BOOK ALBERT ÁVILA
STATEMENT The discursive treatment in the work of Albert Avila raises a revaluation of the methods of artistic production, through means such as sculpture, painting, photography, video and installation, on the basis of the social imaginary collective as narrative strategy.
ALBERT ÁVILA
Sometimes classified as Neo-pop and minimalist, this tags don’t matter. His work initially involves conceptual photography and painting focused on feelings. To date, Albert Ávila Camacho have worked in sculpture, audio visual and mix media. They are also common in some of his works, nudity, surf, sea, excesses and other objects that the middle class aspire to live and be. Ideas is the main feature that must crown the work. His objects cause a kind of joke, love, sadness, sensuality, mystery, which is aimed directly at the senses.
TULĂšM METEORITE "The crater was disaster, scar in silence, the remainder of a silent hit in the dry sand. Sometimes Tulum saves in pink phosphorescent a secret. The cement is leaned in sacks on palm trees, some tools playing lost treasure in the sand. The team of assistants of F3 drew a diameter, average distance between a palm tree and another, calculated the amount of material required, drew pictures again and again, the shape of the piece, the gallery owners wondering how is it that will make a meteor in the jungle? Some questions are not answered, are only manufactured with cement, wire, wood and painting".
Installation: Crater, Iighting Medium: white cement, chiken wire, pigments, mineral rocks, resin. Dimensions: 220 x 320 cm Weight: 250 kg Year: 2014
METEONES In 2013 Albert Avila took a series of photos in a cliff near the coast of Sydney, He captured the encounter between a young alien and an earthling adolescent in the spot of a sunny afternoon, without more loitering, the timing, the stories of teenage romance, the fall of the traditional paradigms of various cultures around the world and even in the outer space. The constitution of the material elements in the space arising from an explosion, as this series of meteorites that are the product of chemical explosions, and emotional energy between two people of the Milky Way.
Meteones Medium: White cement, chicken wire, resin, acrylic resin, pigment. Dimensions: variable Weight: 2.5 kg Year: 2015
UTOPICS In 2013 Albert Avila took a series of photos in a cliff near the coast of Sydney, He captured the encounter between a young alien and an earthling adolescent in the spot of a sunny afternoon, without more loitering, the timing, the stories of teenage romance, the fall of the traditional paradigms of various cultures around the world and even in the outer space. The constitution of the material elements in the space arising from an explosion, as this series of meteorites that are the product of chemical explosions, and emotional energy between two people of the Milky Way. Recreating atmospheres that combine with an object in the center of each image. Repetition and new illustration techniques form a mosaic where the composition and color unite, creating something unique.
Series: Utรณpicos Medium: Digital photo Dimensions: 20.32cm x 25.40cm. Year: 2015.
SPACE LOVE In 2013 Albert Avila took a series of photos in a cliff near the coast of Sydney, He captured the encounter between a young alien and an earthling adolescent in the spot of a sunny afternoon, without more loitering, the timing, the stories of teenage romance, the fall of the traditional paradigms of various cultures around the world and even in the outer space. The constitution of the material elements in the space arising from an explosion, as this series of meteorites that are the product of chemical explosions, and emotional energy between two people of the Milky Way. "On a black table gravitatig, sculptures of meteors, contained in the black space, there is no movement, and you don't know if they are looking to interact or remain silent. The Bureau does not serve as pedestal, if not as gravitational field. The reflection of each piece mutates with the other, it vanishes. What do you look, the table, the color black, the meteors, texture, or only your reflection in silence." Space Love, 2015 Medium: White cement, chicken wire ,resins, acrylic, pigment Weight: 2.5Kg Year: 2015
Series: Surgical . Technique: cement, sieve, pigments, mineral rocks , glitter and resin. Year: 2015
A meteorite enters to the operating room, the waiting ends in a silence full of color. The impossible and possible sitting together in the waiting room. The unexpected posing, mocking the stability of the experimentation, awaiting a metaphoric analysis, lying on a metal table that shortens the understanding between space and a medical gathering that questions the earthling perspective of the space exploration.
