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Lisette Lagnado Biografía de la curadora

Lisette Lagnado
Lisette Lagnado
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Renata Cervetto, Agustín Pérez Rubio, María Berríos, Lisette Lagnado (f.l.t.r.)
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11ª Bienal de Arte Contemporáneo de Berlín, 2020

Lisette Lagnado

(* 1961 Kinshasa) A researcher, art critic, and independent curator interested in strategies for collaborating with sociologists and architects in public space. As a young child she never understood why people lived on the streets and spent her time speaking with them. She was chief curator of the 27th Bienal de São Paulo How to Live Together (2006) and curated Drifts and Derivations: Experiences, journeys and morphologies together with María Berríos (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2010).

Recent projects of her include Rivane Neuenschwander: The Name of Fear | Rio de Janeiro (Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR), Rio de Janeiro, 2017) and León Ferrari, For a World with No Hell (Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo and New York, 2018). In 2014 Lagnado became director and Curator of Public Programs of the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage in Rio de Janeiro, a position held until 2017.

Lagnado was coeditor of the magazines Arte em São Paulo (1981–89) and Trópico (2001–11) and contributed to exhibition catalogues on Arthur Bispo do Rosario, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Laura Lima, Gordon Matta-Clark, Virginia de Medeiros, Cildo Meireles, Ahlam Shibli, Tunga, and Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca, among others. In 1993, together with friends and family of the artist José Leonilson, she established the São Paulo-based Projeto Leonilson, which oversees his estate; she also curated his first retrospective Leonilson: são tantas as verdades (Galeria de Arte do SESI, São Paulo, 1995). Lagnado coordinated the Programa Hélio Oiticica, an online archive of Hélio Oiticica’s writings (Instituto Itaú Cultural, 1999–2002). Lagnado is currently a member of the Associação Cultural Videobrasil, São Paulo.

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Renata Cervetto Biografía de la curadora

Renata Cervetto
Renata Cervetto
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Renata Cervetto, Agustín Pérez Rubio, María Berríos, Lisette Lagnado (f.l.t.r.)
© Photo: F. Anthea Schaap

Biografías de lxs curadorxs

11ª Bienal de Arte Contemporáneo de Berlín, 2020

Renata Cervetto

(* 1985 Buenos Aires) Has an ongoing curiosity for artistic practices in dialogue with language, public space, and body memories. She has researched the pedagogical programs of the Mercosul and São Paulo biennials, looking into how performance can result in critical mediation and the possibilities for negotiation and debate that this offers within different contexts. In 2013–14 Cervetto participated in the De Appel Curatorial Programme in Amsterdam, followed by a fellowship to develop a one-year public program at De Appel in 2014. This also included a compilation of her research in The Fellow Reader #1. On Boycott, Censorship and Educational Practices (De Appel, 2015). From 2015–18 she coordinated the education department of the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA).

Cervetto coedited the publication Agítese antes de usar. Desplazamientos educativos, sociales y artísticos en América Latina (TEOR/éTica, San José, and MALBA, Buenos Aires, 2017, with texts by Lisette Lagnado, among others) together with Miguel A. López. In recent years, she has been exploring how consciousness (or self-awareness) can be developed through pedagogical-poetic exercises.

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María Berríos Biografía de la curadora

María Berríos
María Berríos
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Renata Cervetto, Agustín Pérez Rubio, María Berríos, Lisette Lagnado (f.l.t.r.)
© Photo: F. Anthea Schaap

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11ª Bienal de Arte Contemporáneo de Berlín, 2020

María Berríos

(* 1978 Santiago de Chile) A sociologist, writer, independent curator, and cofounder of the Chilean editorial collective vaticanochico. Her work traverses art, culture, and politics with a special interest in the collective experiments of the Third World movement and their exhibition formats in the 1960s and 70s. She teaches and lectures regularly in Europe and Latin America and has published extensively on art and politics in Latin America and beyond.

