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As If Magazine Issue 18 Let There Be Light Grimanesa Amoros As If Magazine featuring Grimanesa Amoros Portrait and Interview by Tatijana Shoan “There’s a certain Slant of light” is the first line of a poem of the same name written by American poet and writer Emily Dickinson back in 1861. The poem likens winter sunlight to cathedral music and considers the spiritual effects of the light. Light has been a theme throughout history for poets, writers and artists, and Peruvian-American artist has taken this theme to an experiential level. More than using light to illuminate her work, light is her main medium, which she controls through a complicated and intricate proprietary computer system that allows her to choreograph rays of light in various color hues to hypnotic music. This interdisciplinary artist is known for her large-scale light sculpture installations that incorporate elements from sculpture, video, drawings, printing and technology to create site-specific installations that engage architecture and captivate viewers. Amorós’ ephemeral and transcendent works reflect her Peruvian heritage and the communities where the artwork lives, and aims to bring communities together and build a bridge between the past, present and future. Grimanesa Amorós “LIGHT IS EPHEMERAL, AND I LOVE THE FACT THAT EVERY PERSON CAN CONNECT TO IT—PEOPLE HAVE A RELATIONSHIP AND ATTACHMENT TO LIGHT.” Grimanesa Amorós As If Magazine featuring Grimanesa Amoros As If Magazine featuring Grimanesa Amoros As If Magazine featuring Grimanesa Amoros As If Magazine featuring Grimanesa Amoros As If Magazine featuring Grimanesa Amoros As If Magazine featuring Grimanesa Amoros As If Magazine Issue 18 Cover As If Magazine Issue 18 featuring Naomi Watts, Dominique Fishback, Jennifer Sears, Rainsford, and Richard Butler. AS IF Magazine is a large-format luxury biannual publication focused on the realms of artistic expression and the visionaries behind them. We feature individuals who have made a creative mark in our society in fashion, art, design, architecture, music, film, and business. We are the recipients of over 20 national and international awards in platinum and gold for Best New Magazine, Best Editorial Design, and Best Cover Design. AS IF Magazine is currently distributed by Speedimpex USA, a leading national distributer to major US cities such as New York, Chicago, Washington DC, Miami, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and San Francisco, among others. AS IF can also be found in five- and six-star hotels and private charter jets both domestically and internationally. Send an email or media kit to [email protected] for more information.
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We talk with Grimanesa about everything from childhood influences in engineering to her Peurvian heritage to the development of an architectural process, and how she uses light to illuminate new perspectives.

Link to the article and video interview:
https://www.womenwecreate.com/post/in-conversation-with-grimanesa-amor%C3%B3s

Link to the audio podcast interview:
https://www.womenwecreate.com/podcast/episode/464892a6/interview-with-grimanesa-amoros

ArtW WWC Marjorie Martay Grimanesa Amoros Interview

Art W formed “Women We Create” as a platform for global, experiential journeys to connect art enthusiasts with artists of all disciplines to create more dialogue and opportunity for women in the arts. “Women We Create” had its inaugural journey in London during the fall of 2019.

Art W is an organization committed to promoting women working across creative disciplines by means of advocacy, curation, and education. Through a combination of awareness-raising campaigns, educational panels and tours, salon discussion series, and professional curation services, Art W aims to bring collectors, curators, and art enthusiasts together with notable women artists from around the world.
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AS IF Magazine
What Are Your Favorite Artists Cooking-Up During Quarantine?


Marina Abramovic’s recipe for “Drinking Water”
Grimanesa Amoros’ recipe for Pisco Sour


Link to the article: https://www.asifmag.com/story/grimanesa-amoros-quarantine-recipe
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Monthly April 2020 #163
Public Art in Smart City Special Feature

Public Art Magazine is a leading magazine of Korean contemporary art that covers various art and cultural contents, set up in October 2006.

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Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism 2009 Excellent Magazine Award
2010, 2012, 2014, 2015 Excellent Content Magazine Award
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2019 Enlightenment
  grimanesa amoros interview at creative pois-on podcast  
Creative Pois-On is a New York City-based storytelling platform with the mission to make the powers of creativity and imagination accessible to all of us.
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De.payser Projection

In resonance with the la Biennial of Lyon, Imagespassages organizes the exhibition landscape in Annecy. Imagespassages has gathered works that relate to a visual and poetic visual creation.

Intervenant dans le champ de l’art contemporain par l’image en mouvement, Imagespassages a regroupé des œuvres qui ne manquent pas d’être en lien avec une création visuelle engagée et poétique, faisant appel à des décalages, des moyens limités de production, à des éléments façonnés sur place et à la mise en espace de personnages réels et fictionnels de par leur singularité.

Read the projection program here.

