Emilio Chapela / Kabinett

MAM. Religión / Ciencia.

2011-12-29T12:33:00.000-08:00

History, Science and Religion.

2011-10-25T18:04:00.000-07:00

Imbalance

2011-10-04T13:20:00.001-07:00

Imbalance. USA vs 10 smallest economies in the World.

Swim across the pacific ocean,

2011-09-27T08:26:00.001-07:00

Swim across the pacific ocean at SAW Galery in Ottawa. Opens Sept 30th.

Google directions from China to Taiwan. Step 48.

Notes.

2011-09-26T14:05:00.000-07:00

1) It is important to explore the speed on which we see art shows. Architecture has to think about this. Time is without any doubt another dimension of the Museum experience. And of architecture in general.
2) There seems to be a connection between tolerance and permissive societies. Intolerance might be nourished by the application of strict rules.
3) What is the purpose of an embassy regarding culture? to represent local culture or promote tourism? By choosing one, you have to compromise the other.

Keychain...

2011-08-30T04:18:00.000-07:00

Feedback at Pasadena, CA.

2011-08-23T03:06:00.000-07:00

I just found this photos made by Koan J. Baysa (curator of the show) of Seeing as Believing in Pasadena, CA a couple of years ago.
I showed "feedback", a video of a spark of light trapped inside an electronic feedback.

Waiting for DHL.

2011-08-22T07:53:00.001-07:00

The cubes and the pyramid.

2011-08-19T04:34:00.000-07:00

Cubes and Tetrahedrons ready to be shipped from Kreuzberg to NY.
(Se rifó el Santiago muy cabrón en Objektlabor)

Chrematophobia

2011-08-19T04:31:00.000-07:00

Chrematophobia. From According to Google.

USA - Kiribati

2011-08-05T07:34:00.000-07:00

USA vs Kiribati. Size of the Biggest and smallest economies in the world represented in volumes.
USA = Upside-down flattened pyramid.
Kiribati = Small pyramid.

First successful samples.

2011-07-19T23:54:00.000-07:00

Go to www.kgbibliothek.blogspot.com for more info on the Gödel Bibliothek

Google is (2011)

2011-07-15T03:16:00.000-07:00

Democrazia, Democracia, Democracy, Démocratie, Demokratie

2011-07-14T02:00:00.000-07:00

This is the model for a piece that explores the frequency on which the word "democracy" is searched in different languages.
Spanish speaking countries search for "democracia" far more, than its French, German, Italian and English counterparts.

'Mexicans in twitter'

2011-06-29T04:46:00.000-07:00

I'm working on this new piece about the perception of Mexicans on Twitter.
Click here for Live feed.

Corporate logos..

2011-06-23T02:34:00.001-07:00

Edición producida en el Museo Grabado en Zacatecas a cargo de Plinio Avila.

Biennale di Venezia. Map and pavilion views.

2011-06-14T08:17:00.001-07:00

Here is very practical map to the Biennale di Venezia and the Giardini. I hope it'll be helpful for you.
Also, some shots of the national pavilions (Epcot Center style).

Narco (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)

2011-04-15T11:55:00.000-07:00

Volume of search for the work "narco" in Google from 2006 to 2010. Ascending order.

Simetrías....

2011-04-15T11:52:00.001-07:00

Color averages. 356 days.

2011-03-10T18:17:00.000-08:00

Color Averages every 3 hours for a year.
From Jan 1st to December 31st 2010.
Extracted from a public webcam inside the polar circle.

Schwartz und Weiss.

2011-02-23T07:28:00.000-08:00

Google Trends...

2011-02-15T08:30:00.000-08:00

Algunas búsquedas comparativas en Google de los terribles acontecimientos que han azotado a nuestro país en los últimos días.

The ScriBill of Rights

2011-02-10T11:31:00.000-08:00

First Amendment:

Congress shall make no law against the freedom to choose your own colors or patterns on the walls; or abridging the right to use any image without permission, or have any ideas on how to create a website, or to petition the Government for approval of any new books.

Second Amendment:

A well regulated Militia is necessary to predict future events and to set the mood for good times, the right to be free of any obligation shall be fulfilled.

Third Amendment:

No soldier shall be provided with a pair of shoes that are not fit for human consumption. Nor in the present or future, including those with disabilities.

Fourth Amendment:

The right of the people to secure in their persons, houses, condos, cabins, cottages, farms, townhomes, penthouses and villas, against the rulers, shall not be considered, and no warrants shall issue, but upon the death and resurrection.

Fifth Amendment:

No person shall be subject to the conditions imposed by any governmental agency, unless otherwise indicated by a significant proportion of the population. Nor shall any person be allowed in the house of the Lord, or the public domain outside its borders; Nor shall the flame of love be sweeter than sugar, nor shall the passionate mind be kept under control by the state; nor be deprived of its right to exist, change or withdraw without due process of law.
Nor shall private property be taken for granted, without any further delay.

* Generated with Google Scribes

Corporate logos (gráfica)

2011-02-09T13:06:00.000-08:00

Aquí algunas imagenes basadas en proporciones y colores de logotipos comerciales cotidianos.
Los grabados se hicieron en el Museo Grabado del Museo Manuel Felguerez en Zacatecas con la coordinación de Plinio Avila.
Edición de 30.

* Visa, Starbucks, Mastercard, Google y Fedex.