Among other projects, Berríos curated with Lisette Lagnado Drifts and Derivations. Experiences, journeys and morphologies on experimental architectural collectives from Chile (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2010), and curated Nuestro desconocido, nuestro caos, nuestro mar (Museo Experimental el Eco, Mexico City, 2014), and Alberto Cruz: El cuerpo del arquitecto no es el de un solo hombre (together with Amalia Cross, MAVI – Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago de Chile, 2017).

Berríos has been engaged in several collaborative art projects, including The Revolution Must Be a School of Unfettered Thought (together with artist Jakob Jakobsen for the 31st Bienal de São Paulo, 2014). She is an ongoing collaborator of the Hospital Prison University Archive (Copenhagen, 2016–to date), a project space and radio station run by artist Jakob Jakobsen in the building where he and Berríos live together with their three-year-old son Teo, who believes he is a ninja.

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TRAPPED BETWEEN THE ABSURD AND THE REASONABLE

Humberto-Poidomani, Lets-Make-America-Cultured

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October 21, 2020

Humberto Poidomani

To observe Humberto Poidomani’s artwork (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1942) as a spectator is to travel through a wide path of thematic variety with a complex compositional technique loaded with symbolism, and in a perfect balance between the absurd and the reasonable; an eccentric twist of sensations and colorful explosion where fantasy and paradox, intertwine.

Poidomani is a prolific artist of tireless productivity. He creates his speech by superimposing materials in silly combinations, creating fantastic stories with a formalism centered on ideological notions that he captures in complex sculptures, assemblages, collages, painting and various objects, where the resource of writing is present in dense and continuous strokes sometimes unintelligible; many others, understandable.

Humberto Poidomani

The social complexity of life in Argentina is treated with intelligent humor and sarcasm in Teatro de la vida series, where topics of socio-political and ecological content are complemented with small texts included in the assembly of wooden boxes in small format 63 x 52 x 18 cm (24.8 x 20.4
x 7.08 in).
Argentina Potencia, a series developed over several years, shows in its various pieces the ironic touch of a collective desire for a better country.

The series Babel , pictorial work in a medium format of 150 x 150 cm (59 x 59 in) gathers a set of pieces in which different states of mind —anguish, desolation, isolation, arrogance and abandonment, among others— are approached in complexity compositional with a great material and gestural load. Unintelligible texts occur in a kind of linguistic confusion, horizontally or vertically oriented, and arranged in quadrants with orthogonal axes guiding the viewer’s gaze as if it were a guided reading.

In Divina Comedia —homonymous series to the epic poetry of Dante Alighieri—, the artist recreates his own visual poem with luxurious compositional details and with great formal achievement. Divina Comedia, Dante’s Inferno and Purgatory are allusive titles to the compendium
of medieval culture and that is what the literary author outlined in his own work. Poidomani takes up in his plastic speech part of the literary work to turn it into a visual story loaded with symbolic content.

In another of his series of three- dimensional works, Art with objects, the artist expresses his socio- political opinion about the USA the country in which he currently resides. Let’s make America cultured, Enchanted House, Children of War and Voluntary Servitude –in reference to the essay by
Étienne de La Boétie– are wood assemblage boxes with oil, resin and diversity objects in which the word has a metaphorical weight in the work’s context. Once again, Poidomani shows off black humor in an acid thought.

The sculpture work does not escape to the complex diversity or the playful visual game and becomes a fun bet to say the least, loaded with symbolism in each of his pieces made up of recycled objects, acrylic and resin.

Approaching the work of Humberto Poidomani becomes a liberating glint without ties to taste or pleased work. Gesture, humor and irony come together in a stimulating and noisy way; a joyful transit where the viewer never loses his capacity of wonder.

