More artists and art in marble
Marble sculptors at OBRAS. Frede Troelsen (Denmark) always worked in granite. But he fell in love with the marble of Vila Viçosa. At the end of his residency he shipped a block of 3 tons to Denmark. Joos Bunder, Fransje Lammers, Joke van Drunen and other members of a sculptors class in Holland came several times for some days. Igor Reinhart (Switserland) came several times to work with Estremoz marble, sometimes accompanied by his parents in law, both also passionate marble sculptors. In some cases we contracted a teacher. Agostinho Moreiro was the best. He is now living and working in Brazil. Christine Laethem (Northern Ireland) used shards of marble for lithographs and installations. Dragan Voidovic (Serbia) made mosaics, Istvan Covacs (Hungary) made collages, Julia Malle (Austria) painted red lines on marble blocks and Daniel Greenfield-Campoverde (Brazil, USA) made ink drawings on a mosaic of slabs. Annemie Bogaerts (Belgium, living in Holland) used marble dust for her floor mosaics. In one case she co-operated with Merel Holleboom (Holland). Jonathan Roson (Australia) used combinations of marble sheets, found near a sowing machine, and iron waste, found near an abandoned railway. Quarries and garbage Vibe Overgaard (Denmark) made a series of moon light photos of quarries. Jacobien de Rooij (Holland) made two 4x2m drawings with pastel crayon of the quarries. Carolyn Wenning (USA) used charcoal for her series of drawings (see her video clip). Ellen Warfield (USA) made a photo series: "the earth is laughing at us", about nature taking over abandoned quarries. What is garbage for the marble industry can be ingredients for art work: Stefan Heitman (Germany), Tyler Snazelle (USA) and Lauren Macarata (USA) used the giant piles of marble blocks as a background for (self) portraits. These marble mountains were also used by Melina Peña (Mexico) and Nuno Veiga (Portugal). They recorded a performance with butoh dance elements. Some stills are in the slide show below. Adriana Araujo (Brazil) left a trace of her presence on such a dump place for marble In the scope of her PhD thesis she wrote an article on this intervention. See: Anais de Encontro Nacional de Artes Plásticas. Marble, Music and Dance Dan Scott (England) built a "xylophone" of marble. It was a side project of "lost civilization". Dancer and performer Andrea Hackl (Austria) used a dump location for marble sand as part of her video installation on water shortage. Olivia Bliss (Scotland) did sing her jazzy songs in a quarry. A whispering volume was sufficient to clearly hear her on the other side. This was due to both the conductivity and silence. Also the students of Margo Kalse (Holland) did sing to experience the unique acoustics, as did the students of António Carrilho (Portugal) in his Master class recorder. António Pliz (Portugal) played the violin, partly as an accompanist of dancer Jee Won Kim. Karin Kerkhoven (Australia) used a quarry for her workshop Site specific dancing. |
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