Google Search for "narco"

2011-02-04T08:23:00.000-08:00

Volumen de búsquedas para la palabra "narco" del 2006 al 2010. Desde que F. Calderón es presidente.

RGB

2011-01-27T09:51:00.000-08:00

I selected hundreds of images from Google Image search engine by applying red, green and blue filters respectively.

The show that's not a show at Colección Jumex

2011-01-19T07:53:00.000-08:00

This is a "show" that's not a show. It has no title or curator. Neither catalogue or press release. It's just an art show.
Participating artists are Carlos Amorales, Matthew Barney, Lawrence Carroll, Emilio Chapela, Liza Lou, Joseph Marioni, Bosco Sodi, y Vigueta y Bovedilla.

512 Drinks (PhotoFest Houston 2010)

2011-01-14T16:39:00.000-08:00

512 Drinks at the PhotoFest 2010 in Houston, TX.

Auto-Suggestion Poems I

2011-01-10T11:08:00.000-08:00

* These poems were generated with a computer by an auto-suggestion algorithm.

Scribes
after Ezra Pound

[STATIC]

I am the prince of darkness,
Lord of Light,
And many other things long since passed.
Over time and across,
I roam these lands for the future
And while no man than before
Save to which they belonged

ONE HAD ONLY FEW IN A ROW

O stretch fabric that is in the air!
O reaction conditions, O sacred head,
O sovereign-state my friend,
We are? O ye mountains
That said and promised and pledged,
January, children, churches!
I? I? I?
And You?

FORUM

"To make him moan
"What should the response be;
"To make him moan
"And by my house to sell?

SONG

Love the thought dawned
All books like saying
Love the thought will
And here the writer
That dreams alive can tell by,
For in depth I can think through.

SOFTWARE

Love track the data
Appendix below low speed
Love track the web
And have the writer
That depends almost constant throughout time,
For''Shizzle in different IP connection to theirs.

Dear Google... How do I write my artist statement?

2010-12-22T16:59:00.000-08:00

-
I need to write an artist statement but I'm a bit confused. What if I ask Google?
Here are some extracts I found:

- I am a child at heart, wandering through the world awestruck at the vastness of God's creation.

- Art is my path to the best part of me, my inner child.

- I twist old myths, legends, folk stories, literary classics to reflect upon contemporary life. Although I draw mostly from Vietnamese sources, Western ancient and urban legends. (...)

- In Zen, a koan is a device_a rhetorical question, or a gesture such as yelling_that challenges the audience to directly grasp the truth behind the preconceived, the real behind the illusionary. My paintings are visual koans of a sort.

- The paintings that I make come from eyes and heart that have been thoroughly beguiled by half a life spent sojourning in a place both ephemeral and eternal... eyes that have dazzled and enchanted by an ancient place of deep and resonant character... by entracing light, by arresting faces, by syncretic and surreal dances. My work is a paean to this world.

- My textile art pieces convey simplicity, strength, quiet energy and the yin-yang of balancing forces.

- The longer you look, the more you see. The layers of life are methaphors for my art.

Drugs for... / Medicina para....

2010-12-22T10:08:00.000-08:00

I typed into Google "Drugs for..." and "Medicina para" and transcribed here the suggestions (based on the most popular queries).
I find shocking that 7 out 10 results in English are problems related with mental illness, personality disorders or depression.
On the other hand, Spanish-speaker users seem less concerned about these issues (just 1 out 10).

The internet...

2010-12-20T07:49:00.001-08:00

My good friend Gregory Allen send me this cartoon.

1111 images on 1111

2010-12-08T16:45:00.000-08:00

This books contain one thousand, one hundred and eleven images extracted from the internet related with the number 1111: Images, Twits, maps, Web and Wikipedia entries, you-tube snapshots, shopping items, etc.
The piece was commissioned as part of Herzog and De Meuron's new building on 1111 Lincoln Rd. Miami. FL

Why is Africa / Why is Europe

2010-11-10T09:41:00.000-08:00

Google Auto Suggestion Algorithm on "Why is Africa" and "Why is Europe".

Artist Bio (Emilio Chapela)

2010-10-11T17:06:00.000-07:00

Emilio Chapela Perez
Born in 1978.
Lives and works both in Mexico City and the Forgotten Realms of the Earth.

Emilio Chapela works with the latest technology from Japan and China. His artistic practice is concerned with the development of a system that allows the operator to control various processes such as those used for conventional and unconventional methods to determine the relative importance of individualize factors. He also investigates the effect of increasing importance of the different methods used to identify the specific factors involved in the production and dissemination of a particular type of information.
In such a way, he has worked with several different methods to determine how the various systems respond to the needs identified through their own resources.
He has participated in shows both at galleries, museums and other cultural institutions, at places like the U.S. Geological Society of America and at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
He was awarded with the prestigious award for gallantry in the field of public procurement and disposal. In 2010, he published his first book on the history of the world.
In the near future, he will be showing his work at the National Institute of Technology and Information Ethics in Washington DC.

*This artist bio has been generated by an online text auto-suggestion application.

Reflexiones Colectivas I

2010-10-07T15:20:00.000-07:00

1.-El gandaya no se hace responsable de comentarios fuera de tema.

2.-Los derechos de propiedad intelectual y cualquier reclamo de falta grave, serán eliminados y penalizados por la ley de Dios.

3.- Aquellos que quieran publicar fotos y reseñas bajo licencia de FNAC S.A. © Copyright Internacional, tendrán que hacer frente a los retos que enfrentó la humanidad en el siglo XV.

