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Thursday, October 27, 2016
Allora & Calzadilla
Jennifer Allora was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1974. Guillermo Calzadilla was born in 1971 in Havana. Collaborating since 1995, Allora and Calzadilla approach visual art as a set of experiments that test whether ideas such as authorship, nationality, borders, and democracy describes today's society. In the video they talk about how they use forms in their art. Not just about the form of weight, scale and size of the art but showing forms of violence, oppression, genocide, and pollution. They decide how their art take shape in what they are trying to show in what is happening in today's society. They are also trying to get people to understand the aesthetic and its relation to politics has to do fundamentally with form, giving viewers another idea about form. By drawing historical, cultural, and political metaphors out of basic materials, Allora and Calzadilla’s works explore the complex associations between an object and its meaning.
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I really like the fact that these two artists try to make their art based on what's happening in today's society.I like when artists combine art with real life.Giving a new meaning of things not quite far of what we are living. And also the way they're using aesthetic to make people to understand its relationship with politics has to do with form, giving them another idea about it by drawing out of basic materials.
ReplyDeleteNice summary of the two artists i think it's great when artists have their artwork reflect the problems in society and has the ability to make people think really hard about these issues.
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