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Unlimited Bodies | Corps Sans Limite
- Dates: 13 October 2012, 24 October 2012
- Venue: Palais d'Iéna, Paris
- Country: France
- Type: Group Exhibition
- Artwork: see the project
Unlimited Bodies at Palais d’Iéna invites thirty international artists to engage sculpture in a one-on-one confrontation with its public. The exhibition highlights the metaphorical and allegorical transformations that occur to the body when it is treated as sculpture. Unlimited Bodies addresses the political body, the action and mobilization of citizens.
Lucy + Jorge Orta’s work Antarctica Fluvial Intervention Unit, evokes issues related to migration, refuge and shelter: “The third millenium belongs to mankind, who dream of great things”, is to be found inscribed inside the wooden boat. Accompanying this work will be Lucy + Jorge Orta’s Antarctica Passport Bureau. This work is at once an installation and participatory action. It proposes an amendment to Article 13 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Art. 13:3 “Every human being has the right to move freely and cross frontiers to their chosen territory.” Visitors will be invited to register for an Antarctica World Passport, a precious, editioned artwork that will mark the visitor’s entry into the Antarctica world community. This work attests that the body and the body politic are inextricably linked.
Since 1959 the Palais d'Iéna is the headquarters of the Conseil économique, social et environnemental, third constitutional Assembly of the French Republic. These artists will move into the 1000 square meters of the Hypostyle room in the Palais d'Iéna for twelve days.
The scuplture-bodies of the show are of a human dimension and emphasize the formal analogy between sculpture and the human figure. The social and political dimensions of human beings are also part of sculpture's ambition. The displayed works directly question the place of the human being in today's world.
Open every day from 12am to 7pm. Monday 15 & 23 October 11am to 10pm
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FIAC Hors Les Murs
- Dates: 16 October 2012, 24 October 2012
- Venue: Jardin des Plantes Paris
- Country: France
- Type: Installation-action
- Artwork: see the project
In the framework of FIAC Hors les Murs 2012, at the main entrance of the Jardin des Plantes, Lucy + Jorge Orta present Antarctica World Passport Delivery Bureau, an important installation comprised of micro-architectures fabricated from recycled materials. This installation gives rise to an action: thousands of Antarctica World Passports will be distributed to visitors aspiring to become citizens of the new Antarctica global community.
Spectator-participants can join the tens of thousands of citizens who have already received individual passports, each of which affirms that, “Every human being has the right to move freely and cross frontiers to their chosen territory." These passport also propose an amendment to Article 13 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights 13.3 with the following statement: "Individuals should not be deemed of an inferior status to that of capital, trade, telecommunication and pollution, all of which have no boundaries."
Lucy + Jorge Orta’s Antarctica World Passport is a an original artwork to be treasured and passed on to future generation, an attribute of citizenship of the world but also a testament that art can change lives.
The Studio Orta team will be on site to distribute passports October 16, 5:30pm to 8pm & October 21, 1pm to 4pm.
http://www.fiac.com/hors-les-murs-jardin-plantes.html#.UFMD52i6T8s
Lucy + Jorge Orta will also be on view at FIAC on the stand of galerieofmarseille. http://www.fiac.com/galerie.html?ex=461#.UFMEI2i6T8s -
Clouds | Nuages
- Dates: 18 October 2012, 21 October 2012
- Venue: FIAC | galerieofmarseille
- Country: France
- Type: Art Fair
- Artwork: see the project
The cloud is an intermediary between two worlds. Its airy lightness and gas give free rein to the architectural imagination, whilst its liquid composition returns it to earth. The cloud, by virtue of its ubiquity, is an intercessor between reality and imagination, between heaven and earth, light and gravity. The absence of a stable form, which characterizes the cloud, is a powerful concept that embodies, with its dreams, the designs for an ideal society. Playing on its metamorphoses, it can convey, in the mode of fable, a more political message without gravity. Here, the message focuses on water, from which clouds are constituted, by asking how humans will share this resource on earth.
On galerieofmarseille’s stand at FIAC, Lucy + Jorge Orta will present Cloud Raft, one of the sculptures exhibited at La Maréchalerie – centre d’art de Versailles in 2011. Here the clouds proposed by Lucy + Jorge Orta take on greater material significance. They evoque the perturbations of the water cycle, its pollution, commodification and scarcity. Constituted from recycled plastic bottles, Cloud Raft refers in particular to the new plastic waste continents adrift on the world's oceans, a striking image of a doomed world. The reflection on the water is an undercurrent throughout several recent works of this binomial series, gathered under the title OrtaWater: machinery to distribute or recycle water, and vessels to ensure survival of the living after the environmental disasters that lie ahead. In this perspective, the cloud can be seen as a thermodynamic megamachine: it makes rain, recycles water and distributes it on our planet.
