Mandala Mental
A Mental Mandala comprises three main elements – an exhibition of paintings and projected films & music, a choreography that defines through time space itself, and a text that contextualise a dramaturgy for yet another possible exhibition.
An exhibition of raw, white and blacks paintings taking the shape of a film-still gradually fragmented are disseminated throughout the galleries. Inside the gallery, the black monochromes act in turn and alternatively as the screens for the projected films as an exhibition realised together with Swiss artist Philippe Decrauzat. This series focuses on filming a musician as he produces the soundtrack for this film to be. Portraits of musicians F.M. Einheit, Ulrich Krieger, Alan Licht, and Alan Vega are superimposed with a landscape that encompasses views of a textile factory, dunes of the Sahara desert or extreme close up of a nylon canvas smeared with acid as instructed by Gustav Metzger.
In the other gallery, the presence of the body through time unveils a slow inscription in space as a dancer works an imaginary line. A score written by French choreographer Myriam Gourfink for one dancer, Margot Dorléans, choreograph a walk whose duration is that of an exhibition. Ultimately, this score is both the instructions for the dancer, the libretto for the public, the memory of what had happen, and for what is about it to happen.
Artists: Philippe Decrauzat (Switzerland, 1974), Myriam Gourfink (France, 1968), and Luigi Amara (México, 1971). With the participation of F.M. Einheit (Germany, 1958), Ulrich Krieger (Germany, 1962) Alan Licht (USA, 1968), Gustav Metzger (Germany,1926), Alan Vega (USA, 1938), Robert Poss (EU, 1956) and Margot Dorleans (intérprete).
Curator: Mathieu Copeland
Associate Curator: Amanda de la Garza
Publicación
Publication
Mandala Mental
Authors : Luigi Amara, Mathieu Copeland, Amanda de la Garza
Language : Spanish & English
Editor: MUAC-UNAM
Price: $105
