OPHEN VIRTUAL ART SPACE GALLERY
retrospective exhibition of Clemente Padin
"BEYOND THE WALL BETWEEN UTOPIA AND BREACH"
BY GIOVANNI BONANNO
8 January to 31 March 2011
Opening: Saturday, January 8, 2011 18:00
Ophen Virtual Art Gallery, Via S. Calenda, 105 / D - Salerno Tel / Fax 089 5648159
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"Beyond the Wall, between Utopia and Transgression" is the title of the anthology that space Ophen Virtual Art Gallery of Salerno dedicated to Clemente Padin, one of the most important Uruguayan artist and records for this exhibition features 72 works, including "Visual Poems", Poetry and Digital Mail Art is created between the 1967 and 2010.
Clemente Padin is a very complex artist who stands apart from deliberately provisional hypothesis merchant in an attempt to move beyond the limit, beyond the wall, between utopia and transgression. Launched in 1967 by the proposals of visual poetry with his "Visual Poems" and soon landed the Mail Art, in conjunction with the alternative art world thanks to the involvement of Post and exchange of works and views on the whole Latin-American circuit. Today, Clemente Padin is an artist-driven "frontier" chart, performer, video artist, and actively engaged in netartworker and especially in the capital. In 1974, during the military dictatorship in Uruguay, had organized the first Latin-American Exposition in Mail Art Gallery U, in Montevideo, Uruguay. Prosecuted for subversive ideas from the Uruguayan dictatorship at that time very little available to the respect for human rights, arrested and prosecuted by the dictatorship of his country's contempt for the moral and reputation of the Army, was sentenced to four years in prison and jailed. After two years in prison (in August 1977 in all November 1979), was released in advance through the efforts of many artists and international solidarity, however, for several years suffered tragically el'impedimento constriction of liberty, forced to share from 1977 to 1984, a probation and "conditioning" . Only in 1983 was able to start and continue in a more constant its efforts against weapons and violence and respect for human rights. Today, after more than forty years of activity, Clemente Padin is now an artist renowned internationally for its contributions especially in the social one of the few contemporary artists still engaged in a careful and systematic denunciation of the political system and the sad the human condition. In all these years, the Uruguayan artist has continued, with all the possible ways and means at its disposal, to believe and hope in freedom, equality for all human beings, regardless of the opinions, sex, race, ethnicity, political, religious, and also by social and economic condition. Surely an artist is especially interesting for your continued contribution to the social problems and human activities over many years of work. In all the work of Padin is the essentially ideological, a certain utopian proposals and also the glossy transgressive energy that enters this extraordinary artist deliberately and consistently throughout his research work, also supported by new and effective tools like mail art, digital art and performances that allow you to highlight so overbearing and made those issues.
Who's Clemente Padin?
Biography:
Clemente Padin (Lascano, Rocha, Uruguay, October 8, 1939). Poet, artist and graphic designer, performer, video artist and multimedia networking.
He studied English Literature at the Faculty of Arts and Education at the University of the Republic (Uruguay).
has directed the following publications: Huevos del Plata (1965-1969), 10 and OVUM OVUM (1969-1975), participation (1984-1986) and Correo del Sur (2000). He currently works with the magazine of cultural exploration: Contemporary Art Online Magazine, and New Trends. He has published
in magazines and international publications. E 'was translated into many languages, including English, Portuguese, French, Italian, Hungarian, Dutch, German and Russian.
for his opposition to the Uruguayan dictatorship (1973-1984), spent two years in prison, and until 1984 was "on probation". After 1984 was able to freely develop his literary and artistic work.
has participated in numerous exhibitions and art exhibitions and more than 2,000 exhibitions of mail art in the world.
