Project to be considered for participation in the Rencontres Internationales 2011/12
HACER TIEMPO
To Make time (Hacertiempo), Andrés Montes has intervened CRUCE with the remains of a celebration, the imperceptible marks accumulated on his face, and some self-referential loops which make the personal element disappear, so that we may consider a different time, a collective time. In this manner, everything that will be happening these two months in CRUCE will take place in another place, another moment. And certainly deciding when and where is something that should be of our incumbency, as it is with Andres’ work, as he makes (a) time in which is constructed, poetically, a collective memory.
–Salomé Ramírez and Daniel Lesmes
HACER TIEMPO (General view)
HACER TIEMPO (General view)
HACER TIEMPO (General view)
Untitled (Remains of a celebration) Installation with wood, paper, fireworks. Variable dimensions, 2014.
Untitled (Remains of a celebration) Installation with wood, paper, fireworks. Variable dimensions, 2014.
Untitled (Remains of a celebration) Installation with wood, paper, fireworks. Variable dimensions, 2014.
Acontecimiento #3 (Occurrance #3) Installation. Rock, water and still cable. Variable dimensions. 2014.
Acontecimiento #3 (Occurrance #3) Installation. Rock, water and still cable. Variable dimensions. 2014.
Acontecimiento #3 (Occurrance #3) Installation. Rock, water and still cable. Variable dimensions. 2014.
Acontecimiento #3 (Occurrance #3) Installation. Rock, water and still cable. Variable dimensions. 2014.
Acontecimiento #3 (Occurrance #3) Installation. Rock, water and still cable. Variable dimensions. 2014.
Acontecimiento #3 (Occurrance #3) Installation. Rock, water and still cable. Variable dimensions. 2014.
HACER TIEMPO (General view)
IT TAKES TIME Intervention with graphite on wall and red neon lights. 640×115 cm. 2014.
IT TAKES TIME (Detail).
IT TAKES TIME (Detail).
IT TAKES TIME (Detail).
IT TAKES TIME (Detail).
Historico #1, #2 (Historical 1, 2) Two portraits in a 24 hour interval. #1 Madrid 21/05/2014 – 14:08:19 CET and #2 Madrid, 22/05/2014 – 14:08:00 CET. Cibachrome on archival paper, estimated shelf life +200 years, 2014.
Historico #1, #2 (Detail).
First draft. Found wood and looped video (The video shows the record of the box’s construction). 2014.
First draft (Detail).
First draft (Detail).
Materia contempla materia (Matter contemplates matter). Rock, printed photograph and wood shelf . 2014.
Acontecimiento #2 (Ocurrence #2). Newspaper ashes and wood. 2014.
Acontecimiento #2 (Ocurrence #2). Newspaper ashes and wood. 2014.
Acontecimiento #2 (Ocurrence #2, detail).
Acontecimiento #2 (Ocurrence #2, detail).
Acontecimiento #2 (Ocurrence #2, detail).
Acontecimiento #2 (Ocurrence #2, detail).
Untitled (Longing for a place). Wood, soil, rye seeds. 2014.
Hi Mila! I’m glad you like it. “Matter contemplates matter” is, curiously, the first piece I thought for the exhibition. I wanted with this piece to explore consciousness, and how we come into the idea of being. The idea was to create a “loop”, in which there is a play between the piece and the viewer. When we approach “Matter contemplates matter”, we tend to anthropomorphize the stone that seem to “look” longingly at the mountain in the photo, but if we think about it, the only matter that can contemplate anything is us, the spectator,thus completing the loop, and hopefully, opening a dialogue in which our consciousness becomes clearer.
Regiones Transitorias 
Andrés…hilarious!
…my favorite “matters contemplates matters”…what happens between them?!!!!
is that our place…?
Congratulations!
mila
Hi Mila! I’m glad you like it. “Matter contemplates matter” is, curiously, the first piece I thought for the exhibition. I wanted with this piece to explore consciousness, and how we come into the idea of being. The idea was to create a “loop”, in which there is a play between the piece and the viewer. When we approach “Matter contemplates matter”, we tend to anthropomorphize the stone that seem to “look” longingly at the mountain in the photo, but if we think about it, the only matter that can contemplate anything is us, the spectator,thus completing the loop, and hopefully, opening a dialogue in which our consciousness becomes clearer.