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Miami Drawing Classes

Best drawing class in Miami
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Virtual Beginner Drawing

Virtual Figure Drawing

Class Level: Beginner

Age Requirements: 15 and older

What you’ll learn in this beginner drawing class:

In this class we will do a graphite still life drawing. I will go over hatching and cross hatching techniques to build value to create depth, and use basic shapes to build our objects. We will review how to create a dynamic composition to make a beautiful drawing! The techniques you will learn are foundational skills that can be applied to a variety of drawing styles and projects.

Each class focuses on a different object. Note that you can take any class you’d like or multiple. 

  • 9/5: Still life – an object from your home (examples include a cup, pencil, fruit, etc)
  • 9/12: Landscape – a photo of a landscape you want to recreate / be positioned near a window
  • 9/19: Botanical – flower, leaf, any object from nature
  • 9/26 Faces – a photo of someone’s face or a mirror setup
  • 10/3: Still life – an object from your home (examples include a cup, pencil, fruit, etc)
  • 10/10: Landscape – a photo of a landscape you want to recreate / be positioned near a window
  • 10/17: Botanical – flower, leaf, any object from nature
  • 10/24: Faces – a photo of someone’s face or a mirror setup
  • 10/31: Still life – an object from your home (examples include a cup, pencil, fruit, etc)
  • 11/07: Landscape – a photo of a landscape you want to recreate / be positioned near a window
  • 11/21: Botanical – flower, leaf, any object from nature
  • 12/05 Faces – a photo of someone’s face or a mirror setup
  • 12/19: Still life – an object from your home (examples include a cup, pencil, fruit, etc)

Materials Needed to Fully Participate:

  • Graphite pencil
  • Preferred drawing material / paper. You don’t need anything fancy.

Virtual Figure Drawing

What you’ll learn in this figure drawing class:

Have you wanted to learn to draw people? Well, this course is designed for beginner to intermediate learners. We will learn how to construct the figure using various methods. Studying the basic proportions, and the dynamic actions, and some advanced techniques like foreshortening you will walk away with tools, techniques and ways of looking at drawing to continue working on your own. The class will begin with a warm up, drawing lessons, practice time and a wrap up critique of work. We will be using our own bodies as well as a PDF to model our drawings off of.

Materials Needed to Fully Participate:

  • Drawing paper, large and small
  • A pencil
  • Other optional materials: charcoal, eraser, pastel


Class Level:
 All levels

Age Requirements: 16 and older

Virtual Class FAQ

What will be included in my Virtual Class package?One ticket includes an access link to your live, online class. The class will be delivered via web conferencing software and feature a live, professional instructor who will walk you through a lesson as described above. You will have the opportunity to ask questions as well as participate from home.

How many people is my purchase good for?

Each ticket is good for one “device” (i.e. one computer, phone, tablet, etc. you’ll be logging in from). This ensures we don’t get more people in the class than the instructor can handle. Though we understand some people live together and will be working/learning together, the intent is that each class still allows for the same attention to attendees as if students purchased separately. Please be respectful of this!

Will I need anything from home to use in the class?

You will need a reliable Internet connection as well as a computer or device with which you can access your virtual class. We recommend you arrive to class 5-10 minutes early to ensure you’re able to set up your device and connection. Additionally, if the class is more than just a lecture you will likely want any materials listed in the course description as “Materials Needed to Participate Fully”, though you’re welcome to purchase a seat and sit in and just watch.

Am I able to ask questions or interact with the class?Yes, you’ll both be able to ask questions using the chat function in the video hosting software as well as at certain intervals during the class via voice/audio. If the class winds up being on the smaller side, more spontaneous interaction/questions will be encouraged.

Do I have to show my video or speak during class?

While we recommend you do show your video and speak when encouraged to by the instructor, video and audio participation are never mandatory. We find classes have more fun experiences when people are engaging with one another, but understand not everyone will want to do so and that’s ok!

Remote Learning

This course is available for “remote” learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). 

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La Merced Chapel

The Chapel of Our Lady of La Merced in Miami. Main facade.
The Chapel of Our Lady of La Merced in Miami. Main facade.

