Iván Argote is featured in Vermelho’s cinema space, Sala Antonio, with his new film, Fructose (2016), a production commissioned by CIFO – Cisneros Fountanals Foundation.
In Fructose, Argote performs choreographic and sculptural experiments with the grace of images at reduced speed, allowing a better observation of the effect of gravity on different bodies.
Iván Argote is featured in Vermelho’s cinema space, Sala Antonio, with his new film, Fructose (2016), a production commissioned by CIFO – Cisneros Fountanals Foundation.
In Fructose, Argote performs choreographic and sculptural experiments with the grace of images at reduced speed, allowing a better observation of the effect of gravity on different bodies.
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Photo Edouard Fraipont
Mineral pigment ink printing on paper
Photo Edouard Fraipont
The New Methods series reproduces images from fragments of copies of classical sculptures acquired by Argote in China. Over them, however, the artist inserts texts that he himself created, which reveal his sociopolitical and artistic questionings.[:
115,5 x 73,5 x 4 cm
Mineral pigment ink printing on paper
Photo Edouard FraipontThe New Methods series reproduces images from fragments of copies of classical sculptures acquired by Argote in China. Over them, however, the artist inserts texts that he himself created, which reveal his sociopolitical and artistic questionings.[:
Mineral pigment ink printing on paper
Photo Edouard Fraipont
The New Methods series reproduces images from fragments of copies of classical sculptures acquired by Argote in China. Over them, however, the artist inserts texts that he himself created, which reveal his sociopolitical and artistic questionings.
115,5 x 73,5 x 4 cm
Mineral pigment ink printing on paper
Photo Edouard FraipontThe New Methods series reproduces images from fragments of copies of classical sculptures acquired by Argote in China. Over them, however, the artist inserts texts that he himself created, which reveal his sociopolitical and artistic questionings.
Photo Edouard Fraipont
Laser cut wool and silk and magnets
Photo Edouard Fraipont
Covers is an extention of the works on collage that Argote has been developping for several years. Digging into historical issues and imagery about the impact of ‘ideological wars’, this layered compositions behave as allegories about how our subjectivies are conditioned by external forces linked to a certain idea of progress and truth, that has been shaped by historical centers of power in their own conveniences and perdurability. Here the superposition of burned and cut fabrics, makes appear images and texts that confronts slogans, statements, and found fotage, creatng a texture with multiple entraces of lecture. Argote beliefs in the idea of ‘not- disociation’, which tends to approach big historical issues without avoiding the noise around them, the intrinsic complexity of the way look at them, and also the way they affect us in a personal level.
270 x 158,5 cm
Laser cut wool and silk and magnets
Photo Edouard FraipontCovers is an extention of the works on collage that Argote has been developping for several years. Digging into historical issues and imagery about the impact of ‘ideological wars’, this layered compositions behave as allegories about how our subjectivies are conditioned by external forces linked to a certain idea of progress and truth, that has been shaped by historical centers of power in their own conveniences and perdurability. Here the superposition of burned and cut fabrics, makes appear images and texts that confronts slogans, statements, and found fotage, creatng a texture with multiple entraces of lecture. Argote beliefs in the idea of ‘not- disociation’, which tends to approach big historical issues without avoiding the noise around them, the intrinsic complexity of the way look at them, and also the way they affect us in a personal level.
Mineral pigment ink printing on paper
Photo Edouard Fraipont
The New Methods series reproduces images from fragments of copies of classical sculptures acquired by Argote in China. Over them, however, the artist inserts texts that he himself created, which reveal his sociopolitical and artistic questionings.
115,5 x 73,5 x 4 cm
Mineral pigment ink printing on paper
Photo Edouard FraipontThe New Methods series reproduces images from fragments of copies of classical sculptures acquired by Argote in China. Over them, however, the artist inserts texts that he himself created, which reveal his sociopolitical and artistic questionings.
Photo Edouard Fraipont
Video – color; sound
Photo Still do vídeo
Deep in the British countryside, the English State has preserved a tree with great care. It is the famous apple tree of which a fruit, falling, is believed to have inspired Isaac Newton, during one of his bucolic walks around 1666, and his law of universal gravity. Taking as a point of departure this anecdote (manufactured in reality 30 years later by the wise man’s first biographer) and the current site of this legendary tree, the Colombian artist Iván Argote carries out experiments as choreographic as sculptural by the grace, among others, of allowed down images which allow better observation of the effect of gravity on diverse bodies. Borrowing popularization texts from the history of science as well as manuals for children, or indeed educational clips, the film amusingly gives joyous illustrations of scientific phenomena.
22’52’’
Video – color; sound
Photo Still do vídeoDeep in the British countryside, the English State has preserved a tree with great care. It is the famous apple tree of which a fruit, falling, is believed to have inspired Isaac Newton, during one of his bucolic walks around 1666, and his law of universal gravity. Taking as a point of departure this anecdote (manufactured in reality 30 years later by the wise man’s first biographer) and the current site of this legendary tree, the Colombian artist Iván Argote carries out experiments as choreographic as sculptural by the grace, among others, of allowed down images which allow better observation of the effect of gravity on diverse bodies. Borrowing popularization texts from the history of science as well as manuals for children, or indeed educational clips, the film amusingly gives joyous illustrations of scientific phenomena.
Photo Edouard Fraipont