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Marcos Lutyens (born 1964) is a British interdisciplinary artist and author based in Los Angeles, California. [1]
Lutyens' projects are exhibited internationally, centering around explorations of sensory perception and the unconscious mind. He frequently uses hypnosis as part of his performances. [2] Lutyens collaborates with artists, writers, and scientists on his projects. His interests in sensory perception and synesthesia have led him to collaborate with neuroscientist Richard Cytowic. [3] He has also worked closely with The Institute for Art and Olfaction on various projects, using specially created scents to enhance and deepen the experience of his performance works. In addition, Lutyens has worked extensively with sensory-impaired communities, including the Association of Persons with Visual Impairments in Turkey and the Latvian Society of the Blind. Lutyens has collaborated with organizations including Vision Forum, the International Association of Synaesthetes, Artists, and Scientists.
CO2morrow is a reactive sculpture, first shown at the Royal Academy of Arts in London as a part of the show “Earth: Art of a Changing World” in 2009. The project was created in collaboration with artist Alessandro Marianantoni and climate scientist Andrew Manning. The sculpture was created almost entirely out of carbon fiber and is modeled after a scrubber molecule that takes CO2 out of the air. The sculpture is also covered in LED lights that react in real-time to data received from a network of sensing technologies in the United Kingdom. After its showing at the Royal Academy of Arts, CO2morrow was moved to Seaton Delaval Hall, on the northeast coast of England. [4]
Hypnotic Show is an evolving project created in collaboration with Raimundas Malašauskas. It has been shown in various iterations, performed at Documenta (13), in Kassel, Germany, in 2012. Performances of the Hypnotic Show at Documenta (13) were held in a cabin specially designed by Lutyens called the Reflecting Room. A near-exact reflected replica of the upper cabin was installed below so that the floor of the cabin appeared to be covered by a mirror. In this mirrored space, Lutyens held 340 hypnotic performances over 100 days with 7,000 people in attendance. The scripts for these performances were adapted from Raimundas Malašauskas’ book, Paper Exhibition, along with contributions from various artists. Special scents, designed by Sissel Tolaas, were released into the space to deepen the experience. [5]
An instance of the Hypnotic Show was performed at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City as a part of the exhibition Tales of Our Time in 2017. A video was also produced along with this performance. [6]
Color Therapy is an installation presented on large LED screens simultaneously in six cities around the world over a year. The project was presented in Times Square (New York), Piccadilly Circus (London) Amsterdam, Milan, Toronto, and Singapore in 2014. Short 60-second films were played on the screens, reacting in real-time to local weather data. The colors of each film are related to an inverse of the current weather, creating emotional warmth when it’s cold, wet, or windy, and a feeling of calm when it’s hot, dry, or still. [7] An iteration of the project was presented as Soma Chroma at Piccadilly Circus and Dubai Dubia at Zayed University in Dubai as a part of ISEA 2014, and K-Tanglement in New York, Toronto, Milan, and Amsterdam.
Neurathian Bootstrap is a multimedia installation displayed in 2015 at the 14th Istanbul Biennial, “SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms” curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. The entire piece was housed inside and as a part of a two-story boat. The title of the project derives from Neurath’s boat, a metaphor central to anti-foundational explanations of knowledge, first formulated by the Austrian philosopher Otto Neurath. Lutyens used various objects to reframe sensory experiences: Chladni plates show the sound of the voices of a blind community that Lutyens collaborated with; large sea stones and their ceramic casts present a similarity to “braille” of the sea. The hypnotic scripts for the project were derived from three novels, Asli Erdoğan’s The City in Crimson Cloak (1998), J.G. Ballard’s The Crystal World (1966), and René Daumal’s Mount Analog (1952). Lutyens also presented video pieces he created about impossible colors that are not usually perceivable between red and green, yellow and blue. [8]
Phobophobia was performed at “ATARAXIA,” curated by Koyo Kouoh, for the Salon Suisse at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017. The performance uses hypnotism along with specially designed sculptures to open up and release fear through the process of discharge. By externalizing fear, Lutyens sought to assist visitors in releasing trauma as it exists in the body. Throughout the performance, special smells designed by Stephen Douthwaite were released to transition the frame of mind, enhancing and furthering the goals of the hypnotic induction.
The Inductive Museum was a performance piece presented at the Culture Summit in Abu Dhabi in 2019. Hypnotized visitors engage in a variety of sensory experiences, including touch, smell, and sight, to elicit visions of a museum that exists within the psyche.
Rose River Memorial is a public art installation commemorating the lives lost to COVID-19. [9] Lutyens and the writer and scholar Tilly Hinton started it. In a process of collective grieving, members of the public create handmade roses out of felt, which are hung together on netting at the memorial. Each rose corresponds to a life lost. The first location of the project was installed in Boyle Heights, a neighbourhood in East Los Angeles heavily impacted by the virus. [10]
Lutyens wrote a book recounting his Documenta (13) experience titled 100 Days: Memoirs of a Hypnotist, [11] published by Sternberg Press.
Franz Kline was an American painter. He is associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1940s and 1950s. Kline, along with other action painters like Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, John Ferren, and Lee Krasner, as well as local poets, dancers, and musicians came to be known as the informal group, the New York School. Although he explored the same innovations to painting as the other artists in this group, Kline's work is distinct in itself and has been revered since the 1950s.
Janet Cardiff is a Canadian artist who works chiefly with sound and sound installations, often in collaboration with her husband and partner George Bures Miller. Cardiff first gained international recognition in the art world for her audio walks in 1995. She lives and works in British Columbia, Canada.
