{"id":1560,"date":"2020-02-07T17:58:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T09:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepodium.com.ph\/?page_id=1560"},"modified":"2023-08-07T15:20:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T07:20:32","slug":"art-at-the-podium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thepodium.com.ph\/art-at-the-podium\/","title":{"rendered":"Art at The Podium"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1560\" class=\"elementor elementor-1560\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f53b402 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"f53b402\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c3a2b4f e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"c3a2b4f\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b47e0b0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"b47e0b0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 30-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Art at THE PODIUM<\/h1>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-29a75bf elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"29a75bf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 30-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>Looks at bringing about encounters with artworks that respond to personal ideas of home and belonging combined with a vision of a livable earth for the present and future generations.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ab466ab e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ab466ab\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3729771 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"3729771\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-303aa15 elementor-tabs-view-horizontal elementor-widget elementor-widget-tabs\" data-id=\"303aa15\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"tabs.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 30-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-tabs.elementor-tabs-view-vertical 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data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-5053\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Cloud Canyons<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-5054\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"4\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-5054\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Chandelier II<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-5055\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"5\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-5055\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Amazon and Alien Blue Windows<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tabs-content-wrapper\" role=\"tablist\" aria-orientation=\"vertical\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"true\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-5051\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Divina Proportione<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-5051\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-5051\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"false\"><p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8562\" src=\"https:\/\/thepodium.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MHG_8497-HDR-Pano-Edit-1024x852.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"721\" height=\"600\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepodium.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MHG_8497-HDR-Pano-Edit-1024x852.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepodium.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MHG_8497-HDR-Pano-Edit-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepodium.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MHG_8497-HDR-Pano-Edit-768x639.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepodium.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MHG_8497-HDR-Pano-Edit-1536x1278.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thepodium.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MHG_8497-HDR-Pano-Edit.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 721px) 100vw, 721px\" \/>Divina Proportione<br \/>2006<br \/>Foster Divina (F- Size)<br \/>Huali wood<br \/>130 x 130 x 130cm\u00a0<\/p><p>Divina Proportione<br \/>2010<br \/>Foster Divina (F-Size)<br \/>Huali wood<br \/>130 x 130 x 130 cm<\/p><div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cdf5140 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"cdf5140\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\"><div class=\"elementor-widget-container\"><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">About the installation<\/h2><\/div><\/div><div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3e3fb56 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3e3fb56\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\"><div class=\"elementor-widget-container\"><p>Based on geometry and mathematical precision, Ai Weiwei\u2019s \u2018<i>Divina Proportione\u2019<\/i>\u00a0explore Classical ideals of proportion and harmony. Their form is inspired by the polyhedron, and is thought to be based on Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s illustrations for Luca Pacioli\u2019s book\u00a0<i>On the Divine Proportion\u00a0<\/i>written in 1509. However, in tongue-in-cheek manner, Ai claims to have first encountered the shape in the form of a toy that his cats played with, designed in the image of the spherical object. The design of the\u00a0<i>\u2018Divina Proportione\u2019<\/i>\u00a0balls is in line with the artist\u2019s architectural projects, which play with ambiguity in space.