4.-La Administración General del Estado de Gobierno de la Ciudad de México y el Centenario de la Revolución Democrática, enfrentarán a muerte por lapidación a los usuarios del Foro Económico Mundial de Davos.

5.- Los autores de este estudio son los mismos que se encuentran en la parte superior de la cabeza del cuerpo descompuesto de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela.

6.- Joel Omar Reyes Velázquez de León y Castilla se encuentra perdidamente enamorado de la hija de la pareja de baile de Michael Jackson.

7.- Si por fuerza mayor el concierto de Metallica en Chile termina siendo una kermess, el presidente electo Barack Obama tendrá que elegir entre el reembolso o el reemplazo del personal.

8.-No se admitirán posturas que no reúnan todos los elementos esenciales para garantizar la seguridad pública del proyecto de ejecución del contrato de trabajo y los procesos sociales de participación ciudadana en el marco del Programa Integral de Fortalecimiento Institucional de la Comunidad Autónoma del Estado de México.

9. Es muy improbable que estemos solos en el universo.

10.- La guerra entre los Autobots y los humanos no debe politizarse por ninguna de las causales contempladas por el anteproyecto para agricultura urbana y periurbana en la periferia sudoeste de Puerto Príncipe .

Wikipedia articles (Pecha Kucha vol. 26)

2010-09-29T12:16:00.000-07:00

10 strange and useless wikipedia articles. Selected for my presentation at Pecha Kucha vol. 26

What if?
Zimmermann Telegram

True or hoax?
Dorabella Cipher

The most mysterious manuscript:
Voynich manuscript

350 years unsolved...
Fermats Last Theorem

Familiar with this?
Blue Screen of Death

Another PC endless loop:
Abort, Retry, Fail

Unix sense of humor:
Printer on Fire

The mayor of Argleton:
Argleton

Tomato IS a vegetable:
Nix vs Hedden

Sex in space:
Document 12-571-3570

Democrazia, Democracia, Democracy, Démocratie, Demokratie

2010-09-23T16:27:00.000-07:00

Volume of searches in Google for:

1) "Democrazia" (Italian)
2) "Democracia" (Spanish)
3) "Democracy" (English)
4) "Démocratie" (French)
5) "Demokratie" (German)

* from left to right

"peso, euro, pound, dollar"

2010-09-22T10:37:00.001-07:00

Volume of searches in Google for:
1) "peso" 2) "euro" 3) "pound" 4) "dollar"

* from left to right

"Izquierda Política / Derecha Política"

2010-09-22T09:40:00.000-07:00

Volume of searches in Google for:

1) "Politica de Izquierda"
2) "Politica de Derecha"

* from left to right

Coca-colonized. Vienna, Austria. 16 sept.

2010-09-06T10:34:00.000-07:00

curated by Claire Breukel

Exhibition dates
September 16 - November 20, 2010
Opening: September 16th, 7pm

Brot Kunsthalle
1100 Vienna, Austria
Absberggasse 27 / Stair 1

Anton Kannemeyer (South Africa), Peterson Kamwathi Waweru (Kenya), Cameron Platter(South Africa), Baudouin Mouanda (Congo), Maria Jose Arjona (Colombia), Simon Vega (El Salvador), Omar Obdulio (Puerto Rico), Reynier Leyva-Novo (Cuba), Emilio Chapela Perez (Mexico)

Production at Objektlabor, Berlin.

2010-09-06T10:18:00.000-07:00

Production Process at Objeklabor in Berlin
Dollar, Euro, Peso, Pound (acrylic on canvas)

Drawings. 2010.

2010-08-19T11:12:00.000-07:00

Hello Chicago!

2010-08-02T13:16:00.000-07:00

I processed Obama's inaugural speech using a voice to text computer application. The subtitles display the "translated" speech while the audio remains the same. It is part of a series of pieces that talk about miscommunication generated from human-computer interactions.
This is just a fragment of the piece 17 minute long video.

Google?

2010-08-01T07:36:00.000-07:00

Ask Google.... at the Bass Museum

2010-07-26T12:56:00.000-07:00

Miami Herald on "Human Rites" at the Bass Museum

2010-07-09T16:08:00.000-07:00

Bass Museum's new exhibit, 'Human Rites,' pairs pieces from permanent collections with contemporary works
By Tom Austin
Special to the Miami Herald

As Terentius, the Roman playwright, famously observed, ``Nothing human is foreign to me,'' and Human Rites, the new show at the Bass Museum of Art, pretty much covers the waterfront. It examines the alliance between art and ritual, mixing borrowed contemporary work with pieces from the Bass' permanent collection. A sculpture of a Buddhist monk from the Yuan Dynasty (1206-1368), for instance, enters the same playing field as Rirkrit Tiravanija's Buddha Project, 200 hand-carved wooden Buddha figurines arranged on corner-shaped, stainless-steel shelves and straddling the line between devotion and kitsch.
The show, curated by the Bass' Silvia Karman Cubiñá and Steve Holmes, is the second of three exhibitions in the Endless Renaissance Series. This is a continuing effort to pair the museum's permanent collection -- lots of old-fashioned, positively ancient stuff done in that long-ago time when art was supposed to be about moral uplift and improving the human condition -- with the pop-goes-the-weasel punch of contemporary work, which is often bent on leading the charge to the gutter. As usual, the dark world of humankind is more intriguing than the spiritual realm.