Born on octuber 8, 1939 in Lascano, Uruguay. Poet, artist and graphic designer, performancer, videoartist, multimedia and netartworker. Graduated in University of Letras Hispanas of The Republic, Uruguay. Director of the art magazines Los Huevos del Plata (1965-1969), 10 and OVUM OVUM (1969-1975) and Participation (1984-1986). Author of 18 books edited in France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Venezuela, United States and Uruguay. You Participate in Numerous art exibitionns and More Than 2,000 exibitions of mail art in the word. One solo show in United States, Italy, Korea, Argentina, Uruguay, Germany, Spain, Belgium and Japan. Some of it has Receive Recognition invitat are special in the XVI Biennial of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1981, Special Mention in I Bienal de La Habana, Cuba, 1984. The Art and Letters Academy of Germany was awarded a scholarship in 1984, etc. Since Poetry Must Be Made by All, Montevideo, Uruguay 1970, has made dozens of presentations and performances worldwide. They have published their notes and artificial **** s in dozens of magazines and publications in English, Portuguese, French, Italian, Hungarian, Dutch, German and Russian and has participated in numerous events on the Internet since 1992. He has personally participated in meetings related to art and poetry, sincere statement of Propositions to Realize, Buenos Aires, 1971 and XVI Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1981, Until XI International Congress of Estetic, Nottingham, England, 1988; Stock Chester Springs, Philadelphia, USA. 1989; XXXIX SALALM Congress, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA 1994, V International Bienal of Visual/ Experimental Poetry, México City, México, 1996, Eye Rytmes, Edmonton, Alberta, Canadá 1997; Intersignos, San Pablo, Brasil 1998; VIII International Festival of Poetry, Medellín, Colombia 1998, International Biennale of Poetry, Belo Horizonte, Brasil 1998, and much more.
+ Clemente Padín: http://www.escaner.cl/padin
E-mail: clepadin@adinet.com.uy , 7w1k4nc9@adinet.com.uy , clementepadin@gmail.com.uy
Address: Clemente Padin C. Correo Central 1211 11000 Montevideo - Uruguay Tel + (598 2) 506 0885
Clemente Padin
Presentation Critique
John Bonanno
John Bonanno
addition the wall between utopia and transgression
For some 'time the situation of contemporary art is complicated and unpredictable. After the profound changes in the historical avant-gardes that have definitely contributed to the change of culture in recent decades. In recent years we are witnessing a wave of repeated citations without authenticity, created by false prophets who sold to the consumer lit the centers of power, create groups and plan exhibits no cultural value. Excessive proliferation of artists, galleries and magazines, catalogs monographs that revolve around a situation that arises mainly from planning pre-organized by professionals with the sole purpose of bringing art into a kind of reset of ideas at zero degree. These strategies clearly unreliable merchant are implemented with the sole purpose of renewing the market and the interest of collectors now exhausted at the home of the art market crisis, and generally annoying the economic and financial crisis that is gripping from the time of the economic system throughout the global village. Many young people, a scheduled basis, are sacrificed on the altar of art ready to change skin and artistic production according to the demands of certain critical fashion. Luciano Caruso has clearly put the problem confessing: "I wonder if over time they will realize that served as a troop d’assalto, in vista di ben altri interessi!”. Ne risulta, quindi, una situazione profondamente confusa, senza idee e soprattutto senza un progetto lucidamente perseguito di messa in discussione del mondo. Dopo il riflusso e la situazione chiaramente mercantile, la situazione oggi impone all’artista il riprendere il cammino interrotto e il recupero più alto dell’esperienza precedente, per proseguire verso la trasgressione, rifiutando le leggi del mercato che condizionano l’artista a tal punto da far prediligere la qualità mercantile dell’oggetto che l’energia estetica e creativa del vero lavoro artistico. Naturalmente in questa condizione difficile, l’artista può lavorare individualmente in modo strong only if it finds references that can provide the stimuli that are not detected by a current reality rather confusing, but by a moment of awareness of the truly authentic. There is always a duality between art so-called "normal" art and "progressive", that is between an art that works with the canons and in the channels of communication established by the rules codified. Its true destiny is to ask yourself in a position to be continually marginalized and alienated by the Community economy. The only goal polished the market shows that they have, I believe, is to constantly enhance the superficiality of production in an attempt to standardize the system cultural and especially stifling the true reason and true work of art: creativity. An artist only careful search of the truth can never be economically self-sufficient because it is in perfect antithesis to the market. His anti-values \u200b\u200bare for the market. So deep and encompassing all activities of the artist can not rely on the economic result of its exercise. Art can not die choking the useless "functional" of consumerism, as a result of a multinational company and cultural regime that considers the art system a communication