<\/p><p>Material and process are always symbolic in Ai\u2019s practice. Here, he uses Huali wood, a material associated with classic Chinese furniture, and the traditional interlocking joinery techniques of the Chinese Ming dynasty (1368- 1644). Complex and ambitious, the object exemplifies Ai\u2019s interest in antique Chinese carpentry, a traditional skill set which is currently being eroded in favour of the mass production and technological advancement of modern-day China.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-56c84a0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"56c84a0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\"><div class=\"elementor-widget-container\"><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">About the artist<\/h2><\/div><\/div><div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-44300d6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"44300d6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\"><div class=\"elementor-widget-container\"><p>Ai Weiwei (b. 1957, Beijing) is one of the most influential living artists. He is best known for his sculptures which conceptually marry traditional Chinese craft and modes of thought with contemporary political messages. Through his work, Ai has been a vocal critic of democracy and human rights in China.<\/p><p>Ai also served as artistic consultant on the design of the National \u201cBird\u2019s Nest\u201d Stadium for Bejing\u2019s 2008 Olympics and has had major solo exhibitions around the world, including Helsinki Art Museum (2016), Royal Academy, London (2015), Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (2014), Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire (2014), Indianapolis Museum of Art (2013), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. (2012), Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2011), Tate Modern, London (2010) and Haus der Kunst, Munich (2009).<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-5052\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Cubi<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-5052\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-5052\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8563\" src=\"https:\/\/thepodium.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MHG_7816-HDR-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"536\" height=\"600\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepodium.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MHG_7816-HDR-Edit.jpg 1714w, https:\/\/thepodium.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MHG_7816-HDR-Edit-268x300.jpg 268w, https:\/\/thepodium.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MHG_7816-HDR-Edit-914x1024.jpg 914w, https:\/\/thepodium.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MHG_7816-HDR-Edit-768x860.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepodium.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MHG_7816-HDR-Edit-1371x1536.jpg 1371w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><\/p><div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dd8ab88 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"dd8ab88\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\"><div class=\"elementor-widget-container\"><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">About the installation<\/h2><\/div><\/div><div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9cfb724 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9cfb724\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\"><div class=\"elementor-widget-container\"><p>Commissioned for the Leandro Locsin-designed Benguet Center building, this geometric metal sculpture, entitled \u2018<i>Cubi\u2019<\/i>\u00a0by Arturo Luz (1926 -2021) originally stood on the small lawn fronting the original building\u2019s entrance. \u2018<i>Cubi\u2019<\/i>, one of the few public sculptures in the Ortigas district, was produced in the 1980s and is one of Luz\u2019s various public sculptures scattered throughout Metro Manila.<\/p><p>Now gracing the driveway of The Podium\u2019s West Tower,<i>\u00a0\u2018Cubi\u2019\u00a0<\/i>is one of Luz\u2019s unique sculptures, not only due to its size, but also its perceived density. A large cubic structure balancing steadily on one of its corners, the sculpture\u2019s apparent solidity is given some lightness and much grace due to its bisected sides. This method is in keeping with the artist\u2019s sculptural system of interlocking planes and solids. Luz\u2019s modernism was undergirded by the local internationalism which was borne of the 60s, and his practice of abstraction, determined by the distillation of form and figure into the recognisable surfaces of geometry.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8f82683 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"8f82683\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\"><div class=\"elementor-widget-container\"><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">About the artist<\/h2><\/div><\/div><div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bb40099 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bb40099\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\"><div class=\"elementor-widget-container\"><p>Arturo Luz (1926-2021) was a painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, and photographer. He founded the Luz Gallery, an influential gallery in the 1960s, and was director of three cultural institutions of art in Manila in the 1970s: the Design Center Philippines, the Metropolitan Museum of Manila, and the Museum of Philippine Art.