UPLIFTING START
Human Rites begins on a cheery, transcendent note with Ringhead (Exorcism from Style), a downstairs installation by Cesar Trasobares, the former director of Miami-Dade's Art in Public Places program. Trasobares began using rings, self-created and found at shops, as a retreat from the public realm of his job. Some of his rings function as a homage to artists he liked or worked with, from Claes Oldenburg to Purvis Young; other pieces, such as a kitschy quince ring and rings made from dollar bills, expand on his previous museum shows. The found-object rings -- biker rings with skulls, a huge affair used for Jewish Orthodox weddings, Miccosukee rings that resemble alligators -- offer a telling glimpse at varying cultures.
(Apart from Human Rites, the Bass has a Kolkoz exhibition in a small room downstairs, the Cabinet. The French art collective continues its dumbed-down Dada series of exploring the framing of art with two pieces, ornate gold frames within frames leading to nothingness.)
Human Rites occupies the entire second floor. On the staircase wall is Thomas Hirschhorn's Necklace CNN, 2002, an eight-foot chain of gold wrapping paper with the CNN logo writ large, in the manner of hip-hop bling. The chain, with the letters of the icon of infotainment and hung like a crucifix, would give Ted Turner the ego boost he doesn't need. At the top of the stairs is Allan McCollum's 240 Plaster Surrogates, 1982-1991, enamel-on-plaster repetitive pieces that explore the notion of constructed objects as surrogates for the real thing -- sort of like Facebook.
Throughout the galleries are some smart pieces, starting with photographs of Gotham Handbook, 2000, a Sophie Calle installation that utilized a set of instructions from novelist Paul Auster on the challenge of creating a public personal space. The urban intervention entailed placing an array of objects in a New York phone booth -- water, cigarettes, flowers -- next to the simple sign ``Enjoy.'' Calle charted the responses in her field study (``125 smiles given for 72 received''), also incorporating written comments from sensible pedestrians: ``You should replace the cigarettes with sunflower seeds.''
A Massimo Vitali photograph, San Marco, Venice, 2005, is all about the rite of milling around in scenic public squares dominated by heavy-duty religious imagery. It's paired with 16th century Venetian votives. One of the strongest pieces in the show bridges the old and new worlds: two powerful photographs from Shirin Neshat's Rapture Series, 1999, images of Iranians caught between traditional and modern culture.
Christian Boltanski's Untitled (Reserve), 1989, is a wall-mounted installation with folded clothes, photographs and lights, resembling an altar piece. (The clothes are from lost-and-found boxes at train stations; the photographs are of 1931 Jewish schoolchildren facing the horror of the concentration camps.) It's counter-pointed by old Greek and Italian altars.
The Ghanaian artist El Anatsui contributed Bukpa Old Town, 2009, a tapestry made of flattened metal caps from African liquor bottles strung together with copper wire. Paolo Cane-vari's video Bouncing Skull, 2007, contains irresistible images of a boy in Belgrade who plays soccer with a rubber skull. Subodh Gupta's Dubai to Mumbai, 2006, chronicles the ritual migrations of grossly exploited workers around the world. The piece consists of a bronzed airport luggage cart, along with an aluminum rendering of one of those huge, tied-together parcels the underclass is forever lugging through airports.

TWO GEMS
Ai Wei Wei's Forever Bicycles, 2003, a sculpture made from 72 bicycles built by the Chinese company of the piece's title, is another gem, as is the piece by Mexican artist Emilio Chapela. Various Titles (From Ask Google), 2010, consists of questions posed to Google, from ``Why are Mexicans lazy?'' to ``Why are artists crazy?''
As usual, a dark world is more intriguing than the spiritual realm. This is an age of not particularly amusing ironies, when everything is better on paper, and life is lived as one big conceptual art installation. One of the best things in the show -- Mark Dion's Brockton Cabinet, 2001 -- is also one of the most abstract, sharp as all get out.
The piece examines the exhaustive obsession and rituals entailed in collecting and scientific exploration, particularly with regard to the gentleman explorers of the Victorian era, who put together encyclopedic system-of-knowledge collections that went off on bizarre tangents. Within a hand-built oak cabinet, the sort of thing you might see at the British Museum, are glass-topped drawers with an array of objects -- from plastic swizzle sticks to discarded shoe heels -- in the drawers. The objects were culled from the trash heaps of Brockton, Mass.
As one Bass employee observed, ``You open up the drawer, expecting priceless archaeological artifacts, and it's just a bunch of useless s - - - that doesn't mean anything.'' But in the right context, it kind of means everything.

Schwarz und Weiss...

2010-06-03T03:39:00.000-07:00

Preliminary images of an ongoing project made in collaboration with David Franco.

The World...

2010-05-16T15:58:00.001-07:00

Afghanistan
Shir Khan, Kondoz, Bagram, Mazar-e Sharif, Bagram, Kabul, Towraghondí, Herat, Shindand, Zaranj, Kadahar, Ghazni, Jalalabad

Albania
Shkodër, Shënjing, Durrës, Tirana, Elbasan, Korçë, Vlorë, Sarandë

Algeria
Abalak, Agadez, Aguié, Arlit, Birni Ngaouré, Birni Nkonni, Dakoro, Diffa, Dogondoutchi, Dosso, Filingué, Gaya, Gouré, Guidan Roumji, Illéla, Kollo, Madaoua, Magaria, Maïné-Soroa, Maradi, Matameye, Mirria, Nguigmi, Niamey, Say, Tahoua, Tânout, Tchirozérine, Téra, Tessaoua, Tillabéri, Zinder.