Jannis Kounellis was a Greek Italian artist based in Rome. A key figure associated with Arte Povera, he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome.
The Biennale of Sydney is an international festival of contemporary art, held every two years in Sydney, Australia. It is a large and well-attended contemporary visual arts event in the country. Alongside the Venice and São Paulo biennales and Documenta, it is one of the longest running exhibitions of its kind and was the first biennale to be established in the Asia-Pacific region.
William Kentridge is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings, and animated films, especially noted for a sequence of hand-drawn animated films he produced during the 1990s. The latter are constructed by filming a drawing, making erasures and changes, and filming it again. He continues this process meticulously, giving each change to the drawing a quarter of a second to two seconds' screen time. A single drawing will be altered and filmed this way until the end of a scene. These palimpsest-like drawings are later displayed along with the films as finished pieces of art.
Alberto Burri was an Italian visual artist, painter, sculptor, and physician based in Città di Castello. He is associated with the matterism of the European informal art movement and described his style as a polymaterialist. He had connections with Lucio Fontana's spatialism and, with Antoni Tàpies, an influence on the revival of the art of post-war assembly in the United States as in Europe.
The phrase synesthesia in art has historically referred to a wide variety of artists' experiments that have explored the co-operation of the senses in the genres of visual music, music visualization, audiovisual art, abstract film, and intermedia. The age-old artistic views on synesthesia have some overlap with the current neuroscientific view on neurological synesthesia, but also some major differences, e.g. in the contexts of investigations, types of synesthesia selected, and definitions. While in neuroscientific studies synesthesia is defined as the elicitation of perceptual experiences in the absence of the normal sensory stimulation, in the arts the concept of synaesthesia is more often defined as the simultaneous perception of two or more stimuli as one gestalt experience. The usage of the term synesthesia in art should, therefore, be differentiated from neurological synesthesia in scientific research. Synesthesia is by no means unique to artists or musicians. Only in the last decades have scientific methods become available to assess synesthesia in persons. For synesthesia in artists before that time one has to interpret (auto)biographical information. For instance, there has been debate on the neurological synesthesia of historical artists like Kandinsky and Scriabin. Additionally, Synesthetic art may refer to either art created by synesthetes or art created to elicit synesthetic experience in the general audience.
The Castle of Rivoli is a former Residence of the Royal House of Savoy in Rivoli. It is currently home to the Castello di Rivoli – Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, the museum of contemporary art of Turin.
Michelangelo Pistoletto is an Italian painter, action and object artist, and art theorist. Pistoletto is acknowledged as one of the main representatives of the Italian Arte Povera. His work mainly deals with the subject matter of reflection and the unification of art and everyday life in terms of a Gesamtkunstwerk.
Pino Pascali was an Italian artist, sculptor, set designer and performer.
Synesthesia or synaesthesia is a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. For instance, people with synesthesia may experience colors when listening to music, see shapes when smelling certain scents, or perceive tastes when looking at words. People who report a lifelong history of such experiences are known as synesthetes. Awareness of synesthetic perceptions varies from person to person with the perception of synesthesia differing based on an individual's unique life experiences and the specific type of synesthesia that they have. In one common form of synesthesia, known as grapheme–color synesthesia or color–graphemic synesthesia, letters or numbers are perceived as inherently colored. In spatial-sequence, or number form synesthesia, numbers, months of the year, or days of the week elicit precise locations in space, or may appear as a three-dimensional map. Synesthetic associations can occur in any combination and any number of senses or cognitive pathways.
Gabriel Lester is an inventor, visual artist and film director living and working in Amsterdam.
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev is an Italian-American writer, art historian and exhibition maker who has been serving as the Director of Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea and Fondazione Francesco Federico Cerruti in Turin since 2016. She was Edith Kreeger Wolf Distinguished Visiting Professor in Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University (2013-2019). She is the recipient of the 2019 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence.
Gilberto Zorio is an Italian artist associated with the Italian Arte Povera movement. Zorio's artwork shows his fascination with natural processes, alchemical transformation, and the release of energy. His sculptures, paintings, and performances are often read as metaphors for revolutionary human action, transformation, and creativity. He is known for his use of materials including: incandescent electric light tubes, steel, pitch, motifs, and processes through the use of evaporation and oxidation. He also creates precarious installations using fragile materials such as Stella di Bronzo and Acidi within his work.
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Arte Informale is a term coined in 1950 by the French critic Michel Tapié to refer to the art movement that began during the mid-1940s in post-World War II Europe. This movement also paralleled the Abstract Expressionism movement that was taking place at the same time in the United States, and had ties to the Arte Povera movement. Sometimes referred to as Tachism, Art Autre or Lyrical Abstraction, it was a type of abstraction in which form became less important than that of the expressive impulses of the artist, and was opposed to the rationalism of traditional abstraction. The qualities of informal art explore the possibilities of gesture, materials, and signage as the basis of communication. Oftentimes art characterized as informal is executed spontaneously and the approach to painting and sculpture are generally gestural, performative, expressionistic and experimental. Certain artists such as Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri and Emilio Vedova were crucial figures of this movement.
Giovanni Anselmo was an Italian artist, who emerged after World War II within the art movement called Arte Povera. His most famous artwork is Untitled (1968), a piece of art representing time and nature.
Füsun Onur is a Turkish artist, based in Istanbul. She uses everyday materials in her painting and sculpture to reflect on space, time, rhythm and form.
Kristina Buch is a German artist, based in Düsseldorf and London.
Marco Scotini is an Italian curator, writer and art critic based in Milan, where he is artistic director of the FM Center for Contemporary Art and Head of the Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies Department at NABA.
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