<\/p><p>He participated in the 11th S\u00e3o Paolo Biennial in 1971, the Tokyo International Print Biennial in 1974, and the 8th British International Print Biennale in 1984, to name a few. In 1997, he was conferred the distinction of National Artist in recognition of his contributions in the field of the visual arts.<\/p><p>Luz\u2019s works animate the element of line and let them thrive within generative geometries. His works span a diverse array of forms, figures, and materials that encompass paintings, drawings, etchings, collage, sculpture, photography, and jewelry. His works are starkly bare, strongly structured, and reduce cyclists, cities, jugglers, shells, vessels, buildings, and mountains to their fundamental aspects, the nucleus of their substance.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-5053\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Cloud Canyons<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-5053\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-5053\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8564\" src=\"https:\/\/thepodium.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MHG_8477-HDR-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"471\" height=\"600\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepodium.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MHG_8477-HDR-Edit.jpg 1506w, https:\/\/thepodium.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MHG_8477-HDR-Edit-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/thepodium.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MHG_8477-HDR-Edit-803x1024.jpg 803w, https:\/\/thepodium.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MHG_8477-HDR-Edit-768x979.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepodium.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MHG_8477-HDR-Edit-1205x1536.jpg 1205w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/>Cloud Canyons no. 31<\/p><div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-90f202d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"90f202d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\"><div class=\"elementor-widget-container\"><p>Plexiglas tubes, wood, fibreglass, water, soap, oxygenators<br \/>254.2 by 199.5 by 199.5 cm. (installation dimensions variable)<br \/>Conceived in 1964 and executed in 2016<\/p><p>Provenance:<\/p><p>Lyon<i>, 14th Biennale de Lyon<\/i>, 2017-18<\/p><p>Wakefield, The Hepworth Wakefield,\u00a0<i>Hepworth Sculpture Prize,<\/i>\u00a02016-17<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dd8ab88 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"dd8ab88\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\"><div class=\"elementor-widget-container\"><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">About the installation<\/h2><\/div><\/div><div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9cfb724 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9cfb724\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\"><div class=\"elementor-widget-container\"><p>The frothing mouth of a dying Japanese soldier, clouds during tropical sunsets in Manila, the bubbling\u00a0<i>guinataan<\/i>\u00a0of his mother\u2019s cooking, a visit to a brewery in Edinburgh, Scotland, and the skyline of New York are images which the artist relates to the creation of his work \u2018<i>Cloud Canyons\u2019<\/i>. First made in 1961 as \u2018<i>Cloud Canyons: An Ensemble of Bubble Machines\u00a0 (Auto-Creative Sculptures)\u2019,<\/i>\u00a0and initially exhibited in 1964 at the Signals Gallery in London, the present work is this evanescent sculpture\u2019s thirty-first version.<\/p><p>The<i>\u00a0\u2018Cloud Canyons\u2019<\/i>\u00a0(an early name for the\u00a0<i>bubble machines<\/i>; later iterations would produce the \u2018<i>Cloud Gates\u2019<\/i>, for example, in 1994) is one of David Medalla\u2019s seminal artworks. The work, according to Medalla, was an attempt \u201cto give tangible form to invisible forces\u2026 find a model that would show the transformation of matter into energy.\u201d\u00a0 A kinetic sculpture that works using air compressors to propel a solution of soap and water through large Perspex tubes, it produces any number of soapy clouds and towers of burbling effervesce. This admixture of bubbles and foam presents us with a sculptural form that rises to great heights and then bends, breaks, slides down, and eventually, disappears. Each time the bubbles are set in motion what slowly emerges from the tubes are any number of shapes, always unknown, always new. The \u2018<i>Cloud Canyons\u2019<\/i>\u00a0is a sculpture that continually \u2018re-creates\u2019 (<i>or auto-creates<\/i>) itself. Writer Guy Brett wrote that these sculptural works show how form can be monumental, while at the same time, fleeting and imperceptible.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8f82683 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"8f82683\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\"><div class=\"elementor-widget-container\"><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">About the artist<\/h2><\/div><\/div><div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bb40099 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bb40099\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\"><div class=\"elementor-widget-container\"><p>David Medalla (1942 \u2013 2020) was a Filipino artist who practiced abroad for most of his life. His work ranged from sculpture and kinetic art to painting, installation and performance art.