SURGICAL METEORITE
VG´S For Albert, the figurative link between the female genitalia and the organic forms of surfaces it’s an added source of fascination. Today, it appears that the creation of images of the vagina is only done by pornographers, erotic and feminist artists. The vision of the vagina as a unit and independent body part is not an open issue that generates dialog, you can even be described as a pervert and lead in some cultures to the mutilation. The vulvas and the lips are as different as the faces, but most, especially women, do not seem to acknowledge, and that is being promoted as an incomplete equality and dismisses its diversity. Avila Camacho proposes to look at women much closer and with less accuracy, and is to see the whimsical shapes that form clouds, is to see the lunar surface with the game of shadows that suggest figures. For this reason the series VGA is a mutation of a vagina that collectively seem to be equal.
VG'S, 2015 Medium: marble dust, plastilita acrylic, pigment over frame. Dimensions: 90 cm . X 120 cm . Year: 2015 .
INTERSTICE The global reach of the insertion of the valuation of gender in sexual terms has no room left to make reference to the intersexuality. Gender has been used in the societies to define community functions ranging from the selection of clothing to benefits in civil rights. XXY explores the biological, social and religious interstice, that contrasts with the perception of the intersexual in the western society that forces to enter to a subculture of minorities that are blurred between labels L, G, B, T, T, T, I, and A. In XXY, Ă vila Camacho configures a biological alteration on scenarios defined by the gender of what is subject to be stamped is distorted. XXY provides a close view of what is estimated as intersex, a wrong approach that promotes openness to discern between a social doctrine and a congenital event.
Interstice, 2015 Medium: Digital Photo, Edited in Pohotoshop 2500x3300 pixeles
IMMINENT MOVEMENT The proximity in time of a movement that tangles with many other circunstances in one single ephemeral installation that reflects the interaction of ramdom acts under a minimalist atmosphere charged with space experimentation in an earthling enviroment that demands emotional stability.
A man stands in front of a meteorite. The cinematographic scene is completed with our collective imagination, questions rise trhu the motion of the man and the meteorite standing still.
Series: Imminent movement. Medium: digital printing. Dimensions: 27.94cm x 35.56cm (5) 20.32cm x 35.56cm (6) 21.59CM x 35.56cm (6) Year: 2015 .
MOBILE How can you know the outcome of a creative process, how can you tell when it begins or ends? Starting from the basis of a simple line, living in a bidimensional space, many experiments were conducted to translate the line into a tridimensional space. Now there will be no point A or B, nor end or beginning, it would be a continuous shape. We took three stripes of steel and made three ellipses, then combined the shapes and finally we hanged them with a steel cable. Once it was suspended we decides to add one more element: light. By placing strips of led lights on the ellipses and playing with the changes of light and its tonalities a new saturated atmosphere was created, now the mobile, that was expected as a final result, only turned out to be one more component in this process, it was no longer an object but a sculptural installation in constant motion.
MOBILE Medim: Digital Photo, Installation Year: 2015
HAPPY SUNDAYS The building of an idea, moves the language as well as the materials, How to displace an idea from Australia to Mexico?, is it valid doing it by phone or by e-mail? Happy Sundays tells the story of this displacement, not from the artist but the social conscience.
Series: Happy Sundays Medium: Digital impresiรณn on canvas, mix technique. Dimensions: 80cm x 159cm. Year: 2015.
TIME AFTER TIME
Appropriation as a generational Reafirmation Even though in Mexico the president, does not get sick, can’t be dead or even divorced. Presidentialism is, a mirage of an omnipresent being, almighty and supernatural. Series: Time after time. Medium : Digital Impresion on Canvas. Dimensions: 120 cm x 159cm. Year: 2015.
CONCUSSIONS A collective feeling that shakes the universal mood, a special shock awakening the deepest emotions. • •
Impact - concussions To crash : A meteorite impact on the runway.
Series: Concussions Medium: Enamelled fiber glass . Dimensions: 220 x 160 x 150 cm. Weight: 80 kg Year: 2015
ACHONDRITES The interstellar collisions are some of the ways in which the universe sculpts the matter in complete excellence, without control and with the light as a witness. A laboratory without limits that creates color with acids and temperature that solidifies each one of the assistants on the table of Albert Ă vila Camacho . Each Achondrite obeys to one specific circumstance reflected in the color and the tint melted in the heat outburst. Series: Achondrites Medium: Bronze with nitric acid Dimensions: 28 x 18 x 13 cm. Weight: 2.5 kg Year: 2015
SPARKLES The living light that shines so intense in a flash, give us a spark of life, or a crumb of a quality that shows in something that lacks. Setting a sparkle in the material universe into colorful whimsical aluminum shapes.