subsystem that controls perfectly and does not fulfill the function primary art that is mainly to affirm the individual human creativity. A complex artist and not aligned with the requirements of global trade and political power is certainly the Uruguayan Clemente Padin. A very polished artist that stands apart from deliberately provisional hypothesis merchant in an attempt to move beyond the limit, beyond the wall, between utopia and transgression. Launched in 1967 by the proposals of visual poetry with his "Visual Poems" works spanning a period of time ranging from 67 to 70 and soon landed the Mail Art, (already in 1967 had been in contact with the world of alternative 'postal art thanks to the publications of Dick Higgins, correspondence with Ken Friedman and his involvement and exchange of works of art postal and views in the Latin American circuit composed then by Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Guillermo Deisler, Horacio Zabala, Bruscky Paulo, Julio Plaza, Pedro Lyra, Damaso Ogaz, Daniel Santiago, Samaral, Jonier Marín, Diego Barboza and some other Latin artist. In 1971 he participated in the first exhibition of Ray Johnson in Philadelphia.). Today, Clemente Padin is an artist-driven "frontier" chart, performer, video artist, and actively engaged in netartworker and especially in the capital. In 1974, during the military dictatorship in Uruguay, had organized the first Latin-American Exposition in Mail Art Gallery U, in Montevideo, Uruguay. Denounced for subversive ideas from the Uruguayan dictatorship at that time very little available to the respect for human rights, arrested and prosecuted by the dictatorship of his country's contempt for the moral and reputation of the Army, was sentenced to four years in prison and jailed. After two years in prison (August 1977 through November 1979), was released in advance through the efforts of many artists and international solidarity, however, for several years suffered tragically el'impedimento constriction of freedom, (2 years in prison and another 5 years of probation and "conditioning", from 1977 to 1984, for a total of seven interminable years). Only in the month of October 1983 was able to incorporate a bit 'more closely his artistic career by organizing some interesting historical exhibitions such as "May 1st" at the Association of Uruguay banking staff in a more consistent and continue its efforts against weapons and violence and respect for human rights. Today, after more than forty years of activity, Clemente Padin is now an artist renowned internationally for its contributions especially in the social one of the few contemporary artists still engaged in a careful and systematic denunciation of the political and social system and of the sad human condition . In all these years, the Uruguayan artist has continued, with all the possible ways and means at its disposal, to believe and hope in freedom, equality for all human beings, regardless of the opinions, sex, race, ethnicity, politics, religion, and also by social and economic condition. In short, we made it clear that we must repudiate energetically the violence, terrorism and war, as the only means to resolve disputes between people and states. In addition, we urged to conduct a more active and, to a world which bases its existence on social justice, solidarity of all, respect, dialogue and solidarity on the equitable distribution of available resources. It is certainly a character to be proposed as Nobel Prize for peace for your continued contribution to the social problems and human activities over many years of work. Unfortunately, in our planet earth distracted and arrogant unbelievers witnessing a systematic demolition of every principle of proper civil society, based on the constant discrimination and social exclusion of the human being, in a system that sets prefers dialogue to barbarism and the inequality social. In all the work of Padin is the essentially ideological, supported by new tools such as Mail Art, which allow you to highlight so arrogant and effectively with these challenges. Padin said in a statement: "Mail Art from These tendencies and return it to ITS communicative efficacy. It is impossible to reduce artists to the political or the social; yet artists can only reduce reality by pretending that their work is not involved in the political and social. In conclusion, there are several options that the networkers can choose from:
• They can opt for social values already in existence or they can change the codes of social communication.
• They can qualify or try to measure the different mechanisms of control within the system, or try a new form of representation that will enable artists to question all established knowledge.
• They can reproduce work only for the art market which includes all work that Is Permissible, or proposed works and texts That question the Aesthetic, social and political status.
• They can resign Their social responsibility by "l'art pour l'art" or ... (1)
To really convince the contribution and importance of Clemente Padin enough only for a moment your eyes open to stay at once helpless and lost for this particular investigation and overbearing social utopia for the proposals and also for the continuous and clear transgressive energy that enters this extraordinary artist deliberately and consistently in all of its research work. John Bonanno
(1) - (book "ETERNAL NETWORK-A Mail Art Anthology" edited by Chuck Welch, University of Calgary Press, Alberta, Canada, 1995 (page 205)