<\/p><p>Medalla is recognised as a significant figure in the development of installation, kinetic and participatory art. His practice deconstructs the idea of sculpture as solid, timeless and monumental by producing objects and situations that can never be repeated and are continually changing form.<\/p><p>The artist moved to London in 1960, and was included in some of the more important exhibitions during the 1960s and 70s that defined minimal and conceptual practice in Europe and the US.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"4\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-5054\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Chandelier II<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-5054\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"4\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-5054\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8565\" src=\"https:\/\/thepodium.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MHG_8587-HDR-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"441\" height=\"600\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepodium.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MHG_8587-HDR-Edit.jpg 1410w, https:\/\/thepodium.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MHG_8587-HDR-Edit-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/thepodium.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MHG_8587-HDR-Edit-752x1024.jpg 752w, https:\/\/thepodium.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MHG_8587-HDR-Edit-768x1046.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepodium.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MHG_8587-HDR-Edit-1128x1536.jpg 1128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/p><div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dd8ab88 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"dd8ab88\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\"><div class=\"elementor-widget-container\"><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">About the installation<\/h2><\/div><\/div><div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9cfb724 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9cfb724\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\"><div class=\"elementor-widget-container\"><p>Sculptor Michelle Lopez\u2019s\u00a0<i>\u2018Chandelier II\u2019\u00a0<\/i>(2020), as seen from across the main lobby, is a delicate trace of light, gracefully held within the languid line of the glass sculpture that encases it.<\/p><p>A sculptor deeply interested in material and their properties, Lopez often aligns form with the history of her chosen material; for this commission, she works with hand-pulled glass, that is, molten glass shaped by the artist as it cools. The work\u2019s final shape is determined by the bodies of the artist and her fabricators as they articulate the large-scale glass sculpture with their breath and gesture.<\/p><p>Lopez researched the history of chandeliers and how glass and light could register movement of the body at such a large scale. There are then several registers of \u201cthe figure\u201d to be found in these suspended forms.\u00a0\u00a0<i>\u2018Chandelier II<\/i>\u2019 is a trace of the artist\u2019s movement as each segment of glass is blown, then pulled, to create the form of an uninterrupted stroke.\u00a0 It outlines, not a shape, but intimates the action of the artist\u2019s process of production. In this work she combines a grand gesture into a sensitive, dynamic, continuous line.<\/p><p>Lopez is also known for her manipulation of minimal, abstract forms that hint at societal collapse and human vulnerability. Her interests, too, are found in the application and materiality of industrial materials\u2014in this case,<i>\u00a0ropes\u00a0<\/i>and their utility. She writes, \u201c<i>The idea for this work began with my interest in rope(s) and its industrial applications to rig, hang, pull\u2014some of these refer to a kind of historic violence. The rope becomes a stand-in for a figure\u2014an absent or implied body<\/i>.\u201d\u00a0<i>\u2018Chandelier II,\u2018<\/i>\u00a0can then be read as a fragile rope of glass and light, drawn through the ceiling, and dropping down to drape the space below with its crystalline shimmer of an unspoken violence.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8f82683 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"8f82683\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\"><div class=\"elementor-widget-container\"><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">About the artist<\/h2><\/div><\/div><div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bb40099 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bb40099\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\"><div class=\"elementor-widget-container\"><p>Michelle Lopez (b. 1970) is an interdisciplinary sculptor and installation artist. As a builder, conceptualist, and manipulator of materials, Lopez explores cultural phenomenon, stretching to their limits the industrial processes that craft consumerism in its many forms. Lopez\u2019s gimlet eye examines collapsed political and social structures by inverting cultural tropes through the process of building, exploiting industrial materials to expose the hidden boundaries of embedded societal constructions.<\/p><p>Lopez was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019. Her public commissions include those for FIAC (Foire Internationale d\u2019Art Contemporain), Jardin des Plantes, Paris (2014); Art Public, Miami Basel, Miami (2013); The Public Art Fund, Brooklyn, New York (2000).