KARINA
ZOTHNER
2017
My escape and I
Performance made up of two simultaneous actions, music and installation and body painting - experimental gestural painting.
Maria de Grandy - Karina Zothner.
With Nando Argüelles Art Projects in the framework of the exhibition Viajes (various), routes and Universes at Casa El Coleta 1959. Algeciras. Spain.
Two drifts, two lives, two paths, two routes that converge and move away. An action full of metaphors and symbols, clashes and counterpoints; white - black, rigid - soft, heavy - light.
Each artist investigates and reflects on their own drift conditioned by the space marked by the other; the physical space available (the location of the nails) and the continuous sound space (the screeching loop of the violin).
Past, present and future. All the possibilities, the encounters, the frustrations, the desperation and freedom as a final solution. Liberation and abandonment of forms, liberation and abandonment of ties.
Mary Grandy. Original text for the action (Starting point for Karina Zothner and arrival point for herself), original music for the action. Installation: Board, nails, white thread 140x120. Metaphor of a traveled life
Karina Zothner. Original text for the action (Starting point for María de Grandy and arrival point for herself), performative action, body painting, experimental gestural painting. Canvas, acrylic, various objects. 450x230 approx. Metaphor of a traveled life. Revision of the symbol represented as the arcanum of The High Priestess; it represents knowledge in evolution, the possibility of getting what we want if we can get through the door and face our fears.
My escape and me. An act of self-knowledge. July 2017
art fair 2017
Malaga International Art Fair
30_June/ 2_July 2017
Digital exhibition of the series "A Minute of Existence.
Palace of Exhibitions and Congresses of Malaga
Vol#124. 2017
100x100cm
mixed/canvas
Basel 1.0
The Art Box Project
Basel International Art Fair
14/18_June_2017
Digital exhibition on the "Luminator" event platform on the Swiss side of the airport where the large sculpture by Jean Tinguely is located.
Participation with the work En Esencia carried out in the live painting session "No Así Vesida" within the framework of the exhibition Self_Destruction with Nando Argüelles Art Projects. December 2016
I do not reach the REM phase
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May 20, 2017
Experimental performance session;
Violin improvisation and gestural abstract painting based on texts by María de Grandy
Commemoration of International Museum Day.
Municipal Museum of Algeciras
I did not reach the REM phase is an experimental joint project with the artist María de Grandy Ruzafa; poet and violinist.
From a phrase taken from his book of poems, Clay, we have built a progressive space to explore violin improvisation and gestural abstract painting.
Structured in 3 times of 30 minutes each with the words of Mary as a link, the music, in some cases very strident, has been captured in 3 large-format canvases
digital hearts
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30_April 2017
An emotion, a heart
Hearts made from a digitally manipulated own photograph.
variable size
painted hearts
13_April 2017
An emotion, a heart
Hearts series.
Mixed technique / paper
16x16
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natural Sciences
Nando Argüelles Art Projects
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16_mar 2017
Sexual dimorphism, a question of identity
Under the theme Natural Sciences, Nando Argüelles launches his new idea.
I have always been interested in establishing an identity through the concept of sexual dimorphism. Males and females respond to a biological program that determines their roles and their interactions.
In this work I look for morphological analogies between different species that can suggest other types of identities and combinations, I play with the physical elements and with the feelings that can be associated, creating snapshots.
"Some are born to seek and others to be found"
13x13 mixed media/paper
transfer, pigment, resin, pencil
release
Nando Argüelles Art Projects
One Minute of Existence
11_Feb 2017
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of the ephemeral and its supposed imprint
This series is a complex project in a state of constant growth, an open and mutable series, thus conceived, where there is enough space for error, change, search, encounter and experiment.
Each creative process is a search and a marriage between the artist and his environment. A statement of status and a bill of rights; vision, obsession, needs, delusions, losses, risks. An adventure.
Where the Artist ends and the work begins, where the work ends and the public begins, where public and artist merge, which transcends the line between internal and external.
That line is a no man's land; porous and permeable or solid and walled, osmotic or rigid...
Under the heading Release, a door constantly swings open in two directions, a door that speaks of limits and transcending.
The series is understood as a continuum where an intimate and subjective ideology becomes entangled and untangled creating a network of meanings;
The identity, the environment, the social, the setting, the emotion, the philosophy... a complex worldview articulated through symbols as archetypes or arcana; The Mountain (The Clan), The Girl (The Game), Sex (The Passion), The Flower (The Joy), The House (The North), The Night (The Path), The Sun (The Soul), The Food (The Essence), Forgiveness (Peace), Sleep (Death)
It is a living and mutable series, where the relationships between the archetypes are infinite. An open series where, like a sailboat, I sail and jump from island to island, without worrying about getting to the port concentrating on the road.
The pilgrimage of the road, the journey itself, the abandonment of limits. Release 017
Vol#225. 2017
150x150cm
Mixed/fabriano paper