martin bonadeo

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thermosynthesis

horizon on dome

intimacy

moebius display

re-visits

japanese eyes

art closed circuit

the interactive corn

inmigrant/argentine

tires

underground sky

hope

wind chimes

mulhulland drive

NEWS

two suns

closed open closet

off-on light

change change

real time still life

fused americas

melted figures

still life wallpapered

corners

together

indoor windows

delayed clock

el pueblo closed circuit

locked up landscapes

soul's path

site specific installation

gral. san martin cultural center

buenos aires 2001

 

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comment on the exhibition
by graciela taquini / translation by uschi groppel

The appointment is in the Centro Cultural San Martin, on the dry square and in a gallery that is not much more than a staircase we can find the opportunity to go through the SOUL´S WAY: FROM BASEMENT TO CEILING, an installation by Martin Bonadeo, on how to transform immateriality into materiality, limits into infinity and to transform material into air and clouds, to ascend to the sky under the threat of another darker sky without limits.
Martin Bonadeo (25) enters for the third time into the art world, this time with a photographical installation to transmute public space and to convert architecture into a journey towards celestial visions.
Just like a baroque artist he breaks architectural materiality and leads us into paradise, to the Elysian Fields, to life after death.

 

from basement to ceiling
by martin bonadeo

Do we see everything clearer from up here? Maybe the action of seeing is not the most important thing in this work, since it consists in an experience which goes beyond this. By contacting what surrounds us we are trying to make out the meaning of this other world. Through joined physical and chemical senses our souls are connected with their surroundings and with other souls which find themselves in the same search. This is why so many different methods of knowledge systematization have been developed, like philosophy, mathematics and religion which combine with others such as architecture in order to build real temples which elevate us physically. But is being in a higher altitude really the same as elevating the soul?
Since mankind invented the roof as limit between sky and earth, the majority gets confused by ceilings and ends up believing that the sky lies far away in space and accessibility. It is strange but only few realize something obvious: we live surrounded by sky.
The sky goes constantly through architecture and we are in permanent contact with it. This idea outlines us as physical and spiritual elements within this context. The body, too, works to separate our soul from this limitless space. These concepts can be empty or plenty in accordance with each one´s faith. A limitless space such as the sky can work as a perfect "paradise" where everything merges or as chaotic hell without limits and where everything is obscure.


Buenos Aires, August 2001