breakthrough and little steps
Angled lines become steeper until a single-line is standing straight up. The angle between the lines changes in perfect increments until a line is standing vertical. What a perfection and control! What an optimism is reflected here, while this project began.
This artwork is made in 1971, this optimism is from a different century.
Or, do you recognize this optimism, even in our own century?
I don t experience this kind of perfection and control in the management of climate change, the distribution of wealth, the attention for minorities, the respect for different gender.
Or do I ask too much, than?
Maybe it is a good idea to focus on the mere horizontal lines, the first steps in the development but not on the end goal. It is a historic breakthrough that we are more active in issues as climate change, wealth, ethnic minorities, gender. Is there a time period when we're more active in these subjects?
Are you helping? Do you help in bending the line? Do you help in giving more respect to plants, animals, the poor, the minority, gender?
By Theo, www.artatsite.com
doorbraak en kleine stapjes
Schuine lijnen worden steeds steiler totdat n lijn kaarsrecht omhoog staat. De hoek tussen de lijnen verandert in perfecte stapjes tot een lijn verticaal staat. Wat een perfectie en een controle! Wat spreekt hier een optimisme uit, toen er is begonnen werd met dit project.
Dit kunstwerk komt uit 1971, dit optimisme komt uit een andere eeuw.
Of herkent u dit optimisme, ook in onze eeuw?
Ik ervaar nog geen perfectie en controle in de beheersing van de klimaatverandering, in de verdeling van rijkdom, in de aandacht voor minderheden, in het respect voor de genders.
Of vraag ik dan teveel?
Misschien is het goed om te focussen op de meer horizontale lijnen, de eerste stappen in de ontwikkeling en nog niet op het einddoel. Het immers al een historische doorbraak dat wij actiever zijn bij onderwerpen als klimaat, rijkdom, minderheden, genders. Is er een periode geweest waarin we hierin actiever waren?
Helpt u mee? Helpt u mee in het ombuigen van de lijn? Helpt u mee in het geven van meer respect voor plant, dier, arme, minderheid, genders?
Door Theo, www.artatsite.com.
www.welt-der-form.net:
Andreu Alfaro, 5 August 1929 13 December 2012.
Un arbre per l'any 2000, 1971.
Aluminium, 9 m hoch. Platz "Am Plärrer", Nürnberg. Anlässlich des "Symposion Urbanum".
Foto: TEW.
www.artatsite.com:
Un Arbre per l'Any: A Tree for every Day.
www.coleccionbbva.com:
In the early 1960s he joined the Parpalló Group, founded with the goal of promoting the contemporary art made in Valencia in the wider international context. In 1966 he took part for the first time at the Venice Biennale, where he would exhibit again in 1976 and 1995.
In the 1970s he created Generatrices, his most celebrated body of work which includes, among other sculptures, Un m n per a infants, on view in the Open Air Sculpture Museum on Paseo de la Castellana in Madrid.
Worth highlighting in the artist s overall output is his solid commitment with pubic art. Particularly remarkable in that regard are Espacio para una fuente and Cosmos, his first large-format sculptures. Alfaro conceived his public works as true collective monuments.Throughout his career Alfaro was distinguished with many awards, including the 1980 Jaime I Prize, the 1981 Spanish National Visual Arts Award, the 1991 Alfons Roig Visual Arts Prize from the Valencia Provincial Council, and the 2012 University of Valencia Medal.
www.wikipedia.org:
Andreu Alfaro Hernández (5 August 1929 - 13 December 2012) was a Spanish sculptor.
Alfaro was born in Valencia in 1929, the son of a butcher. A self-taught artist, he was related to the Valencian artists collective Parpall Group (1957), and influenced by constructivists, such as Constantin Brancusi or Antoine Pevsner, and by Jorge Oteiza.
He began to develop his work as a sculptor in the late 1950s, experimenting with metallic materials such as steel and aluminium. In 1966 he participated for the first time in the Venice Biennale, showing "My Black Brother". In 1980 he received the Prize of Honor Jaume I, and in 1981 the National Prize of Fine Arts of Spain. In 1995 he was again invited to participate in the Venice Biennale.
Alfaro learned the principles of geometry and applied his knowledge to create abstract works. His sculptures are usually full of nuances that play with the module, the series and light and color. He was also described as a minimalist artist, albeit with reservations.
There are works by Alfaro in museums around the world and on public roads in many towns, particularly in Spain and Germany.
