Video – Aldo Chaparro

Idea – Materia – Tiempo

2020

Video

1:32 minutos

Abandonar La Técnica

2020

Video

1:32 minutos

Sonido y Silencio

2020

Video

1:08 minutos

Demoler

video

1:43 minutos

Gael Carmona

2015

En el 2015 Public Art Projects me invito a participar en una muestra colectiva en una casona vieja de la ciudad de México, el Proyecto estaba definido por el hecho de que la casona seria demolida a los pocos días de terminar la exposición. Mis piezas fueron 3 laminas de acero inoxidable iguales a las que normalmente doblo con mis manos y con mi cuerpo para hacer mis piezas de aceros arrugados pero para este proyecto pegue las laminas planas a las paredes de la casa, la idea era que demolieran la casa con los aceros adentro, de esta forma la casa se convertiría en una extensión de mi proceso tradicional en donde cambiamos mi propia fuerza por la fuerza de la casa cayendo sobre las laminas. Después de algunas semanas me avisaron que habían encontrado entre los escombros de la casa una punta de uno de los aceros. La desenterramos con palas y picos, solamente encontramos un pedazo de uno de ellos, la fuerza de la casa cayendo dejo sus marcas en la lamina transformándola radicalmente y de una forma muy diferente a las que yo arrugo con mi cuerpo.

Ensō

2008

Video

2:57 minutos

Ensō se basa en el acto de unir extremos para transformar su forma en un círculo. De igual manera que las líneas en el ensō, la transformación hace que las lineas se encuentren y se una consigo misma de manera perpetua. Al sustraerle todo principio y fin, únicamente queda presente su ser. El proceso de crear abre paso al autoconocimiento, lo cual es precisamente aquello que el ensō representa; las líneas llegan mas allá de la forma para poder capturar momentos.

Human Disco Ball

2000

Video

00:50 minutos

Construcción 1

2000

Video

00:55 minutos

Andador 20

1999

Video

1:27 minutos

Estudio

1997-1999

Video

2:30 minutos

FLYING OBJECTS (OBJETOS VOLADORES)

1999

Video

0:34 minutos

This video is a collaboration with Alejandro Rosso, in those years Alejandro and I had formed a band called Solomon Medrano in memory of a drunkard who drove his van from a nearby ranch all the way to Monterrey and ran over several cyclists during an international cycling event.

The images correspond to spheres located in different areas of the city used to highlight electric cables. During those months, my video camera got damaged, which resulted on videos with a very particular pixelation. As I loved the way it pixelated the images, I never repaired it. This piece was the first one I recorded with the camera’s flaw.

FLYING OBJECTS

Solomon Medrano.

Video: Aldo Chaparro

Audio: Alejandro rosso

1999

Urban Shelter

1998

Video

1:37 minutos

TALLAS (CARVINGS)

1987 – 1998

TALLA I

1998

Video

11:54 minutos

TALLA II

1998

Video

1:31 minutos

TALLA III

1998

Video

1:37 minutos

The three carving videos were created around 1987, TALLA 1 and TALLA 2 were shown in Fluo, a solo show I had with Ramis Barquet, which also was the last solo show I did during those years in Monterrey. TALLA 3 was part of the Femsa Biennial in 1998. The installation consisted of a table with books from my father’s library that had been wildly attacked by moths. I saw the insect’s path through the book pages as a negative form, which became evident when I browsed rapidly through the pages. The video of this action was reproduced on a monitor above the books. Just like Talla 1 and 2, Talla 3 speaks a little about a topic that has always interested me: the relationship between positive and negative spaces.

John Cage said that music was the result of the relationship between sound and silence. Just like silence, the volumes around us are defined by the relationship between solid and void. It is the balance of both what defines form in the real world. For the Chinese, a cup isn’t defined by it’s matter, but by it’s capacity to hold. Containers need emptiness to hold, hence, gaps and voids define form.

After WWII, when Europe was facing a tremendous loss of humanity, two artists were highly promoted; Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth. A common characteristic in them were that holes went across their forms. These holes alluded to an interior, which in a way represented the soul. The soul was what everyone in those moments felt obliged to talk about.

In the specific case of my carving videos, which represent my first thoughts on this subject, seek in some way to create a similar feeling to the one caused by the Tibetan mandalas. In that way, the apparent nonsense of eliminating the object makes sense as the process is praised. Carving a piece of wood to the point where the objectives isn’t finding a shape inside the block, but a process of reduction that will end with the material. In the same way, the pencil sharpener devouring the pencil emphasizes the reductive process of carving, converting solid into void, while propping up the most important parts of art: the process, the experience, and just like mandalas, the present moment.