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La Merced Chapel is a hidden artistic jewel in inauspicious surroundings in Miami’s Allapattah neighborhood. On the grounds of Corpus Christi Church, the building evokes a Peruvian baroque chapel of the colonial period in the 17th and 18th century. The building is a faithful construction and is filled with authentic religious paintings and furniture from Latin America’s under-appreciated Colonial period.

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EXPOSICION MES DE LA HISPANIDAD.

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AR7SEVEN ABRE LA PRIMRA EXPOSICIÓN DE ARTE PRESENCIAL CON CUIDADOS DE BIOSEGURIDAD

 Hernán Gamboa Gallery, recibirá las obras de los 16 artistas plásticos latinoamericanos que conforman el colectivo Ar7seven quienes con este evento se disponen a celebrar el MES DE LA HISPANIDAD.

 Más de 16 obras, que también se podrán apreciar de manera virtual en www.ar7seven.com tendrá esta exposición, la primera de carácter presencial que este importante colectivo desarrolla en medio de la pandemia, la cual contará con los más estrictos controles de bioseguridad.

 Gamboa Gallery ubicada en 4000 West Flagler St. Coral Gables 33134, abrirá sus puertas a la exposición el 17 de octubre a partir de las 10:00 am e irá hasta el próximo 24 de octubre, con entrada libre de costo. Se requiere reservar su espacio, ya que, habrá cinco (5) espacios disponibles por hora para visitar la exposición. Para reservar su espacio puede accesar el siguiente enlace: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090C4FA8A92BA7FB6-hernan

Miami, FL. El importante colectivo Latinoamericano Ar7seven compuesto por 16 artistas plásticos inicia su ciclo de exposiciones presenciales de este año con Hispanic Heritage 2020, un evento diseñado para conmemorar con arte el Mes de la Hispanidad, que tradicionalmente celebra la comunidad hispana en USA. Según Dolly Delgado Belalcazar, Directora Ejecutiva de Ar7seven “ninguna pandemia o evento desafortunado de la humanidad podrá apagar al arte, es la única expresión que trasciende a pesar de cualquier circunstancia desafortunada que esté ocurriendo en la vida. Durante este año, dadas las circunstancias, hemos desarrollado solo exposiciones y eventos virtuales, ya, en esta instancia de la pandemia, estudiamos la posibilidad que el público pueda apreciar las obras de nuestros artistas de manera directa y Hernán Gamboa Gallery nos abrió las puertas” afirmó la Gestora Cultural. Ar7seven lleva 4 años desarrollando giras culturales en los Estados Unidos, inicialmente sólo con artistas colombianos, ya que ese es el país originario de este movimiento, pero con el transcurrir del tiempo, artistas plásticos de otros países de Latinoamérica y Estados Unidos se fueron vinculando al colectivo y en este momento también se cuenta con talento de: Venezuela, México, Cuba, Chile, Perú, Guatemala y Estados Unidos.

¿Quiénes son los artistas de Ar7seven?


