MARINA FONT: El Peso de las Cosas + Photolucida + The Weight of Things

El Peso de Las Cosas

Photograph @ Marina Font

El Peso de Las Cosas

Photograph @ Marina Font

El Peso de Las Cosas

Photograph @ Marina Font

El Peso de Las Cosas

Photograph @ Marina Font

 

"What happens when the weight of something is determined by other attributes? How much do memory, traditions, a life lived or the importance that we ascribe to certain things weigh? What are the bridges that connect our experiences with our memories?"

– Marina Font

 

In El Peso de Las Cosas, my constant search around objects is centered in discovering their meaning and also to explore what are the stimuli that connects them to our senses in many different ways. They are things that are used, acquired, inherited, preserved and that evoke ones history and define our existence, along with the emotional weight that we attribute to them. While photographing these objects and ideas, through the act of virtually weighing them, I explore the capacity they have to represent beyond their real function or to symbolize what they actually represent. This way I play with the possibility that these visual constructions suggest new encounters and significance to the beholder.

Exhibition: El Contrato, 2009

 

Born in Cordoba, Argentina, now living and working in Miami, Florida, Marina Font studied at the Escuela de Artes Visuales Martin A. Malharro, Argentina. She spent the summer of 1998 studying photography at Speos Ecole de la Photographie in Paris, and earned her MFA in Photography at Barry University, Miami in 2009. Her work has been exhibited in many solo and group shows; and in the collections of the LOWE Museum at the University of Miami, Miami Dade College Museum of Art and Design's Permanent Collection, Miami, and various private international collections. We met at Photolucida's 2015 Portfolio Review.

MARINA FONT

ROBERT NATHAN PAUL: In Loving Memory

For the family and friends of Bob Paul 1945-1996

FRANCESCO CLEMENTE: Vintage Interview

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An Interview With Francesco Clemente. Front Cover Photograph (c) Richard Avedon /All Rights Reserved. "She and She" Back Cover Painting (c) Francesco Clemente /All Rights Reserved.

Sky and Water, Watercolour on paper

Painting by Francesco Clemente /All Rights Reserved

The following quotes by artist Francesco Clemente were excerpted from An Interview With Francesco Clemente by Rainer Crone and Georgia Marsh, published under the imprint "Elizabeth Avedon Editions | Vintage Contemporary Artists | Random House:" (Here)

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"...about the publication of your book of poems, Castelli di Sabbia. (Naples: L’Arte Tipografica, 1964) "I had been reciting it to my mother since I was five or six, and it was published against my better judgment. It was enormously embarrassing, and it made me into a painter, actually, because I decided that to be a poet was too embarrassing; it was too revealing, and I wanted something more obscure to deal with. I thought of painting that way. That was when I was eleven or twelve years old."

"Paintings are simple things. They are important not so much for what is in them as for what is not there. When we talk of the Renaissance we talk of something fragile; the surprise is that at a certain point, after a thousand years of Christianity, Renaissance artists looked at their bodies again, and looked at their faces, and looked at the world as a sensual place. This feeling of surprise happens again in Tiepolo's skies, and even down to de Chirico's earliest painting. If we talk of Piero della Francesca, what comes to mind is the light. There are two lineages of light in painting. One is a secular light: from Caravaggio to de Kooning. The light is outside; it comes down on things, and makes them what they are. But if we talk of Piero, or talk of Roman paintings, or of the Pompeian paintings, we talk of a light that comes from within and that has nothing to do with the history of man. It is a light that is before the history of man. Giotto is unique because you don't know exactly which way the light goes: his is already a completely secular point of view, but still the light is treated as an inner flow. There is really no one else like him; that degree of mystery is nowhere else. We have to talk in terms of light, because if we talk in terms of formalities, what can we get out of it?"

"It could be a step forward to realize that the rational picture of the world is also an imagination; it has the same reality as a myth. It is the product of the mind; it is not more substantial than the mind. When we talk about mythology we are talking about questions of history, of rational thought and rationalized memory of our past. History is the most tragic product of the rational mind–a picture from which there is no way to escape. The picture of the world that history gives us is the picture of a dead person who looks over his own life. It is as if we are all dead, and we are looking at the world in a glass case. How can we get away from this? I have no answer for it."

An Interview With Francesco Clemente
by Rainer Crone and Georgia Marsh
Elizabeth Avedon Editions
Vintage Contemporary Artists/Random House

PAINTINGS & BIO | VIDEO I & VIDEO II