Drawing on ancestral knowledge in conversation with Huitoto and Tikuna women, indigenous communities native to the Amazon, eleven botanical species were identified along
with the alchemical processes for the use of their pigments on natural fibers such as fique, cotton, and paper.
This exhibition presents a selection of the artist's latest works, based on her fascination
with alchemical processes.
Not exact matches
With 2,620 glass and aluminum collectors arranged in the shape of CODELCO's corporate logo — a large Venus symbol, the
alchemical symbol for copper — the plant delivers 85 percent of the power needed for the hydrometallurgical
process used to produce copper.
It is wise to choose an adept, a skilled veteran who has been through the
alchemical process, that you may be guided by someone
with direct experience.
is a defining film, a benchmark example of how brilliance combines
with courage and how, through that sexual, ambitious, obsessive,
alchemical process, it creates something rare and, in a searing, seductive (Malkovich - ian) way, provides a porthole into that noble, trembling incoherence that defines us all.
Although the new work is formally different from the paintings
with which Ammerlaan made his breakthrough, they are essentially a continuation of Ammerlaan's «
alchemical» research into perception, into the boundaries of painting and unpredictable
processes.
The exhibition reflects Kiefer's preoccupation
with alchemy; in particular,
alchemical processes being bound up
with a «hastening of time» and the idea of accelerated transformation as a form of magic.
By privileging the often -
alchemical ways that paint and paper interact, these artists create works that are distinctly individual and that reflect an intuitive engagement
with process.