COLOMBIA: Carlos David Pérez Bolaños, artista cartagenero egresado de la Escuela de Bellas Artes de la misma ciudad. Es un artista que plasma su esencia Caribe y todas sus multiculturalidades, sus obras están llenas de color, propios de su región y aborda en ellas temáticas basadas en sus costumbres y en su gente alegre, espontánea y pujante. Estudió en la
Institución Universitaria Bellas Artes y Ciencias de Bolívar.
MÉXICO: Katya Du Pond nació en la Ciudad de México, estudió en la Facultad de Bellas Artes de la Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro donde se especializó en Artes Visuales, y culminó sus estudios en el Instituto de Arte de la ciudad de Houston como Diseñadora de Interiores, ampliando así, su pasión por el color.
COLOMBIA: María Claudia Saavedra artista plástica colombiana, nacida en Medellín, ciudad donde está radicada. Es economista de la Universidad de Antioquia y Doctora en Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona UAB. En el trabajo pictórico ha explorado principalmente temas de la naturaleza con una permanente búsqueda de las relaciones entre espacio, forma y color.
CUBA: Lilivet Peña Echemendía, nació el 24 de agosto de 1984, en la Ciudad de Camagüey Cuba. Desde los cuatro años su madre la incorporó en talleres de Artes Plásticas. Estudió en la Secundaria Básica Urbana “Mártires de Camagüey”, obteniendo excelentes resultados que le permitieron estar
entre los primeros expedientes. Al llegar al noveno grado, con un promedio de 100, optó por el IPVCE “Máximo Gómez Báez”; y se presentó, además, a los exámenes de Artes Plásticas de la Academia “Vicentina de la Torre”, siendo aceptada en ambas instituciones.
CHILE: Nadra Jacob, Nació en la ciudad de Santiago de Chile en 1970. Se interesó en las artes desde muy temprana edad, siendo autodidacta desde los 12 años, sin embargo, inició sus estudios de arte en el año 1998 tomando clases particulares con varios profesores de dibujo. Más tarde, realizó
estudios en Figura Humana Avanzado en la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, donde a su vez, fue Diplomada de Estudios en Arte,
COLOMBIA: Guillermo Romero. Artista Plástico, nació en Bogotá el 6 de enero de 1958. Se inició como pintor en el año de 1985 en Buenos Aires, Argentina, donde realizó sus primeros bosquejos y aprendió la técnica de la acuarela con la acuarelista Inés Rotenberg Romero.
COLOMBIA: Eibar Castillo. Artista plástico nacido en el Municipio de Tumaco, Departamento de Nariño República de Colombia. Cursó estudios de Artes Plásticas en el Instituto Popular de Cultura (IPC), Cali, Colombia. En 1979, empezó su ejercicio en la pintura ocupando el tiempo “libre” que le
dejara su condición de obrero en una factoría (fábrica) donde pasó 30 años sobreviviendo a tan larga noche de alienación condicionada.
COLOMBIA: Salvador Blanco. Su pasión por el arte nació a muy temprana edad en la Escuela de Bellas Artes de la ciudad de Barranquilla. Más tarde, mientras realizaba sus estudios universitarios, buscó emular en un principio las pinturas de su difunto padre, quien también fue artista, Salvador Leary, a medida que se iba desempeñando en su carrera como publicista y en el arte, fue creando su propia obra que en ocasiones mezcla textura, ensamblaje y texto.