Andorra
El Serrat, Soldeu, Encamp, Les Escaldes, Saint Julià de Lòria, Andorra la Vella.

Angola
Soyo, Ambriz, Luanda, Malanje, Porto Amboin, Lobito, Luena, Benguela, Huambo, Menongue, Lubango, Namibe.

Antigua and Barbuda
Codrigton, Saint Johns, English Harbour Town.

Argentina
Salta, San Miguel de Tucumán, San Juán, Cordoba, Santa Fe, Concepción del Uruguay, Mendoza, San Loranzo, San Martín, Rosario, Buenos Aires, La Plata, Bahía Blanca, Viedma, San CArlos Bariloche, Punta Colorado, Comodoro Rivadavia, Río Gallegos.

Armenia
Alaverdi, Ijevan, Vanadzor, Gyumri, Hrazdan, Ejmiastsin, Yereban, Vardenis, Kapan.

Australia
Darwin, Calms, Townsville, Port Hedland, Dampier, Mackay, Alice Springs, Gladstone, Brisbane, Perth, Fremantle, Newcastle, Adelaide, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Launceston, Hobart.

Austria
Linz, Vienna, Weis, Salzburg, Bregenz, Innsbruck, Graz, Klagenfurt

Azerbaijan
Xaçmaz, Säki, Mingäçevir, Gäncä, Yevlax, Läki, Sumqayit, Baku, Kürdämir, Äli Bayramli, Xankändi, Naxçivan, Astara

Bahamas
South Riding Point, Frreport, Nassau, Matthew Town

Bahrain
Al Muharraq, Manama, Mina Salman, Jidd Hafs, Madinat Isa, Sitrah, Ar Rifa ash Sharqui, Awáli

Bangladesh
Rangpur, Mymensingh, Rajsháhi, Sylhet, Tungi, Dhaka, Narayanganj, Comilla, Jessore, Khulna, Barisat, Mongla, Chittagong, Cox's Bazar.

Barbados
Speightstown, Bathsheba, Holetown, The Crane, Bridgetown

Belarus
Polatsk, Vitsyebsk, Orsha, Mahilyow, Minsk, Hrodna, Babruysk, Baranavichy, Homyel, Brest, Pinsk, Mazyr

Belgium
Zeebrugge, Oostende, Brugge, Antwerp, Gent, Mechelen, Aalst, Leuven Brussels, Liège, Mons, Namur, Chaleroi, Bastogne

Belize
Corozal, Orange Walk, Belize City, Belmopan, Big Creek, Punta Gorda

Benin
Malanville, Kandi, Natitingou, Djoungou, Parakou, Cové, Bohicon, Abomey, Lokossa, Porto Nove, Quidah, Cotonou

Made in Italy / Galleria Galica

2010-05-15T11:05:00.000-07:00

Ask Google.... (Selection)

2010-04-21T13:22:00.000-07:00

Paper Sculptures 2

2010-03-20T09:42:00.000-07:00

scapes...

2010-03-18T09:32:00.001-07:00

Taco Bell and Wikipedia

2010-02-19T08:05:00.001-08:00

Taco bell and Wikipedia logo paintings

Comentarios misScommunication....

2010-02-15T10:56:00.000-08:00

Aquiles y la Tortuga...

2010-02-06T04:43:00.000-08:00

Pintar un gris cualquiera A
Pintar un gris cualquiera B diferente de A
Pintar un gris C con tonalidad entre A y B
Pintar un gris D con tonalidad entre B y C
Pintar un gris E con tonalidad entre C y D
Pintar un gris F con tonalidad entre D y E
Pintar un gris G con tonalidad entre E y F
Pintar un gris H con tonalidad entre F y G
Pintar un gris I con tonalidad entre G y H
Pintar un gris J con tonalidad entre H y I
Pintar un gris K con tonalidad entre I y J
Pintar un gris L con tonalidad entre J y K
Pintar un gris M con tonalidad entre K y L
Pintar un gris N con tonalidad entre L y M
Pintar un gris Ñ con tonalidad entre M y N
Pintar un gris O con tonalidad entre N y Ñ
Pintar un gris P con tonalidad entre Ñ y O
Pintar un gris Q con tonalidad entre O y P
Pintar un gris R con tonalidad entre P y Q
Pintar un gris S con tonalidad entre Q y R
Pintar un gris T con tonalidad entre R y S
Pintar un gris U con tonalidad entre S y T
Pintar un gris V con tonalidad entre T y U
Pintar un gris W con tonalidad entre U y V
Pintar un gris X con tonalidad entre V y W
Pintar un gris Y con tonalidad entre W y X
Pintar un gris Z con tonalidad entre X y Y
Pintar un gris A1 con tonalidad entre Y y Z
Y así sucesivamente....

Un gris casi blanco....

2010-02-06T04:24:00.000-08:00

Un gris casi blanco.

Un gris clarito, más obscuro que un gris casi blanco.

Un gris claro, más obscuro que un gris clarito más obscuro que un gris casi blanco.

Un gris medio, más obscuro que un gris claro más obscuro que un gris clarito más obscuro que un gris casi blanco.