La Biennale de Lyon is a cultural enterprise that alternately devises, produces and holds two major international events: the Dance Biennale and the Contemporary Art Biennale. In doing so it supports, promotes, develops and spreads their values.

MAGICAL ISA
Single Channel Video
Original Score: Dr. Adonis Gonzalez
Full Length: 5 min 13 sec
Year: 2015
Country of Production: Cuba / USA

 
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EL ARTE DE LA LUZ

grimanesa amoros lecture at Centro cultural la cupola

The Centro Cultural La Cúpula is a center of multidisciplinary art with a vocation of international exchanges, located in the historical center of the city of Merida, Yucatan, in Mexico.
Escuela Superior de Artes de Yucatán has the social responsibility of designing cultural extension programs aimed at the artistic and public community.
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Art Frenzy Takes Over Havana as Biennial Kicks Off
By Reuters
April 14, 2019

HAVANA — Cones of white paper sprout from the seasalt-eroded pillars of one colonial building along Havana’s seafront, elaborately painted curtains cascade from another while out front children play with an installation of multicolored hoses.

Havana’s 13th Biennial kicked off this weekend with works by more than 300 contemporary artists from 52 countries taking over the city’s museums, galleries and open-air spaces, and many more collateral exhibits.

“They turned my home into an artwork,” said Silvia Perez, smiling at the paper sprouting from the colonnade of her home, a piece by Cuban artist Elio Jesús Fonseca. “The artist said it meant peace.”

The transformation of the Malecon seafront boulevard into an open-air, interactive gallery, has become one of the most popular venues of Cuba’s most important arts event.

Along the sidewalk this year are smooth boulders encased in volcanic slabs by Mexican artist Jose Davila, while a swirling light installation by Peruvian artist Grimanesa Amoros protudes from a building.

Cuba’s Communist government, which has heavily promoted the arts since the country’s 1959 leftist revolution, created the Havana Biennial in 1984 to promote artists from the developing world, especially Cuban ones.

This year, 80 Cubans will exhibit their work, including a performance on Monday by Manuel Mendive, considered the Caribbean island’s top living artist.

Still, it also includes a large contingent of European and U.S. artists including Cuban-Americans like Enrique Martínez Celaya and Emilio Perez.

Biennial Director Jorge Alfonso said it had been a challenge to stage the biennial given Cuba’s difficult economic situation – authorities postponed it half a year – but that it had succeeded underscored the importance Cuba placed on culture.

“Not even in the most difficult moments have we ever given up on staging one of these kind of events,” he told Reuters.

“The slogan of this year’s edition, ‘the construction of the possible’, is related to our ideal that a better world is possible.”

Some artists who are critical of the government however have subverted that slogan.

In one piece on the Malecon called “Potemkin Village”, Cuban-born artist Juan Andres Milanes Benito who lives in Norway has propped what appears to be the perfect facade of a building on another that is falling into disrepair.

“It fits a lot with the Cuban government these days and how the system is working – there is a lot of facade,” he said. “Inside it is not so perfect.”

Originally he had wanted to replicate the facade of a renovated government building but authorities would not allow him, he said.

Some Cuban artists feel the Havana Biennial itself is a facade papering over simmering tensions between them and authorities.

Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara, who led a campaign against a controversial new decree on the cultural sector last year, was arrested last Friday after staging a small yet politically charged performance in his neighborhood.

His whereabouts remain unknown, his friends say. Asked by Reuters about the arrest in a news conference, the head of Cuba’s National Council of Visual Arts, Norma Rodriguez, said “as far as I know he is an activist not an artist”.

Cuba considers dissidents to be mercenaries in the pay of the United States trying to subvert the government.

The Havana Biennial runs until May 12.

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SURFACE MAGAZINE
Self Reflection
Celebrating the designers whose sense of style goes beyond the clothes they wear.

By Tiffany Jow
Photos by Christopher Garcia Valle


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GRIMANESA AMOROS

Why we love her: The Peruvian-born light artist makes weird, winding installations that explore her interest in nature, technology, and people. Over the summer she presented “Hedera,” a monumental sculpture made of glowing red-and-white tentacles that covered a ceiling of illuminated orbs, erected in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park.

How she organizes her clothing: “I have uniforms for traveling, for lectures, and for the studio. I don’t know if people who visit me here realize I’m actually wearing the same outfit all the time. I have it hanging in my bathroom, so it’s easy to put on. The uniforms began when I started traveling a lot. They are useful because you have more time to focus on work. I love that I can get dressed in two minutes—maybe five, to be generous.”

About all those rings: “I sleep with my jewelry on. I always wear it on all of my fingers and never my neck—I have necklaces, but they are itchy and get stuck in my hair. I used to have beads, which were given to me by spiritual leaders from temples I visited in Asia. But they became very common and lost their spirituality for me, so I stopped wearing them.”

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