<\/p><p>She has exhibited at Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Philadelphia; Simon Preston Gallery, New York; Alt\/Protocinema, Istanbul; Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris; Fondazione Trussardi, Milan; Deitch Projects, New York; MoMA, PS1, New York.<\/p><p>She has taught at University of California Berkeley, Yale School of Art, the School of Visual Arts, and currently heads the Sculpture division in the Fine Arts Program, at the Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"5\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-5055\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Amazon and Alien Blue Windows<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-5055\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"5\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-5055\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8566\" src=\"https:\/\/thepodium.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MHG_8208-HDR-Pano-Edit-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"653\" height=\"600\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepodium.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MHG_8208-HDR-Pano-Edit-2.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/thepodium.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MHG_8208-HDR-Pano-Edit-2-300x276.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepodium.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MHG_8208-HDR-Pano-Edit-2-1024x941.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepodium.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MHG_8208-HDR-Pano-Edit-2-768x706.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepodium.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MHG_8208-HDR-Pano-Edit-2-1536x1411.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 653px) 100vw, 653px\" \/><\/p><h2><span style=\"color: #ad974f;\">About the installation<\/span><\/h2><p>The work of Swiss artist Pamela Rosenkranz takes over one of the architectural skylights and spaces of The Podium Mall. Hanging from the skylight is a light installation entitled\u00a0Amazon (Sing to my Water, Sky and Leafage),\u00a0and below on the wall are three light boxes shaped like monastery windows entitled\u00a0Alien Blue Windows.<\/p><p>Built to echo the frame of the skylight,\u00a0<em>Amazon (Sing to my Water, Sky, and Leafage)<\/em>\u00a0projects pure RGB green and blue light on the walls, down through the levels under the skylight filling the Atrium with an ambient atmosphere that calls to mind the experience of light radiating through trees and plant foliage, and of the sky reflecting on the blue water of the Amazon river.<\/p><p>Rosenkranz\u2019s installation presents us with a concern for the ecology of the Amazon rainforest, and for nature in general. Along with the lights, recordings of sounds of the rainforest are played in reverse. While the sound generates a soothing and relaxing background, it also simultaneously invokes the violent processes that nature is capable of.<\/p><p>Below\u00a0<em>Amazon (Sing to my Water, Sky and Leafage)\u00a0<\/em>are\u00a0<em>Alien Blue Windows<\/em>. \u00a0Shaped like windows from a monastery, the artist uses the windows as metaphor for the many screens that permeate our life, sucking us into an artificial realm of an online existence. For the artist, the Amazon blue is not only that of the Amazonian jungle, but also that of Amazon, the online consumer paradise. The Amazon, is not only the lung of the world that influences the global climate, but also a more tangible presence in our lives through the gleam of a computer screen.<\/p><h2><span style=\"color: #ad974f;\">About the artist<\/span><\/h2><p>Pamela Rosenkranz (b.1979, Uri) is an artist that works across media often utilizing materials and creating experiences that allow for a sharpened perceptiveness to light, color, scent and sound. She investigates the systems by which people give meaning to the natural world, reflecting on our need to anthropomorphize and construct metaphors to navigate our lived environment. She creates conceptual, abstract sculptures, works on paper, videos, and installations, that nearly always reference the figurative by alluding to its condition as a malleable code that has been repeatedly hijacked by commercial marketing strategies and consumerism.<\/p><p>Rosenkranz represented Switzerland at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015 and was the first recipient of the Paul Boesch Art Prize. She has shown her work at the Sharjah Biennale (2019), the Okayama Art Summit (2019), the 15th Biennale de Lyon (2019), KreuzgangFraum\u00fcnster (2018), Fondazione Prada (2017), GAMeC Bergamo (2017), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (2017), and K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (2017).<\/p><p>Her work is held in the collections of the Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris; Louisana Museum of Modern Art; Humleb\u00e6k, Denmark; Kunsthaus Glarus; Kunsthaus Zurich; the MigrosMuseumf\u00fcrGegenwartskunst; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, among others.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art at THE PODIUM Looks at bringing about encounters with artworks that respond to personal ideas of home and belonging combined with a vision of a livable earth for the present and future generations. 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