Un gris obscuro, más obscuro que un gris medio más obscuro que un gris claro más obscuro que un gris clarito más obscuro que un gris casi blanco.

Un gris bien obscuro, más obscuro que un gris obscuro más obscuro que un gris medio más obscuro que un gris claro más obscuro que un gris clarito más obscuro que un gris casi blanco.

Un gris casi negro, más obscuro que un gris bien obscuro, más obscuro que un gris obscuro más obscuro que un gris medio más obscuro que un gris claro más obscuro que un gris clarito más obscuro que un gris casi blanco.

Una palabra larga

2010-02-05T12:05:00.000-08:00

Una palabra larga

Una palabra larguisima

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Color Fillds / Galeria Faria Fabregas

2010-01-25T16:13:00.001-08:00

Color Fillds / Galeria Faria Fabregas. Caracas, Venezuela

Reseña sobre Color Fillds / Galeria Faria Fabregas

2010-01-25T16:04:00.000-08:00

Del inventario publicitario al abstracto. El Nacional. Caracas, Venezuela
por MARJORIE DELGADO AGUIRRE

Si estuviera frente a un Rothko o un Barnett Newman, por ejemplo, el espectador muy probablemente se sentaría frente a la obra, se concentraría en la experiencia casi mística del campo de color, único elemento que ocupa la tela, y se abstraería de la realidad.

Con las obras de Emilio Chapela, que toma referencias de estas tendencias norteamericanas en la pintura abstracta, el espectador se concentra en el color, afila su memoria y, en lugar de disociarse de la realidad, se encuentra con el mundo real.

El joven artista mexicano expone, desde hoy a las 7:30 pm, en la galería Faría +Fábregas, una serie de pinturas en las que reconfigura pictóricamente los logos de marcas asociadas al inventario publicitario de la contemporaneidad.

A lo mundano. A Emilio Chapela le interesa el vínculo de lo concreto a lo abstracto. "Trato de reflexionar sobre la historia de la pintura abstracta, pero a diferencia de otros, que estaban más preocupados por cosas como el estudio del color, a mí me interesa reflejar algo que ya está predeterminado. Para ello, me sirvo de metodologías que me permitan liberarme del control creativo. El logo de Movistar, por ejemplo, lo deciden unos ejecutivos y esas decisiones las transporto a la pintura.

Extraigo el porcentaje de cada color y reconfiguro la imagen en términos de proporción", dice señalando la obra que está justo sobre su cabeza y aclara que la abstracción es resultado más bien del azar.

La serie que expone parte de su reflexión sobre cómo los individuos asimilan el paisaje visual en los entornos urbanos.

"Me interesa cómo nos acostumbramos a formar parte de un paisaje publicitario que termina constituyendo nuestro inconsciente visual y cómo a su vez este inconsciente visual se convierte en protagonista de lo que somos, haciendo, entonces, que lo antinatural sea no ver estas marcas, no reconocerlas", señala el artista nacido en 1978 en México DF.

En una ocasión, Chapela expuso una instalación titulada Spectacular... But Empty, que aludía a estrategias en el campo del arte que apelan al efectismo, a la espectacularidad que se llena, aunque parezca una aberración lingüística, de vacío. El mexicano considera que al tomar elementos de la publicidad puede jugar con su propia crítica, pero aclara: "Hago esfuerzos muy grandes para no quedarme ahí, para que las ideas tengan más capas que leer, para que sea algo más que una ocurrencia".

Generación zafada. Después de la imposición del muralismo casi como la única referencia en el arte mexicano, algunos artistas en la década de los noventa lograron virar la atención hacia otras formas de expresión artística. Una referencia de ello es Gabriel Orozco, a quien el MOMA de Nueva York le dedica una individual.

A la generación actual le ha correspondido seguir navegando hacia otras orillas: las del arte contemporáneo. "En esta generación evidentemente hay arte que reacciona al muralismo. Orozco es sin duda una inspiración, es un ejemplo (...) Muchos otros artistas de mi edad y yo tenemos preocupaciones más universales, que pertenecen más a una identidad global".

Es posible ver otros trabajos de Chapela, como According to Google en el que hace una reflexión sobre las identidades estereotipadas que se pueden construir a partir de la información en Internet , en su página web www.emiliochapela.com.

Fuente: El Nacional. Caracas, Venezuela.

Google Suggestion on Hugo Chavez...

2010-01-21T06:53:00.000-08:00

Este es el resultado de las sugerencia que Google nos presenta la buscar "Hugo Chavez is".... Google suggestions es una herramienta que presenta al usuario las busquedas más populares en la red.

Please translate....

2010-01-15T02:54:00.000-08:00

I invite you to translate this text to your language of preference:
(using Yahoo's Babel Fish)

"Translating from one language into another is a mathematical task, and the translation of a lyrical poem, for example, into a foreign language is quite analogous to a mathematical problem. For one may well frame the problem, 'How is this joke to be translated (i.e. replaced) by a joke in the other language?' and this problem can be solved; but there was no systematic way of solving it.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Title Ideas for my next show....

2010-01-13T06:53:00.000-08:00

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1) Am I just another Bruce Nauman's rip off?

2) I can't seem to stop copying on Ellsworth Kelly

3) Hey Richter! It is not like you invented color

4) Josef Alber's look alikes.... But without any color knowledge.

5) Yes, my books look like On Kawara's, so what?

6) Please... Do not show this pieces to Antoni Muntadas.