The artists will also be participating in FIAC Hors les Murs 2012 with the installation/action International Passport Distribution Bureau, presented on this occasion at the main entrance of the Jardin des Plantes.
http://www.fiac.com/galerie.html?ex=461#.UFMEI2i6T8s
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Spirits of the Huveaune | La fée du vieux moulin (Gyptis)
- Dates: 13 October 2012, 13 October 2012
- Venue: Marseille, valley of the Huveaune
- Country: France
- Type: Public sculpture commission
- Artwork: see the project
"Five public sculptures – Spirits of the Huveaune – take the form of female characters along the valley of the river Huveaune, situated between the spring, deep in the Provence Alps and the estuary at the Mediterranean Sea port of Marseille. The sculptures, based on historical texts, legends and stories about the valley, recount the feminine presence associated with the river. The legendry, supernatural and the imaginary that perpetuate the history of the river Huveaune are the sources of inspiration." Lucy + Jorge Orta
The Huveaune coastal river in eastern Provence originates in the Massif de la Sainte Baume and flows all the way to the Mediterreanean Sea at Marseille. Although it has long facilitated myriad human activities from agriculture to industry, the Huveaune is now little known and often ill-treated. Eager to highlight the river's rich natural and cultural heritage and to strengthen the bonds among the neighborhoods and municipalities that share it, the Association Rives et Cultures has commissioned a work by artists Lucy + Jorge Orta under the auspices of Fondation de France’s Nouveaux commanditaire and Marseille-Provence 2013, European Capital of Culture.
Titled Le Chemin des fées, the artists have devised a parcours of five sculptures that pay homage to the Huveaune's presence in four municipalities: la Fée de la source (Marie) – the Martellière, Saint-Zacharia; la Fée du pont (Ubelka) – Moulin Saint-Claude, Auriol; la Fée des berges (Manon) – Îlot des Berges Park, Aubagne; la Fée du vieux moulin (Gyptis) – Vieux Moulin Park, Marseille; and la Fée du lac (Ophélie) – Borély Park, Marseille.
These fairies, dreaming or alert, melancholic or resolved, invest these sites like genii loci and weave an unprecedented link between the past and the present. They invite visitors to discover the Huveaune through stories and to invent new ways to live alongside it. Referring to the universal water cycle, Le Chemin des fées aims to raise public awareness of environmental issues related to the river’s fate, thereby raising the question of water management in the future, here and elsewhere.
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Fabulae Romanae
- Dates: 22 March 2012, 23 September 2012
- Venue: MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome
- Country: Italy
- Type: Installation
- Artwork: see the project
Fabulae Romanae curated by Maria Luisa Frisa, is an ambitious sculpture and video installation specifically created by Lucy + Jorge Orta for MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts and that will form part the Museum’s new display Tridimensionale.
Fabulae Romanae is symbolic excursus that traces the artists’ key themes: starting with Refuge Wear, “a nomadic form of shelter, a small portable habitat, which combines in a single conceptual solution the physical, social, and symbolic functions of architecture and clothing”, as described by Maria Luisa Frisa.
The new Dome Dwelling sculptures in the exhibition are framed by Fabulae Romanae - Spirits, an immense large screen video performance that was recently filmed in Rome. The mysterious Spirits, who interact with the city’s architecture, embody the ethereal sentinels entrusted with the task of restoring the vital breath of the city. The scenarios these metaphorical characters enact are beautifully articulated through a series of spoken verses composed for the film by the poet Mario Petrucci.
Fabulae Romanae is commissioned by Ermenegildo Zegna and is the first Special Project of the initiative ZegnArt, a multi-faceted and multi-year project dedicated to the field of contemporary visual arts. To close the exhibition Zegna will donate a sculpture to the MAXXI’s permanent collection.
Fabulae Romanae has the support of the Centre for Sustainable Fashion at London College of Fashion and has been made possible with the assistance of alumni from the College: Chloé Gayet, Mio Jin, Lara Torres, Oliver Ruuger and Sum Yu Li.
http://www.zegnart.com/lucy-jorge-orta-fabulae-romanae
