Showing posts with label Carla Cruz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carla Cruz. Show all posts

Sunday, April 18, 2010

ANGEL SQUARE #3 // PRAÇA DO ANJO #3



354kg, 118€

“The Porto’s Court of São João Novo ordered yesterday, X, to a prison sentence of four months on charges of receiving stolen goods, the only unlawful act proved in trial”; wrote, in november 2009, M. Claudia Monteiro in the Newspaper Notícias. As an urban tale remains the story that the alleged thieves withdrew energy – to power the equipment needed to shred the bronze sculpture – directly from one of the Clérigos Shopping abandoned stores. The female angel, created by the sculpture José Rodrigues, valued at 200 thousand euros, is the thread to the history of this square. Initially called Angel Square, as the legend tells that the wife of D. Afonso have fallen there from her donkey, and the king ordered that a chapel should be erected on the place. It was after an outdoor market and later, when Porto wanted to appear as a truly European city, that it became Lisbon Square and Clérigos Shopping.
In 2006, none of the refined stores remained open, the space being used only as access to the underground parking. And more specifically, in December 22nd, thieves, who were neither members of an international art trafficking network, nor bearing Zorro’s masks, decided to strike the final blow to a space death at birth.
How many more similar spaces will arise in the city to fall, not under the thick cover of a great cataclysm such as Pompeii, but due to the rapid erosion of the negligent planning of our leaders?
Association of Friends of the Angel Square, Porto 2010.




354kg, 118€

“O Tribunal de São João Novo, no Porto, condenou, ontem, __ a uma pena de prisão efectiva de quatro meses, pelo crime de receptação negligente, o único acto ilícito provado durante o julgamento.” Escrevia M. Cláudia Monteiro em Novembro de 2009 no Jornal de Notícias. Como mito urbano ficará a estória de que os presumíveis assaltantes retiraram a energia – necessária ao equipamento para retalhar a escultura em bronze – directamente duma das lojas abandonadas do Clérigos Shopping. A anja, de autoria do mestre José Rodrigues, avaliada em 200 mil euros, é o fio condutor à história desta praça. Inicialmente denominada Praça do Anjo, pois conta a lenda que a mulher de D. Afonso aí terá caído do burrico, terá então o rei mandado erguer uma capela. Foi depois mercado ao ar livre, e mais tarde quando o Porto se quis dar ares de cidade europeia, transformou-se em Praça de Lisboa e Clérigos Shopping.
Em 2006, nenhuma das lojas de mercadorias finas restava aberta, sendo o espaço apenas usado como acesso ao parque de estacionamento subterrâneo. E mais precisamente a 22 de Dezembro, uns ladrões, que não seriam membros de uma rede de tráfico internacional de arte, nem possuidores de mascarilha, resolveram dar o golpe final a um espaço moribundo à nascença.
Quantos mais espaços semelhantes se erguerão na cidade, para caírem, não sob o manto espesso de um fantástico cataclismo como o de Pompeia, mas, devido à rápida erosão de um planeamento negligente dos nossos líderes?
Associação de Amigos da Praça do Anjo, Porto 2010.


Carla Cruz and Ângelo Ferreira de Sousa at Sousa Ribeiro shop for the Troca-se por Arte event, Porto.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

LAST NEWS


opening

Rock and Roll na Polónia (a exposição agora em breve sightseing)


performance na inauguração

exposição @ LAZNIA - Gdansk, Polónia. by ex-girls(Magdalena Ujma and Joanna Zielinska)




jon Mikel Euba (País Basco)"Gowar"


Sean Snyder (EUA)
"the site" 2004/05

"LAST NEWS" is the development of research done so far by the "exgirls group" on the subject of beauty and violence. The starting point is provided by the mass media and its fascination with bad news. With their help the exhibition is going to study the subject of reality and the ways of creating and destroying the reality by images. Today's images are characterized by the disappearance of truth for the sake of politics and aesthetics. At the same time the art misses reality and struggles to tame it; artists make use of direct quotations and the literal language of media. The artworks presented on the exhibition are close to the political and activist art thus documenting contestation and revolt against simulated reality. Artists from Europe, America as well as Middle East are going to answer the question whether it is possible to get to the reality analysing successive layers of paintings, reproductions, photographs and reflections constantly flowing through the world.


Gianni Motti (Italia) "Shock and Awe", 2003 - Vidéo


Sean Snyder


Christoph Draeger (Suiça) Helenes - Apparition of freedom 2005


Carla Cruz (Portugal)"Blood 4 Oil"


Jan Simon (Polónia)


wilhelm Sasnal


Hubert Czerepok (Polónia)2007, pinturas feitas a partir de fotografias tiradas de avioes militares quando despejavam bombas sobre cidades.


wilhelm Sasnal (polónia)


Dan Perjovschi


David Ter Oganyan/Pavel Mitenko (Russia) noticias do dia anterior


Group Atlas/ Walid Raad (Libano/EUA)



act 2- do you want to manipulate for a change?



Plataforma interactiva, em forma de teatro de fantoches de rua, tendo como personagens politicos (presidente e primeiro ministro da Polonia, o Papa, presidente da camara, ministro da cultura, presidentes da Russia e Irão)

Thursday, December 07, 2006


Tuesday, November 15, 2005

maintenance art



after mierle laderman ukeles

quoting: who will clean after the revolution
for a space that change definetly the art scene in Guimaraes

 
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