Wednesday, October 16, 2013

New York museum ups security as gold bar sculpture goes on show

In the museum of New York stand the exhibition of Chris Burden Retrospective call "Extreme Measures". In this exhibition one of the pieces  need of a really special security.
"Tower of power" is an sculpture from 1985 and consists of 100 kilograms of gold ingots, put inside of a vitrine  with the form of pyramid  and put in a pedestal that puts the gold at the eye level. The figure are surrounded of tiny figures made of matchsticks and sewing needles like worshippers. The piece is install in a room wich is not so visible and when the visitors came to the work, they only can get in when they left their coats and bags in a locker making the person a private guard.
Also in the retrospective are the work "Dangling on the facade of the museum is Ghost Ship (2005)" and  a pair of 36ft towers affixed to the roof. Some others works are also made of heavy materials wich weight like tonne.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/oct/04/new-museum-york-security-gold-display

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

The country that i would like to visit.-

It's very difficult choose only one because i like very countries in the world and i would like to go to Peru, Bolivia and Mexico, i want to go there because is in our own continent, are very near (not much Mexico) and i really like the culture that the have, a culture very close to the nature and the earth. In this countries exist this wise man call Shaman. This peoples are healer with nature medicine and some rituals and singing to invoke the evil in the body of they patient. They heal the person with very strange forces and also with herb naturals. So i will go to this countries to see this ritual with shaman and learn about that natural forces that lives in your body and you don't even know! So i will study, go over to know different places of these countries and learn everything i can about this peoples that i found very interesting.

This day.

This day starts at the 8:38 am when i wake up very worried because  i felt sleep again when my pone rings at 8:20 am. I get up and go to the bathroom to take a shower, then i dress up, drink milk and leave my house at 9:20 am so i already know that i will get late to the university. I took the subway to Los Leones because to take the bus i need to wait with time so i took the subway and then i took the bus number 104 wich leave me very close to the faculty. When i get to my studio i realice that my teacher and classmates haven't arrive yet so i could go to the library to do a document to print some photos that i have to take today, so i make the document and go to print. When i came back my teacher and classmates have arrive and the teacher start to explain the next work that we have to do with a model and let's start to paint. Then i go to lunch and eat chiken with rise and was very filling. Then i have Art History class and i felt sleep ajaja. This day is long, now i'm in English class and have to go to my house to celebrate because is my sister's birthday so i will eat very much when i arrive.