COLOMBIA: Oscar Sir Avendaño. Artista colombiano que permanentemente incursiona en la técnica de la pintura, con el compromiso de apropiarse del quehacer diario, el acontecimiento que de sol a sol hace transcurrir la vida, aquí las formas según su identificación se varían a estados anímicos del artista.
GUATEMALA: Nitrous Beto. Es uno de los artistas y poetas que proviene de una familia humilde y que siempre se distingue por su escancia de un gran ser humano que defiende sus orígenes, todos sus logros son el resultado de la vivencia e historia en que ha crecido y vivido con su familia. Sus
obras han sido una representación e interpretación de momentos y aprendizajes que ha tenido en su andar.
COLOMBIA: Joaquín López de la Ossa.  De San Luis pasó a Sincelejo donde ingresó al Instituto Técnico Industrial Antonio Prieto, allí conoció al Maestro Ramiro Blanco, personaje que encausaría su pasión por las artes, alentándolo al aprendizaje formal. En 1991 se alzó con el Premio Alejandro
Obregón en la Categoría Juvenil, al Mejor Pintor del Departamento de Sucre, galardón auspiciado por el Consulado de Francia. En aquella oportunidad presentó la obra “Lo que no pensó descubrir Colón”.
COLOMBIA: Jorge Luis Pantoja Miranda. Ingeniero Electrónico de la Universidad del Norte y Fotógrafo de la Alianza Francesa, nacido en Barranquilla en 1984, recibe desde su infancia una fuerte influencia familiar en las Artes Plásticas; 
COLOMBIA: Diego Céspedes. El Artista Plástico durante sus estudios universitarios amplió sus espectros artísticos anclado al mundo bidimensional (grabado, pintura y dibujo), estudiando movimientos artísticos tales como, el Impresionismo y los Románticos.
COLOMBIA: Patricia Amaya. Esta bogotana se crió en Valledupar donde compartió en el colegio con otros niños muy especiales: indígenas Kogis y Arahuacos. También viajó a La Guajira donde estuvo vinculada con la cultura Wayuú, de ahí nace su inspiración en cada una de sus pinturas.
MEXICO: David Triano. Nace en Cuernavaca, Morelos en 1963, radicado en Xalapa, Veracruz. Licenciatura en Artes con mención honorífica. Expone individual y colectivamente en diversos lugares desde 1985, principalmente en Veracruz, Xalapa, México-España Cancún, Puebla; expuso en
el Instituto de Antropología de la Universidad Veracruzana dentro del marco del 5to Congreso Internacional de Mayistas, presentando una serie de reproducciones con técnica “al fresco” de fragmentos murales de la zona maya y en el 2do y 3er Salón de la Plástica en el Ágora de la ciudad.
VENEZUELA: Pedro Javier Linares. Nacido el 4 de marzo de 1962, desde muy pequeño sintió inclinaciones hacia el mundo del arte, una enfermedad limitó su andar con sus piernas, pero jamás sus sueños y brindar sus dones los cuales, perfeccionó en la Escuela de Artes Plásticas Martín Tovar
y Tovar en Barquisimeto.

VENEZUELA: Artista Visual Multidisciplinario, nacido en Caracas Venezuela. Estudio en la Escuela Técnica de Artes Visuales Cristóbal Rojas, Escuela Taller Arte Fuego Cándido Millán y Escultura en el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas Sofía Imber. Tomas Regalado, Alcalde de la Ciudad de Miami proclamó el 19 de agosto de 2016 como el Día del Artista Rafael Montilla.

CONTACTO: Dolly Delgado Belalcazar
Directora Ejecutiva
Ar7seven, S.A.S.
832-923-9502
[email protected]

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Best drawing class in Miami

Best drawing class in Miami
Miami Drawing Classes

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Learn How to Draw People and Character Designs Professionally, Drawing for Animation, Comics, Cartoons, Games and More!

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How to Be a Performance Artist

How to Be a Performance Artist
How to Be a Performance Artist

Glasgow-based performer Liv Fontaine’s top tips

BY LIV FONTAINE IN OPINION | 10 SEP 20

The closure of art spaces and venues during lockdown has exacerbated the challenges faced by artists operating in a live sphere. Here, Liv Fontaine offers ten pearls of wisdom for surviving the minefield of working as a freelance performer.

1. Keep performing

After almost ten years of performing in galleries, I now feel much happier doing my act at punk shows in fringe venues. Art spaces are great, but it’s in the pubs that I feel I can really get down to business. If no one wants to programme you, programme yourself.  

2. Safety first

I have learned a lot from getting heckled or even threatened in the middle of a set, but it can very quickly become uncomfortable. Spectators often see performers’ bodies as public property, so be clear about your boundaries with organizers and audiences. There can be pressure to respond wittily to an onstage interruption, but I find the classic ‘Get to fuck you chicken-livered shit!’ works for me.

Liv Fontaine, Narcissus, 2018. Courtesy: the artist
Liv Fontaine, Narcissus, 2018. Courtesy: the artist

3. Know who you are and keep telling everyone

Performance teases people. In this sense, although it can be draining, it’s a good idea to use social media. Performance relies on the artist’s presence and social media offers the illusion of presence, even if the reality is: self-doubt, crippling debt and spiralling spotlight syndrome. 