7) Don't we all are a little inspired in Duchamp?

8) Dear Jonathan Monk.... The world is not big enough for both of us.

9) Sherrie Levine... Thank you so much!

10) It looks like Nauman's work, but comes from a different place

Pepsi-Cola Logos

2010-01-06T04:50:00.001-08:00

The evolution of the Pepsi-Cola logo.
* This piece will be part of the show Color Fillds.
Faria Fabregas Galeria, Venezuela. Enero 2010.

Movistar Logos

2010-01-06T04:48:00.000-08:00

* This piece will be part of the show Color Fillds.
Faria Fabregas Galeria, Venezuela. Enero 2010.

Prismacolor. Kit de Lápices de Color

2010-01-06T04:40:00.000-08:00

* This piece will be part of the show Color Fillds.
Faria Fabregas Galeria, Venezuela. Enero 2010.

Google Suggestions.... (Racist or Rude)

2009-11-19T18:24:00.001-08:00

PART 2 (Racist or Rude)

Google has a tool for suggesting or completing searches for the users. The choices presented are based on the most popular queries on the web. I feel that this tool works as a very effective insight to the web's collective unconsciousness. Here are some examples...

Don't be offended, the collectiveness is speaking.

Google Suggestions....

2009-11-11T19:10:00.000-08:00

Google has a tool for suggesting or completing searches for the users. The choices presented are based on the most popular queries on the web. I feel that this tool works as a very effective insight to the web's collective unconsciousness. Here are some examples...

451 - List #1

2009-11-01T11:05:00.000-08:00

451 - List #1

* If anyone is willing to donate me a copy of any of this titles for a project, It would be great! Thanks. No importa el idioma, aunque de preferencia en el original. Gracias

A Few Figs from Thistles, Edna St. Vincent Millay
Leaves of Grass, Walt Withman
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
Hamlet, William Shakespeare
La Biblia
Paradise Lost, John Milton
Edipo Rey, Sofocles
La Rebelión de las Masas, Ortega Y Gasset
Meditaciones, Marco Aurelio
La República, Platón
Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
On the Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin
Out of My Life and Thought, Albert Schweitzer
Las Nubes, Aristófanes
An Autobiography of my Experiments with Truth, Mahatma Gandhi
Manual of Parliamentary Practice for the Use of the Senate of the United States, Thomas Jefferson
Magna Carta
United States Constitution
Headlong Hall, Thomas Love Peacock
Il Principe, Nicolas Maquiavelo
Principia Mathematica, Bertrand Russell
Walden, Henry David Thoreau
Farenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

Language @ Galeria Leme / Sao Paulo

2009-10-19T22:13:00.000-07:00

Language by Emilio Chapela at Galeria Leme,
As part of One foot apart, with works by: Miguel Monroy, Erick Beltran, Fernando Ortega, Eduardo Aragon, Pablo Sigg, Daniel Guzman, Begoña Morales, José Antonio Vega Macotela, Mark Powell, Gilberto Esparza, Alejandro Almanza, Jorge Mendez Blake y su servileta.
Curated by Ruth Estévez.

It is the first time that "Language" is installed using two synchronized monitors to simulate a dialogue between computers. It seems as the two monitors answer back to each-other by translating the texts prompted on the screens.

MisScommunication / Queretaro / 2 Oct

2009-09-29T15:39:00.000-07:00

MisScomunication / Museo de la Ciudad de Queretaro / 2 OCT / Curated by Koan Jeff Baysa

Entrada 100.

2009-09-29T15:37:00.000-07:00

Esta es la entrada número 100 a mi blog

According to Google / Ilmin Museum / Soul, Korea

2009-09-23T04:06:00.000-07:00

Galeria Leme / Sao Paulo / 1 Oct

2009-09-23T04:02:00.000-07:00

Zona MACO Monterrey... (EDS Galeria)

2009-08-30T19:22:00.001-07:00

Hotel Habita Monterrey / 4-6 Sept

"MisScomunication" show at Sala Jesus Gallardo. Leon Guanajuato.

2009-08-17T17:56:00.001-07:00

Here is the first part of the documentation of "MisScomunication" show at Sala Jesus Gallardo in Leon, Guanajuato. More to come.

Lucky 13 (at Projex-Mtl, Montreal)

2009-08-16T18:20:00.001-07:00

This piece consists of 13 different ways to mathematically express the number 13: Every image on the series is visually different but represents the same number. In other words, it is a collection of 13 "unique multiples".
The conceptual rigidness of the piece is contrasted by a more obscure exploration of the superstition that surrounds the number 13.

SCAPE_ING. Cerro de la Bufa, Zacatecas.

2009-08-15T08:26:00.000-07:00

Pintura vs Pintura (Museo Francisco Goitia, Zacatecas)

2009-08-11T09:22:00.000-07:00

SELFportraitSCAPES @ Museo Felguerez, Zac. (Emilio Chapela)

2009-07-19T11:44:00.000-07:00

Summer @ Projex-Mtl

2009-07-19T11:03:00.000-07:00

Imagen por Maurico Limon.

Pieces I would like to do, but I won't do.

2009-07-02T09:59:00.001-07:00

Pieces I would like to do, but I won't. (List in progress).

