sábado, 13 de octubre de 2012

Benjamin's studio 13th of October 2012

Afternoon with Benjamin

Yesterday I went round to Benjamin's studio and he showed me his latest paintings:

http://blip.tv/archer-doc/benjamin-tous-13th-of-october-2012-6397934

We then went & had lunch in a very nice vegetarian restaurant called Teresa Carles http://www.teresacarles.com/.
It was funny because Benjamin is following a special diet as he has had an upset stomach for quite a while so he had to ask if it was possible to make him a poached egg.  The owner of the restaurant came over to our table and she happened to be a lady I had been introduced to a few weeks before at a vermut event during the fiestas de la Merce. A very nice lady and we all got chatting.
We finished our meal and then headed down the ramblas to the Boqueria market so that Benjamin could buy "berros y manzanas" watercress and apples.
Benjamin ordered 1 apple of each type of apples they had.  I must say I did find it a bit exaggerated that they said they all cost the same: 2,50€ a kilo. Outrageous!
We then strolled on down the Ramblas and went to see what exhibition they had on in the  Arts Santa Monica.

"All the birds of the world" is an exhibition that reflects and stirs the concepts of aggression and violence in nature that originated in formal and phonetic similarity of the words "Lead-Pen" "Plom  and also in the their semantic fields.

At the show, you can see three facilities that have a common thread:
The transformation, poetic objects and purpose in the practice of hunting, particularly the hunting of birds through the concepts of "Melt" and "tamed".

The first, entitled "Melt" are a showcase where you can see the title of the exhibition "All birds of the world" lettered typography made ​​of lead, resulting in a series of cast bullets lead ammunition. We also found the gun, which has been transformed, the butt of wood has been carved the word "melt".

In the second installation ("tame") there is a text, written with a pencil attached to a riffle and you can see the text being written with a riffle on paper , Olivier Messiaen called "Olivier Messiaen et les oisseaux" that speaks intimately to of his work as a musician and the sound of birdsong and the music that defines excellence.
Also, you can see a video that includes images of the action and a voice reciting the text.

Finally, we see a sound work (lead-lead) that uses the vibration  that  the birdsong causes in the membrane of a loudspeaker to shake and jump a series of lead bullets ring out from inside a glass dome disposed on the same speaker, thus, produce sound.
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After that we walked and chatted down by the old port Port Vell






















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