4. Be aware of the post-performance ‘come down’

I have been through multiple episodes of madness, wondering where the performance stops and I start. It is a state of incongruence that you could spend many hours and much money exploring with a therapist. It has led me to do completely unimaginable and very unusual things, including rebranding myself as a landscape photographer and confessing to crimes I did not commit. Ignored, this can take a toll on your health and relationships, so it’s good to keep considering.

5. Be really clear about what you want to do

There is still a general judgement that performers are a bit wild and all over the place, which is true. When working with producers and curators, be practical about what you want to achieve and state why it’s absolutely necessary that you do it. If your work relies on turning the stage into a scale reconstruction of the unstoppable bus in the 1994 action thriller Speed, don’t compromise.  

Liv Fontaine, Narcissus, 2018. Courtesy: the artist
Liv Fontaine, People Pleaser, 2019. Courtesy: the artist and Catalina Barroso-Luque; photograph: Isobel Lutz-Smith

6. Be friends with other performers

Surround yourself with people who understand the seething cauldron of your mind and don’t consider you to be just egotistical. Most people assume performers are very sure of themselves but, to a performer, performance is just a medium or, sometimes, an erratic, unstable compulsion.

7. Only do work that you really believe in

You must have complete conviction in what you do because there is an element of sacrifice to performance, so it’s got to be worth it. I realize this might sound a bit dramatic but, if I ever wanted to become prime minister, I wouldn’t be able to because there’s footage of me all over the internet tit-wanking bananas and screaming about my cheating ex-husband.

8. If the feeling stops, stop

To me, there is nothing more exhilarating than performing live: it’s an out-of-body experience that can leave me with extreme emotions for days. If that ever ended, I would stop performing.

Liv Fontaine, Narcissus, 2018. Courtesy: the artist
Liv Fontaine, 2019. Courtesy: the artist; photograph: Heather Glazzard

9. Don’t pigeonhole your performative self

Performance is the basis of my whole practice, but I don’t feel completely defined by it because my process also involves writing, drawing and video work. Sometimes, live work is exhausting; it’s good to take a break, take a breath and come back with a BANG!

10. Keep going

I receive less than one acceptance for every 20 applications I make. It can be lonely, and the rejection is incredibly hard to process. I persevere because people keep coming to the shows, I can’t keep my mouth closed and we have to keep challenging the absolute shite that is being thrown at us. I may be biased but, when I watch live work, my mind is often totally blown. I rarely feel like that at the National Portrait Gallery 

Main image: Liv Fontaine, This type of thing won’t keep you warm at night, 2018, photograph. Courtesy: the artist 

LIV FONTAINE

Liv Fontaine is an artist. In 2021, her work will be included in Glasgow International, UK. She lives in Glasgow.

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Paint Using Dan’s Highly Descriptive Approach

Josef Albers
Josef Albers
Learn to Paint Using Dan’s Highly Descriptive Approach
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Daniel Gerhartz began his art education at the American Academy of Art in Chicago where he studied in the classical tradition and immersed himself in applications of technique and design. Daniel’s direct approach to working with the figure and landscape allowed him to see and attempt to capture the infinite nuances of light, color, and form. Since then he has been featured in solo and group shows across the country and has won numerous awards at prominent national invitational exhibitions and his work has been collected both nationally and internationally. Daniel has taught workshops for over 25 years and is excited to share his knowledge with many artists from around the world.

What You’ll Learn:
-You will learn Daniel’s comprehensive approach to working with the figure En Plein Air, from logistics in set up to being flexible in changing light situations.
-You will experience this gallery painting develop entirely as he works with the model outdoors, describing his process from beginning to end during the 4 days of filming.
-Daniel addresses the need for a solid composition before you begin and demonstrates key points in implementing the strongest design.

and much more…

Video Length: 06:13:25

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