1) Opening a facebook account under the name "John Smith" and invite all other John Smith's on facebook to be my friends (only them).
2) Do a "Caldo Tlalpeño" Campbell's soup painting. (Andy's style)
3) Sell Cumbia pirate CD's in London subway, using a loud "chinese" stereo-backpack. (llevelo... llevelo)
4) A sculpture made with chopped onions, so the audience cries before the masterpiece.
5) A Coca-Cola running toilet.
6) Leaving a suspicious package inside the MOMA and film the paranoid security guards removing it from the premises. Works well in airports or tall buildings as well. (This one I actually might do it, anyone knows where they have a robots to remove packages?)

This is it for now, come back for further updates.

The dust on my scanner / El polvo en mi scanner

2009-06-29T23:16:00.000-07:00

The first image is a scan from the dust on my scanner. The second image was made by printing and scanning from the original image consecutively, it has 10 layers of dust.

ELECTRONIC FEEDBACK...

2009-06-29T14:07:00.001-07:00

Photocopy (from pure black)

2009-06-23T08:34:00.000-07:00

Photocopying a black page consecutively. A copy form the copy from the copy from the copy.....
Here: Photocopy #7, #73 and many others (all within 200 copies)

Mona Lisa

2009-06-10T07:19:00.000-07:00

Una coleccion de Mona Lisas bajadas de Internet. Y su definición de Wikipedia
A collection of Mona Lisa's downloaded from the Internet. And its definition from Wikipedia

A-Z (misScomunication)

2009-06-08T20:26:00.001-07:00

Vista de la instalación A-Z en Leon, Gunanajuato.
A-Z intallation view on Leon, Guanajuato.

I recorded myself on video when reading out-loud the entire “Diccionario de la Real Academia de la Lengua Española”. The words corresponding to every letter of the alphabet are played simultaneously on a grid of 27 channels of video. Every word on the Dictionary gets cancelled phonetically generating a very chaotic and babble-like experience, while a visual narrative about patience and time is created, contrasting to the overlapping of the sound.

Realizé una lectura en voz alta de todo el “Diccionario de la Real Academia de la Lengua Española” y grabé la acción en video. Las palabras correspondientes a cada letra del alfabeto son reproducidas simultáneamente, en una red de 27 canales de video. Cada palabra del diccionario se cancela fonéticamente generando una experiencia sumamente caótica, mientras visualmente se crea una narrativa en relación al paso del tiempo y la paciencia, que contrasta con la sobreposición abrumadora del sonido.

According to google (miSscommunication)

2009-06-08T18:30:00.001-07:00

Vista de Instalacion de According to Google en Leon, Gjto.
According to Google installation view at Leon Gjto.

Language (MisScommunication)

2009-06-08T16:58:00.000-07:00

Vista de instalación de Language en Leon. Gjto
Language installation view at Leon, Gjto

Instalacion de dos canales
Two-channel Installation

MiSscommunication @ Leon, Gjto

2009-06-08T08:06:00.001-07:00

Here are the first set of images of the show, there is more to come!
Aqui les mando el primer juego de imagenes de la exposición en Leon.

Montaje MisScommunication

2009-06-07T19:39:00.000-07:00

Baragouins, Gibberish and Googledygook

2009-06-07T17:39:00.000-07:00

MisScommunication catalogue is finally finished, if you want a copy let me know.
El catalogo de MisScomunication está terminado, si necesitas una copia, avisenme!

MisScommunication. Sabado 30 mayo. Leon, Gjto.

2009-05-24T22:26:00.000-07:00

MisScommunication
Sala Jesus Gallardo
Leon, Guanajuato
Sabado 30 Mayo - 12:PM
Agradecimientos especiales para el FONCA, Instituto Cultural de León y David Trabulsi.
En colaboración con EDS Galeria

Digital Degradation...

2009-05-15T17:58:00.000-07:00

Why is a raven like a writing-desk?

2009-05-11T08:16:00.000-07:00

This sentence comes from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, and it is a riddle that has neither an answer nor sense. I translated the text using a computer between Spanish and English several times, forcing it to fall into a strange looping error.
Esta frase proviene de Alicia en el País de las Maravillas de Lewis Carroll, y es un acertijo que no tiene ni sentido ni respuesta. Tradujé el texto del Español a Inglés multiples veces, forzando a la computadora a caer en un extraño error recursivo.

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

2009-05-10T22:11:00.000-07:00

This sentence is an ancient Buddhist story - or Kōan - that raises a question about nonsense and the absence of meaning. I used a computer software to perform multiple translations to the original quote.
Esta frase es una historia budista - o Kōan - que pregunta sobre la ausencia de significado y el sin-sentido. Utilizé un programa de computadora para traducir la cita original, multiples veces.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously...

2009-05-10T22:08:00.000-07:00

Noam Chomsky wrote ‘Colorless green ideas sleep furiously’ as an example of a sentence whose grammar is correct but its semantics are nonsensical. For this piece, I translated the original quote consecutively using a computer.
Noam Chomsky escribió ‘Colorless green ideas sleep furiously’ para ejemplificar un enunciado con gramática correcta pero con una semantica sin sentido. Para hacer esta pieza, traduje la frase original consecutivamente con una computadora.

JPG to ASCII Translation

2009-05-01T12:59:00.001-07:00

Paper Sculptures...

2009-04-27T15:58:00.000-07:00

Logo Paintings II

2009-04-01T09:01:00.000-07:00

(TWO COLOR LOGO PAINTINGS)
BEST BUY, GOODYEAR, SANTANDER, IKEA, Y HOME DEPOT.

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