In second place....
No. 2 - Escuela Nueva Esperanza - Puerto Cabuyal, Ecuador
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Selected Works from VII BIAU - Selgas Cano No.3
Here are the three favourite projects featured in this year's BIAU in Medellin, as selected by Spanish architect Jose Selgas. In reverse order....
No. 3 - Pabellones de Granja - Cordoba, Argentina
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Manglar Largo - Ricardo Cardenas
'Long Mangrove' by Medellin-born artist, Ricardo Cardenas. Located by the entrance to Bancolombia's HQ in the centre of Medellin. The sculptures of Cardenas use fixed objects to evoke the feeling of movement. Some 650 stainless steel pieces are weaved together to create the 15 m long piece.
Superman El Pensador by Nadin Ospina
A troubled Superman by Bogota-born sculptor and artist Nadin Ospina. The sculpture, inspired by Auduste Rodin's 'The Thinker' is located in front of Bancolombia's HQ, a central part of the revitalisation of a former industrial zone in the heart of Medellin.
Why did you put a 'thinking' superman in front of Bancolombia's Medellin HQ?
“Superman in Medellin, Superman is an iconic figure that represents modernity, power and the first world it generates an ironic space that has a sense of humour, raising a series of questions related to the cultural interbreeding that we all face as Colombians. Particularly in Medellin, which is a very mixed-race society, where great modernism combines with the great advances in society and at the same time as a pre-modern society that is still muleteer, where the countryside is very important. This superman draws attention to this sense of cross-breeding that we live in Colombia."
Of all the superheroes why did you select Superman?
"Because Superman is the king, he's iconic, indestructible. Besides he has very interesting connotations: he is a poor little orphan, extra-terrestrial and with some very complex psychological problems and emotional difficulties. He is a very interesting personality."
Text translated from interview with the artist on Bancolombia's website.
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Where are we going?
Where are we going exactly?
More from the post post post exhibition in the Medellin Musuem of Modern Art - Cede del Rio. This installation from Argentine duo Adamo-Faiden.
Are you Kool?
They tell us to be like he is, to do like he does but...
Who is he?
We live in the age of the spectacle, set-up virtually, fiction
We adore unknown people by things often unknown.
We can live through thousand lives and be hundred persons simultaneously....
Would you like to be Rem Koolhaas?
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
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