Series: Sparkles Maedium: Enameled aluminium Dimensions: 28 x 18 x 13 cm. Weight: 1.2 kg Year: 2015
FIREBALLS Colour is the most important part of an image, it gives personality, and constitutes the meaning of an object. In this series, Avila Camacho uses colour as a means to build this sharp and mighty Fireballs.
Series: Fireballs Medium: Fluorescent resin. Dimensions: 28 x 18 x 13 cm. Weight: 2.5 kg Year: 2015
“WHITE LATA� Oblivion, the worst fear of someone living his dead. For years, this cans suffered of forgetfulness. That was until one lucky day, Albert visited the house were he lived his infance, and old house in and old suburb in Mexico City. He went looking for memories, and that was exactly what he found, an iron cani n which he used to pee in his youth, a can, which knows him better than most of his relatives, a can, which carries in its rust a part of him.
Series: White Lata Medium: Digital Photo, Glicee Printing, cotton paper. Dimensions: 100 cm x 66.5 cm Year: 2015
FRIgiDAS Among carmine color flowers and sheets starched tan that they seemed cut from a cloud dawn was prostrated who would be one of the most representative figures of Mexican culture. Mesoamerican culture recognizes the incarnation of Venus in llife for her eyebrows or for her admirable and colorful paintings; However, what few people know is that her hallmark was the most sensitive parts of her anatomy. A pair of lips which rumour has it his husband didn’t touch, same as for immortality were portrayed in photographs taken at his home in Coyoacan, which together with its pair of breasts and protruding ennobled her beautiful indigenous factions. A woman of the world, modern and cultured; perfect union between roots of ancient cultures and European influences. Kahlo achieved to unify in her art and lifestyle both influences, resulting a unique art, special as the same Frida. This woman managed to be public representation of female corporeality, revealing to the world her privacy and giving the multiple photographer’s lenses. We could say that without the will to do so, being herself her portraits, was an advocate for the women rights; the right of feeling full, to know and enjoy their body, and without feeling the need to maulit. Albert takes the idea of showing all these ideologies into three racks, so raw edges ss the ideals of Frida. Albert, inspired by the naked Frida, proposes to see the vagina as unit and independent body, closer and less accurate, as it is, as Frida showed us.
“Describing the work of an artist is a difficult path to walk, despite all efforts, there always remain a sensation in the air that it`s not enough. One of those elusive characters is Albert Avila Camacho, a man that lives too many lives in one, he conceptualizes his life as adventures, experiments and excess, an artist who travels paths that are so new, original and different, that trying to understand him from our simple commodity, at times becomes an impossible task. We could say that his art is sensitive and acute Nowadays Albert still traveling, wandering and discovering new worlds and by the moment he decided to live on Uluru, situated on a desert in the middle of Australia.� ABRAHAM OROZCO F3 ART-LAB
LATEST EXHIBITIONS •Galería L – Opening show. Mexico City. December 2014. •Proyecto Cultural Talamuro – Colectiva Expresionismo Abstracto. Mexico City. December 2014. •Galería 984 – Cowboys and Indians. Tulum, Mexico. January 2015. •Galería 124 Dirty Art Club – Desnudos. Mexico City. April 2015. •Archibald Prize 2015 - Albert Ávila Camacho 4 faces http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/ •Australian Life Exhibition & Prize 2015 - Albert Ávila Camacho Happy Sunday's (equalitiy) 2015 http://www.artandabout.com.au/ •Galería L – 3era. Edición ¡IMPACTO!. Mexico City. September 2015. •Corredor Cultural Roma-Condesa – Romita mi amor – CONMOCIONES. Mexico City. December 2015. •Ambush Gallery - Paste Modernism 2015. – Sydney, Australia. December 2015. •Galería L, Colectiva de verano. México, CDMX. July, 2016. •Fondo de Cultura Económica/Centro Cultural Gabriel García Márquez – 6to Festival “Visiones de México en Colombia”. Colombia, Bogotá, Septiembre 2016. •Gateway Art Center New York – Soul of México, - USA, New York. Noviembre 2016. •Hide Location – Keep Sydney Dancing, Australia, Sydney. Noviembre 2016.