Angled lines become steeper until a single-line is standing straight up. The angle between the lines changes in perfect increments until a line is standing vertical. What a perfection and control! What an optimism is reflected here, while this project began.
This artwork is made in 1971, this optimism is from a different century.
Or, do you recognize this optimism, even in our own century?
I don t experience this kind of perfection and control in the management of climate change, the distribution of wealth, the attention for minorities, the respect for different gender.
Or do I ask too much, than?
Maybe it is a good idea to focus on the mere horizontal lines, the first steps in the development but not on the end goal. It is a historic breakthrough that we are more active in issues as climate change, wealth, ethnic minorities, gender. Is there a time period when we're more active in these subjects?
Are you helping? Do you help in bending the line? Do you help in giving more respect to plants, animals, the poor, the minority, gender?
By Theo, www.artatsite.com
doorbraak en kleine stapjes
Schuine lijnen worden steeds steiler totdat n lijn kaarsrecht omhoog staat. De hoek tussen de lijnen verandert in perfecte stapjes tot een lijn verticaal staat. Wat een perfectie en een controle! Wat spreekt hier een optimisme uit, toen er is begonnen werd met dit project.
Dit kunstwerk komt uit 1971, dit optimisme komt uit een andere eeuw.
Of herkent u dit optimisme, ook in onze eeuw?
Ik ervaar nog geen perfectie en controle in de beheersing van de klimaatverandering, in de verdeling van rijkdom, in de aandacht voor minderheden, in het respect voor de genders.
Of vraag ik dan teveel?
Misschien is het goed om te focussen op de meer horizontale lijnen, de eerste stappen in de ontwikkeling en nog niet op het einddoel. Het immers al een historische doorbraak dat wij actiever zijn bij onderwerpen als klimaat, rijkdom, minderheden, genders. Is er een periode geweest waarin we hierin actiever waren?
Helpt u mee? Helpt u mee in het ombuigen van de lijn? Helpt u mee in het geven van meer respect voor plant, dier, arme, minderheid, genders?
Door Theo, www.artatsite.com.
www.welt-der-form.net:
Andreu Alfaro, 5 August 1929 13 December 2012.
Un arbre per l'any 2000, 1971.
Aluminium, 9 m hoch. Platz "Am Plärrer", Nürnberg. Anlässlich des "Symposion Urbanum".
Foto: TEW.
www.artatsite.com:
Un Arbre per l'Any: A Tree for every Day.
www.coleccionbbva.com:
In the early 1960s he joined the Parpalló Group, founded with the goal of promoting the contemporary art made in Valencia in the wider international context. In 1966 he took part for the first time at the Venice Biennale, where he would exhibit again in 1976 and 1995.
In the 1970s he created Generatrices, his most celebrated body of work which includes, among other sculptures, Un m n per a infants, on view in the Open Air Sculpture Museum on Paseo de la Castellana in Madrid.
Worth highlighting in the artist s overall output is his solid commitment with pubic art. Particularly remarkable in that regard are Espacio para una fuente and Cosmos, his first large-format sculptures. Alfaro conceived his public works as true collective monuments.Throughout his career Alfaro was distinguished with many awards, including the 1980 Jaime I Prize, the 1981 Spanish National Visual Arts Award, the 1991 Alfons Roig Visual Arts Prize from the Valencia Provincial Council, and the 2012 University of Valencia Medal.
www.wikipedia.org:
Andreu Alfaro Hernández (5 August 1929 - 13 December 2012) was a Spanish sculptor.
Alfaro was born in Valencia in 1929, the son of a butcher. A self-taught artist, he was related to the Valencian artists collective Parpall Group (1957), and influenced by constructivists, such as Constantin Brancusi or Antoine Pevsner, and by Jorge Oteiza.
He began to develop his work as a sculptor in the late 1950s, experimenting with metallic materials such as steel and aluminium. In 1966 he participated for the first time in the Venice Biennale, showing "My Black Brother". In 1980 he received the Prize of Honor Jaume I, and in 1981 the National Prize of Fine Arts of Spain. In 1995 he was again invited to participate in the Venice Biennale.
Alfaro learned the principles of geometry and applied his knowledge to create abstract works. His sculptures are usually full of nuances that play with the module, the series and light and color. He was also described as a minimalist artist, albeit with reservations.
There are works by Alfaro in museums around the world and on public roads in many towns, particularly in Spain and Germany.