sculptures and environments often include animal pelts, clothing, and food arranged around her impressively large scale ceramic objects. And just as she becomes a character within her art, her installations often feature headless or floating bodies, or made-up creatures.

Years after she first put on a costume, Lemsalu continues to approach dressing up as an opportunity to tell a story or create a life. She originally discovered the Bolivian witch outfit she had on when we first met buried under textiles at a thrift store. She imagines its original witch owner chewing on coca leaves as she wore it, with green saliva dripping down his chin and onto his front.

When she encounters an object like this, Lemsalu says, she feels a powerful urge to preserve it. “I fear that if I get rid of such things, the memory of this person will disappear,” she says. She doesn’t feel particularly proud of this sentimentality, so she wears the objects around to avoid becoming a “hoarder.”

Similarly, the artist feels protective of the sculptures she makes, which she occasionally embodies or interacts with. “Sometimes a work just needs the presence of my body in order to continue living alone afterwards,” she tells me about her performances. “It’s some kind of encouragement for them or an initiation. They will continue living without me.”

It’s tempting to connect her interest in storytelling and preserved histories to her upbringing in a country whose history before it gained independence in 1991 is easily fascinating to the Western world. But Lemsalu isn’t interested in a biographical interpretation of her work. “I am always kind of escaping from labels,” she says. “I have roots and, even though I would like to be this intergalactic traveler, of course there are major influences through how I grew up.”

Goldsmiths CCA. Photo: Mark Blower.

Looking to the Future

Like her costumes, Lemsalu’s art pulls you in with its exuberant, wild colors, and curious forms—and then it leaves you feeling a little uneasy. At her Goldsmiths exhibition at their new CCA, a mess of legs kick out from underneath a bright pink duvet and crawl across the walls. In another room, rainbow bodies soar overhead and dive into a pool surrounded by a pastel quilts.

But as you look closer, that pool, filled with murky liquid, begins to feel more ominous. In another room, birds hold up empty clothes, from a soiled wedding dress to a safety jacket. Lifeboats, helmets, parachutes, and sleeping bags are recurring motifs, calling to mind the escalating crisis over migration worldwide. It’s as if Lemsalu is trying to create a shelter for her characters, to give them safe passage into another world.

I ask if her clothes also serve as protective armor for her own growing presence in the art world. She seems to agree. “I don’t know when it will all disgust me to the point that I will make teacups, and be happy with that,” she says. “I am trying to just put everything into what I am doing now and get good people on board. I will run with my idealism until it runs out.”

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